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| bdbdbd said:
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. |
The lack of a need to push and maintain an additional hardware platform saves resources and frees up not only their core teams but their schedule for developing games, it's not a hard concept to grasp, Nintendo don't have to push mobile they've only embraced it to help themselves.
Are you naive enough to think Nintendo hasn't already done that? Mobile has been planned since the NX announcment 3 years back, you're not posting anything that they haven't done already.
You can use what ever term to try and argue but the point is rock solid and can't be dismissed, why? Because the percentage from $1b or so is higher than the budgets of the majority of big games from major publishers, even only 10% of that is 100m so that pocket change is still bigger than most publishers budgets. Zorg also highlighted other factors as well.
