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Play It Anywhere: The Case For a Nintendo Smartphone
Quite often I think a lot about tech from my childhood. How those devices paved the way for the tech that I enjoy today. By extension, this creates a fondness for certain brands and hoping to see future success by those brands. One of the devices from my childhood that I have incredibly fond memories of is the Super Nintendo game console. Hours of playing Super Mario World made me a fan of the console and a fan of Nintendo as a company on the whole.
As someone that often thinks a lot about the future of tech and companies that create tech, I have been thinking about Nintendo a bit lately. Nintendo over the years has seemed to be content to be a firmly entrenched player in the console wars, but never much beyond that. But as we enter a reality where mobile gaming is the growth industry in the gaming realm, maybe it is time for Nintendo to take mobile more seriously. Maybe, it is not an outlandish idea that Nintendo makes a smartphone to address this market change.
The Rise of the Gaming Phone
In recent years there has been a quiet movement of the creation of a mobile niche: the gaming phone market. These phones are…
