News - Nintendo dispels rumours about smartphone mini-games

[HEXUS]

The company confirmed that its intention is to use smart devices only to promote games.

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[cheesemp]

As a long time gamer I would have agreed with this statement 2 or 3 years ago:
"Nintendo is a special thing, because of its history, so many gamers have a soft spot for Nintendo... they just shot themselves in the foot with this piece of hardware, the Wii U," said Tokyo-based gaming expert Jean Snow. "But I totally think they can get out."

However now I'm not so sure. The longer the time passes since I last played a Mario or Zelda title the less and less I miss it. I do worry for Nintendo in the long term. While I can understand their views they need to be careful they don't just fade into obscurity like Sega have (Yes I know they still make good games but they aren't the house hold name they once where).

[shaithis]

I can see the predicament they are in and understand their reluctance to "do a Sega".

Their biggest revenue stream seems to be handhelds and if they open their IP up there will be a flood of mobile games.....which would be competing against them. I see elsewhere that they have opened up some IP, just not for games (figurines).....but to move forward I think they will need to release a console to compete technically with XBO/PS4 (and probably SteamOS), there are just too many other "light" options out there with large catalogues of games and apps and we all saw with the Wii-U (and I still wonder how they didn't see it before, you only had to look at how many Wii's were trading second hand) that novelties wear off and these extremely casual gamers that impulse bought Wiis were only going to buy 1 or 2 games and were not interested in "upgrading". If you want to release a successful games console, it needs to be aimed at gamers.

[McEwin]

...but to move forward I think they will need to release a console to compete technically with XBO/PS4

I have to agree with this. Make it x86 based so that the makers of (supposed) AAA titles can do a quick 'n cheap conversion. Get some guns on the console and the males/dads in gaming are more likely to buy in. No typical young male is going to buy Mario over (insert favourite shooter here). And I know they aren't the whole market, but why alienate them? Especially if they are the man-of-the-house making the purchasing decision.. Nintendo is just to kiddy now and not even the kids thinks that cool.

(Edit: I used square brackets around the insert

[directhex]

The Wii U's biggest problem isn't even the spec.

It's the marketing.

Joe Public thinks it's an overpriced add-on they don't care about for their existing Wii.

[zdn1042]

Great. There's goes my dream of playing Zelda, Pokemon, and Mario Kart on a tablet.