| RolStoppable said: I don't think Niantic approaching Nintendo says anything about Nintendo's interest, especially because Niantic will have approached Nintendo after Nintendo's announcement that they want to make mobile games. Niantic provided a clear idea for what they wanted to do and their previous game already delivered the necessary framework, so Nintendo agreed to a partnership because everything fell in line with what they wanted to do on mobile. Pokémon Go is addictive and does not replace Pokémon on dedicated Nintendo hardware, so it's not a threat to Nintendo's core business. A refusal to license out the Pokémon IP would have actually been a better case for the argument of Nintendo being disinterested in mobile. Nintendo's resources are limited, but this partnership allowed them to gain a bigger presence on mobile than they would have got all on their own. It's not that different from the collaborations Nintendo made with various third parties for 3DS and Wii U games. |
Well, you're probably right =) But I do wonder how Nintendo will follow up this huge success. It seems to me that they'll either release one "core" game and one "casual" game side by side, or release one of each every second game. I base this asumption on the fact that the next mobile games are Animal Crossing and Fire Emblem, one casual and one core. Is this a way to try to capture both markets on mobile? I can see Animal Crossing and Mario Kart being huge successes on mobile (if done right), but Fire Emblem won't have the same impact
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