How Nintendo could and should go Mobile

[DanneSandin]

baloofarsan said:

DanneSandin said:

How would releasing Brain Age and Nintendogs on smart devices impact on their HW sales, when these two titles hardly can be described as system sellers any more, and they're sales disappointments this time around. No one is buying a 3DS for these games now, so releasing them on smart devices wouldn't mean less sold HW, but it would also meaning strengthening the Nintendo brand name as they would reach a wider audience (just like in 2005-2010).

They could also release a Wii Fit for mobile, since soccer moms won't buy a Nintendo console to play those games anymore. Nintendo could use the mobile market to get those people that wouldn't buy a peice of GAMING hardware to play Nintendo games. What Nintendo would get is, 1) money, 2) wider brand recognition, 3) lure parents to buy Nintendo consoles because they know the name Nintendo, and would probably prefer them over SOny or Microsoft.

Do propose some sort of microtransaction to this, pay for accessories for you dogs, pay for dog food? Or do you want to sell the game for $0.99?

There are free "Brain Age"-apps. How should people be convinced to buy the original?

 The Wii Sports idea could be monetized thanks to the WiiU Fit Meter, and maybe some sort of personal trainer bot that you pay for advice.

There's a lot of different options here, and I don't know what would work best. Maybe offer the core game for free, and as you say, pay for accessories, pay for different dog races, pay for tricks or what ever. Or pay $5 for the core game AND pay for accessories.

I have no idea how that's going to work. It's hard to compete with free apps ;) I'm sure Nintendo could come up with something. How does those apps get money?

Yeah, there's a whole lot of options with the Wii Sports games Nintendo could do. All they have to do is go after the right audience.