I bet if this next gen is what a lot of people are expecting it to be, then more game developers are going to have lots of layoffs.

They released a pokedex on IOS IIRC.

The current state of Nintendo's d0medness.

The Pokemon company isn't fully owned by Nintendo so they have some breathing room as to what they can do with applications and spin off games.

Yeah these analyists only see the market size and the outstanding sucess of a few stand out developers. They also probally look at the bloating budgets of current games and see that it is leading to a dead end where only the richest developers survive and the rest close down. The answer lays somewhere in the middle, and for platform holders like Nintendo and Sony releasing their games on other platforms endanger their vested intrest in that market (3DS/Vita). Microsoft can go release smaller games for mobile and PC because they have a vest instrest in those platforms doing well. So it sort of a doomed if you do, doomed if you don't propsistion. But there should be a balance to it and that is the trouble. I can probally see down the line NIntendo doing something simular to what Sony is attempting with the mobile market and linking the Playstation brand to certin cell phone.

The mobile market is fickel, and the way the market is set up it is not sustainable. Not to mention the market is saturated because of the platform holder a little-to-no interest in policing their platform for games unless in endangers them financially.

I'm going to disregard this whole well thought out and meaningful post cause you misspelled balance. LERNZ 2 SPEL! LOL

OT: just look at PSABR, they are laying off employees already and the game sold about 500k, while not fantastic, not even enough by todays standard?

Get ready for only games like Call of Halos 2015, where you get 15% of the game for 70 bucks, and the rest of the dlc will cost you another 75, and they will still need to sell 5 million copies just to break even.

If the next consoles are as big of a leap as PS2 to PS3 (which I seriously doubt), I could see another game crash.

I think Nintendo owns Pokemon Company and Creatures Inc which co-own the IP with Game Freak.  

@Booyah: Reports coming out that this 8th gen will not be a great leap like most people thought it would be...

Is all this connectivity and multimedia stuff so important? I just want games. I don't care if I get a notice on my 3DS that my microwave popcorn is finished popping. I just want a piece of plastic that runs video games.

Someone should tell this research firm that they are behind Pachter.