Fair enough - I think you are wrong about taking the attention away from hardware sales though. Many of the hardcore N fans have already or are seriously considering buying the hardware soon. The mobile games aren't meant for those people - they are meant to reach a new audience. People who abandoned hardware and consoles for strictly mobile gaming. If anything it only helps reignite brand recognition in this particular market.

worst idea ever.

nintendo does best with the casual audience which isn't on pc they are on tablets and phones. pcs are intimidating to that audience. that audience whats to play on a couch not a desk. they want easy, intuitive touch controls not complex keyboard and mouse.

nintendo would be better off going third party for ps4 and xbox then pc or better yet,.. tablets.

really, just the absolute worst idea i've ever heard.

This is what Sony was looking to do before the PS4 became so sucessful. It still may be their intention, and I think that many see this as the future of the industry. Nintendo would have to outright buy Capcom and Sega if they were going to try and hold down a competitive service like this on their own. 

Theyd have to give revenut to steam and origin and uplay, the exact same amount of revenue

Well Nintendo have said their new DeNA service will be on consoles, mobiles AND PCs, so it may very well be a step towards a Steam type system.

But I dont think Nintendo will push pure digital sales.... although that does make a lot of sense for the Nintendo Fusion concept.

its hilarious to me that the OP seems to fundamentally not understand Nintendo's audience whatsoever. PC gamers generally are fairly hardcore or people who just play there in their limited free time since they are working on the computer anyway

what sells for Nintendo (audience wise) are the families and casual audiences, who want to play in the open in a room together. also they sell (handhelds) well to the on-the-go likes to game whenever younger crowd. neither would be logically targted with the PC move you are suggesting

I am not sure if mobile is a smart move, I think if they integrated a mix of a phone and handheld that might be a good move however if they are specfiically going to allow their games onto mobiles in general then they should severely limit it. they still are insanely successful with handhelds and obviously I think they are smart to maintain their hardware business in general

as soon as you abandon hardware not only do you lose a lot of control over WHAT you do as a video game company, but the quality in general seems to dip too (cough Sega)

It wouldn't work. There is already Steam among many others. The great thing about Steam or GOG, humble bundle ect is that they all offer their own as well as third party stuff. Nintendo would not be able to do it on their own, even if they did buy a few companies. The reason they are trying to unify their platform is so there will be a greater catalogue with less time between releases. Along with that, what these others do is give insane deals, which would cut the profit margin for Nintendo big time since it would all be first/second party. 

There is no reason to be freaked out by what is happening. Read up on it more and you should be fine. This is actually putting them in an extremely strong position.

Um, you're talking about Nintendo's former audience. They've already lost all these consumers after the Wii.

Games like pokemon shuffle aand the like are not going to dissuade someone from buying a console. However it seems since it has been such a success on the 3DS, we will likely see more of the mobile type games on the consoles side of things.

You seem to be misunderstanding much of what was announced.

Isn't the bolded kind of selfish? Many people enjoys playing on their smartphone including me. Square Enix constant releases of the DragonQuest games means there is a demand for console like exp game on the smart devices. 

And if you're tired of the sucky f2p games then don't play it. There are games with console like exp games in smarphones. Almost all of the Telltalegames are available on the appstore, Dragon Quest 1-8 are also there, Ace Attorney Trilogy and Dual Destinies, Monster Hunter Freedom Unite HD, The Banner Saga, Knights of the Old Republic and theres alot more.