Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp out NOW - launches a day early

[sethnintendo]

Mar1217 said:

sethnintendo said:
I might have talked shit about the game in previous threads. Yea, I know I'm a smartphone game hater but I think this game has potential. It won't blow up as big as Pokemon Go was in the first few months but it will be somewhere in between Pokemon and Fire Emblem. Game will make Nintendo money and turn people onto the upcoming Switch release.

And they make decent profit on top of it ! Isn't that a good balance in terms of software making ? I mean, I hope their sharers are happy with this strategy so far.

Seems like a good strategy.  Release a smaller version of a famous IP on smartphone and follow it up with a mainline entry on their own systems.  Didn't work out too well for Super Mario Run (shouldn't have priced it more than 2.99) but they have gone to f2p since then with Fire Emblem and now Animal Crossing.  Not a fan of f2p at all but apparently they did it where it doesn't hinder gameplay too much so one isn't "forced" to feel obligated to spend money.