We're not talking about Mario or Zelda games here. They.do.not.belong.on.phones. But why not something like Brain Age or Nintendogs? They don't have a market on dedicated game consoles anymore, if we're going by the numbers of the latest instalments of ech franchise on the 3DS, so why not publish these games where there IS an audience for them?

I know the general consensus will probably be against it but I think for the QoL platform aspirations of Nintendo it makes the most sense. I already see apps that monitor activity, sleep caloric intake what have you. Developing hardware that people are more likely to purchase than a cell phone is a big task when you can get a cheap android phone or tablet at 50-100 dollars. That hardware power is more than enough for most QoL games. I think Brain Training, Nintendogs, Vitatlity Sensor, Wii Fit pedometer, Wii Play, Sudoku, NY times cross word all of those things being far more ubiquitous there than they can ever get on 3DS or Wii U because of cost impediments. It also means they can probably pump out software faster than they can on the 3DS.

Nintendogs and bain age is not a bad idea on mobile, but the problem  is that once they get released there; people will ask for more and more. Soon you will have people bitching about why not Mario and Zelda on mobile too.

I still don't think it's a good idea though I may be wrong. Look at SE, I doubt anyone thought they'd be putting Hitman and Breath of Fire on mobile. These companies get carried away sometimes.

They could also put demo type game of New Super Mario Bros 2, but Brain Age Academy or Dr. Luigi could be much less risky and better for Nintendo.

Sega was in the same spot once (Not that much cash in the bank though). Fans of Sega would have told them to ride it out, to never go third party, to create a sustainable hardware strategy.  

In business there comes times when your original plan does not work, you loose the customers you thought were reliable, they find something better or cheaper. Then your company must change your old ways cause they are not working anymore. It is painful and even if you can come up with a multitude of reasons that your product is the best, no-one listens anymore. This is what Nintendo has now with the WiiU. It is not the first time they are in this position but the solution (Wii, Blue Ocean) is probably not going to work again.

I like Nintendo the best of the three consoles, but I know I have a hard time convincing anyone of my friends that they should buy a WiiU.  "To expensive", "Been there - Done that", "Smartphones is sufficient" will probaly be the answers I get. 

Is going mobile a to extreme sollution to the problem - maybe - but Nintendo are forced by both their economic department and their stock holders to make a change.

Nintendo are quite used to people bitching about everything, and they usually goes their  own way anyway, but when they loose money for three consecutive years something must be done to turn it around.

it will come down to money in the end just like everything does,the mobile/tablet market must be getting hard to ignore and it won't be long until all TV's will be doing the same thing via streaming/bluetooth etc

ds sold 150m wii 100m so unless sales of handhelds & home consoles suddenly explode it would be hard for the number crunchers to avoid the practically limitless tablet/mobile market where devices will only improve

one can only imagine that cloud/streaming will replace everything one day and nintendo will stream to all devices ,but right now not sure even nintendo can compete with the mobile phone/tablet era hardware wise

to the outsider it must seem crazy for a company like nintendo with its game catalogue not to have some sort of presence i guess it will come down to the tipping point of how many handhelds you can sell

Microtransaction's Sucks!!!

People are already bitching about Nintendo putting Mario and Zelda on mobile - but they should never do that (unless they go 3rd party and smartphones get haptic feedback). Nintendogs and Brain Age would be a way for NIntendo to go after that casual market yet again, just on different platforms.