No, like the program would be sweeping lol. It's available to everyone who owns a NNID, especially for console/handheld gamers. You'll be getting the same, and in many cases more, discounts through your dedicated gaming systems. I was just using the post to specify how the program could specifically be used to bring people from mobile or QOL to Nintendo hardware, but I'm sure that the primery focus of the rewards aspect of this program it to get players to play individual games more, and play more of them.

That's why it doesn't make sense to make a separate "core" rewards program. The entire point is to have one, uniform way to reward all Nintendo consumers across the board. Having two conflicting ways to do that with two inherently different goals is, well, conflicting. It doesn't make sense. The free-Steam like program works, in many ways, more for gamers than it does for anyone else. Nintendo doesn't need to force gamers to pay a subscription fee to gain access to a few NES games. You own 3 Mario games? Here's Mario 1, 2, and 3 for $1 each. Recommended Super Metroid to a friend? Now you can get the Metroid Prime Trilogy for 50% off.

It rewards players for actions that make Nintendo money by giving them ways to make Nintendo more money. A subscription model goes against that. It's likely why you'll likely never see Valve charging for Steam. Why would they need to? Valve makes tons of money from charging nothing for it, and Steam users will never shut up about all the deals they get from it. Far moreso than Plus or Gold.

Yeah lol I'll change it now.

Which is still the same thing that spemanig said. DeNA has the necessary infrastructure to build Nintendo's desired platform. 

There's an app on iOS right now called Gree that does just that though. It allows you to purchase games specifically through their portal. I should know. I hav the app.

Once it becomes common knowledge that you can buy all your Nintendo games through the app, that problem evaborates. People will just associate Nintendo gaming through the app, the same way they associate Nintendo gaming to their hardware now. As Word with Friends proves, people are more than willing to create an account for something that is culturally relevant. If the game is important enough to people's social lives, regular people have no problem spending a minute to create a username and password. Once they own the app, downloading a Nintendo game would be as simple as boot up the app > Search, buy the game, download it. It creates uniformity.

Frankly, PSN and Live did it terribly. It didn't set the world on fire because the efforts weren't good and their IP aren't even remotely strong enough to do something like this. No one cares, on a macro scale, about the Vita and it's connection to the PS3/4. No one cares about using their PS app everyday. I owned the Live app. I had a Windows Phone and created a Live account for it. The service sucked. If Nintendo pulls this off, that, in and of itself, is the "revolution." (Your words, not mine.)

I want to be clear though, this thread isn't predicting if this will be successful, or revolutionary, or not. This is just meant to say "this is what Nintendo is thinking." This is what Nintendo was likely planning when they made these moves. This is where their embitions likely lie, based off evidence we already know and some educated guessing.

WOW!!! This has to be the lamest Ban I've ever seen on any site in my many years of internet forums.

This site can't even get numbers posted up from weeks and weeks ago.

Yet the Moderators can start and will let sexually explicite threads about their own sexuality go on forever (yes I have seen it before).

This site has just become so lame now and I've been a member for 5+ years.

Bye VGChartz!

Can I put this in the OP? Lol, this is brilliant.

Perfect analogy.

Gree is a social network. It only gives you a bunch of links to the App Store itself. They can't sell games there, because Apple isn't allowing it. No way, never. Re-check your app. Apple wants their 30% and you have to give it. They won't let someone sell 10M downloads of a US$ 10 game and just lose US$ 30M.

PSN and Live did it terribly? You are basically saying that Nintendo should do the same things Sony and MS did 3 to 8 years ago and claiming it will be a revolution. Right now, Nintendo isn't even providing the same level of funcionality that PSN provided in 2009. They are far, far behind in infrastructure and most things you posted are just features I have on my PS consoles since some years. Cross-buy? 2012. Cloud save? Don't have idea, bought a PS3 in 2011 and it already had it. They are still catching up with party chat here.

I would like to see you clarifying why PSN and Live sucks when doing things that Nintendo simply don't have. They can't even make an account system that isn't tied to a piece of hardware in 2015. I also did had a WP. The service was alright, it had achievements (something the Wii U don't have), purchases not tied to hardware, avatars, etc. The big problem here isn't just bringing it to mobile, but making the Nintendo Network be remotely close in functionality to PSN and Live. The problem is that the other are always bringing new features. So while you are adding basics like party chat, the other have gane streaming, sharing, social features and remote cloud gameplay.

Even the slides you posted, just show a unified accounting system shared by multiple devices. That's PSN and Live. The only new thing there is the QoL part that uses extra sensors in people's houses. You're just massively exagerating what is mostly catch-up and what just confirms that Nintendo wants to have another home console and handheld, while NX is probably the new handheld device.

I don't think we can see that as anything different than Nintendo getting ready to the fall of the handheld market and to get the sales potential of mobile devices. They don't need to put everything on a walled garden inside an app: just make the games with the IPs, people will buy and play. Some of them will like it and may buy the home console to play the bigger versions. That's it, simple and effective.

The Nintendo app, if they launch it, will be more like the PS app. See your messages, see your friends, etc. Easy and convenient.

The idea is good but i don't think that Nintendo would even want that to happen.
Sharing a NNID between games, letting it record what you do or achieve and then letting you analyse all that in a single menu (accessible wherever) is probably what Nintendo is aiming for.

Even if Apple and Android would agree on having a Nintendo marketplace within their own systems, that would automatically reduce the exposure of Nintendo games because they wouldn't be visible from the get go. And what Nintendo wants is simplicity and exposure.

Nintendo could just create a unique NNID app that allows you to see your account and Nintendo's other offers (without being able to buy stuff) - an info channel if you will - that can be accessed via in game if you wanted.
But that probably would be too complicated?!

Nintendo going mobile is basically part of its own merits ... Nintendo simply stands to make a ton of money by doing so.

I think it really is just that simple.

If a few more kids decide to buy a Nintendo dedicated portable or console as a result, that's just icing on the cake, but it's not the cake itself.

In a couple of years it's quite possible mobile games will be the no.1 money maker for Nintendo, they need DeNA to keep those games running, Iwata has said they're aiming to leverage their existing IP into several smartphone titles that are big hits.

I tend to be cautious about getting overly grandoise about things like Nintendo's online services ... remember when people were touting Miiverse as some kind of huge game changer? Lets be real, even if there is a service like the one outlined in the OP, "being as important to someone as their Facebook or Twitter app" is a massive, massive reach.

Game sharing, unified network ID is something Sony has been doing for ages, this is more like Nintendo (as per usual) being about 8-9 years late to that party.