Bloomberg: Nintendo Mobile Game Delay Triggers $4.5 Billion Drop in Value

[Ljink96]

midrange said:

Ljink96 said:
This is gonna be good. Nintendo knows what they're doing. I was furious at them too. Releasing some dumb Mii game. The nerve! But you need to understand that they're trying to reach a different crowd...the casuals. You don't anticipate the casuals, they just show up. They'll come running soon enough. And Nintendo will roll in the dough. Will hardcore fans like it? Heckey naw. But the casuals will eat it up.

The whole mobile crowd is casual. No hardcore gamer will play on a phone.

what Nintendo is doing now however, may not appeal to either given that it does not seem like a game as much as it does a companion/social app.

What Nintendo found was that Tomodachi Life was a surprise hit with Japanese gamers. There's something there that struck. I think that's what they're trying to recreate and no it isn't really hitting towards casual gamers or hard core but Nintendo knows that. They're aiming for a market that we really don't know much about. But for Kimishima to be so optimistic, he must know something that we don't.