Nintendo Plans To Release 2 or 3 Mobile Games a Year After Super Mario Run's Success (macworld.com) 46
In an interview with Japan-based Kyoto NP, Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima revealed that Super Mario Run is just the start of a new strategy for mobile gaming. From an article on MacWorld: The company plans to release two or three new games next year, and continue that pattern beyond 2017, he said. Previously it was reported that popular titles Fire Emblem and Animal Crossing were on tap for a mobile release. Kimishima offered no information on whether future games will release simultaneously in the App Store and Play Store, but Nintendo has already said it is working on bringing Super Mario Run to Android phones. The iPhone-exclusive side-runner has amassed some 50 million downloads in its first week, making it the fastest-downloaded app in Apple's history. However, the game's $10 price tag and relatively simple formula has riled some users, and despite its popularity, it only has a 2-star rating in the App Store.
Success? (Score:1)
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Thanks for the cliffs notes. :/
Re: Success? (Score:2)
From what I understand, few people who downloaded it actually paid for it.
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It supposedly has a two level demo that you can play before you buy, but people who didn't buy thought the demo was lame. And to be honest, the game's controls sound like an easier version of flappy bird, hence I'm not interested in even trying it myself.
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Like most P2W games out there.
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I mean, I know it was a fast downloaded game but many people were fast to complain about it and give it sub-par ratings
I wish I would have had a failure that generated over $10million in revenue. I would happily take a 1 star rating for even $5million.
Mario Run Maker (Score:2)
A special version of their Mario Maker title could be ported to mobile pretty easily, that creates "Mario Run"-type levels. There are some Kirby spinoff games that are fully stylus-controlled, those could work on mobile ok. I suspect Pikmin would work great with touch controls. A simplified Zelda with "Infinity Blade"-style combat controls could work, although it would probably have watered-down exploration elements; they might be too protective of the IP to risk it. An "Epona Run" or similar minigame, perh
Always-on connection? no way (Score:3)
I will never pay for any of these while the always-on internet setting remains. I've already had it tell me no because I was in a day room with bad Wi-Fi and my 3G was blocked by the building. Granted, I'm in the middle east, but even here I usually have some connection and the one time I was bored and wanted to play for a few minutes it blocked me. If I were on the 12 hour flight I'd be blocked too. Just no.
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You won't. But you're clearly not their target market. Otherwise, they'd be pandering specifically to your interests like FOSS.
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I don't play it any more, but even Pokémon GO worked fine for all of us. People tend to want to play games on a plane, or on a subway, or on long car trips (might be miles between data towers, gaps, etc).
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Granted, I'm in the middle east
It's for the best. If allah knew you were having fun he'd send his goons to kill you anyway.
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You do realize that's just a word, and is used in reference to the Christian god, etc. There's more than one language on earth.
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There's more than one language on earth.
Tell that to the Allah of Muslims, who is a monoglot to the point of insisting that no translation can ever be considered truly genuine or accurate, which is why you'll usually see the "original" Arabic alongside whatever other language its been translated to because otherwise it can't be considered a Qur'an.
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You know, I genuinely don't understand the point you are making. Which word are you talking about?
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allah. It's a word that means God, usually referencing the Abrahamic God from Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
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I see. But everyone will recognize who I'm talking about, and it's the not the God of the Jews and Christians.
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I will never pay for any of these while the always-on internet setting remains.
Yeah damn them for their always on internet connection. I except all the internet based content to stream magically to me through the ether because having internet on my phone is such a burden. /sarcasm
p.s. This isn't a frigging console game.
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Your sarcasm is pretty shallow. Never flown? Taken a long trip? Been in a large building? Those are the times you'd be bored enough to play this I'm sure, and those are likely times you will have no internet.
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And i'm sure a game that you finish in the first few days with no replay value other than that offered by the online content (of which there is plenty) is of zero use to you in this scenario.
Point is the same. This isn't DRM, there's actual online interaction and content here. Stuck offline? Play an offline game.
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But it is an offline game. There's no interaction.
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Thanks for telling us all you haven't played it.
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I have played all three levels.
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Exactly what I've said. You haven't bought the program, you haven't signed in with your Nintendo account, and you haven't even scratched the surface of the game, much less any of the online content.
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Right. As I said that will never happen when they require you to be online for offline play. Does pointing out what I said at the very beginning as if you discovered it do something for you?
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Fuck me you are special.
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I appreciate the offer, but I'm in a committed relationship with my wife.
Titles leaked (Score:2)
Next year's releases are:
Super Luigi Run
Zelda Run (only it's actually Link doing the running, whatever)
Metroid Run
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nah, I think they will clone some other game this time and call it their own.
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It's a free app, but it has an in-app purchase. You should never rate a game based on what you can get for in-app purchases.
The stock is what other people think, not reality (Score:2)
If Nintendo is saying it was successful enough to want to do more, that means they are making money at it.
So if the stock is down, but Nintendo is obviously making more money than the stock market is expecting, the worst thing you could do would be to short the stock - I plan to buy Nintendo stock and never have before. Although if you look at the stock it's already pretty high, still left over from the mistaken impression people had that Nintendo was involved with PokemonGo!
Count me out, sticking to consoles (Score:2)
Nintendo have enough high quality console releases (including retro games) to keep me busy for some time. But then I don't really enjoy mobile games in general because of their restrictive practices where you can only do certain activities X times per day. Typical of F2P games, unfortunately Nintendo still implements this scheme on their $10 Mario game. No thanks. I do appreciate their skill-based approach to gaming rather than the typical min-max grind but still there is much better for much cheaper availa