The Switch is not another Wii U!

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padib said:

bdbdbd said:

Good. You weren't supposed to. (...)

Haha, I wasn't.

Wyrdness said:

bdbdbd said:

No, I think it's you who don't understand. I just don't see how the situation with the mobile developers would be any different than what Nintendo has been doing for a long time already. There still are costs involved, and this is where return on investment comes into picture. 

I just noticed Super Mario Run is made by Nintendo internally. 

How much money Pokemon Go have brouht in for Nintendo? No, I'm not talking about revenue it generated, but the money Nintendo have made with it. It is a third party game Google/Apple is taking their share, then Niantic is taking their cut, then the Pokemon Company/Creatures/whatever and what's left, Nintendo can take their share from.

Look, in order to make bigger money with mobile, Nintendo would need to make the games internally, but that would hog resources from more important projects.

The first part of your post confirms that you don't understand the argument in general, the fact you don't understand that with mobile Nintendo doesn't have to worry about hardware costs, maintaining the OS, pushing and selling the hardware, R&D for follow up platforms etc... show you don't really know what you're arguing here. The costs are nowhere near having two dedicated platforms that have to hit a certain sales point to not only pay for themself but make enough returns to secure a follow up platform, Nintendo don't have to develop two mainline installments of each franchise for two different hardware platforms either, these are just a few things that you're failing to understand in your argument.

Yeah and?

PGO generated almost a billion$, even after the other parties have taken their cut the amount of money made from it is more than 90% of games can shake a stick at especially as Nintendo own shares in Niantic, Pokemon Company and gain money from use of the IP.

This claim is complete nonsense and you know it, not only are the games on a much smaller scale than console and portable games the mobile market is far bigger than dedicated gaming as seen by the returns PGO generated in 6-7 months

Obviously I don't. Maybe you should explain it to me then.

If Nintendo plans on to make mobile similar staple to 3DS, they need to invest in it accordingly. Not only Nintendo has to make more money to offset the royalties they need to pay, also the third party royalties needs to be offset somehow. Also the money Nintendo uses to hire someone to make the games, could be spent to make games for Nintendo platforms. Of course, different business ventures make the company less volatile to changes in their core market.

Doesn't matter how much revenue Pokemon Go generated, as Nintendo's share of the revenue have been pocket change. And this the issue here. Nintendo either goes to high investment with high returns, or low investment with low returns.