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Yeah, as of January of this year, they've made over a billion in revenue with mobile games: https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/28/21112029/nintendo-mobile-games-re

Yeah, as of January of this year, they've made over a billion in revenue with mobile games: https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/28/21112029/nintendo-mobile-games-revenue-fire-emblem-heroes-mario-run-android-ios https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/28/21112029/nintendo-mobile-...

Wowfunhappy 6y ago
Nintendo said earlier this year they were moving away from the mobile market, which is what made me think they didn't see it as a huge success: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-21/nintendo-chills-mobile-ambitions-after-animal-crossing-success https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-21/nintendo-... I suspect Fire Emblem Heroes is a result of competing interests inside Nintendo. Miyamoto has said publically several times that he doesn't think they should be making games like that—even after Fire Emblem's success: https://gamedaily.biz/article/197/nintendos-shigeru-miyamoto-just-did-an-about-face-on-f2p-so-now-what https://gamedaily.biz/article/197/nintendos-shigeru-miyamoto...
- mcphage 6y ago
  > Nintendo said earlier this year they were moving away from the mobile market, which is what made me think they didn't see it as a huge success I think it has been financially successful—but when the WiiU was failing, Nintendo needed a backup plan, badly. Now that the Switch is incredibly successful, they’re not as desperate for a Plan B, and so mobile ports are mostly a distraction, even if a profitable one. But their biggest bottleneck is time and developers, not money.
  - ungamed 6y ago
    > But their biggest bottleneck is time and developers, not money. I'd -gladly- write games (and software) for the switch if it was a more accessible platform to develop for. Developing software for Nintendos previous platforms was difficult for anyone who didnt have 'connections' in the industry.
    - Wowfunhappy 6y ago
      I believe the GP meant developers within Nintendo, e.g. making first party software.
      - darkerside 6y ago
        Yeah, well I'd gladly play basketball for the New York Knicks if they'd just make the hoops more accessible to people my height.
    - onion2k 6y ago
      Register at developer.nintendo.com, download the free tools, and off you go. Switch development is much more straight forward than previous Nintendo consoles. You'll need a dev console eventually which will cost a bit, but you can get quite far before spending anything.

Wowfunhappy 6y ago

Nintendo said earlier this year they were moving away from the mobile market, which is what made me think they didn't see it as a huge success: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-21/nintendo-chills-mobile-ambitions-after-animal-crossing-success https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-21/nintendo-... I suspect Fire Emblem Heroes is a result of competing interests inside Nintendo. Miyamoto has said publically several times that he doesn't think they should be making games like that—even after Fire Emblem's success: https://gamedaily.biz/article/197/nintendos-shigeru-miyamoto-just-did-an-about-face-on-f2p-so-now-what https://gamedaily.biz/article/197/nintendos-shigeru-miyamoto...

mcphage 6y ago
> Nintendo said earlier this year they were moving away from the mobile market, which is what made me think they didn't see it as a huge success I think it has been financially successful—but when the WiiU was failing, Nintendo needed a backup plan, badly. Now that the Switch is incredibly successful, they’re not as desperate for a Plan B, and so mobile ports are mostly a distraction, even if a profitable one. But their biggest bottleneck is time and developers, not money.
- ungamed 6y ago
  > But their biggest bottleneck is time and developers, not money. I'd -gladly- write games (and software) for the switch if it was a more accessible platform to develop for. Developing software for Nintendos previous platforms was difficult for anyone who didnt have 'connections' in the industry.
  - Wowfunhappy 6y ago
    I believe the GP meant developers within Nintendo, e.g. making first party software.
    - darkerside 6y ago
      Yeah, well I'd gladly play basketball for the New York Knicks if they'd just make the hoops more accessible to people my height.
  - onion2k 6y ago
    Register at developer.nintendo.com, download the free tools, and off you go. Switch development is much more straight forward than previous Nintendo consoles. You'll need a dev console eventually which will cost a bit, but you can get quite far before spending anything.