>Nintendo's latest console is approximately the size and shape of a smartphone. >Controllers and dock can be separated from the tablet part of the console >Interface can be navigated entirely by touchscreen >Graphics quality and battery life are now that of a higher-end smartphone. >A few years ago Nintendo started making android and iphone games. >Nintendo is adverting digital copies of games harder than it previously did. >Nintendo consoles are historically marketed as entertainment systems for children (and other). Many kids today are satisfied with their smartphone or their parents smartphone.
they'd have to dramatically downsize and mobile is a far more ruthless and dangerous market than dedicated consoles
Sebastian Cook
Nintendo makes toys. Nintendo made a VR headset out of cardboard. They will continue to make gadgets, be they consoles or whatever.
Bentley Lewis
No. Their focus is completely on dedicated systems. Mobile is used to attract normies to their consoles.
Daniel Allen
You're retarded. Like, at a phenomenal level.
Connor Allen
the problem with mobile though is android would be fucked because of all the variety of android phones out. and iphones aren't all the same size so they'd have to release joycons acoording to another product's size. it's too risky plus they rely on their new gimmicks although, i could see the lite or possibly a "micro" being given 3g like the vita, and eventually getting Android or Nintendo's own OS for features or community projects. can you even stream video through a microUSB?
Jeremiah Gutierrez
Why do you need Android though? Just release the most popular apps? (media and social) in there and you're done. If you need something else in a certain moment just use the web app. Esentially, add a web browser and a 4G option and many people would be able to stop depending on their phones
Anthony Jenkins
Nope, Nvidia will produce more chips especially since they sell so many and all the new consoles will be ati amd..
Sebastian Phillips
The success of the Switch is symptomatic of a paradigm shift in the industry. You don't sell 40 million in two years on the back of fanboys alone.
People want convenience. And the Switch offers them that. The future of gaming will be streaming and dockable devices.
Its not a question of Nintendo giving up on hardware. EVERYONE will. The kids on will kick and scream and deny it. But its happening.
Josiah Campbell
>giving up their physical paywall to play their games
It will never ever happen. They’ll die before they do it.
No, mobile doesn't make them as much money. Nintendo is one of the few companies that can make people spend $300 for a new Zelda while on mobile they struggled to get people to spent $10 on Mario.
Easton Bennett
You sell 40m to fans that were thirsty for more nintendo because the 3ds was dated at launch in 2011 just as the WiiU was in 2012. People were desperate for a decent Nintendo console that would get their repeated series newest games and maybe replace their dated systems.
Lincoln James
How do people still fail to realize that nintendo makes way more money as a console manufacturer than they ever would as a mobile only or 3rd party seller? They're the ones in control of their own products.
Why not have Nintendo as a console manufacturer, and it turns out that console can send and receive texts and calls, has a web browser, and can attach controllers or be plugged into a TV?
>phone features Add a SIM card with major carrier support, already has WiFi adapter their current online infrastructure is all for their gate-kept software, irrelevant to the discussion because phone features can be managed by att/verizon/insert phone carrier, they would need to Port all the major apps over though If Nintendo is moderately awake, they'll move in this direction while they have the software (in terms of games) advantage before other phone manufacturers do
there are loads of investors that want to see nintendo go mobile-only since they're chasing gacha money and want one of japan's biggest companies to go in on it
stock for nintendo plummeted when they announced they have no intention of going full mobile, around the time of pokemon go
Nathaniel Ortiz
Doesn't particularly make sense. why not sell your own hardware, mark up the price and add pay online, making much more money like they do right now?
Juan Hall
stock investors aren't very intelligent, are they.
Blake Hernandez
Why Nintendo and not Sony and MS? Why is it always Nintendo?
Chase Johnson
Have you used a Switch before? Also, holy shit that mobile phone is huge. I can barely hold the Switch comfortably with one hand, what the fuck is that?
Dominic Bennett
No idea. The whole removing the video/audio output on the Lite is a step backwards, if the smart phone is their end goal.
Josiah Sanchez
>Nintendo's latest console is approximately the size and shape of a smartphone. So it can be portable >Controllers and dock can be separated from the tablet part of the console Which no other mobile device can support the same way >Interface can be navigated entirely by touchscreen >Graphics quality and battery life are now that of a higher-end smartphone. >A few years ago Nintendo started making android and iphone games. Yes, and? >Nintendo is adverting digital copies of games harder than it previously did. Drives down manufacturing and shipping costs. Profit margins are higher for digital, plain and simple. >Nintendo consoles are historically marketed as entertainment systems for children (and other). Many kids today are satisfied with their smartphone or their parents smartphone. Doesn't appear to be so when you consider the Switch's sales are stellar and not dropping off from competition with mobile as many analysts expected
Carter Anderson
>The future of gaming will be streaming and dockable devices. Such as the Switch which is Nintendo's dockable hardware >Its not a question of Nintendo giving up on hardware. EVERYONE will. But you literally just said the future was dockable devices and Nintendo is already leading the pack in dockable hardware, why would they drop out even by your own logic?
Jack Watson
Why not Sony or MS? I don't see why they don't either, they both make phones already, but they seem less interested in promoting mobile gaming. If it was me I would just make that one of the options, hell they could have a switch pro, mini, original, phone, laptop, refrigerator, I don't give a shit, but the more of those needs they can cover the more interested I get
Joseph Stewart
The lite literally exists as an alternative for those who want a cheaper/portable only switch. It has no value to me but there is a market for this sort of thing.
Landon Flores
Handheld console and mobile are different market. Nintendo aware of this fact and that's why Switch is so successful
Andrew Butler
How can Nintendo knowingly have little functionality outside of videogames in their console and be try to be in the mobile marketplace?
There is no technological reason not to have output options. They could just keep it at 720p or whatever and not do resolution scale like on the regular switch. This has been a standard on most mobile devices for over a decade. Even the PSP had av out.
Luke Rodriguez
Moron.
Jacob Hill
Why doesn't Sony abandon the console market and make phone games only?
Evan Parker
Hey I never said not having dock features wasn't a genuinely bizarre omission. At least it's not a wii u situation where they COULDN'T remove the gamepad
Jaxson Hughes
Investors are short sighted nitwits.
Camden Richardson
Because I and many others don't want to play nintendo games on our damn phones. It's not that hard to grasp.
Wouldn't heat dissipation be an issue because of the size of lite's internals?
Austin Reyes
I hope tghey will stay with the Switch approach. It benefits the consumer so much: >ONE console for every new Nintendo game >The console itself has smaller varients that only support your handheld needs
I pray to god they make a Super Switch and stay with the formula because so far the Switch is a huge success and shaping up to be one of the best Nintendo consoles ever ( in therms of games and sales)
Evan Price
No, Nintendo has always been about the "blue ocean" strategy. They want to find unoccupied spaces to try new things and going into an overcrowded market is the antithesis of that. Not to mention they make far more money off a $300 console and $60 games than trying to get people to pay $10 for a Mario game on mobile.
Jack Johnson
Mobile user here They really should not. Nintendo's current model is one phone users could only dream of. The only people who don't think Nintnedo not selling their house for lottery tickets are trend chasers, the kind of people who think designing games specifically for monetization is a good thing.
