Yes, definetely! Maybe they should hire some help from outside the company as well when/if designing a true gaming phone, just to make sure they avoid the usual "Nintendo traps". Make it a smart, easy and sleak looking phone! I'm sure a lot of gamers would buy it. And expand the company before for crying out loud! We don't want any damn droughts on ANY Nintendo systems! :P

No one's buying a Nintendo phone, the OS wouldn't be able to measure up with what people expect. A shoddy OS on a console is OK because it's not a central part of people's lives, but their smartphones are basically their all purpose hub for their business/social life, people have a total freak out at Apple when one of their apps (the Maps one) doesn't work properly for a couple of weeks. Adults would lose their minds if their smart phone had even 1/4 of the issues the Wii U OS does. 

Beyond that, Apple would outmarket the living crap out of them if they felt they were any kind of serious threat. That's just not a fight Nintendo wants any part of I don't think. 

I'd rather see Nintendo allign themselves with one of Sony or MS (pick the best offer) for a few years, making games for their home console, while getting their support for a future Nintendo handheld + a metric ton of cash/royalty kick back as part of the deal. 

They should've expanded last gen. They just have way too few western devs. at this moment, and the two they have are stuck with platformers. It's seems so strange to me when they spend all day long talking about software sells hardware, yet they don't seem to understand that the western audience want a different type of games.

It's possible for Nintendo to make a good OS. It's just a question if they will understand how important it is. Nintendo can team up with mobile companies to get going. 

They'd have to work with Google and basically use the Android framework. 

A smartphone cannot be a toy or even sniff of being a toy. People won't touch it with 50 foot pole. And apps are problematic too ... Blackberry got killed for not having them. 

It's just a fight I don't think Nintendo would pick. It's too far out of their element. 

If market erosion to the traditional handheld market continues (and I think it will ... just way too many kids these days who are using tablets/smartphones are their first gaming devices nowadays), I suppose it would be a very interesting conundrum if Microsoft walked into Nintendo and plopped a giant ton of cash to make a Windows gaming phone with slide out controls or something. 

The real reason for the stock rising is the Nintendo Direct footage of Shantae and the Pirate's Curse on 3DS. You guys can keep lying to yourselves if you want but I know the truth.

Maybe Nintendo are actually able to plan ahead after all, this seems like the next logical step for them.

Mario birds incoming

Nico Nico Video (owned by Dwango) is like Japan's YouTube.  Pretty good investment by Nintendo.

http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm3496857

The question is how much of Dwango was bought by Nintendo (in percentages).