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Soundwave on 11 July 2016
chakkra said:

I think this is the first step of a huge change in Nintendo's business strategy.  I know this is frightening for a lot of people but all the signs are there.  

If this continues to have the type of success it's started with ... yeah Nintendo probably will never be the same, the implications are pretty huge for them as a company. 

It could go either way though it could be good or bad depending on what conclusions the shareholders/board of directors glean from Pokemon Go's success. 



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Miyamotoo on 11 July 2016

Great for Nintendo.



naruball on 11 July 2016
Tlozjb said:
Though is that really much at the end? The game had a huge boom and is only doing 1.6 million per day on iOS which are thought as the biggest spenders, aside of being on USA, 1.6 seems like a small number considering all that.

Aside, don't the profits have to be divided between the 3 holders of the Pokemon IP + the developer/Niantic + Google(they did funded the project, so they must receive something in return)? That would leave the iOS profits at only 320k per company, not exactly much.

Please tell me this is sarcasm.



iron_megalith on 11 July 2016

Welcome to the mobile gaming market. Now only if Sony realizes this soon enough and stop following the portable console tradition. If it's not Nintendo it's dead.



kopstudent89 on 11 July 2016

Absolutely ridiculous this. Changes everything.

 

Nintendo for me will always get portable gaming more than most companies. Nintendo will definitely be looking at this and see the potential



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AZWification on 11 July 2016

Wow, that's pretty good. I wonder how much would AC make on mobile.



                
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Kerotan on 11 July 2016
zero129 said:
Kerotan said:

Have you seen the success of pokemon go?  Next gen dedicated handhelds will sell far less than this gen and Android + iOS will increase their dominance of the market.  

 

I've always said it.  Nintendo will drown in a tsunami of cash when they embrace third party mobile gaming.  Theirs still money to be made with consoles but they're blowing a wad of cash by not embracing it now rather than later. 

Nintendo's handheld market is more healtier atm then their console market.

This is like saying Sony should go console 3rd party and keep the handheld market exclusive....

I just love how you guys would love for Nintendo to go 3rd party but not Sony....

Sony don't have the mobile potential Nintendo do.  Sony are the console Kings with the ps4 proving that again.  

 

Nintendo should be Kings of mobile.  This thread is also about Nintendo hence why I don't mention Sony. 



Nautilus on 11 July 2016
AZWification said:

Wow, that's pretty good. I wonder how much would AC make on mobile.

Well, AC dosent have the brand strenght as Pokemon, so the launch probably wouldnt be as strong, but if Nintendo makes a good game with lasting appeal, I can easily see it also becoming a mega-hit.



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Ganoncrotch on 11 July 2016

Walking rather annoyed along with my partner today, slowly trying to help avoid other people crashing into us as my partner captured a Hypno on the street.... only to get to where we were meant to meet our friend for tea, to find he was running late.... BECAUSE HE HAD TO CATCH THE DAMN HYPNO IN THE SQUARE, amg... I remember when I used to play with my Gameboy before as a kid and people would laugh at the concept of someone walking around playing pokemon outside, now every ..[swear edited].. Person and a phone thinks it's the best thing ever.

I've no idea how to feel about this, think I might just break out my old Gameboy color and a copy of Gold and see if I still get a strange reaction to playing that while tools in town walk out in front of traffic to catch ratattas :< genuinely annoyed by this app and the reaction people have to it.



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bunchanumbers on 11 July 2016
Tlozjb said:
outlawauron said:

So, even with your paltry breakdown, that's what over 100m in a single year from a single region?

While it is still big, it is quite the longshot from what people are making it seem, if all the 1.6 million were for Nintendo, that would mean 582m from just iOS users in the USA.  So again, while 100m is a big number, it is quite smaller than the number people are believing to be, and doesn't seem to be so impressive when we see this is a big market and the huge boom that Pokemon GO had.  Though when it comes to what Nintendo receives from the daily profit, it is still meh.

You're acting like android and other countries doesn't exist. Who knows what the actual numbers will be. either way it has had other ways it impacts Nintendo. Their market cap is crazy high right now thanks to this game. The Nintendoom screams have been silenced for now and we now have tangible proof that Iwata's plan is working.