@AshFoxX Yeah, nice one...

But seriously: good thing that this deal is a whole lot better. Contrary to Philips not being a very well performing gaming company or ever having had a professional enough department to possibly being able to have made a success out of it, DeNA is a very reputable company as far as online services are concerned and they will not mess around with Nintendo related hardware. Nintendo IP's coming to smartware is a different thing.

As far as I can remember there also wasn't any stock/share exchange between Nintendo and Philips and with the current situation that could be seen as something of a safe guard, because it is now in both their interests that this cooperative effort will churn out some positive results.

The added bonus from day one is that the new Nintendo platform will be able to have a MASSIVELY improved online experience and the people at Nintendo that had to concern themselves with that (ever so clumsily, I might add) up to this point, are now freed up again to perform other tasks that will benefit Nintendo as well.

We'll just have to wait and see what they come up with this coming E3. Maybe some extra info and some images, although knowing Nintendo, they probably don't want to give too much away too soon, so I'm expecting a modest amount of additional info about this whole concept and the NX platform.

Still, any tiny bit of info will probably be devoured by most of us and by the press. Stocks will continue to rise, share holders will be happier, Nintendo will once again solidify its name and even Michael Pachter will have something positive to say this time around. Ever so minimal, mind you, but it will be positive, mark my words...