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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - Miitomo reached 1 Million users on Smartphones

AlfredoTurkey on 20 March 2016
spemanig said:
Skullwaker said:

Wait, there's no way to search for friends in the app?

OT: Very good results considering it's only been available for a couple days in one region.

Not unless you're already friends with them on Facebook or Twitter. That's not gonna go over well here.

Nintendo has and always will be very strict and careful about things like this because they don't want people luring kids into bed, or worse. I honestly think they'd rather jump on their sword and go out of business before going the rout of "anything goes" online interactivity. 



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osed125 on 20 March 2016
zorg1000 said:
osed125 said:

Great for Nintendo, I'm really curious if this will catch on here in the west.

I just saw the GameXplain video and...I can't put my finger on it but this looks "too Japanese like" (for lack of a better word) to really become popular in the west. Maybe I'm wrong and kids will eat the hell out of this app.

"Too Japanese" is what was said about Tomodachi Life & Splatoon and both those games have been successful in every region.

You do have a point with Tomodachi Life (that game has the quirky Japanese humor), but I don't really consider Splatoon that "Japanese" in the strict sense of the word.



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Lonely_Dolphin on 20 March 2016
AlfredoTurkey said:

Nintendo has and always will be very strict and careful about things like this because they don't want people luring kids into bed, or worse. I honestly think they'd rather jump on their sword and go out of business before going the rout of "anything goes" online interactivity. 

And yet they made Miiverse and Wii U chat a thing.



elektranine on 20 March 2016
RolStoppable said:
elektranine said:
How is this a big deal?
Android sales number in the billions each year.
Even counting only japan that would be 200+ million devices.
Most popular apps do way better than just a million installs.

It has only been available a couple of days.

Not really that impressive for a worldwide well known publisher such as Nintendo. Most apps from known devs will have at least these or higher numbers. We have apps running in the relm of 10-20 milion downloads in the first 24 hours. So taking days to reach 1 million from a well known dev is not that good.



Mr.GameCrazy on 20 March 2016
elektranine said:
RolStoppable said:

It has only been available a couple of days.

Not really that impressive for a worldwide well known publisher such as Nintendo. Most apps from known devs will have at least these or higher numbers. We have apps running in the relm of 10-20 milion downloads in the first 24 hours. So taking days to reach 1 million from a well known dev is not that good.

There is also the fact that it has only been released in Japan so far.



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Superquagsire on 20 March 2016

Great job Nintendo! And that's Japan only! Can't wait to see how it does in other places! I'm sure those investors who stopped investing after they announced the game was delayed are probably shitting their pants right about now.



Soundwave on 20 March 2016
spemanig said:
Soundwave said:

I think mobile will be the driver of Nintendo's business in the future (for better or worse).

This is where kids, casuals, and female players all are (mobile platforms) those are all Nintendo's strongholds they will thrive like crazy with smartphone apps. 

That and the movie licensing/toy stuff they will do well in. The NX stuff I'm skeptical of. 

It definitely won't be. Dedicated gaming will be.

As always.

We'll see in 3-4 years I suppose. 

This is 1 million users in a few days in basically just Japan with almost zero marketing and not much effort on Nintendo's part, they're not even flexing any of their IP muscle really. 

Imagine what some of their other IP with more effort put behind them could do. I think this is a large part of the future for them. 



Ultrashroomz on 20 March 2016

Damn, that was quick.



"Just for comparison Uncharted 4 was 20x bigger than Splatoon 2. This shows the huge difference between Sony's first-party games and Nintendo's first-party games."

Ck1x on 20 March 2016
elektranine said:
How is this a big deal?
Android sales number in the billions each year.
Even counting only japan that would be 200+ million devices.
Most popular apps do way better than just a million installs.

This is the response exactly that I expect from most people on the Internet! Nintendo can be swimming in billions of dollars in profits by next year and people like you will suggest, ahh it's no big deal... such a classic, never change 



Ck1x on 20 March 2016
Skullwaker said:
spemanig said:

Not unless you're already friends with them on Facebook or Twitter. That's not gonna go over well here.

That's...really dumb. 

Following someone on Twitter isn't too bad but Facebook friending someone is pretty intrusive and something that a lot of people don't usually do unless they know each other in real life or are pretty close in general. They should just have a regular friend system that doesn't require the use of external social networks.

Why is it dumb? It's a brand new social app, there's no established history yet. Once time has settled in and it's actually established a base of users then it would make sense to have a in app friend search feature. Including adding friends through the current widespread popular social apps is actually the smartest thing that they could have done. Many people that may not even be interested in games might try this app out simply because it's trending on Twitter or something.