| bdbdbd said: 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. |
I don't think you understand what you're reading and the situation now and back in the N64 days, Nintendo are investors in the third party developers doing their mobile they're not outsourced, these comapanies are near enough first party but operate like second parties working on what Nintendo assigns them to, this is much less of a resource and cost drain because Nintendo gets a much larger share back from what the project makes. All this doesn't matter regardless because you've still not debunked anything I've posted in fact this part of your replay was largely irrelevant because you're bringing in toys and such when that's a different ball park to developing and maintaining two hardware platforms.
Your Fire Emblem argument is debunked already by Pokemon Go's amount of money made, maintaining these smaller game also costs much less than maintaining console like games.
Again portability has changed, the so called jeans and T-shirt people you're touting don't have any problem carrying around Tablets or small bags or cases specifically to carry them, we're in a different era now and Switch has changed the portable gaming platform to match the era even the more sleek design shows this. I'm willing to bet that most 3DS owners would also have a Tablet as well as many gamers in general
