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Cell phone gaming killing off handheld market? Nintendo gives way....

very smart move. hopefully they get out of console market and start putting nintendo games out on ps4 and x1.

yeah i know never will happen but imagine an open world zelda game on current consoles.
 
I think the 3DS just manages to differentiate itself enough from mobile to still keep it relevant. Sales are still quite strong. In fact, as many 3DS systems have been sold as all other current gen platforms combined. About 51 million.

Though mobile is definitely a vast untapped market for them. Hopefully they'll stay away from the disease of micro-transactions.
I do have mixed opinions on whether Nintendo should stop making their own hardware.

As for the others, Sony tried it and failed. PlayStation mobile for Vita and Android just got shuttered a few weeks back. The Vita didn't really fail because of mobile gaming though. I think it had more to do with the high cost of memory cards, and Sony's failure to provide the right types of games for the system. Handhelds can't survive without strong first party support.

Microsoft doesn't really make that many games in house. So there's not much for them to release for mobile. The Windows 10 update though will allow the XB1 to stream games to virtually any other Windows 10 device.
 
I could see Nintendo putting old games onto mobile for very little cash outlay as a means to fund their war machine in the console buisness. However, I don't see handheld consoles going away anytime soon unless smartphones achieve vastly better battery life under full load.

I think instead of a home console, Nintendo should give their next handheld a strong SOC (+ LTE as double screen browsing would be amazing) and have outputs for the tv, then interface with the older wii remotes via bluetooth. A docking cradle + hdmi would be the ticket.
 
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OR nintendo can make their own smartphone. how about that?
dont make super skinny phones with lousy battery life. make it super thick! the battery will last 1 day on continuous gaming, 1 week with just talk, 2 days with mix of gaming n video n talk. im willing to bet it will sell like hot cakes. if u cant beat them, join them.
 
Eh I'm not real impressed by this as it seems to just be more taking typical mobile games and applying Nintendo branding. I believe Nintendo even outright said they would not be porting games and were taking into account the control differences. Plus their partner is just a typical mobile game development setup.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/03/nintendo-partners-with-dena-to-develop-mobile-phone-games/

I'm sure they'll make plenty of money, but I'm not confident this will really be anything that gamers want. In fact it might do the opposite if it convinces Nintendo fully of adopting the microtransaction and other models. Have fun being a parent when Nintendo decides that you have to pay real money to get new Pokemon. Supposedly Nintendo is considerate of not doing that, but when you look at stuff like the Amiibos, I'm not sure they'll resist.

But who knows maybe they'll find some way to improve things. I'd love for a new Dr. Mario game.
 
luv2liv said:
OR nintendo can make their own smartphone. how about that?
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A Nintendo branded smartphone aimed at children would probably sell quite well. I can see it happening eventually, but Nintendo is notoriously slow to react to external market pressures. They'd also insist on using their own OS rather than Android or any other third party software. Which would hurt functionality somewhat.
 
darkswordsman17 said:
Eh I'm not real impressed by this as it seems to just be more taking typical mobile games and applying Nintendo branding. I believe Nintendo even outright said they would not be porting games and were taking into account the control differences. Plus their partner is just a typical mobile game development setup.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/03/nintendo-partners-with-dena-to-develop-mobile-phone-games/

I'm sure they'll make plenty of money, but I'm not confident this will really be anything that gamers want. In fact it might do the opposite if it convinces Nintendo fully of adopting the microtransaction and other models.
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Exactly. This is a bad thing.

We don't want Nintendo IP skinned onto a freemium game, we want Nintendo Developers making games with their talents for the platform. Failing that we want ports of previous AAA games for mobile, like a mobile Virtual Console.

I am hoping these are super successful (like blow away 3DS revenues) just so Nintendo shareholders force them onto a more modern model and we get REAL mobile games from Nintendo.
 
I am happy to pay Nintendo $5 a month to access to their whole(including 3rd party games) NES and SNES collection.

Love to get a few old buddy together for double dragon, 1943...etc on xbox.
 
Smartphones and tablets will definitely sink handheld eventually. Nintendo has no choice here. I still rarely find an iPhone game I can do more than 5-10 min in a row with though.
 
Blanky said:
Smartphones and tablets will definitely sink handheld eventually. Nintendo has no choice here. I still rarely find an iPhone game I can do more than 5-10 min in a row with though.
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Yeah, pretty much this. There are some really great games on the app stores but you have to really dig for them.

Smartphone gaming did have a very promising start from around 2008 to about 2011. That was before it became the world's biggest repository of shovelware. The often exploitative freemium model has really hurt the platform's reputation as a legitimate gaming system IMO. Which is very unfortunate.
 
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