Andy Payne, chairman of UKIE, has decided that both Nintendo and Sony would be better off if they would just stop making hardware and focus their attention on making games for iOS and Android.
“I think it would be a massive relief to both Sony and Nintendo to become content-only. Right now, they might not even know it. You know that thing where you take drugs and you think it’s the best thing in the world? Then you get off them and go, ‘What was I doing?’
“Imagine any Mario or Zelda property being on the iPhone or an Android phone. They’d get £10 or £15 for it, because people would want to pay to have it on their phone. They would. And that would be amazing… wouldn’t it be refreshing to have Nintendo really making stuff for the iPhone, Android, and all the other stuff that’s around?”
So, after being a huge part of the video game industry since its origin and creating some of the most commercially successful consoles and handhelds in history, Nintendo is going to ask, “What was I doing?” And what about Sony? The PlayStation 2 has shipped more units than any other console. Plus, with the way Nintendo’s games are designed specifically with the hardware in mind (in terms of how they’re controlled), many games simply wouldn’t work on a mobile phone.
So what are your thoughts? Do you think Nintendo and/or Sony should ditch hardware and focus on games for iOS and Android?
