Will Nintendo Make a Smartphone?

Nintendo isn't having the best time of it at the moment - no matter how cool Mario Kart 8 looks. With stalling sales of its Wii U console and a severe dearth of games for the living room machine on the horizon, it's looking a little bleak for the Japanese gaming giant's future.

[Geobros]

No way. We don't need another more smartphone, we need video game consoles....

[fr0sty]

They'd do better to release software for smart phones than to try to compete against people who have been designing fully featured operating systems for many years. They need to focus on games and putting out consoles that can compete.

[randomass171]

A Nintendo mobile phone would be interesting, but unless it ran on iOS or Android, it probably wouldn't make much traction and wind up like Xperia Play. :(

[RPGrinder]

What a bad article.

[finito82]

lol wow really , no thanks sry

[mamotte]

Because the 3DS sales mean nothing at all.

[ZeroAtmin]

I think they're just gonna remove their whole console regime and stick to portables

[OtakuDJK1NG-Rory]

I think that a stupid thing to do

[calvincrack]

Lol can you imagine how low res it would be

[wonderfulmonkeyman]

"A severe dearth".
HAHAHAHAHA!!!
No. Between indies, smaller third parties, and potential new first party announcements on top of games that we already know are coming, the Wii U is in for anything BUT a drought of games...

[josephayal]

smartphone? are you serious? They've gone from 10.5 billion cash to 7.4 billion in just 15 months

[millzy102]

Yes but they've brought 1 billion dollars worth of stock back and built like 3 headquarters/ dev buildings. There money isn't evaporating away its called investment. They have more than enough Money to do whatever they want and as there completely debt free (hint there's not many companies without some amount of debt) so they could easily get approved for a massive business loan should the need arise. although I can't see them making smartphones.

[Baccra17]

No, but they should make games for smartphones.