It honestly reminds me of when sega during the Saturn era, obviously Nintendo has way more money then sega ever did, but the way they have been driven out of the console race so early is concerning... They really need to get back third party support, cus there's no way anyone's using a Nintendo machine as their sole console without any cross platform games available.
I feel that at this point they have completely given up on competing with other consoles like xbox or playstation. Realistically, their best bet is to try to become the "Family Device" that is relatively cheap and simple to use.
The same way the Wii ended up. It really is sad. I wish they start bringing their games to mobile. I would buy one of those adapters for my phone if it means I can play The Legend of Zelda with my phone. But I really dont see this happening anytime soon. They will release a Pokemon game on mobile but its a puzzle type game. Hopefully this will pave the way for more.
I think part of it is that for nintendo, America is really just the secondary market. Their market share in Japan is outrageously high (like 60%-70%) and so long as they keep selling in Japan, there won't be much incentive to distribute on third party hardware.
Still I feel like if their entire NA or EU markets were to disappear overnight it would hurt, and they would notice. That's a sizable pile of cash they're neglecting.
It honestly reminds me of when sega during the Saturn era, obviously Nintendo has way more money then sega ever did, but the way they have been driven out of the console race so early is concerning... They really need to get back third party support, cus there's no way anyone's using a Nintendo machine as their sole console without any cross platform games available.
I feel that at this point they have completely given up on competing with other consoles like xbox or playstation. Realistically, their best bet is to try to become the "Family Device" that is relatively cheap and simple to use.
The same way the Wii ended up. It really is sad. I wish they start bringing their games to mobile. I would buy one of those adapters for my phone if it means I can play The Legend of Zelda with my phone. But I really dont see this happening anytime soon. They will release a Pokemon game on mobile but its a puzzle type game. Hopefully this will pave the way for more.
I think part of it is that for nintendo, America is really just the secondary market. Their market share in Japan is outrageously high (like 60%-70%) and so long as they keep selling in Japan, there won't be much incentive to distribute on third party hardware.
Still I feel like if their entire NA or EU markets were to disappear overnight it would hurt, and they would notice. That's a sizable pile of cash they're neglecting.