| DélioPT said:
What you are saying is very imporant that it happens, but if Nintendo really wants people to transition from mobile to dedicated gaming devices (that is the plan, afterall) they need something more then brand empathy, be it because they are connected to the NN (always a tool to lower the barrier, as someone above mentioned) or because they play a game that features Nintendo's IPs. I think the real weapon will be when Nintendo starts making games that can co-exist on both platforms and what you do on one affects the other. The Mii plaza games could become bigger and with more features on a console; An adventure game with side quests on mobile that can influence a game on the home console/handheld. It would be like making the game a platform. That's the spirit that Nintendo should persue. |
I think the difficulty there is that it's hard to get someone only invested in what is ultimatly a shallow gaming experience when viewed from afar, invested enough in the in game effects it has on another piece of soft ware to make the $200-$300 jump. That appeals to them as an audience, but for an audience who, up til then, was only intrested in paying negligable amounts of money to experience your content, I think that it's very important that the real world, dollar to dollar, benefit takes priority.
That being said, I do agree that it will be extrememly important for Nintendo no to segregate these two different software experiences. Just as the platform itself should unify the experiences, the games from different facets of the platform need to work equally hard at remaining seemlessly connect, to the best extent. The merging of handheld and console dev teams proves that they already plan to do this on the dedicated gaming space, but Nintendo need to make sure that this rolls over into their mobile development as well.
