This comes from Serkan Toto, the CEO of a Japanese game industry consultancy.
1) One day to go until Nintendo’s first of two briefings this week. The first app will use existing IP, but don't expect too much from it.
2) Don't get your hopes up too high for Mario. But I heard Nintendo and DeNA are planning to pull out the big guns (bigger IPs) next year.
— Dr. Serkan Toto (@serkantoto) October 27, 2015
3) About the membership service, I heard technical challenges made a roll-out earlier in the year impossible (well, this isn't trivial).
— Dr. Serkan Toto (@serkantoto) October 27, 2015
4) Another point: according to my sources, Nintendo+DeNA experiment with different business models, so non free-to-play apps are possible.
— Dr. Serkan Toto (@serkantoto) October 27, 2015
Well, what do you think? Sounds like Nintendo's first mobile game won't be anything spectacular.
