We’re a matter of weeks away from seeing Nintendo software on non-Nintendo devices.

The publisher’s first smartphone game is coming in March, Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima wrote in an editorial for Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shimbun (via industry analyst Serkan Toto). Kimishima wrote this piece to detail his plans for the company over the next 12 months. The president explained that he wants to generate $855 million in profit in “several years” — which means that he is trying to steadily build the company to a point where it is generating four times the profits it did last year. And the app for Android and iOS smart devices is a big part of that. That’s especially true when you look at how Japan is one of the top three markets when it comes to spending on the $30 billion mobile-gaming market. And while most of that Japanese revenue goes to the duopoly of Monster Strike and Puzzle & Dragons, Nintendo could have the clout to grab some of that money.

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source: http://venturebeat.com/2016/01/15/n...ll-launch-its-first-smartphone-game-in-march/

 

[Deleted User]

Well I'm not much of a mobile gamer. The games I play on my iPod Touch are ports of console games (The World Ends With You, Metal Slug, etc.). Personally I think if Ninty can make some money out of mobile gaming then they should go ahead and do it. Nobody has to play their games.

 

[manpaint]

In a few we will see nintendo game with microtransaction crap: a mario that you can buy life with your credit card, a zelda game that you can buy life with your money etc...

Anyway 90% of mobile game are copy of something else or/with microtransaction crap.

Nintendo is going very down.

 

[TotalInsanity4]

Yeah PC is in no way better than consoles /s

If we're going by quality of games produced, it really isn't. Have you seen some of the indie sh*t that shows up on Steam?

 

[mgrev]

meh, i'm not hyped much for this actually. i'll see how it goes, i won't complain

 

[cracker]

So, is this game just Tomodachi life on mobile?
If they port it to android, I may have found a game to "play" while I do stuff or something.

I wouldn't doubt it it would be more of a "trainer" for the full game.

 

[Bimmel]

I don't want to use my phone for gaming.

Please promise me that you only develop shit Nintendo.

 

[EntermateStar]

And Pokemon is a Nintendo IP.

EDIT: You are still wrong. You meant developed. Genius Sonority developed Pokemon Shuffle and Nintendo published the game.

genius sonority developed it, the pokemon company published it, nintendo literally had little to nothing to do with these games whatsoever, all they did was make it available on the eshop, and btw, pokemon is a 2nd party franchise to nintendo, if some sort of legal dispute went down and game freak/the pokemon company beat nintendo, they could just as easily walk away from nintendo and start making pokemon for playstation

 

[TempNintendo]

good post.

 

[WhiteMaze]

Just gross, why would you do that Nintendo? Don't pander to the lower denominator of gaming.

As I said, years back: Nintendo is a business. Big businesses go where the big bucks are, unlike what we would like to believe.

Nintendo will enter the mobile gaming market, when the lack of profit pushes them to do so.

And this is true, for all gaming companies, not just Nintendo. Sony should be hoping on the Android / iOS bandwagon too, soon.

 

[osaka35]

genius sonority developed it, the pokemon company published it, nintendo literally had little to nothing to do with these games whatsoever, all they did was make it available on the eshop, and btw, pokemon is a 2nd party franchise to nintendo, if some sort of legal dispute went down and game freak/the pokemon company beat nintendo, they could just as easily walk away from nintendo and start making pokemon for playstation

The pokemon company, which is the head honcho/originator of all wings of the pokemon franchise (games, anime, merchandise, etc) *is* Nintendo. Nintendo/the pokemon company works with game freak on the video game wing of the pokemon franchise, for example.

The pokemon company was created and is owned by Nintendo, and was created so there'd be a single point of contact for all arms of the pokemon empire.

 

[EntermateStar]

The pokemon company, which is the head honcho/originator of all wings of the pokemon franchise (games, anime, merchandise, etc) *is* Nintendo. Nintendo/the pokemon company works with game freak on the video game wing of the pokemon franchise, for example.

The pokemon company was created and is owned by Nintendo, and was created so there'd be a single point of contact for all arms of the pokemon empire.

as i said, 2nd party >.> just like Atlus was owned by SEGA for a little while, they eventually broke out, and are a singular company now, it is completely possible for the pokemon company to do the same depending on hypothetical situations, it will never happen i guarantee, but it isn't impossible is what i was saying

 

[osaka35]

as i said, 2nd party >.> just like Atlus was owned by SEGA for a little while, they eventually broke out, and are a singular company now, it is completely possible for the pokemon company to do the same depending on hypothetical situations, it will never happen i guarantee, but it isn't impossible is what i was saying

A second party company is only partly owned by another. Retro studios was a 2nd party Nintendo company, but Nintendo completely bought them out and they are now 1st party.

The pokemon company is first party. The pokemon games are developed by a second party company, game freak. As far as I know, this is the structure of the company. Think of it like a wing of Nintendo. I'm not sure of the specific legal situation, just how it all interacts with each other.

 

[mediabob]

Pokemon is actually controlled by 3 companies, Nintendo, GameFreak, and Creatures. They jointly formed The Pokemon Company and all 3 own the copywrite to Pokemon. Nintendo does not own Pokemon but they do own the trademarks to the logos and most of the characters names.

Nintendo also had a stake in creatures but it's not clear how much.

If any one of those 3 decided to ante up and buy a majority stake in the Pokemon company the could do whatever they wanted with the franchise itself baring what is trademarked by Nintendo.

Nintendo has a say in what happens with the franchise but the franchise itself belongs to GameFreak. GameFreak is a third party to Nintendo and can (and has) make games for any platform they choose, in fact they made pulseman on Genesis, but in keeping ties close they stick to Nintendo theses days because that is where their bread and butter lies.

 

[HappyzLife]

Did I read "Animal Crossing"? :3

 

[EntermateStar]

As I said, years back: Nintendo is a business. Big businesses go where the big bucks are, unlike what we would like to believe.

Nintendo will enter the mobile gaming market, when the lack of profit pushes them to do so.

And this is true, for all gaming companies, not just Nintendo. Sony should be hoping on the Android / iOS bandwagon too, soon.

sony already tried and failed amazingly, did you miss that whole thing?

 

[SuzieJoeBob]

As long as this doesn't become like "Cooking Mama Let's Cook!" with having to purchase the recipes, I think this type of game might actually work. They could incorporate a system to take incoming SMS/text messages and have a Mii read them, maybe even assign Miis to specific contacts. The player can also choose which contacts are targeted (instead of every text message being read) and all the emoticon addicts can have a special set of icons to use.

 

[Pleng]

i don't play the garbage at all i'd rather play REAL games. because of shitty mobile games nearly every game has some type of m$t now and it's even starting to infect steam as well. and now look even ninty has been infected too. cancer alright!

Cancer can spread at alarming rates around an individual body, but it is not contagious. Your analogy is flawed.

 

[WhiteMaze]

sony already tried and failed amazingly, did you miss that whole thing?

Actually, yes I did miss it. Care to elaborate on that? I'm actually curious.

 

[EntermateStar]

Actually, yes I did miss it. Care to elaborate on that? I'm actually curious.

they released this thing called ps mobile and you could play shit like fat princess and other ps games like that and it did terribly and they removed everything

 

[mediabob]

There were also going to release PS1 classics for Android, I still have crash bandicoot on my tablet, and this was also why the Xperia Play was born.

Although to be fair Sony didn't push it very hard and a lot of people never heard about it and that's probably why it failed.