One thing that I think really separates the discussion about Nintendo is the awareness/cluelessness about the fact that Nintendo have, in fact, have their hand

One thing that I think really separates the discussion about Nintendo is the awareness/cluelessness about the fact that Nintendo have, in fact, have their hand in so much of Silicon Valley, already. I remember in the 90's, SGI and Nintendo shared a multiple of projects, hosted at the expansion offices at Oracle. The goal? Port Netscape to the N64, and so on. Nintendo are all over the place. Of course they have an iOS team already, duh. They worked with Creative Labs already, to develop competing frameworks to iOS, even before iOS 1.0 was released. All these things got cancelled/re-structured, and Nintendo still have a strong, forward-deployed, developer mentality. So, its not that they are not, actually, operating as a development group in our industry. Its just that they haven't "surfaced", yet, because their strategic deployment of co-development teams and integrated efforts doesn't, necessarily, mean that a product will bubble to the surface.