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oniyide on 02 August 2014
amak11 said:
oniyide said:
some of you really need to get over yourselves. You are not the sacred holders of anything Nintendo, please. Them having stuff on mobile wouldnt take away from anything they do regularly. The money they could make would be worth it and you could have your "pure" Nintendo. everyone wins. And no it being on mobile isnt going to take away sales from the "real" games since people buying the mobile and vice versa understand the difference.


It kills the 3DS, don't be stupid

dont be silly they obviously arent going to put the same games on 3ds and on mobile, get real. 



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oniyide on 02 August 2014
KLXVER said:
oniyide said:

so people are going to mistake Mario 1 for mario 3d world and NSMB? come on man. you're being paranoid people arent that stupid and those that are the same people who are mistaking Wii U for Wii anyway and wouldnt have bought those mentioned systems becasue they are stupid.


So these smart people who knows the difference will buy Mario 1 for 5$ on mobiles?

im saying people will see Mario and buy it for 5 dollars cause its mario and they already have a phone. They do the same for Sonic and others. Their is no "smart" or "dumb" in that decision.



DerNebel on 02 August 2014

Don't really think the whole mobile idea is a good one, but I believe that Nintendo could be a lot more profitable if they didn't confine their games to their hardware, so actually I'd say that their strength is making software which is then held back by their hardware.

Also Hiroshi Yamauchi founded Nintendo now? Wonder how he did that 38 years before being born.



daredevil.shark on 02 August 2014

For short run mobile games will be very successful. But not for the long run. I agree with Iwata with this decision.



KLXVER on 02 August 2014
oniyide said:

im saying people will see Mario and buy it for 5 dollars cause its mario and they already have a phone. They do the same for Sonic and others. Their is no "smart" or "dumb" in that decision.


Well you wont have to buy a Nintendo device to play those games then...



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amak11 on 02 August 2014
oniyide said:
amak11 said:
oniyide said:
some of you really need to get over yourselves. You are not the sacred holders of anything Nintendo, please. Them having stuff on mobile wouldnt take away from anything they do regularly. The money they could make would be worth it and you could have your "pure" Nintendo. everyone wins. And no it being on mobile isnt going to take away sales from the "real" games since people buying the mobile and vice versa understand the difference.


It kills the 3DS, don't be stupid

dont be silly they obviously arent going to put the same games on 3ds and on mobile, get real. 

I am getting real. You get real. You put one game on mobile people demand more games and more franchises. eventually Nintendo would give in because of it. Why would they butcher sales on other platforms? Not even to mention the prices have to conform to Nintendo pricing schemes and not traditional ones for mobile. So Super Mario bros 1 would be 5 dollars on mobile, same as it is on Wii and Wii U and 3DS. People would not accept that making it wasted sales potential 



Dusk on 02 August 2014
cycycychris said:

Disclaimer: Take this report with a HUGE grain of salt. Although the original source is in Japanese and is reputable, the translation is unconfirmed and me not be completely accurate.

According to a new report released by the Japanese Business Journal, there is infighting currently raging amongst the Nintendo upper management.

“Among management, there’s a shared recognition that “Iwata is the culprit”. That is, in the company, there is a strong desire to make popular games such as “Super Mario” etc. for smartphones, but Iwata is vetoing this very strongly. Iwata, continually repeating that “Nintendo’s strength is in unified development of game hardware and software”, stubbornly rejects the “net”, and fixates over “game consoles”, possibly because of his pride as a former developer. With the death last fall of the long-reigning company founder Hiroshi Yamauchi, there is nobody left who can defy Iwata. There are frequent rumors that part of the management is scheming to get rid of Iwata.”

According to the report, a lot of the management that has been with Nintendo for a while also feels that Iwata is an “outsider” due to his origins at HAL Laboratory rather than actually at Nintendo. Due to this, many are calling for Yamauchi’s first son to be President of Nintendo rather than Iwata.

Once again, this translation is unconfirmed, but it may mean that although Iwata’s excellent approval rating of 80% has most of stock-holders satisfied, the upper management may not be so happy with the President.

http://nintendoenthusiast.com/news/report-infighting-nintendo-management-leads-management-scheming-get-rid-iwata/

 

Very interesting.


Seems like click bate. Not enough solid information. Internal scheming against a company or person can be grounds for dismissal, plus there are usually internal or more often than not external third parties that handle this kind of stuff for companies so they can attempt to keep in touch with their employees. Running and spouting this kind of information to a journalist could be considered defemation and again, could be grounds for dismissal. If you are unhappy with the direction of the company you are working for, feel free to go work for another company. 



Gotta figure out how to set these up lol.

oniyide on 02 August 2014
DerNebel said:
Don't really think the whole mobile idea is a good one, but I believe that Nintendo could be a lot more profitable if they didn't confine their games to their hardware, so actually I'd say that their strength is making software which is then held back by their hardware.

Also Hiroshi Yamauchi founded Nintendo now? Wonder how he did that 38 years before being born.

so what are you suggesting? they go multiplatform?



oniyide on 02 August 2014
KLXVER said:
oniyide said:

im saying people will see Mario and buy it for 5 dollars cause its mario and they already have a phone. They do the same for Sonic and others. Their is no "smart" or "dumb" in that decision.


Well you wont have to buy a Nintendo device to play those games then...


Yes you do, if you want to play the latest and greatest. People arent buying Wii Us and 3ds' for Mario 1, they are barely buying anything really in Wii U's case. Not sure why this is hard to grasp



KLXVER on 02 August 2014
oniyide said:
KLXVER said:
oniyide said:

im saying people will see Mario and buy it for 5 dollars cause its mario and they already have a phone. They do the same for Sonic and others. Their is no "smart" or "dumb" in that decision.


Well you wont have to buy a Nintendo device to play those games then...


Yes you do, if you want to play the latest and greatest. People arent buying Wii Us and 3ds' for Mario 1, they are barely buying anything really in Wii U's case. Not sure why this is hard to grasp


The VC is a selling point of Nintendo systems. Some people buy it for those old games.