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Game_God on 17 March 2015
daredevil.shark said:
Captain_Yuri said:
Can't wait for Flappy Mario or Angry Zelda or PokeCrush


Neogaf is expecting full fledged games on steam.


Seriously??? :o



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n29CicBxZuw

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daredevil.shark on 17 March 2015
Game_God said:
daredevil.shark said:


Neogaf is expecting full fledged games on steam.


Seriously??? :o


Yeah. Cant blame them. Nintendo mentioned PC also.



Game_God on 17 March 2015
daredevil.shark said:
Game_God said:


Seriously??? :o


Yeah. Cant blame them. Nintendo mentioned PC also.

I know they mentioned PC, but to stretch & allucinate full games on STEAM, that's quite a space & time travelling leap!!!

How can one "read" full fledged games on STEAM from what Nintendo & DeNA said, otherwise this would have been a Nintendo/Valve media event instead of a Nintendo/DeNA media event...

I guess heavy drugs are the norm on Neogaf :P



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n29CicBxZuw

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chapset on 17 March 2015

Leaked picture of the first mario mibile game



Bet reminder: I bet with Tboned51 that Splatoon won't reach the 1 million shipped mark by the end of 2015. I win if he loses and I lose if I lost.

Soundwave on 17 March 2015

DeNA is a big part of Nintendo now anyway. Nintendo owns 10% of the company full stop for starters, that's more than the likes of Next Level Games, Camelot, nd Cube, and several other software entities they work with.

DeNA is effectively part of Nintendo now and as such are a Nintendo development studio.



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Moren on 17 March 2015
Anfebious said:

Just kidding, I really thought it was funny!

Please stop derrailing the thread.

Reported.



Materia-Blade on 17 March 2015
RolStoppable said:
On one hand it's very disappointing that Nintendo goes third party, but on the other hand it means that people who have been waiting to play the prestigious Nintendo games on non-Nintendo platforms will have to wait many, many years longer now.

This alliance encompasses two key points:

1. Nintendo and DeNA have formed a development team that will use Nintendo IPs for smartphone games. Presumably Nintendo will first and foremost take a supervisor role in this, so it won't be a significant drain on Nintendo's own development resources.

2. The online membership service was said to replace Club Nintendo, so it's pretty clear that we are talking about a proper unified account system here, not a paid subscription service or anything the like.

As for the co-existence of Nintendo IP on smartphones and the usual Nintendo games on Nintendo hardware, it's not an impossible task. Before the Wii launched, some analysts believed that it would cut into DS sales in the unlikely case that it becomes successful. What actually happened is that both devices boosted each other's hardware and software sales because people couldn't get enough of Nintendo content. The important thing here was that both, hardware and software, differed between the two devices. Nintendo's outright refusal to port existing titles to smartphones means that they already got something right.

Regarding competition in the mobile space, Nintendo and DeNA have the right idea. Intellectual properties are the biggest and most important differentiator when it comes to video game software. To explain this in the simplest way, I'll just say Dynasty Warriors blows and Hyrule Warriors rocks.

But nintendo is not going third party.



AlfredoTurkey on 17 March 2015
ihatefatkatz said:
Nintendo is also introducing a online membership service.

"Nintendo and DeNA also plan to develop an online membership service that is accessible from smart devices, PC and Nintendo systems, such as the Nintendo 3DS portable system and the Wii U home console. The membership service, which is targeted to launch in the fall of 2015, will be built on DeNA's extensive experience and capabilities in online membership services"

Source:

http://globenewswire.com/news-release/2015/03/17/715764/10125108/en/Nintendo-and-DeNA-Form-Business-and-Capital-Alliance.html#sthash.v3y1GTZK.dpuf


Lets hope this doesn't mean we all end up having to pay to play online next generation. 



Turkish on 17 March 2015

Interesting, had Sony not sold their share we might've seen seen a Nintendo/Sony alliance lol.



Soundwave on 17 March 2015
Turkish said:
Interesting, had Sony not sold their share we might've seen seen a Nintendo/Sony alliance lol.


I don't think Nintendo and Sony really even view themselves as direct competitors anymore. 

Since there likely isn't going to be a successor to Vita, that's out. Can't see Sony pursuing dedicated handheld gaming after that flop, heck even Nintendo has swallowed their pride and acknowledged smartphones now. 

Wii U isn't even trying to compete with the PS4. 

They're just two ships quietly passing in the night.