Nintendo should clearly shift to mobile, so they could be as successful as King, Rovio, and Zynga.

AAHHHHAHAAHA!I was going to post this!Oh my gosh people who want nintendo to shift on mobile are...!I will not tell what they are! :P

  Angry birds?.....What's that?

Well,if I lose on Mario,pokemon etc and due to my nerves throw 3ds to the wall it will come safe and sound.
If i throw an Ipad or an I phone,I will mourn my money!:P It would be really hard to play some ninty games on a touch screen,especially Mario!A touch screen would kill mario kart's pure fun!Also they want these games to cost 1.9$?loooooooooool

I love how he lists F-Zero as perfect for mobile. Could you imagine trying to play F-Zero with touch screen simulated analogue sticks or d-pad? Or worse, tilt/motion controls xD

Pokemon selling well is a bad thing? Is the author of the article serious?

Although this article is a little over dramatic, it is heading in the right direction.The responses on this site are just as outlandish as the opinion posted in this piece.

Nintendo needs to do something while they still have strong brand power. They have no chance against the likes of Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung, and Sony. Sony's smart phone buisness is seen as a massive failure at this point, and they are still selling 40M a year. Samsung and Apple, are selling nearly 40M units a quarter.

All of these devices have multiple full fledged music, movie, TV, and E-book services that Nintendo can never compete with. These plaftorms have an openess that a Nintendo device will never copmpete with. And each new iteration continues to outperform Nintendo hardware with a biggger and bigger gap. The control options are getting much better on many android and apple devices as well.

With Microsoft and Sony pushing more support for gaming out to their smartphones, and extending to outside manufactures, the reason to own a Nintendo device are getting slimmer and slimmer. People can already enjoy PS4 games on Sony's Xperia Z line phones, and PS Now is coming to Sony and non Sony Smart phones starting next year. Microsoft demoed Halo 4 running on the cloud last year, and will be coming with their own streaming based service. Nvidia has a massive push going for game streaming both from home computers, and cloud processing.

So, the two things smartphones were missing (quality games and controls) will be coming in droves over the next year. In return, the two things that kept Nintendo handhelds alive (quality games and controls) will no longer be a meaningful reason to purchase a Nintendo to complement a smartphone.

Then there is their home console situation, but that is another peice for another thread.

And I hope they never try. These things have no business being in a games console.

Nintendo games will never work on tablet/smart phone. The market and consumer base is just too radically different from their current audience. 

wow wtf is it smoking?