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Dulfite on 31 January 2020
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VAMatt said:
Dulfite said:

Yeah but their aren't spending money on really making a bunch of mobile games like they used to with handhelds. They make like 1-2 mobile games a year on average, all of which cost a whole lot less than full fledged games on a handheld.

That is the point of this thread. Their expenses are down because of this consolidation.

Their expenses are not down (as evidenced above).  But, I get your point.  Mobile games takes a much smaller portion of their resources than handheld games did.  So, they can (theoretically, at least) make more and better Switch games.  

I guess my counter would be that it's too early to judge how well this is working, or if it is really even happening.  They've really just started dipping their toe into mobile gaming in the last couple of years.  They've had success, so  I expect that they will do more in that space in the future. It may well end up being a big focus for them, much like handhelds were up until a couple years ago.  

It does seem like they've been able to keep the Switch lineup full.  But, they've had a lot of help from Wii U retreads.  Let's see what's going on in the next generation, after they've settled into mobile, and have used up the Wii U hits.  

If they know they can make games as simple and easy as Mario Run or Animal Crossing Pocket Camps, which don't have 150+ people working on each like a AAA game would, and make a butt load of cash why would they bother to ever make full fledged games that are expensive on phones?

I think they will continue making mobile games, maybe even more, but we won't ever get AAA or even AA games from Nintendo on mobile because they don't need to be to make crazy profits.

Console games on the other hand will always require higher production costs because that's what gamers expect, and they also sell for a lot more each.