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No but they put some games out there on the Iphone



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No they won't. And the reason is Nintendo being essentially a software company.
I could see Nintendo going as far as having VOIP on DS, but a mobile phone is a completely different matter.



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Nintendo games sell only on Nintendo system.

No. Mobile Phones industry is over saturated now that Google entered the game.



 

Yep, infact Google have got no chance. Skype is an option sure but we are forgetting again that Nintendo make games, they dont make home entertainment / multi functionality BS.



“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.

megaman79 said:
Yep, infact Google have got no chance. Skype is an option sure but we are forgetting again that Nintendo make games, they dont make home entertainment / multi functionality BS.

In the old run they will do ok, mark my words. Their OS got their first phone, G1 from T Mobile, which will flop 100%. However more and more phones will be launched featuring this OS and a good one is bound to appear sooner or later. Nokia is currently working on one also.



 

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Nah, I just don't see it happening.




FaithRaven said:
megaman79 said:
Yep, infact Google have got no chance. Skype is an option sure but we are forgetting again that Nintendo make games, they dont make home entertainment / multi functionality BS.

In the old run they will do ok, mark my words. Their OS got their first phone, G1 from T Mobile, which will flop 100%. However more and more phones will be launched featuring this OS and a good one is bound to appear sooner or later. Nokia is currently working on one also.

 

Why on earth will G1 (HTC Dream) flop? It's an amazing phone with amazing capabilities and a very low price-point. Sounds like it'll do fantastically IMO.

The AT&T Tilt (HTC Kaiser), AT&T Wing (HTC Herald), Sprint Mogul (HTC Titan) were all incredibly successful, and each one is vastly inferior to this phone, with much higher initial price-points. Since the G1 uses Android, an OS that will certainly garner incredible support due to its premises and the fact that it's open source, I expect incredible success.



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Nintendo is the #1 publisher of games designed for a small screen with low memory and processor requirements. It probably sells more than the next five competitors combined. Think about how many games they have already created for the GBA that would take minimal effort to port to a phone. All those GBA games could still net billions of dollars simply by making them available to a phone.



I don't think they will. They've shown that they are focused on games, and, while phones can play games, they'll probably put that as their focus.

(Saying they will becuase a phone is a gaming device is wrong. If this were true, then why are there no PC games made by Nintendo).



It may not happen. But from a business view point it would be a genius plan that would yield billions of dollars in profits for Nintendo.