Soon they'll all be 3rd party to mobile and/or PC and we will all be happy. Finally we can stop the console wars and get some good old fashioned Intel vs AMD vs Nvidia shit going :)

yup it's just a new product that branching out from their main product, maybe it will be a special games, service or device solely made for mobile that will not harm their handled and consoles sales.

streaming service also quite possible, even Nintendo Fusion Concept is also a great move, i don't see they are coming to mobile industry very soon

Maybe not a new Pokemon game. Pokemon Red/Blue would be huge though since so many people born in the 80s and 90s are very nostalgic to the first generation.

The start of Nintendo slowing transitioning into third party?

This move sounds like it could make or break Nintendo....or still does nothing for it :/

Better late than never, I suppose. Still, DeNA seems more competent in the online space, so it is probably better this way, than getting a half-ass attempt from Nintendo.

I think the plan is to make it a side-channel for income, mostly. My issus is this; if they do not dedicate larger resources to this, the games will be cheap and basically more like what others release on mobile devices (and also competing more closely with them) and if they do allocate large resources for them they will launch games in a market that has little to no interest in paying more than a few bucks for their games and their home console/handeld games will suffer in some way.

Unless they expand their studios a great deal; which will cost them a lot of money, and there is still no guarantee that this move will be a win in the long run.

All in all though, I think this is a good move for them even though I might not personally like it since I don't game on mobile devices, and this can be a great help if pulled off correctly.

Also; Vr0cK: I think this move is to ensure that they don't need to become a 3rd party on consoles. They keep making their own exclusives on their platforms and develop/publish games on mobile as a 3rd party on the side, that's the only thing that makes sense to me.

As long as they don't put the multiplayer under a paywall, it will be fine.

Last sentence is key; they should have gotten help with their online infrastructure ages ago.

I think this could work if they're smart about it.

Not sure it will remain that way. Nintendo has been making big moves lately with QOL and now this. The same old Nintendo may be changing its ways to remain stronger for the future. I would hate to pay for online, but I don't think it is out of the question.

Okay, read the article now: Its just a new platform. Nintendo also confirmed a new console is on the way and will more than likely launch in 2017/18 which fits well. As long as they keep most of their resources to the dedicated market I wont mind. They could put games like Pokemon shuffle and such on that new platform.