
Veteran producer Kensuke Tanabe believes translating the controls appropriately to mobile devices would be a "really, really difficult task."

The rejection is non-final (and even when such rejections are labeled as “final”, the process is far from over, given that there can be, at minimum, an appeal to the Federal Circuit).
Good, as they should! A game mechanic like that shouldn't be locked behind a patent, and Nintendo didn't invent it either.
Nintendo wants to keep wasting money on bullshit lawsuits, real smart in this economy. They should put that money aside for other game projects. On the other hand, I don't care if they waste it all either, and they are screwed in the future maybe that will teach them a lesson.

Nintendo completed its share repurchase and set its secondary offering price at 8,347 yen ahead of March 16 delivery.

Nintendo filed a lawsuit in the United States Court of International Trade.
Nintendo of America is suing the United States government over the sweeping tariffs President Donald Trump put in place last year, according to a complaint filed Friday in the U.S. Court of International Trade and obtained by Aftermath.
LOL I read this on gaff, will they refund the money back to the gamers? highly unlikely. Didn't they just raise prices and pass it onto the gamers? Only Nintendo would send out the Ninjas to the US government.
We are not talking about Mario 64 here. But an old classic Mario game (like Super Mario Bros) is easy to port over. Just pick up an emulator plus game and see for yourself. Hey I am enjoying Pokemon blue on my tablet at the moment (I would have paid 69p for it too). But A new Mario? definitely not (that would be reckless on multiple levels).
That would devalue the virtual console pretty much.
Indubitably.
Why not have Nintendo collaborate with Apple? People are already using emulators.
What better way to advertise your own hardware than licensing old games, and then putting up DEMOS of new games, all on iTunes?
It is very simple, they will not pay Apples 30% tax to release on their platforms.
Now if they were to negotiate with apple to pay 10% I say they should release at least 1 game as a test. The deal with Apple would be for platform exclusivity (I.e no Android).