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| bunchanumbers said: My opinion is they will be a mobile only developer. If they leave the console space, they will leave it entirely. They won't develop for Sony or MS. This way they still maintain their independence, but don't have to worry about hardware development. And I sincerely doubt they will support the ones who repeatedly ripped off their ideas and concepts. They would develop for MS before they do Sony. Instead they will make a line of controllers that work with apple products and they will be all set. |
That would be stupid.
They'd be leaving a ton of money on the table.
Hell, imagine the money-hat MS would offer Nintendo on a yearly basis alone, I bet it would be massive. No reason at all to turn that down.
They can maintain their indepedence no matter what, does Apple/Google "force" Nintendo to do anything? Sony/MS wouldn't be able to either, if anything Sony/MS would jump through whatever hoops Nintendo wanted them to in order to get their support (Microsoft in particular, Nintendo could tell Spencer to run naked down Redmond if they want support and he'd probably do it, lol).
Mobile is also problematic because last I checked, $60 games don't exactly work on mobile, a lot of their franchises would go extinct if forced only into the confines of how mobile players play (free to play, simple play mechanics).
