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Now before anything, Nintendo said it won't make mobile mini games.

Data analytic firm Super Data believes that Nintendo could make roughly $2.7 billion in seven years, if the company produced games for smartphones and tablets. $2.7 billion sounds like a bunch of money, but it would only be roughly $386 million yearly. Nintendo normally makes much more than that, except in the last 2 years or so. As of October, they made a $6.1 million profit. What do you think, should they really go moble, or stay strong in the console game?



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This seems extremely familiar to my thread... (http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=177122&page=1#)

However, I'll hop on. No, I don't think they should. One; for the reasons I made in my thread and two; because their games wouldn't work as well on a touch screen like that. Smart Phone/HH Console cross-overs are atrocious, as well. At least right now.



They should not go mobile.



Going mobile is suicide.Nintendo has a great market as a family console were they can sell theyr HW and SW that can make them much more money potentially.
Leaving their hard earned niche for that is stupid. not gonna happen.
they will use mobile platforms to promote their products and little more.



Nintentacle said:
They should not go mobile.


Yeah they shouldn't. I mean, $386 million a year is low, barely more than triple that amount during the GameCube days.



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A possible key would be to drop mildly-enhanced NES and original Game Boy games on mobile (enhancements including better in-game save structures, notably) and inject them with ads for other Nintendo products, making recommendations. (Like Legend of Zelda? buy A Link Between Worlds and Ocarina of Time 3D for your new 3DS!)

It would only work if it were incorporated as part of a larger strategy to upstream these gamers and in no way threatened the need to buy games on the consoles, though.



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