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I have had Nintendo hardware for years now, but I am not excited by the U or 3DS. With the company posting a loss and people saying they should get out of the hardware game and concentrate on their software, I am tending to agree for the first time.

Do you reckon they will ever do this? Would be awesome to play Mario, Zelda etc on my iPad or phone and would gladly pay £15 for a game of their quality.

There must be a huge market for Nintendo to sell games to mobile phones, console and tablet markets. Just wondering what others thoughts were.
 
Spit said:
I have had Nintendo hardware for years now, but I am not excited by the U or 3DS. With the company posting a loss and people saying they should get out of the hardware game and concentrate on their software, I am tending to agree for the first time.

Do you reckon they will ever do this? Would be awesome to play Mario, Zelda etc on my iPad or phone and would gladly pay £15 for a game of their quality.

There must be a huge market for Nintendo to sell games to mobile phones, console and tablet markets. Just wondering what others thoughts were.
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If Mario came to the iPod I would almost certainly boycott Nintendo.

They're doing fine imo, the 3DS is getting a price drop, new games are coming out. It's early days, Nintendo have always had lower sales back in the Playstation days and still managed to come out and trump the market.

I'm not sure on the Wii U selling as well as people think as nobody knows the price yet, though I can see the 3DS picking up nearer the holidays.
 
The 3DS has had pretty lacklustre sales I think, and I forsee the Wii U also failing to live up to the sales of its predecessor.

They've went with more ambitious hardware this time around, at the expense of cost, which is the opposite of why the Wii appealed to the casual market in the first place.
 
I'd be interested in a Wii-U if they made the effort to have a proper Nintendo classics store. Not the rip-off version on the Wii where old games were about £7. I mean one where you can download any NES/SNES/N64/GC game for £2. I'd spend a fortune on that. Couple that with a small handfull of next gen Mario games and you would have a pretty decent console.
 
Nintendo will stay in the hardware business for the forseeable future.

Nintendo rescued the game industry after the big crash of the 1980s with the NES. They have always looked outside the box and really tried too innovate the industry.

The powerglove, ROB the robot, Virtual Boy, Disc based addons and Satalite downloading to motion controls, glasses free 3D and whatever the Wii U throws out.

Ok, some of those were failures and successes, but without these kind of innovators we'd still be in a MHZ war.

I'm looking at the positive side of the Wii U and see a wide range of UI implementations, that's possible on that contoller. Bringing even more genres to the console market.

Hopefully the price cut on the 3DS will help to sell more.
 
Spit said:
Would be awesome to play Mario, Zelda etc on my iPad or phone and would gladly pay £15 for a game of their quality.
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Would it? I couldn't think of anything worse than playing Mario or Zelda on an iPad or iPhone. I'm astonished you think this. In my opinion it would be a crime to subject these masterpieces to the restrictions given by these two hardware formats.

£15 for a new Mario/Zelda - Well it wouldn't be the quality Mario or Zelda we all love. I'm not even taking into account not having tactile buttons or an analogue stick!
 
Nintendo made an absolute TON of money on the Wii (dirt cheap to make, sold by the cart load).

And the DS/DS Lite/DSi/DS XL all printed money.

They can easily afford to take a bit of a hit. Though if rumours are right the 3DS only costs about £60 a unit to make, so even with the price drop they will be making money.

Plus you have to consider that the DS had a slow start as well, it wasn't until the big games came out (Mario Kart and Pokemon for example) that sales started to shoot up.

The 3DS is in its infancy, once the AAA titles kick in at the end of the year you'll see far more systems being sold. I know a lot of people who are holding off buying a 3DS until Mario 3D and Mario Kart come out.

I was the same, I didn't care about the 3DS until Zelda was being released.
 
I'd agree that when the killer apps start coming out for the 3DS then we'll see the sales rise. At the moment there's only really one must have game in my opinion, nobody will buy the system for one game unless they're mental or a huge Zelda fan. Nice to see the early adopters getting some free stuff though. :)
 
HeX said:
Nintendo made an absolute TON of money on the Wii (dirt cheap to make, sold by the cart load).

And the DS/DS Lite/DSi/DS XL all printed money.

They can easily afford to take a bit of a hit. Though if rumours are right the 3DS only costs about £60 a unit to make, so even with the price drop they will be making money.
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Read the link I posted - http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2011/07/29/3ds_losses/ For the first time (at least as far as I know) Nintendo are going to start making losses on a console. It's bad but I think i've realised Nintendo's thinking with this. They need as many people as possible to buy this console in the run up to (and during) the heavy hitting Super Mario 3D Land & Mario Kart 7 releases. Both are coming in Q4 2011. They need this since the system is something that people HAVE to try in order to make them want it.

Does seem like this Christmas (especially with the PS Vita coming out in one territory this year) is pretty crucial though. I wonder how much of an impact this price decrease will have, since everywhere online is selling it around what is sounds like the price would be decreased to anyway.
 
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I'm probably a bit of both :P Though to be fair I bought the console knowing what future games are coming out and that I'd be interested in.
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That's the reason I bought it. Well, it was mainly in the hope that some of the games would be released a bit earlier than the end of the year. Plus I was expecting The Mercenaries to be a little bit better than it appears to be. :(

I'm still really excited for Snake Eater and Revelations though, and then there will be Mario Kart to look forward to as well, plus a Tekken game. Here's hoping that Rockstar release another GTA game on a Nintendo, I'd love a port of 3, Vice City or San Andreas and the 3DS is more than capable of running them especially if they go with a slightly scaled down version of the engine like we saw on the PSP games.
 
As well as the games you've mentioned I'm really looking forward to Starfox 64 3D, I played that game so much in my teenage years, remember when it cost over £70 with the rumble pack, being able to play that on a portable with improved graphics is going to be amazing. Already pre-ordered it.

August is looking a bit low on games, but I'll have Xenosaga on the Wii to play.
 
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