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Soundwave on 19 December 2016
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Goodnightmoon said:
Soundwave said:

Nintendo is not in that market at all anymore, just time to accept it. Switch is a way for Nintendo to continue supplying hardware for the audience that actually still buys them -- read: the handheld buying audience, while keeping a toe in the console industry mostly because they have a history there IMO. 

Traditional Nintendo consoles, even to the extent that the Wii and Wii U were, are over I think. In fact I would not be surprised because there is a such a large gap, if Nintendo eventually allows a few Nintendo IP on Sony/MS home consoles (they'll still make portable hardware) in 3-5 years time. That is just a completely different market now, iOS/Android in honesty are probably closer to where Nintendo is now and Nintendo allows games on those platforms. 

You are going way too far

Maybe, but I would've gotten killed on this board 3 years ago for telling you exactly what's happening to Nintendo right now. No one here would believe it. Mario on iPhone? Pokemon on iPhone? Wii U abandoning Wii U basically after 3 years and it being recalled from Best Buy, being replaced by "new" console that is basically a portable version of it using an Nvidia mobile Tegra chipset? No one would believe it. 

We only stick to these ideas of console rigidity because of the past, but Nintendo clearly is not in the past anymore, so why couldn't you have say a Metroid game on XBox eventually? 

Watch Minecraft on the Switch too if there's more Nintendo collaborations there or you see things like Microsoft allow Nintendo to sell Rare games on the N64 Mini ... something is definitely up.