GRL Games - Nintendo's has been hurt/'legs are shaking' because of smartphone/tablet/Facebook gaming

“I don’t think it’s a matter of will they be hurt by that, I think they’ve already been hurt by that. I think that Sony and Nintendo, behind closed doors, their legs are shaking. They have to be. It’s like trying to ignore global warming. These things are here. I think these smartphones and the tablets and Facebook, they all take away minutes per day. And you have maybe an hour per day two years ago to play Halo. Now, smartphones and tablets and Facebook have all eaten into that. Thirty seconds at a time throughout the day, and you’ve got your fix of gaming in. I think there’s still room for Halo, because gosh, I love Halo (laughter). I think time is taken away, and it’s not necessarily a dollar problem, it’s a time problem. I think if Sony or Nintendo got on stage and acknowledged the problem, and said, ‘Look, smartphones are here to stay. Great SDK, great tools, great entry barrier for independent developers; we’re going to open up and do the same thing. We’re going to make a $100 SDK for the 3DS and we’re going to open up the 3DS store for independent developers, and not provide a division, as Microsoft has done on Xbox Live… Put them together. Let the ecosystem win. I think that would change things up. I don’t think they would ever go there and do that.” - GRL Games’ Graeme Devine

I honestly don’t know what Nintendo thinks about all these other methods of gaming. It’s clear that they believe there’s a place in this industry for console and portable dedicated gaming platforms, as we see through 3DS and Project Cafe. As for a threat from those other gaming avenues, I don’t know that we’ll ever hear Nintendo’s top brass say that they’re worried.

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