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TheLegendaryWolf on 27 November 2014

Having games sell too well can kill any company...wait what? Pokemon not being on smartphones is a good thing, as those profits are extremely short term.



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DaAndy on 27 November 2014

Seems the author wants to play nintendo games but does not like to buy a nintendo console/handheld for it... such a bad article ...



Astrosquall1 on 27 November 2014

I'd also like to point out that there are a lot of similarities between the mobile gaming craze and the video games crash of the 80's- a saturated market, crappy games flooding in with no filter etc. that's why Nintendo brought out the seal of approval, and swore never to let it happen again. I seriously doubt Ninty would ever want to enter that environment. They'd be compromising their own standard of quality, which is why the core has remained loyal to them throughout the years. They'd make a buck in the short term, but would lose in the long term. I can't understand how experts, investors etc. can be so shortsighted. It's their JOB to think about the future!!



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roborad on 27 November 2014

blah....and this is why yahoo is becoming irrelevant.



artur-fernand on 27 November 2014

I must say I actually kinda agree TO AN EXTENT.
I think that releasing small games on mobile can indeed benefit the company and the consumer - it increases profit, which can in turn be used to develop the real games on the consoles. Not only that, but it can also increase awareness of the brand/franchise. Putting something like Dr. Mario (a PUZZLE game) on iOS just sounds logical really. A Lite version of Mario Kart DS or something also sounds reasonable.

Of course, when companies start developing freaking Bioshock for iOS, that's a whole other story.



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;-) on 27 November 2014

Go to hospital,NOW!!



Game_God on 27 November 2014
GamechaserBE said:
ZTxGhost said:
KBG29 said:
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.


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

Strange because almost everyone agrees that a lot of gamers in Japan went to tablet/smart phone games and they came from consoles/handhelds before.

So what are you saying?

Sony & MS should drop ASAP PS4 & X1 'cause: "almost everyone agrees that a lot of gamers in Japan went to tablet/smart phone games and they came from consoles/handhelds before"?

Dang, Sony sure was dumb to dump their tablet making Vaio brand...



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GamechaserBE on 28 November 2014
Game_God said:
GamechaserBE said:
ZTxGhost said:
KBG29 said:
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.


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

Strange because almost everyone agrees that a lot of gamers in Japan went to tablet/smart phone games and they came from consoles/handhelds before.

So what are you saying?

Sony & MS should drop ASAP PS4 & X1 'cause: "almost everyone agrees that a lot of gamers in Japan went to tablet/smart phone games and they came from consoles/handhelds before"?

Dang, Sony sure was dumb to dump their tablet making Vaio brand...

 Indeed because Sony/Nintendo/MS will not make  (a lot of) money with their consoles in Japan and have to invest/moneyhatt heavy to make some sales in Japan...


Anyway


Japan’s smartphone games market now worth $5.4 billion, half of total gaming industry


According to a new report, Japan’s domestic smartphone gaming market was worth JPY 546.8 billion (US$5.4 billion) in 2013, up a staggering 178 percent from 2012.

The report comes from CyberZ, a subsidiary of Tokyo-based internet conglomerate CyberAgent (TYO:4751).

What’s interesting about the new figures is that the smartphone gaming sector has now reached roughly half the value of the overall Japanese gaming industry, which is sized at JPY 1.1 trillion yen (US$10.8 billion) in 2013.

Observe how that ratio increased from less than 30 percent a year earlier:



XanderXT on 28 November 2014
artur-fernand said:
I must say I actually kinda agree TO AN EXTENT.
I think that releasing small games on mobile can indeed benefit the company and the consumer - it increases profit, which can in turn be used to develop the real games on the consoles. Not only that, but it can also increase awareness of the brand/franchise. Putting something like Dr. Mario (a PUZZLE game) on iOS just sounds logical really. A Lite version of Mario Kart DS or something also sounds reasonable.

Of course, when companies start developing freaking Bioshock for iOS, that's a whole other story.


The heck? All the FPS I've seen on iOS have terrible controls! Not only that, but barely casual would have bought it! Porting it to this gen of consoles would have payed off more.



Athaba on 28 November 2014

Just saw South Park: Freemium isn't free, now read this articel ._.