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Nintendo Plans To Release 2 or 3 Mobile Games a Year After Super Mario Run's Success (macworld.com)
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.
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
If techs didn't disagree with each other, then Microsoft would rule the world.
The fresh'maker!
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, perhaps might come instead.
Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
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.
Next year's releases are:
Super Luigi Run
Zelda Run (only it's actually Link doing the running, whatever)
Metroid Run
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
why?!?
The people who buy it all have it as 4 or 5 stars.
The people who complain about the price and didn't buy it, but review it, all have it at 1 star.
So it ends up getting rated 2.5 stars.
You won't. But you're clearly not their target market. Otherwise, they'd be pandering specifically to your interests like FOSS.
F-droid.
There are at least a few good time killing games in there, plus BiAural Beats, and a variety of informational apps, almost none of which require a continuous internet connection (a few DO require network privs for external downloads, something I wish android had a download manager interface to allow/disallow as needed.)
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).
Wow, let's see. -10% per release, 2-3 releases a year = short Nintendo big!
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!
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
ttwo is probably a safer bet.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 available on their Virtual Console, where games start at $5 and have much more content than their mobile offerings.
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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.
You know, I genuinely don't understand the point you are making. Which word are you talking about?
allah. It's a word that means God, usually referencing the Abrahamic God from Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
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.
But it is an offline game. There's no interaction.
I see. But everyone will recognize who I'm talking about, and it's the not the God of the Jews and Christians.
Thanks for telling us all you haven't played it.
I have played all three levels.
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.
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?
Fuck me you are special.
I appreciate the offer, but I'm in a committed relationship with my wife.
My girlfriend plays it quite a bit. The always-on connection is being used in the game. A very large part of the game is the Toad Rally, which pits you through levels against other's ghost runs. Obviously, it also records your runs to be used as ghosts for others.