The point for Nintendo is to make big money, Mario Run and Pokemon Go "get it", Miitomo did not. 

People are familiar with these franchises, they don't want to play some random game. Rusty's Baseball may well be a good game, but that's not enough to sell on the mobile market. 

I made a thread about Apple buying Nintendo. Apple + Nintendo works so well.

Don't think Apple would buy Nintendo, it's just not worth the massive investment (in terms of what Apple would get in return). 

But it certainly looks like they can work together. If NX doesn't do well, at least this gives Nintendo one major option than just having to become a third party.

I think Apple would be quite happy and pay Nintendo quite handsomely to maybe work on a joint Nintendo-Apple mini-console and have Nintendo games on iPad/iPhone/Mac too. 

In 4-5 years the type of chip that could be put into an AppleTV sized device would be quite impressive, and imagine that with Nintendo exclusive games ... I imagine Apple could market and sell the shit outta that. 

I believe Pushmo could sell decent but you are right they are looking for that next big thing.  The fact is a lot of smartphone players like match 3 and strategy games.  Dr. Mario, Pushmo, Ketzal Corridors, and Mario Picross could probably easily sell on smartphones.  That is easy money while not pissing off your base.

Lets be honest, Nintendo constantly is pissing off their base, lol. If Metroid: Other M, Federation Force, Wii U, 8737273 delays to Zelda, and $250 3DS, and a constant barrage of droughts didn't drive you off, I doubt the iPhone having a "too good" version of New Super Mario or Animal Crossing will do it. 

I actually say go for it, make Animal Crossing for the iOS/Android, but make it an actual Animal Crossing game not some completely unrelated puzzle game with an Animal Crossing skin over top of it. 

If that means your console divisions have to work harder to justify those games being $40+, then so be it. If they can't come up with sufficient reasoning and a better experience worth the money, then they shouldn't be charging that much in the first place. 

The iOS/Android Animal Crossing will be a bait for the NX Animal Crossing.  They already stated that.  Animal Crossing: New Leaf even generated decent social media buzz a few months into its' release and got pretty damn near Wild World sales on a system that has sold half as much.  I'm sure that New Leaf sales including eshop sales will get to at least 12m lifetime.  It won't be a half assed Animal Crossing on iOS/Android but I'd be willing to bet that the NX version will be far superior.

Guys what if Nintendo and Apple teams up for the NX?

They are so fucked, mate!

Nintendo has little choice since they need to go where the kids are these days. Kids need to know Mario, even if it's just from a mobile game. If else, Nintendo's mascotte is doomed. They really need a new generation(s) growing up with Nintendo IP's.

It's too late for that, unless they've been secretly working on it all this years, which seems unlikely.

Besides, I don't want to pay Apple prices for a Nintendo console.