re: Is Nintendo Run By Idiots?

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How has Nintendo not gotten in on ios and Android apps? How do you just ignore that market especially now that everyone has a freakin cell phone?

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Because that's their freaking competition. If you want to play Mario, go buy a 3DS or a Wii U. You may as well be asking why they don't make games for the PS4 as well. That would ruin their handheld gaming machines if they were to do it, and plus I don't think Mario would do well on a Droid or iPad. Nintendo is not going to put out one of their classics unless it's as good as it originally was, and there is no way Super Mario World would be as good on an Android as it would be on a good old fashioned console.

So no, this is a smart decision by Nintendo not to put their classics on mobile gaming devices.

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The Wii was a unheard of motion sensing tech packaged in hardware that was at least 10 years dated. Microsoft and Sony very quickly realized they too could make motion capture games coupled with far more useful hardware, and the Wii died.

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You do know that Wii sold like 20 million more consoles than they did, and made an assload more money than those 2 did, right? They tried to keep up with the competition from a technology standpoint with the Gamecube, but that didn't work, so they tried something different, and it worked. It had a pretty damn brilliant marketing campaign too with "Wii would like to play."

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But mobile gaming is ridiculously popular right now.

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Maybe it's because they're not whores in wanting to put out subpar games on touchscreen devices, or compromise their corporate values? Nintendo going to mobile gaming would not only be whoring out, but also definitely take a hit out of their portable gaming devices.

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I can buy Duke freakin Nukem in the app store but not one of the most popular game franchises of all time. Hell, I can buy atari classics.

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And what is Duke Nukem and Atari classics up to these days? Not shite? That's the only way they're making money off of Duke Nukem is putting him on Apps. Mario makes plenty of damn money without doing that, and doing that would compromise their corporate ideology.