Thats fine but that has nothing to do with anything

They will make money, but they will make less money than they would if they didn't do this route. And the market is very different than it was 12 years ago cause now we have the internet and websites that tell people whether or not its a good idea to buy a system. When Nintendo goes out on stage and shows zero third parties, the only ones that will be excited are Nintendo fans or people that want to play Nintendo games. The rest of the people will simply ignore it cause the games that they want are on the other two platforms. GTA sold more than 45 million... Cod sells more than 10 million per year.. Those are huge games that have huge system sellers and every journalist out there that isn't a Nintendo site will be telling people not to buy it and people will just remember the sitution it was on the wiiU and they will ignore the system entirely for the console part

They won't even sell 75 million... They will be lucky to do 60 million combined. The reason why the wiiU/3ds will even sell 75 million combined is cause a lot of people buy both which the NX won't have. And when the NX will be filled with bad press due to it being weaker in the age of 4k and it having zero third parties countless articles having developers/publishers saying that they wont support the NX, the console portion will be DoA and it will be the wiiU 2.0 without the lame name. They can't just relax and let things be because if they distroy their console branding, in the future, even less people will buy their consoles even if its good.

And it is possible but we won't know till it happens which is probably a bit away from now... We don't even know when their first smartphone game will come out

That would be pretty sad if their next handheld can't run HD games. 

Their iPhone/Android games will pretty much have to be HD by default so the "better real deal" $40 portable games are going to run in SD resolution by comparison?

Yeah ... don't see that flying for too long. 

The funny/sorta sad thing is the first Nintendo game any of us will likely play in native resolution that's above 1080p in resolution will likely be on our iPhones/iPads/Galaxy phones. 

Well the thing is, there is only so many things you can do with a $200 price tag and Nintendo handhelds always have been known to be quite weak even vs the current competition. And even if they manage 720p, upscaling from 720p to 4k will still look terrible and I highly doubt they will be able to manage 1080p with a $200 budget. And yes, smartphones have impressive displays but most just upscale anyway because the display is so small that u won't really notice the difference vs a 40-50 inch tv where you will.

When you have an actual console quality game running on mobile, it will just explode

Yeah exactly. But it's nintendo, so you never know...

They aren't really known for putting out strong hardware right now.

But why is 4k so important right now? PS4 / XOne don't deliver such games either, do they?
1080p should be fine. If they make their new handheld ~250$ and the homeconsole will be as strong (which would be weak for a homeconsole), then maybe we'll see a cheaper console than handheld. That might be a good way to avoid the direct competition with PS4 / XOne. They will still make a lot of money through the games then!

Making a handheld at 1080p, like you said, would be quite expensive for the consumer to purchase... People probably rather just play Nintendo mobile games than purchasing a fusion handheld for that much.... $250 is quite a lot and if that is just to accomodate for the fusion home console, I don't really think it is worth it. Better to have two consoles that excell in what they are good at, exclusively. Home console = more power, etc. while handheld is portable

Nintendo doesn't like to compete. Not in the way you're describing. Iwata even said full on they're not good at competing (lol, what CEO says that?). 

They like to do things their own way and turn a profit doing so. 

Honestly even in the 90s if you really study Nintendo, most of the competetive "push" (we gotta compete with Sony/Sega!) really came from the US side led by Minoru Arakawa and Howard Lincoln. 

The Japanese side of Nintendo really had no concept of competetion until the Playstation came around, they didn't really have to compete with Sega in Japan because the Mega Drive never was a big thing there. Pretty much all of that era of NOA is retired now (Lincoln, Arakawa, Peter Main, etc. etc.), and Iwata and the Japanese old timers took over control of Nintendo full stop after Yamauchi stepped back. Their mentality is very different from Nintendo of the 90s. 

You can hold your breath for some wonder Nintendo console where they money hat things like Grand Theft Auto and vow to compete tooth and nail with Microsoft and Sony to the bitter end, but I would probably advise you to not pass out waiting for that. It ain't coming and after today there's even less reason. And Nintendo's never given two sh*ts about the press, don't see that changing any time either, which is no big loss since a big chunk of the gaming press is dumb as a rock to begin with. 

But homeconsoles haven't proven to be good for Nintendo. Sure, they still make money out of them, but there has to be a better way, no?

I think NX will be just the right thing. Of course it's too early to judge, but there needs to be a change.

Well its not about right now, its about when the NX comes out... It will get announced at e3 2016 most likely and if they follow the 3ds launch, it will launch in spring 2017 or the wiiU launch, it will launch in holiday 2016. And when the handheld comes out, people will be like yay, its stronger than the vita but then when the console comes out, people will facepalm cause its essentially weaker than the wiiU or about the same performance.

And how do you expect 1080p from mobile parts when the ps4/x1 even struggle to do 1080p at $400? The issue with mobile parts is that they are limited by power and space which = it will be either less powerful than the wiiU or just as powerful than the wiiU and it wont even be close to the x1 or ps4....

Yes, they don't and look where it got them... A "failed" console and a handheld that won't even sell half as much as the DS

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Heres the thing... If they don't try to compete, they will exit the console market period which = a huge loss in revenue and a source of income which I doubt they are willing to give up. They gotten away without competing during the wii/DS days cause those sold like free sex but now, the casuals are gone and the people that buy gaming consoles want to buy a console that has great third party games and if Nintendo doesn't make a third party friendly console and convinse the third parties to develop on their platform, then people will simply not buy their console. Its as simple as that because third party games are popular whether we like it or not. Its hardly even doing much to compete, all they are doing is making a console that is third party friendly and paying some big ones like Rockstar to port GTA on their system. Not make it exclusive, just port... And any short comings of graphics and timed exclusives will be nullified by Nintendo's own IPs. It really isn't that hard

And if it ain't coming, then Nintendo will simply exit the console market all together which I doubt they will or they want to so they should make it third party friendly. You are right about one thing, times have changed but they changed because the influence of third parties have gotten so strong and Nintendo needs to adapt to exactly that. And if Nintendo doesn't give a shit about the press, then they better start or else sell significantly less consoles and handhelds each generation