The future of Nintendo Switch and mobile gaming?

[Nella_Bolt]

I've been thinking about something pretty interesting. We have a Nintendo system that uses Bluetooth to be able to connect to your phone in Pokemon Let's GO. This reminds me of when Celebi was able to be obtained through your cell phone in Japan many years ago. It used an online service and compatible phones through a program called the Pokemon Mobile System GB. It's not the only game to do this, as Fallout 4 had a similar concept with a phone app being your PipBoy. Now, this is all very cool, but I'm wondering when games pushed towards being with your phone become a reality.

You could do things like take characters from rpg's with you to gain exp or find things via the Pedometer, have a game where somebody plays on the Switch with their phone while another person uses the controller, maybe even weird 3rd party mods that let you use the phone as some weird controller. I feel like there's a very large and open door for creative new ideas to be implemented. What do you think?

[Spect3r]

Nella_Bolt then you are a good person

[Nella_Bolt]

aye I peep that Hitchhiker's quote.

[isturbo1984]

I just dont thin there will be time for it to evolve before it dies. maybe its just me that is taking the word a little too literal lol

[Nella_Bolt]

Mobile gaming can be cancer but there are actually some pretty solid titles that don't fall into the territory of predatory microtransactions and mindless time wasters.

[Nella_Bolt]

I'm not saying "it's the future". I'm saying that the future of the Switch itself has very interesting potential.

[Spect3r]

I really hope that most games dont go that route, where you need an extra device to have access to more things in the game.
Specially as long as they use the most unsafe connection mode (Bluetooth) i will never join.

[fenrif]

Mobile gaming, on the whole, is cancer. If the future of Nintendo Switch is Microsofts aborted smartglass scheme then I'd be fairly worried for Nintendo. What's their next future tech? Kinect?

[isturbo1984]

The Switch isn't the "future." It's just Nintendo's primary hardware platform currently. It will get old and people and the big N will move on to their next system.