Wow, yoo many people quoted me on my statement. Since the forum decided to cut out my original post, I said I love it because my daughter when she's 3-4 will be able to play games on the phone instead of me spending €200 on a handheld and €40 per game. I personally have no interest in Nintendo games, so I'm not missing out on anything. I was planning to do the unthinkable and purchase a Nintendo handheld for her, and this today is the best news ever.

And she won't care what she plays, Nintendogs and match 3 Pokemon is fine, if it's €1.99 even better.

Impossible, there will be no microtransactions in her future. She has gotten to be very good in Fruit Ninja and Angry Birds completely for free.

Sorry that was my typo. They'd be new games from potentially established franchises, but no ports.

Lol, millions of dollars are earned by kids paying for micro-transactions without their parents knowing (until they see the bills that is).

These games will be like Pokémon shuffle, she won't even be able to play for 15 minutes without having to pay.

Only stupid parents, there are security measures available that prevent purchase.

So the majority of them. :p

Anyway have fun playing for 15 minutes until you're forced to stop unless you pay.

Best business decision they have done in many years. There's a reason their stock is up 26% on this announcement....

That... would actually be pretty funny. And really depressing. But also funny?

I still think that's a mistake. Porting SMB1-3/World, Zelda: LTTP, FZero, Mario Kart, etc should be relatively easy and they could charge $4.99-$9.99 for each port for easy money, not that much different to what SE is doing with FF and DQ.

Yep, it's been a long time coming. Investors have been begging for it for years and it shows.