Nintendo for IOS

There was once a time when Nintendo ruled the home console market in gaming. But for many years now the Nintendo consoles have gone from leading edge technology, to too family friendly, giving themselves a reputation as being the ones who release games for babies.

That may never have been the case when it comes to Nintendo's own Super Mario games, especially with the newest Mario game and Mario Kart releases, but where Nintendo lacks in sales is coming from other companies not bothering to make a Wii or 3DS version of the latest games that are helping sales rocket for PlayStation and X-Box users.

It can be traced back to the Nintendo 64. Even tho in just about every way, the Nintendo 64 was the better console between it, the Playstation 1 and Sega Dreamcast... it was Sony that pulled away with higher sales due to two reasons. 1 being that the games where CD based, which where much easier to produce for PlayStation than on the N64. Which became a shame that the N64 never received any of the popular fighting titles such as Street Fighter II and up, just to name bu one of many games that the 64 missed out on. The second reason was CD's where something easy to copy, so bootlegs meant modding the play-station was as easy as $50 or so, and you could buy any game after that you wanted for a few bucks.

Nintendo then came out with the Game Cube, which used a specific CD that was not easy to duplicate, again leaving the Playstation 2 and X-Box consoles lapping Nintendo in sales. Nintendo however did manage to keep themselves above water with the GBA and DS release. Both consoles revived old NES and SNES games, to which where the biggest sellers on the system, but again, not many other companies where interested in making games for the smaller devices... the 16 to 32 bit era seemed to be dead. Even 64 seemed passe, and the word itself "bit" just diminished on the next generation of consoles.

These days with Wii, Wii2 and the 3DS, Nintendo is still in the same boat. It does create fantastic new Nintendo titles,the Mario games, Donkey Kong and Zelda etc... but where are the other games that are rocking the PlayStation and X-Box worlds? Even when the Nintendo systems do get a version of those games, they are hardly ever said to be the superior version... in fact, no titles come to mind when I think about that.

There have been many rumors floating around that Nintendo are done for, outside of Japan anyway. With lack of sales competing with Playstation and X-Box, rumors have been spilling that Nintendo may just shut down all together and not bother to make games anymore (outside of Japan).

What I think Nintendo need to do, is go back to basics, and revisit what made them #1 in the 1980's and early 90's, and not make it exclusive to Nintendo only consoles.

A few years back, I would have thought 2bit gaming and sprites where a think of the past, but with ISO technology for I-Phones, Androids and whatnot came in, it wasn't the large 3D games with the latest tech specs dominating sales, it was basic old school designs making the cash. A game as simple as Angry Birds became an overnight sensation for Rovio Entertainment. A game simply about shooting birds off a slingshot and into house frames with pigs on them. If someone described that game to you in 1985, you probably would think it sounded like crap... but then again, today, if you describe Frogger to a gamer today with no knowledge of 80's games, they probably would think that was crap.

This is why I beleive now is the time Nintendo should suck it up and not focus so much on where the future of gaming is going, but revive what made Nintendo the shit in the first place. Bring those old titles like Super Mario, Mario 2, 3 and Lost Levels, and revamp them into a game for the Iphone/Androids.

Just the potential of Super Mario Bros, the original, alone has so many possibilities to be revived.
Whatever it be just a straight up rom dump, Nintendo would only have to charge 99 cents for the game, and no one can deny it would make a million more bucks in as little as 3 years at the most. Old school gamers would love the chance to have the original Super Mario on their phones, even if it's just an exact copy of the nes game.

Then again,  maybe Nintendo could put a bit of effort into it and update the game a little? Better graphics, or just release the SNES version on Mario All-Stars? Still get the same people wanting it as before, and a new generation will take interest too.
Then there is the choice of will it be a separate solo game, or will it be a package of Mario Allstars? Perhaps it might be a solo game, you can pay 99 cents for the whole game, or a free version allows you to play up until the first castle? Then again, if it's All-Stars, maybe the original Mario Bros. (Not SUPER mario bros) could be the free download for All-Stars, but you have to purchase Super Mario 1, 2, 3 & Lost Levels?

Nintendo really succeeded in pleasing fans on the SNES with Mario Allstars, on the GBC with Mario DX, GBA consoles with the revived versions of Mario 2, 3 and Mario World. And then again on the DS with Mario 64. But what has Wii and the 3DS really done? They put games up for download that just don't feel right with the Wii controller, nor the shoddy controller for the Wii you can buy separately... those are just the old games, nothing new to them.

The IOS systems are the perfect opportunity for Nintendo to get back into the gaming market. They have obviously failed with trying to go head to head with next gen consoles, but they need to back away from those fights and focus on where their original strengths are. The 2D games. Or 3D games in the style of 2D. Nintendo need to stop chasing PlayStation and Microsoft, and send their little stereo typed plumber after a different, but familiar market. The IOS systems. Nintendo have a back catalog of classic games that they can either simply convert to IOS games, or revive them and update them before releasing them. Their potential for just Mario and Zelda games alone has the foundations to give Rovio a run for their money.

And even perhaps, revive Nintendo as the leader of 2D games once again, showing the current developers of IOS games how it is really done. Some games have already proved successful with IOS conversions from Arcade and console versions, but it's Nintendo that need to suck it up, face the fact they can't compete with new generation consoles, and switch to competing in a field that suits them more. And who knows where that might lead... Nintendo might find it so rewarding the next Mario game is exclusive to android/Iphone etc...

But Nintendo really need to hurry the fuck up, swallow some pride, say to hell with nintendo only being available on nintendo consoles, and get cracking on IOS games before IOS becomes as useful as owning an Atari system today. The current IOS technology is always getting better, and before you know it, it will have caught up and probably be 10 times better than what the PS4 and X-BOX One combined are today... so hurry the fuck up Nintendo if you wanna save yourselves from being a strong company in the world of video games today, otherwise you guys are going to perish everywhere but Japan, because everyone knows the next Nintendo console release will not interest anyone over 13 years old, and Nintendo will go bust.