This. Just hand over Pikachu. I also want Animal Crossing. I do have a 3DS but I'm not carrying it around anymore. iPhone is always on me so when I find I'm stuck waiting somewhere the way people my age sandwiched between raising kids and taking care of elderly parents are, I can make a bit of progress on my games. For something like Super Smash Bros I'm still going to prefer 3DS but that's the kind of gaming I'd want to be at home for anyway.
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Nintendo Announces First Mobile Game 'Miitomo,' Arrives March 2016
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Where are Earth are you pulling this from?
Okay, so if you can buy a Xbox to play Gears of War, you can buy a 3DS or a Wii U to play Mario.
I totally forgot about Animal Crossing. Haven't plaid that since I had an original DS.
Definitely check out Animal Crossing: New Leaf sometime. They've expanded the game in leaps and bounds and its practically night and day in comparison to Wild World.
Hay look he did it again only cut out the parts he wanted to respond too
I wouldn't buy a crappy a$s Nintendo if it was 10$. The graphics are crap and the games are even worse. It does sound like where it's at for someone like you though.
Why would I quote the section of the post pertaining to Windows 10 having a start button? I don't have anything to say in regards to that.
So then you're not one of the people that's posting here that wants Mario on the iPhone then I assume?
Because if you think Nintendo games are crap, I can't imagine they'd be any better on the iPhone
So people who read the thread can understand what people are talking about, your special aren't you.
Are you saying they should remake the old games so they look better or make new games using the IP?
Even the Nintendo fanboys on this thread haven't been defending Miimoto as a game.
No matter how you want to spin it, I don't see how releasing a dull 3D social avatar game with a pile of in-game purchases (and months late, no less) is good news. As someone said earlier, Nintendo should go big or go home with mobile games.
I understand the argument that Nintendo doesn't want to mess with their sales on other consoles (the market will prove out that strategy or not), but I find it a bit silly when people say that Nintendo couldn't make their properties into good touch interface games if they wanted. That's supposed to be a defense of Nintendo...???
No matter how you want to spin it, I don't see how releasing a dull 3D social avatar game with a pile of in-game purchases (and months late, no less) is good news. As someone said earlier, Nintendo should go big or go home with mobile games.
I understand the argument that Nintendo doesn't want to mess with their sales on other consoles (the market will prove out that strategy or not), but I find it a bit silly when people say that Nintendo couldn't make their properties into good touch interface games if they wanted. That's supposed to be a defense of Nintendo...???
Gears of War wouldn't really be playable on the iPhone, but an emulator running old school NES & SNES Zelda, Mario, Metroid and other games can be. I know, I've played them.
Yet, they're they are miles behind MS & Sony in the market and they've been running at a loss. So basically they're only the best in your personal opinion, rather than sales and popularity, etc.
Again, you miss the point. Nice.
Again, you limit it to Mario, despite the fact people name many other games.
If it was me I would make new versions of the old games. I would make it for both Android and iPhone and somehow interact with their console. Maybe be able to play your saved game level or something. Do multiple players on different devices with the console at the same time. That kind of stuff.
They also keep repeating that these Miimoto "games" are meant to lure people to the dedicated Nintendo platform. What they don't realise is that Miimoto make sense when you ALREADY OWN a Nintendo. On their own Miimoto apps are about as interesting and useful as a pig on bath slippers doing backflips.
Actually, this is what I expected when Nintendo announced they will make smartphone apps. Nintendo is sooo seriously over protective of their game titles that I would expect them to either not release a mobile game featuring one of their signature characters or release a off-hand assistant for various games coming to Wii U/Nintendo NX, sort of what Bethesda is doing for Fallout 4; the Pip-Boy app.
This honestly did not surprise me at all. We all want classic Mario, Zelda, Kirby games and etc, it would be an endless money pit for them. As Nintendo is right now, I doubt it but however, they could still surprise us and if they actually do make a game featuring one of their well known characters on iOS/Android, it would be a big step forward when it comes to Nintendo games not only being made for their gaming consoles. Just IMO.
This honestly did not surprise me at all. We all want classic Mario, Zelda, Kirby games and etc, it would be an endless money pit for them. As Nintendo is right now, I doubt it but however, they could still surprise us and if they actually do make a game featuring one of their well known characters on iOS/Android, it would be a big step forward when it comes to Nintendo games not only being made for their gaming consoles. Just IMO.
In a first step, I would just release one app that has several of the biggest hits in it. Non-altered from their old version. I still have Mario, Metroid, Zelda and all the others in my muscle memory. It would be great to do the jumps over the first creatures in Mario again in the same way as I did so many years ago.
Because it's not really a game, it's more of a social interaction app.
Someone on another message board summed it up pretty well so I'm just gonna quote him here:
So, sincere question. How should that lure anyone into the Nintendo ecosystem if they are not already in it?
I dunno, though if I were to guess, I don't believe this is the app Iwata was referring to when he said that.
$5, whatever. Nintendo needs to realize that their biggest market in the U.S. at least, is the nostalgia angle against the millions of iOS users 25-45 years old. None of us ever used a 3DS and very few owned a Wii. Use the ports as a way to build visibility and attention back towards Nintendo gaming and then start coming out with custom iOS apps.
I understand Contra and Castlevania were 3rd party games but was just tossing out old hits as a way to make my point (though would love if old NES/SNES developers could release ports if they still exist).
So, what kind of Nintendo app WOULD lure people into the ecosystem if it is not this social avatar thing, but ALSO NOT true games as you keep mentioning (because touchscreen)?
You can only lure casual mobile gamers to a console if you show on the casual gaming platform how cool games from Nintendo actually are. You will not succeed if the versions they put on the mobile platform are about as interesting as the pattern of hairs on my butt.