Nintendo: We're Not Making a Phone

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@israil

I agree with you to the extent that ALOT of the consumers who *need* a mobile phone would like it to do everything that they would want so they can pay one relatively low price for a multi-purpose device, but there are many others who do not want this.

Just as one brand or format of car isn't acceptable for every purpose or person so it is with mobile phones and gaming.

Now, if they made a gaming handheld that looked like a gaming handheld and played like a gaming handheld but just happened to be upgradeable via a SIM card-like add-on which included the cell radio to have cell phone capabilities, then that might work.

Or maybe I'd just use a VOIP app on a NGP and get a cheap phone for when I needed to make an important call. Only chatterboxes really need or want an expensive contracted phone.

 

[Vladislaus]

[citation][nom]rhino13[/nom]I agree with Kevin on this.But, I must say Microsoft and Sony are hardly putting out gaming phones. Xperia Play offers nothing that wasn't already avalible via emulator, and Windows Phone does little more than let you look at your gamerscore.We need a real gamer's phone here. This is a real opportunity![/citation]
Xperia Play has exclusive games besides the ones that are emulated, it possess dedicated gaming controls and it's also a phone. So it's a gaming phone.

 

[cpatel1987]

Nintendo's player base is made up of a lot of kids, or at least a chunk of their games are for kids and families. Sooo, how many kids do you know own cellphones? Ya, smart move by Nintendo, stick with your fan base.

 

[Guest]

Let's forget about nintendo a minute. Look at cellular phones. Once they were phones that could do computing. Now they are cellular computers that can do phoning. All info and entertainment is going online and to a singular device:Anyone heard of the Atrix? Then look at physical media. Say good buy to books: we use e-readers and smartphones (notice any book chains closing their doors?) Say good buy to CD's: anyone heard of MP3's? Say good buy to DVD's: Anyone heard of NetFlix? Say good buy to game disks and cartridges: Anyone heard of OnLive? And There's the real issue. The fact that games of the future are played off low latency servers. I grew up with Nintendo and don't want to see it relegated to the fate of game designer alone: Anyone heard of SEGA? If Nintendo wants to stay at the top of the gaming food chain it needs to create or buy a service like OnLive. Then sell that service to smartphone/tv owners as apps. Then if they want to continue to sell handhelds it should/would/will be in the form of the xperia running a custom Android that could be set to different user/safety levels. Then I can take my nintendo smartdevice to work with productivity, play mariokart on the way home, plug it into my big screen at home to play Zelda or connect it to my laptop dock for surfing, or just hand it to the kids after I set my custom "Kid Mode" The bottom line is this:Mario can create Online gaming service like OnLive or retire with Sonic.