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Japanese insider Serkan Toto drops more Nintendo mobile rumors
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wild wild rice
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Can't see the image, can anyone kindly share the gist?
Crimsonclaw111
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Charge your phone OP, you might need it when the Ninjas come.
metsallica
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1) One day to go until Nintendos first of two briefings this week. The first app will use existing IP, but don't expect too much from it.
2) Don't get your hopes up too high for Mario. But I heard Nintendo and DeNA are planning to pull out the big guns (bigger IPs) next year.
3) About the membership service, I heard technical challenges made a roll-out earlier in the year impossible (well, this isn't trivial).
4) Another point: according to my sources, Nintendo+DeNA experiment with different business models, so non free-to-play apps are possible.
5) Thank you for reading, and please take all of this with the appropriately sized grain of salt. /end
AKA NO INFO
First app uses existing IPs but don't expect too much because bigger IPs will be for next year.
Membership service is having technical challenges so it won't be able to make it for early 2016.
Nintendo and DeNA are experimenting with models that may not be F2P
Take with an appropriate grain of salt
Broken Joystick
At least you can talk. Who are you?
edit: nvm
wild wild rice
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Haha. Thanks, much appreciated.
Conceal. Don't feel.
Father_Brain
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The membership service is supposed to launch this year.
I get the feeling that making it work on the 3DS is the big hurdle right now. There doesn't seem like anything about the way they've handled the back-end on that system that is easy to integrate into anything.
Why do you hate your phone's battery so much?
Took the words right out of my mouth.
Cosmonaut X
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That's not what he says - rather, it's that technical challenges made a rollout earlier this year a no-go. Should still be on for 2015 unless I missed an anouncement otherwise.
Metroid morph ball peggle plz
Father_Brain
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Reminds me of how they revealed almost nothing about Wii U's OS-level online features between E3 and launch. Hopefully this turns out better, if it's even still launching this year.
Oh is it really? I must've misread it then, cause that's how I interpreted it
EDIT:
Ah that makes a lot of sense, thanks for the clarification. What an embarrassing misinterpretation hahah
First one not being mario and being existing IP isn't no info. If he's true, it confirms some speculation.
Jonneh3003
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Nintendogs & cats & tigers it is!
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
Why do you hate your phone's battery so much?
It's a hint to what game it is.
Lupin the Third
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Nintendogs: Now with bears!
Since, according to what Serkan says, they didn't roll it out earlier due to problems, it's better for them (and for us) to make it work as flawlessly as possible, isn't it?
I suppose we should really hear about it this week. Please be good.
P.S. I knew you were going to use a pessimistic comparison, though
Father_Brain
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Shareholders may not take it well if it's not a major (Mario, AC, Zelda) IP.
Does it really matter? They'd find something else to bitch about even if it was Mario.
"It's not Mario Mario!"
Mysterious
Banned
Nintendogs incoming.
"Why isn't this the original NES game?! Why are wasting time on new games when you could remake old titles?"
I await for those questions to arise in their Q&A session.
Their earnings release is happening later today/tomorrow. Expect news about their mobile games, their account system, and their reward/loyalty program replacing CN.
TheCongressman1
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It's not a surprise that they wouldn't want to put out Mario on mobile straight away. I think they are trying to be very careful about how they present this new venture. How well that will turn out? Who knows.
Fourth Storm
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Don't expect too much?
Please don't let it be that Mii Maker that Iwata talked about years ago.
Please don't let it be that Mii Maker that Iwata talked about years ago.
Aren't those the same? You can apparently log into the new system with your NNID.
That's the intent, yeah.
Cosmonaut X
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You can in the Europe at least. It makes sense to unify the account and reward/loyalty programs around the NNID and that appears to be what they're working toward.
Beer Monkey
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I've been saying for years that Pokemon and Animal Crossing should be the first two Nintendo IPs with mobile titles because of the controls and the immense microtransaction potential. So, yeah, Pokemon is already coming and I expect AC for sure. So much digital furniture to sell.
The actual mainline games for Pokémon and Animal Crossing, and all Nintendo franchises for that matter will not be on mobile.
Nintendo have said that the mobile games will be ones crafted for the platform. They won't just be games from existing series having their next games on mobile. This is quite evident with Pokémon GO. It takes the concept of the series but twists it in a way that's able to be done only on mobile.
Just porting other existing mechanics for games onto mobile is not how mobile should be tackled.
Yeah, the new reward program will work with your NNID instead of a separed account (like Club Nintendo's for example), My post was more about how the program will work/handle regarding rewards and such.
edit: think of an enhanced and glorified Deluxe Digital Promotion system.
Beer Monkey
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I've never said they should be.
It'll be odd when they are the ones that make the most profit, though.
Will they though?
I pointed out in another thread earlier that a Pokémon game would have to earn 2% of the entire smartphone gaming revenue (figure from 2014) to equal the revenue gained for ORAS.
Look at the existing Pokémon iOS game that is worldwide, Pokémon Shuffle. It has only had 4 million downloads on iOS AND Android in its first two months. At that point in its life, the 3DS version was at over 3.5 million and well on its way to 4 million.
Mobile does not guarantee success.
AcademicSaucer
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Remember when they released the pokemon bank, and added nnid to the 3ds in decembere and all their online services crashed ? fun times
PotionBleue
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To be fair it was totally stupid to do that during Christmas week. They asked for it.
Was a great title for what its worth.
The real issue was how it connected to the internet in addition to people trying to access the shop for the holidays.
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