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First Official Nintendo iOS Game 'Miitomo' Hits Japanese App Store
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According to my local customer support (europe) you simply can't. No option to transfer VC games to another wii. They only offered a pricey repair for the broken Wii, which i politely refused (bought a second hand one from a neighbor, which i sold after those calls). This might have changed with the Wii U, i don't know. They lost a lot of trust. No wonder emulators became popular.
It is nice that the 3DS fits your Powerbook Bag, but for me those days of carrying a specific gaming platform everywhere are over. There was a time, when we had to carry a bag with a mobil phone, a laptop, a photo camera, a video camera, a navigation system and a gameboy to get the iPhone functionality. I am not interested in reliving the past, just because Nintendo is stubborn. If they think that they can make enough or even more money with their current strategy, so be it. I still don't see how they can to grow with Miitomo in the light of omnipresent smartphone gaming (a $25bn market) and emulators.
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I'm in the EU too. My girlfriend's sister dropped a CRT on her Wii, broke it completely. It was under a third party insurance so she got the new one, emailed Nintendo support (this was 2008) and they enabled a transfer of account data to the new one. Maybe your incident was before that? Maybe they weren't as helpful before. I've never had a Nintendo console break on me so I personally don't know what the process was back then or now.
It's cool that you don't want to carry around multiple things. I find I'm quite happy taking my 3DS and iPhone with me, or my Macbook Pro if I need to work. I don't think there's anything historic about it, I find the iPhone is a jack of all trades with a camera that isn't as good as my SLR, game experiences that aren't as good as what my Vita and 3DS provide, GPS that isn't as good as my Tom Tom. It's good for mobile browsing and taking phone calls though! Not that I carry all those things with me all the time, I find it okay to leave certain things behind and just take what I want when I feel I'll need it.
But yeah. Why can't Apple/Nintendo release an iOS version/their games for Android/iOS? There's nothing really stopping them except maybe greed. There are more Android phones out there than iOS so why not.
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I know they sell old games on their own devices, I own several of them (games and devices!). You are missing the point. People have their phone or tablet with them in situations they might not have a 3DS (and certainly not a Wii U!), and lots of people who own a smartphone or tablet may have never owned Nintendo hardware of any description.
IMHO They are limiting both their potential market and their potential profits by reserving old titles only to their own hardware. I really don't think many people are buying a 3DS or WiiU primarily so they can buy old games, it's just a nice bonus for people who are already fans enough to buy the hardware (and probably owned older Nintendo hardware too).
Obviously they would not want to cannibalise current-gen titles, but for older games I think it's a missed opportunity.
I find the question about iOS on a Galaxy silly. It's a very different situation, for lots of reasons. A 3DS or a WiiU is not a smartphone for a start. And surely the analogy should be about what were originally iOS *apps* on Android, which of course there are many, many examples of.
A better analogy might be how Apple put iTunes on both the Mac and Windows, and became fairly dominant, as well as the apparent 'halo effect' of iTunes/iPods/iPhones in encouraging people who had never bought a mac into considering doing so next time they bought a computer. And Nintendo makes games machines.
This looks to me like it could have more of an anti-halo effect. Instead of showcasing an excellent range of classic games for potential Nintendo hardware customers, do they think a silly Mii app will make people want to go and play the most up to date versions Mario Kart or Star Fox or Zelda etc? Really?
I say all this as a fan of Nintendo games, which when done right are some of the best around. And it's a shame more people won't ever play them.
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Why would Nintendo sell Pokemon games for $10 on iOS when they can get four times that on their own hardware and keep all the profit for themselves?
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I'm just at this moment looking at Sonic The Hedgehog (the first one) being offered on my Apple TV and it is the top paid app. With Mario, Metroid and Zelda being vastly superior to that, imagine the amount of money Nintendo could make just from porting the classics alone.
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Does Nintendo still sell the original Mario etc on their current consoles?
I for one am excited but then again I'm a huge Nintendo fan. If you follow Nintendo and keep up with them like you do Apple, this makes perfect sense. Bring on Miitomo.
Also, I absolutely do not want classic Nintendo on a dumb touch screen. Ever. This is why I will forever have my 3DS as it is set to be the best system I've ever owned.
Also, I absolutely do not want classic Nintendo on a dumb touch screen. Ever. This is why I will forever have my 3DS as it is set to be the best system I've ever owned.
Nintendo is all about making sure you have the maximum gameplay experience and right now and I don't care what you say, you can not replicate the same experience with touch controls as you can with a physical controller.
Until that time, Nintendo will release games in new formats on phones and tablets.
Me, I'm excited about this because I can earn points to get discounts on digital downloads of games I want.
Until that time, Nintendo will release games in new formats on phones and tablets.
Me, I'm excited about this because I can earn points to get discounts on digital downloads of games I want.
Exactly the opposite. They don't want to repeat same mistake as Sega did in early 2000s, going to multiplat will kill Nintendo. So Miitomo-like "games" – this is maximum what you should expect from Nintendo/DeNA collaboration.
It's even less than $10, about 30% goes to Apple.
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Nintendo just doesn't get it.
The Wii was a step down from the Gamecube. Wii was so underpowered and unfriendly to third party devs that it only ever had stupid bowling and tennis games. Its only saving grace being its cheaper price of $200 compared to MS and Sonys offerings.
Then the WiiU came along which only added a huge controller bigger than the size of the Sega Genesis Nomad I had in the 90s. Not any more powerful or feature rich than the Wii, sorely behind the PS4 & Xbone in power & third party support, then priced the same as a 500GB Xbone?
Now Nintendo is scrambling to create a new console codenamed "NX" halfway through the cycle, so it will be an 8.5 gen console if you will. Oh but it turns out it's actually a portable machine not a home console. Actually, it IS a home console. No wait it's actually both! Ah screw it, who cares anymore.
Now with mobile gaming growing rapidly and cutting into portable consoles like DS and PSP all we want is some retro style Nintendo games on iOS. Some Pokemon games from the Gameboy or maybe a 2D side-scrolling endless runner in the vain of the NES/SNES Mario games where he runs from world to world non-stop until you hit something. Sort of like what pac-man 256 was to pac-man.
Instead this is what we get, a game where you just make an avatar and chat...
If Nintendo is going to be deliberately obtuse and keep heading further down a hole then I say good riddance to them.
The Wii was a step down from the Gamecube. Wii was so underpowered and unfriendly to third party devs that it only ever had stupid bowling and tennis games. Its only saving grace being its cheaper price of $200 compared to MS and Sonys offerings.
Then the WiiU came along which only added a huge controller bigger than the size of the Sega Genesis Nomad I had in the 90s. Not any more powerful or feature rich than the Wii, sorely behind the PS4 & Xbone in power & third party support, then priced the same as a 500GB Xbone?
Now Nintendo is scrambling to create a new console codenamed "NX" halfway through the cycle, so it will be an 8.5 gen console if you will. Oh but it turns out it's actually a portable machine not a home console. Actually, it IS a home console. No wait it's actually both! Ah screw it, who cares anymore.
Now with mobile gaming growing rapidly and cutting into portable consoles like DS and PSP all we want is some retro style Nintendo games on iOS. Some Pokemon games from the Gameboy or maybe a 2D side-scrolling endless runner in the vain of the NES/SNES Mario games where he runs from world to world non-stop until you hit something. Sort of like what pac-man 256 was to pac-man.
Instead this is what we get, a game where you just make an avatar and chat...
If Nintendo is going to be deliberately obtuse and keep heading further down a hole then I say good riddance to them.
Wii was a huge success. And you're wrong about third-party support on Wii.
[doublepost=1458302681][/doublepost]btw, it seems Miitomo is already a success in Japan:
How so? There are so many more people with iPhones and iPads that played the classic ones on their old NES for example that will not buy any of the new Nintendo consoles. It is an opportunity lost by Nintendo. It is not representative of course, but here on this board there are many many people that would pay 9,99 for a classic Nintendo game without an issue and pay 25 on top of that for a useful controller made by Nintendo.
Judging by some of the reponses here, some people don´t WANT to see possibilities and are actively AGAINST games appearing on other platforms, even if it would be done in a sensible way. It makes no sense.
Yeah, after Sega's hardware crashed and burned after numerous failed add-ons and adapters they shifted to a software-only business and now only produce a tiny fraction of the software they did in the early 2000s.
Something I wouldn't like to happen to Nintendo.
So, how likely do you think it is that Nintendo would go EXACTLY the same route? With the market being basically 20 years more advanced and totally different than it was then? Don't answer, it is a rhetorical question.
In stead of being afraid of something like that to happen, you could also spend your energy in thinking how it COULD work. The "it won't work because Sega couldn't do it" is getting quite old and tired and is not translatable to these times.
Because there are far far far more people with iDevices than nintendo ds's.
How dare you?! 1 billion active iOS devices and 1,4 billion active Android devices are peanuts in comparison to the 57,94 million (sold) 3DS. No way Nintendo could make a profit there.
