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It’s like either you read the report backwards or the author doesn’t know their arse from their elbow — I’ll go with the later. Nintendo said they’re moving awa

It’s like either you read the report backwards or the author doesn’t know their arse from their elbow — I’ll go with the later. Nintendo said they’re moving away from mobile because of how disappointing revenue has been, not to it. Rest assured, Nintendo’s console business remains their focus. All games they’ve announced in development are for Switch and rumours of a Switch Pro may actually have something to them. They haven’t released a new mobile game for a long time, just content updates to existing ones. Switch is Nintendo’s cash cow at the moment; they haven’t had a console do so well since the Wii and software sell so well since the NES and Game Boy days.

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noobermin 5y ago
>Nintendo said they’re moving away from mobile because of how disappointing revenue has been, not to it. The article didn't say that...yes that was apparent recently but it wasn't apparent in 2019 when Mario Kart Tour was just released. I realize the pandemic warped people's sense of time, but in 2019 it was common belief people had that the switch was the last effort of Nintendo, and given Animal Crossing Pocket Camp, Mario Kart Tour, Nintendo was trying to pivot to a mobile style micropayment model that everyone else on mobile does. You're messing up the order of things, today (2020-2021) it has been clear the mobile efforts are failing and they refocused on the Switch as it ended up doing super well in the pandemic, but back in 2019, they were looking to pivot. I thought I said that in the above comment but I guess I'll say it again.
- staticman2 5y ago
  Nintendo was exploring other supplementary revenue sources but they never had plans to drop consoles. "Looking to pivot" is just what you are imaging they were doing.
- johnnyanmac 5y ago
  >, today (2020-2021) it has been clear the mobile efforts are failing and they refocused on the Switch as it ended up doing super well in the pandemic, but back in 2019, they were looking to pivot. even today, Nintendo's relatively few mobile games are making a lot of money: https://sensortower.com/blog/nintendo-revenue-one-billion https://sensortower.com/blog/nintendo-revenue-one-billion I don't know how that compares to consoles, but $1B in ~4 years of mobile games (which btw does NOT count Pokemon Go, I'm sure they get some kickback there) certainly isn't something they will pull out of soon. I don't think this is an either/or situation. Nintendo's Switch games make bank. their phone games make bank. Nintendo gets more money for more of both kinds of games.

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noobermin 5y ago

>Nintendo said they’re moving away from mobile because of how disappointing revenue has been, not to it. The article didn't say that...yes that was apparent recently but it wasn't apparent in 2019 when Mario Kart Tour was just released. I realize the pandemic warped people's sense of time, but in 2019 it was common belief people had that the switch was the last effort of Nintendo, and given Animal Crossing Pocket Camp, Mario Kart Tour, Nintendo was trying to pivot to a mobile style micropayment model that everyone else on mobile does. You're messing up the order of things, today (2020-2021) it has been clear the mobile efforts are failing and they refocused on the Switch as it ended up doing super well in the pandemic, but back in 2019, they were looking to pivot. I thought I said that in the above comment but I guess I'll say it again.

staticman2 5y ago
Nintendo was exploring other supplementary revenue sources but they never had plans to drop consoles. "Looking to pivot" is just what you are imaging they were doing.
johnnyanmac 5y ago
>, today (2020-2021) it has been clear the mobile efforts are failing and they refocused on the Switch as it ended up doing super well in the pandemic, but back in 2019, they were looking to pivot. even today, Nintendo's relatively few mobile games are making a lot of money: https://sensortower.com/blog/nintendo-revenue-one-billion https://sensortower.com/blog/nintendo-revenue-one-billion I don't know how that compares to consoles, but $1B in ~4 years of mobile games (which btw does NOT count Pokemon Go, I'm sure they get some kickback there) certainly isn't something they will pull out of soon. I don't think this is an either/or situation. Nintendo's Switch games make bank. their phone games make bank. Nintendo gets more money for more of both kinds of games.