The Switch is not another Wii U!

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Wyrdness said:

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For one, Pokemon Go is a game that needs lots of constant maintainance, which goes against pretty much everything you've been pointing out with saving resources. Secondly, Pokemon Go is a third party game, with Nintendo's share being "pocket change" in relation to parties that are actually involved.

What you need to look, is Super Mario Run; that's a game that represents Nintendo's mobile strategy. Games they put out, are first and foremost ads Nintendo is able to monetise.

A model with better portability is the one that's supposed to replace 3DS. However, it's market that decides.

Pokemon Go is maintained by another company so again you're not debunking anything here as Nintendo don't need to focus on it, it's generating constant money while advertizing a key franchise. Pokemon is a first party IP don't give me non of that third party nonsense because that doesn't fly here, Nintendo are the ones who initiated the whole venture into mobile.

Pokemon Go is also representative of Nintendo's mobile strategy as seen with the approach to Fire Emblem, nothing you have posted can argue against any of this no matter how many times you try to say SMR.

No Switch has good portability it's the same size as an iPad mini, portability in today's era has changed a lot since the 3DS launched, even phones today are bigger than phones from close to a decade ago. We're in an era where tablets and larger phones are carried around by most people, Switch is a 3DS replacement a more portable model is not needed for that.

That's what Nintendo's been doing since the N64: hire someone to develope their games when Nintendo does not have the resources.

Anyway, you're basically making the same argument everyone was ranting a decade ago, that Nintendo would focus on toys and cartoons "because there's so much money to be made there". Yes, there's money to be made on mobile, like there is on toys and cartoons, but not to an extent it would be a staple for Nintendo like home or handheld consoles.

Fire Emblem apparently does have the traditional "broken game model" , but that also means that maintainence is going to cost resources, that means diminishing returns.

I have and have had lots of different portable devices in the last two and a half decades. Yes, the smartphones are closing in on the 1600 series Nokias, and the likes, but it's also balancing between size and portability. But here's the catch: different people buy different shaped and sized products for the same job. It's fairly easy to sell fairly big devices for women to carry with them, because most of them carry purses anyway. Next are men who wear jackets that have pockets to fit quite large device. But the regular "jeans and T-shirt" guy have hard time carrying any bigger device with them, especially when you already carry one with you. It's no wonder why phone manufacturers were racing in late 90's and early 2000's about who could fit the most functions in smallest device. It was the clamshell phones for their size that made Samsung popular 15-10 years ago.