Yeah, as of January of this year, they've made over a billion in revenue with mobile games: https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/28/21112029/nintendo-mobile-...

Nintendo said earlier this year they were moving away from the mobile market, which is what made me think they didn't see it as a huge success: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-21/nintendo-...

I suspect Fire Emblem Heroes is a result of competing interests inside Nintendo. Miyamoto has said publically several times that he doesn't think they should be making games like that—even after Fire Emblem's success: https://gamedaily.biz/article/197/nintendos-shigeru-miyamoto...

> Nintendo said earlier this year they were moving away from the mobile market, which is what made me think they didn't see it as a huge success

I think it has been financially successful—but when the WiiU was failing, Nintendo needed a backup plan, badly. Now that the Switch is incredibly successful, they’re not as desperate for a Plan B, and so mobile ports are mostly a distraction, even if a profitable one. But their biggest bottleneck is time and developers, not money.

> But their biggest bottleneck is time and developers, not money.

I'd -gladly- write games (and software) for the switch if it was a more accessible platform to develop for.

Developing software for Nintendos previous platforms was difficult for anyone who didnt have 'connections' in the industry.

Register at developer.nintendo.com, download the free tools, and off you go. Switch development is much more straight forward than previous Nintendo consoles. You'll need a dev console eventually which will cost a bit, but you can get quite far before spending anything.

I believe the GP meant developers within Nintendo, e.g. making first party software.

Yeah, well I'd gladly play basketball for the New York Knicks if they'd just make the hoops more accessible to people my height.

I play and follow Dragalia Lost. Used to play FEH. It's co-produced by a company called Cygames which makes a number of other gachas. Gachas are kind of scummy, but for what it's worth, Nintendo has pulled the reigns on them pretty hard. They've publically stated they don't want kids spending too much money on the games as it hurts their brand. Cygames has stated they have lost potential revenues due to Nintendo's influence. I think this is true as a free to play player who has pretty much everything in the game and zounds of currency (although it's gotten a little bit stingier now).

Plus the Pokémon games, not directly Nintendo but still.