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Nintendo Explains Why They Won't Develop Smartphone Games

Nintendo have seen sales figure fall short and failed to see the rewards from the Nintendo 3DS but they today explained why they don't plan to develop smartphone games.

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ZodTheRipper4468d ago (Edited 4468d ago )

Well I hope it's not just the controls preventing them from that ...I don't like to see any of the big publishers that grew through PC & consoles suddenly go mobile. Imagine Steven Spielberg making telenovelas or cartoons.

KrisButtar4468d ago (Edited 4468d ago )

Steven Spielberg made Animaniacs cartoons and the spin offs, if I remember correctly or he was directly involved with the cartoons.

I've played NES games on iPhones and they work fine, so if they really wanted to do it they could.

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ZodTheRipper4468d ago

I knew someone would take it this way :D
But you should get what I mean, I just don't like to see talented developers working on 99c smartphone games because publishers tell them to. Nintendo is doing it right and I hope that this mobile trend ends soon.

LOL_WUT4468d ago

Wrong move Nintendo. Not sure about new titles but their old catalog could sell very well which could be beneficial to the company... ;)

mikel10154468d ago

Why? Please give me 1 good reason why people would purchase full on classic games with touch screen controls made for complex controllers like SNES and N64? Plus it would devalue the ENTIRE virtual console bro

zeal0us4468d ago (Edited 4468d ago )

The screen controls for the SNES and N64 are not complex. I've player a variety of games on SNesoid and Mupen64. If they were complex then emulators on android would not be so popular.

It would only devalue the brand or virtual console if Nintendo were to sell them extremely cheap. Square Enix port old FF games to mobile and charge $7.99 to $15.99 for their games. Nintendo could charge mobile the same price they charge on their e-shop.

Inception4467d ago

Good. I applaud Nintendo decisions. Seriously i'm tired about smartphone crap and people who thinks consoles / handhelds are inferior to smartphone in terms of games. It turns out those people wants to play games from consoles / handheld too.

So this news made me happy there still company like Nintendo who thinks consoles / handhelds are better as a gaming medium compare to smartphone ^^

tigertron4467d ago

Well, there are always emulators.

The old Pokémon games work really well.

higgins784467d ago

Should Nintendo need to explain? The reasons I believe are obvious.

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U.S. patent examiner rejects Nintendo’s summoning characters patent as obvious: non-final ruling

The rejection is non-final (and even when such rejections are labeled as “final”, the process is far from over, given that there can be, at minimum, an appeal to the Federal Circuit).

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Relientk7758d ago (Edited 58d ago )

Good, as they should! A game mechanic like that shouldn't be locked behind a patent, and Nintendo didn't invent it either.

PRIMORDUS57d ago (Edited 57d ago )

Nintendo wants to keep wasting money on bullshit lawsuits, real smart in this economy. They should put that money aside for other game projects. On the other hand, I don't care if they waste it all either, and they are screwed in the future maybe that will teach them a lesson.

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Nintendo Completes Share Repurchase and Sets Price for Secondary Offering

Nintendo completed its share repurchase and set its secondary offering price at 8,347 yen ahead of March 16 delivery.

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Nintendo Suing U.S. Government Over Tariffs

Nintendo filed a lawsuit in the United States Court of International Trade.

Nintendo of America is suing the United States government over the sweeping tariffs President Donald Trump put in place last year, according to a complaint filed Friday in the U.S. Court of International Trade and obtained by Aftermath.

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Deathdeliverer83d ago

Well dayum lol. Old agent orange pissing off every industry and nation.

0hMyGandhi82d ago

The fact that you have ANY disagrees will forever baffle me. And to the (apparent) MAGA contingent that exists on this website, enjoy your 8-9 dollar gas.

AuraAbjure81d ago (Edited 81d ago )

Yes, they had better be pissed after Trump told them the way they rip off the USA is over.

EveryPlatformGamer83d ago

LOL I read this on gaff, will they refund the money back to the gamers? highly unlikely. Didn't they just raise prices and pass it onto the gamers? Only Nintendo would send out the Ninjas to the US government.

-Foxtrot82d ago

That’s what I was thinking, imagine them winning hypothetically, getting a s**t load of money back which they would have lost if they hadn’t raised their prices and it’s business as normal.

It would just mean people paid more for no reason since they got the money back anyway.

Outside_ofthe_Box82d ago (Edited 82d ago )

A lot of companies partially passed the cost to consumers instead of all of it. They would still have to at least pay that back to gamers, but we know that won't happen. What's also sad is that prices won't come back down after the initial hike caused by tariffs.

People didn't understand the full repercussions of tariffs. That alone should have cost him the presidency if people knew it was a permanent price hike for consumers

Inverno82d ago

The people should sue these companies for having to over pay cause of these tariffs.

Eonjay82d ago

Naw they should sue the government for forcing the tax to begin with. No one reasonably expects these companies to absorb the taxes. Many smaller companies tried and were shut down or faced to increase prices to try to maintain their business. The tariffs effect everyone.

Inverno81d ago

I meant it mostly as a joke cause we all know the costs of these tariffs were passed onto the consumer. But it's seems no matter how vocal we are here in the states our "representatives" don't seem to care enough to represent us. And things are about to get worse.

Killer2020UK81d ago

The companies were doing what the law required then to do, the tariffs however were illegally implemented. Usually it's criminals we punish, you seem to have different ideas 🤷‍♂️

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