Nintendo will stop manufacturing consoles and develop smartphone games
It seems that Nintendo is studying to stop making consoles and games for them and focus on developing games for smartphones, something much more profitable.
Interesting interview of the Nikkei medium with the President of Nintendo, Suntaro Furukawa. We all know that the console market, despite the insistence of Sony and Microsoft, has its days numbered. Furukawa has stressed that it could leave the home gaming experience to focus on the smartphone market. When the subject of innovation has been raised, Furukawa has emphasized that technology is changeable. Specifically, he highlighted: "perhaps our focus as a business could move away from home consoles ... I would like to increase the number of smartphone games that have a continuous stream of income"
Nintendo is studying to stop manufacturing consoles
The company has always been known for making consoles with an attractive title catalog. They recently released the game Super Mario Run, a kind of touchstone to see the reception. It seems that it has been so good that it would be analyzing the change of business. Consoles have long ceased to be the queens of gaming and are sold less and less.
“We are not really obsessed with our consoles. Right now we are offering the uniquely developed Nintendo Switch and its software, and we base the way we deliver the “Nintendo experience” on that. That said, technology changes. We will continue to think flexibly about how to deliver that experience as time goes on. "
The smartphone gaming market is more profitable and generates more revenue than consoles and computers combined. Furthermore, developing a game for a smartphone is much simpler than for a console or a computer. This platform also has more users and micropayments are usually very common. There is also the possibility of interspersing ads between screens to generate income. It seems a more than logical step for the Japanese company.
Source: HOCP
