Nintendo making mini-games for smartphones: Nikkei

[MCD]

Nintendo might be going mobile, but not in the way many people are calling for. Japan's Nikkei business daily reports that the company is planning to leverage smartphones as a platform for marketing videos and, more interestingly, free mini-games designed to drive new users to Nintendo hardware.

The mini-games are reportedly designed to make players understand the appeal of Nintendo's software in a short period of time and convince them to purchase the full experience elsewhere. Nintendo will release further details at its investor briefing on Thursday, according to the report. Nikkei also claims that Nintendo will let users purchase 3DS and Wii U software through smartphones, a feature available on other platforms.

http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/27/5352004/nintendo-reportedly-making-smartphone-mini-games

[Great Rumbler]

[chronovore]

 

[benjipwns]

How am I supposed to play hardcore titles without a proper controller?

[MCD]

I even used the original source from the verge. lol

[Yulwei]

I would not mind some nintendo puzzle mini games on my phone. In fact, it sounds pretty cool.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Pokemon within two years or bust.

[MCD]

Fixed.

[radioheadrule83]

So instead of making mini games for consoles, they make em for mobile phones now.

Which would be smart, as thats where people play minigames now...

I'm sceptical it'll help market their consoles, but maybe it'll help. They're not advertising well to this group of people at all.

[radioheadrule83]

It won't, it'll be popular on phones and it'll piss em off until they finally start making phone games like they're destined to.

I think phone development can happily co-exist with console development, and I do think they should have been open to this avenue sooner. Phone junkies aren't going to pay $40+ for Mario or Zelda, the people who would want to will be happy to pay for a home console with more power per buck or a handheld with proper controls -- but casual players will happily twiddle away on free and F2P games w/ IAP, and I honestly think things like Pokemon could be successful on whatever platforms they put it on, with even more popularity on mobile. Going too balls deep on mobile right now potentially compromises 3DS though -- people will gradually start to wonder why they couldn't just have Face Raiders, Picross or even more complex stuff on their phone. IF they want to continue doing both (and they might not want to really, once the money starts coming in) - you might be right... it might be a matter of destiny.

[MCD]

[magus]

i hope they will add a lot of superflous IAP just to see people spaz about it

[Eel O'Brian]

Yeah, first official Nintendo mobile "game" is gonna sell buckets, no matter how half-assed it turns out.

[Tasty]

Free WarioWare shit on my phone? I'm down with that.

[MCD]

http://www.engadget.com/2014/01/28/nintendo-denies-smartphone-games/

"Nikkei's article contains information previously stated by Mr Iwata during past press conferences, including statements which relate to Nintendo's willingness to make use of smart devices to promote our products.

 However during such past announcements Mr Iwata has also stated that Nintendo's intention is not to make Nintendo software available on smart devices and as such, we can confirm that there are no plans to offer minigames on smartphone devices. "

[magus]

I'm impressed that Nintendo is going to do this. It actually makes sense, unlike most of the shit that's been coming out of Nintendo lately.

i don't know,it sounds more like they want mobile success but want to put the smallest fuck they can and not even in a "we made a game with timers,give us money" way but in a "please understand and buy our console"

[Diunx]

I would definitely download a doctor mario apk.

[Rufus]

I'm impressed that Nintendo is going to do this. It actually makes sense, unlike most of the shit that's been coming out of Nintendo lately.

i don't know,it sounds more like they want mobile success but want to put the smallest fuck they can and not even in a "we made a game with timers,give us money" way but in a "please understand and buy our console"

Yup.
Is that actually the issue? "If only they knew our hardware better, they'd buy it." Is a Mario endless runner or a Mario mini-platformer going to entice you to play a full Mario platformer AND buy new hardware for it? Because people mindlessly buy related products? Suppose they bite, what else are they going to sell them?
This is going to do nothing for the Wii U and very little for the 3DS. I see people expecting full games on their phones, rather then anyone going out to buy hardware for a related experience.

Slap a QR code on a console bundle. "Please enjoy our commercial message."

[Tasty]

What's the alternative? 20 year old cashgrab ports like Square's doing? None of the Mario games would play well with touch control, they're just not made for it. Zelda would "work" like GTA3 "works" (in that it basically won't without an external controller.) None of Nintendo's games would work well on mobile without significant alteration. And at that point, what's the point?

The "1. Put games on phones, 2. ?? ?, 3. PROFIT" crowd is just as shrill and annoying as the "Nintendo would NEVER ditch hardware" crowd.

[magus]

Zelda would "work" like GTA3 "works" (in that it basically won't without an external controller.)

[Rufus]

What's the alternative? 20 year old cashgrab ports like Square's doing? None of the Mario games would play well with touch control, they're just not made for it. Zelda would "work" like GTA3 "works" (in that it basically won't without an external controller.) None of Nintendo's games would work well on mobile without significant alteration. And at that point, what's the point?

The "1. Put games on phones, 2. ?? ?, 3. PROFIT" crowd is just as shrill and annoying as the "Nintendo would NEVER ditch hardware" crowd.

Not saying it would work, the full game I'm envisioning people demanding is just a Nintendo branded thing that will work with a touchscreen. What I expect now is the sme thing, only smaller and with "pls buy a Wii U and/or 3DS" at the end. "It has more stuff like it, we swear!"

[cool breeze]

picross 3d ios where all the shapes are from wii u games you'll never buy

[SantaC]

How am I supposed to play hardcore titles without a proper controller?

I asked myself that in Zelda PH and Zelda ST. I hated the use of stylus and touchcontrols only.

[D3RANG3D]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=759425

 

[Tasty]

Zelda would "work" like GTA3 "works" (in that it basically won't without an external controller.)

I can't tell if you're agreeing or disagreeing with me.

Animal Crossing might work but I doubt mobile players would like the huge amount of content it has.

[Human Snorenado]

The price is finally right for the quality of their recent output

[Tasty]

The price is finally right for the quality of their recent output

[Human Snorenado]

Why would I be mad? I'm not the one paying for a gimped ass system and by the numbers sequels 

[magus]

Zelda would "work" like GTA3 "works" (in that it basically won't without an external controller.)

I can't tell if you're agreeing or disagreeing with me.

Animal Crossing might work but I doubt mobile players would like the huge amount of content it has.

of course i'm disagreeing with you,you doofus! nintendo has made a shitload of game that purposefuly gave up on normal controls so that they could only be controlled by the touch screen only but now that it comes to this i have to hear

"bububububu mobile phones don't have button,how will nintendo game work on it? waaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh" if they made ds game that didn't need any button they sure as hell can make mobile game that do the same

ehy remember this shit here? everything about this scream "3$ mobile game made to redirect attention to the new yoshi game" but it was like an actual real 50$ launch title



oh wait,i forgot... with a mobile phone there wouldn't be that annoying line that breaks the two screen,clearly it can't be done,oh nooooooooooo

[magus]

you missed his point.  he said zelda can't work with a touch screen, you posted phantom hourglass, he thinks phantom hourglass is a zelda game that doesn't work, so you're not disagreeing.

eeeeehhhh but it worked! and nintendo actualy went out of their way to make it work that way when they could have used a normal control scheme

"mobile has no button" has just become a standard excuse for why no game ever should be on mobile,because mobile is evil

and if you ever speak one bad word about yoshi's touch and go again, i will come straight over to luxemburg or wherever the fuck your dumb european ass lives and shred your balls with a cheese grater.  that's a fucking great game, and proves nintendo invented the endless runner, which was copied from them like everything else in the industry.  :'(

i actualy own an original copy of the game bought for like 5$,a relic from the dark age of pre-pirate carts

[Tasty]

Mobile isn't "evil" (well, excessive IAP is borderline) but it's not "good" either. It just exists. It's impossible for me to get excited for a mobile game like I would a real game. Too much dumbing down and fleecing.

[Raban]

Mobile isn't "evil" (well, excessive IAP is borderline) but it's not "good" either. It just exists. It's impossible for me to get excited for a mobile game like I would a real game. Too much dumbing down and fleecing.

Funny, that's precisely how I feel about your posts.

[Tasty]

My posts routinely sell out of preorders, clearly you're just a special little snowflake.

[benjipwns]

The worst part is when you just release your later posts as 108kb keys.

[Tasty]

Nah,the worst part is when I make the homoerotic overtones IAP based.

[MCD]

Here are the specifics:

 The entire board is taking pay reductions from the period of Feb until June. Iwata is taking a 50% reduction as the company president. The two other representative directors, Genyo Takeda and Shigeru Miyamoto, will be taking a 30% reduction. All remaining directors on the board will take a 20% reduction. These include Tatsumi Kimishima, Kaoru Takemura, Shigeyuki Takahashi, Satoshi Yamato, Susumu Tanaka, Shinya Takahashi, and Hirokazu Shinshi.

 Iwata says that beyond June, they will decide based on the business environment at that time.

http://m.neogaf.com/showpost.php?p=98816192

[MCD]

He really loves his CEO chair.

[recursivelyenumerable]

Pen isn't touch, anyway.

[headwalk]

the one thing which kept me from buying a wii u was the knowledge that the company who puts out the device's CEO wasn't quite on minimum wage.

[Eel O'Brian]

[MCD]

Iwata will cut his pay from February to June, and other company directors will take pay cuts of as much as 30 percent. The president has said he won’t step down after 12 years running the company, and he has no plans to change managers in the near term.

“I’m concentrating my mind on how to rebuild Nintendo rather than how I would take responsibility when things don’t work out in the future,” Iwata said today.

The 54-year-old will discuss his strategy for “using smart devices” to jumpstart a turnaround during a press conference in Tokyo tomorrow. He didn’t elaborate. Nintendo is studying new ways to revive sales after previously ruling out licensing its franchise characters for online games or smartphone applications, Iwata said earlier this month.

“The Wii U isn’t in good shape,” Iwata said today. “That’s the presumption we have as we consider reform.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-29/nintendo-plans-1-2-billion-buyback-after-wii-u-flops.html