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Nintendo Announces First Mobile Game 'Miitomo,' Arrives March 2016
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They may have, but they also stated that they would never make mobile offerings, until they saw the uproar against them, so when they said about no Mario, there was an uproar, people would have thought that Nintendo might have listened again. No-one is shocked, more disappointed.
Nintendo are going to be the cause of their own undoing. They'll go the way of Sega, or worse.......
They probably do realise, but they're trying to attack, as they know their argument is flawed and failing.
There's spectrum emulators in the App Store. Some are free, with a game and other games are IAP's. There's one that's about £5 with 20 games, with another 150 available as IAP for about £2 a pop. Nintendo could easily get away with £3-5 per game as IAP's. That's income from old games that are currently generating no income.
Not as much as they could be. There's tens of millions of people that own a mobile device that do not/will not buy Nintendo hardware. That's an untapped audience right there.
You're as bad as the people running Nintendo that have generated a loss for 3 years running and might only just break even for this year.....
This is just factually wrong. MFI controllers are in the apple store now (a very clear indication that they ARE being sold). Many people play games at home on their mobile devices. So, carrying a controller around does not make sense to you, but yet you recommend people to carry around another device to play games? Does not really make sense in a time of convergence, now does it?
Like someone else said. People pay for nostalgia. I played NES to death when I was a kid, and I would gladly fork over 10 dollars for Metroid and another 10 dollars for Mario and a controller on top (which could also be used for the Apple TV). There are clones in the app store, but they do not come close to what the originals were like. You know that yourself.
You keep arguing as if there is no demand for these games on iOS. There is. Each time Nintendo even mentions mobile phones, the whole gaming community goes nuts because of the remote possibility that they will introduce games on other platforms. I see more people asking for it than people saying it should not happen. In this thread there are two. You and levitynyc.
Even Sega left the hardware market with more decency than this. Nintendo doesn't realise that 2015 is not 1985 any more.
You may have reached the end of World 8, but I sincerely doubt you collected all of the Star Coins and finished World 9 in 3 days unless you had some 12-hour marathon sessions.
For the first seven years of its existence Microsoft's Xbox division was quite literally bleeding money and Sony managed to piss away just about all of its profits from the PS2 on the PS3 with a four-year streak of losses, but I don't see anyone screaming at them to make Uncharted or Gears of War iPhone games and bail out on their hardware completely, why is Nintendo the odd man out on this one?
You jumped on my comment about people having suffer, by attacking, knowing that it wasn't meant to be literal. I don't believe you're naive enough to have thought I meant it literally, thus it's attacking. Zone23 picked you up on it too.
I didn't take it as literal and nothing in my post implies that I assumed you were feeling actual physical pain.
My implication was that you were "suffering" from a lack of Mario games on the App Store when in reality there are dozens upon dozens of platformers for download, unless I'm mistaken.
For starters, iPhones weren't around then. Additionally, MS & Sony weren't companies that had passed their prime like Nintendo. There's more reasons, but there's no point, as you're just too closed minded to accept any other point of view or accept that you're in an extreme minority against Mario, Zelda, etc on mobile devices.
Additionally, Nintendo have 3 years of losses, this year has an operating profit, but after taxes, etc, that's another loss year, with no real signs of next year being any better. They make bad decision after bad decision.
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It's not that it's a bad idea for an app. It's a bad idea for Nintendo's FIRST app. The whole point of this was to please the investors and get people psyched about playing Nintendo games on their phones. Announcing just this for nearly half a year from now is like a sad little whimper when they need to bust out a great big shout. It's continuing a lengthening trend of Nintendo refusing to do what people want and expect. That's worked for them in the past, but right now they're just shooting themselves in the foot over and over again. I mean we'll see how this turns out, and there will be other games that come later... But this is just plain bad business. The timing is just horrible.
Yes you did, your posts were clear about that.
Also, you're totally missing the point. People want these games for the nostalgia. There may be other platformers, but they're not the same. Also, again you're restricting it to mario, whereas many of us have mentioned Metroid, Zelda, etc.
You invalidate any tangible point you have by taking one minutiae of a someone's post and argue the toss about it out of context.
What does that matter? There is demand for Nintendo games. It doesn't matter whether there are others with games too.
I had strep throat.. Lol so yes they were long days. I also had the guide for star coins. But I did complete it entirely over the course of 3 days. But - that is why I'm probably so hesitant of picking up a 3DS because that's all I will want to do, but have very limited time.
I'm someone who must finish after they start. I got a 1000 piece puzzle and I sat at the table for 11 hours straight working on it. It's kind of an annoying trait because it takes the fun out of it.
I'd argue that their software output from the last ten years has been better than their first twenty years in the videogame business, and I understand that opinions differ from person to person, but I feel like they're anything but "past their prime."
I honestly believe that the gaming companies have people just like you working for them and that's why they are hurting. Its real easy and T-Mobile gets it, listen and do what people want. So fine you would rather cut off your hands then play Mario on your phone, so be it. People want Mario so give it to them. Its really that easy. Its like the people wanted the start button in Windows 8, Steve Ballmer said no this is better and you see what Windows 10 has LOOK AT IT. XBox people want Gears of War so you know what MS is going to do that's right come out with a NEW Gears or War and I will buy an XBox so I can play it. People want Breaking Bad so you know what they are doing YES they are bringing it back with a season 6. People like YOU are the problem, you don't listen to what people want because you think you know better. Just about every person in this thread wanted Mario except YOU.
One thing that you (and levitynyc) do is, that you only respond to parts of comments or ignore others that try to genuinely argue with you. You reply only to those parts where you can repeat the same thing over and over again, without a genuine consideration of the other side's point.
Examples:
Your view: Nintendo games on mobile cannot work (you don't know that. You are only thinking: touchscreen does not work).
Your view: Nintendo is doing great (they are clearly not both from a financial trend point of view and the market point of view with no serious major console at present).
Your view: no one wants controllers for mobile devices (there is a thriving industry producing the things - go into a Samsung flagship store. They are on display).
My biggest fear is that Nintendo goes the route of Sega (aka releases bad mobile games after deciding to quit the hardware business).
That and part of the charm of Nintendo games was the exploitation of the hardware for each new game idea. Something that would be hard to do every year (as fast as new iOS devices with new hardware features comes out).
That and part of the charm of Nintendo games was the exploitation of the hardware for each new game idea. Something that would be hard to do every year (as fast as new iOS devices with new hardware features comes out).