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Nintendo's First iOS Game 'Miitomo' Now Available in the United States

hlfway2anywhere said:
On behalf of myself and other millennials, I resent that. We also DGAF about this. Maybe teenagers and kids do.
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point taken, but the (intended) qualifier was the 'thriving on avatar-driven chat services', not the millennial part. unfortunately for you (who may have been born shortly after 1980), teens and kids are considered 'millennial' far more so than people approaching 30-35, who also 'technically' qualify for the silly moniker. so my point really was about consumer kids and consumer teens, no offense intended towards (many possible) people here. you're going to be lumped in unfairly with tykes and behavioral miscreants for a few more long years - and i LOOK young, so i've experience it on occasion too, truth be told.

and not that there's really anything wrong with being into this glorified emoji stuff, it just falls far below most expectations we had for Nintendo trying to pick itself up by the bootstraps.
 
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acctman said:
this is your first game on iOS, Nintendo? seriously WTF this is why they're failing so bad
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keeping exclusivity for the good stuff. Either for wii(u), a rumored replacement for it, or 3ds. A lot of these classics may also be at price some may not like. The classic games collections they have for 3ds or wii u....aren't exactly in the bargain bin sale price range.

Nintendo does stuff like this. If memory servers they are the only hold out for region locks for games still. Console or hand held iirc from anyone else...drop in any game you want from anywhere.

Near as I can figure this is to keep say US market US and Japanese well...Japanese. Or my tin foil hat to make people feel the need to buy 1 of each. I don't feel that need..trick didn't work with me. Love my son, not enough to buy a JDM and US 3ds. He has a US one and that is good enough.
 
Lennholm said:
Sega is a perfect example of why going 3rd party can be a terrible idea, they're a mere shell of their former self. On the other hand, Apple is a perfect example of why sticking with vertical integration can be essential in bringing a company around from the brink of bankruptcy to become the most valuable in the world.
Btw, Nintendo isn't dying, we've heard that since the early nineties and it's still nonsense. They have billions in the bank and have returned to profitability.
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Bingo. Sega's current software output is a fraction of a fraction of what it was in their glory days. Anyone wishing for Nintendo to be Sega clearly has no idea what they're saying.
 
I thought this was just adding a mobile equivalent of Miiverse so later mobile Nintendo games can take advantage of it rather than a game. If it's really just a freemium game with zero to do then I don't have very high hopes for Nintendo on mobile lol. Guess it's cool they've replaced club Mario or whatever it was called.
 
Everyone needs to realize while a Mario or Zelda might be cool, but they would need to do some serious dumbing down of the gameplay controls. Everyone think that can just take Mario 3 and put in on iOS but touch screen just doesn't work for console driven control schemes. That's why all these games on iOS are on rails. Touch screen controls are annoying and makes it more frustrating than anything. I've had a lot of emulators on iOS and it just isn't the same.

Nintendo, don't bring you treasured IP's to iOS or any other touch screen device. The **** sucks for your games.
 
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arkmannj said:
Does Nintendo still make New & original AAA titles? Zelda, Metroid, Donkey Kong, F-Zero, PilotWings, StarFox?
We had a Wii-U then sold it because 99.99% of it's use was just playing Wii or other "classic" Games.
It feels like Nintendo has been lacking in developing and capitalizing on their own intellectual properties that people would actually care about. Hopefully this MiiTomo is just Nintendo dipping their toe in the waters a little, and then they will plan some actual games to be released.
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The term "AAA" is nebulous as best, but I feel like it can be argued that the software lineup of the Wii U and 3DS is some of Nintendo's work best ever.

SamIchi said:
Everyone needs to realize while a Mario or Zelda might be cool, they would need to do some serious dumbing down of the gameplay controls. Everyone think that can just take Mario 3 and put in on iOS but touch screen just doesn't work for console driven control schemes. That's why all these games on iOS are on rails. Touch screen controls are annoying and makes it more frustrating than anything. I've had a lot of emulators on iOS and it just isn't the same.

Nintendo, don't bring you treasured IP's to iOS or any other touch screen device. The **** sucks for your games.
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I love my iPhone, but it'll never be a dedicated gaming device to me.

In the same way my phone will never replace my proper camera, my iPhone will never replace a proper handheld.

pat500000 said:
Maybe Nintendo will be sued for trying to make this "game" into Siri like.
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What the hell does that even mean? "Siri-Like"?
 
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SamIchi said:
Everyone needs to realize while a Mario or Zelda might be cool, but they would need to do some serious dumbing down of the gameplay controls. Everyone think that can just take Mario 3 and put in on iOS but touch screen just doesn't work for console driven control schemes. That's why all these games on iOS are on rails. Touch screen controls are annoying and makes it more frustrating than anything. I've had a lot of emulators on iOS and it just isn't the same.

Nintendo, don't bring you treasured IP's to iOS or any other touch screen device. The **** sucks for your games.
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Remember that they do have games based on stylus touch from DS that could be adapted for finger touch. I'm thinking of things like the various Mario vs Donkey Kong games with the minis. Loss of the second screen wouldn't be too big a deal as it was just a zoomed out map of the area.
 
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I thought Pokémon Shuffle was their first smartphone game. Guess The Pokémon Company and Nintendo aren't related.

But c'mon, Nintendo. We already have Final Fantasy VII on iOS so why not join and port at least SNES games to start with?
 
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I am always amazed at these half hearted efforts by Japanese companies.

They know they need to change but can't seem to be able to embrace what needs to be done.

They consistency can be their strength but it will also be their undoing.
 
I would be happy, if they would just bring old SNES or N64 games to iOS with AppleTV connection. Or the first Pokemon games. I bet they would sell a lot of it.
 
timber said:
I am always amazed at these half hearted efforts by Japanese companies.

They know they need to change but can't seem to be able to embrace what needs to be done.

They consistency can be their strength but it will also be their undoing.
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True. If Nintendo were a purely American company, they would have put Mario on iOS ages ago because of the sheer amount of profit they would obtain from selling Mario-related titles (and not only). American companies focus on profit first, everything else second.

Sega failed because its hardware was lackluster and there was better competition by the turn of the century. Nintendo has excellent games, not so much hardware-wise. If they continue making hardware, at least make a decent PS4 competitor: 1080p graphics with a 2x faster GPU is an absolute must. On the software side, they need to fix their online services. Sony and Microsoft are light years ahead in that department. It's like comparing Apple vs Google at cloud services.
 
CarlosQG said:
I thought Pokémon Shuffle was their first smartphone game. Guess The Pokémon Company and Nintendo aren't related.

But c'mon, Nintendo. We already have Final Fantasy VII on iOS so why not join and port at least SNES games to start with?
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PsychoLogicXen said:
Nintendo owns an incredible stockpile of beloved games that people are willing to buy yet another version of. So disappointing that this is what they first bring to iOS.
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Pokemon Shuffle was The Pokemon Company's jam, not Nintendo's, so you're correct on that.

On the subject of FFVII: Square doesn't produce hardware, Nintendo does. Nintendo still wants you to buy their hardware to play their games.

Their mobile efforts are simply going to be an additional revenue stream and will be companion pieces to Nintendo's main offerings on their hardware.

That being said, neither I, nor anyone else would want to play NES and SNES games on a phone with touch screen buttons. The thought just makes my skin crawl.

Popeye206 said:
Yeah... what the heck is this thing? They took the silliest thing from the Wii instead of bringing one of their top games like Mario Kart... stupid!
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Mario Kart was already inaccurate enough when Nintendo pushed tilt controls onto the dang thing with the Wii Wheel, and now you want to play it without buttons as well? Are you mental?
 
I'm not sure why this is even being labeled as a "Game". It's clearly categorized under "social" in the App Store.
 
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