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Soundwave on 19 March 2015
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RolStoppable said:
Soundwave said:

There's not much ambiguity about what Nintendo announced. They're making smartphone games. All Nintendo IP are possible for smartphone and Nintendo will develop the games on top of investing $180 million dollars into DeNA to handle the upkeep of such games. 

This isn't some little side project. 

Well, you are one of the guys who didn't really understand it either.

When I read things like "Nintendo is taking smartphones seriously as a primary gaming device", "imagine playing Zelda [like it is on consoles] on smartphones" or "this way Nintendo can raise a wall between hardcore gamers [their console side] and casual gamers [their smartphone games], yay", then I get a really good chuckle.


They are taking smartphone gaming seriously. Nintendo never invests big dollars in anything the $180 million investment in DeNA is among the largest I can ever remember them making and I've been following Nintendo for 20+ years. 

The guy just said imagine playing Zelda on iOS/Android, and he's probably not wrong. There almost certainly will be a Zelda game (probably many of them) on iOS/Android, the DS Zelda titles already laid a foundation for how touchscreen Zelda can work. 

The whole point of doing this is to get these IP to a real mass audience, Zelda is certainly one of the IP Nintendo would want to introduce to a new generation of kids and gamers.