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WagnerPaiva on 09 September 2016

Yes, and I guess this will probably be the biggest money maker to Nintendo since forever.



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ninjapirate42 on 09 September 2016
onionberry said:
It's a game developed for phones, to play one handed while you eat a hamburger like he said. Also brand awareness, Nintendo is thinking that a lot of phone users are going to say "ok this is really fun, now I want to play a real mario game" and that could work, it works for pokemon.

Exactly this. Millions of people know Mario but there are still so many that haven't played any of the games in years. You get them interested in a Mario game like this and then make them want to pick up a console to play the full length souped up games.

 

And worst case scenario you just make a boatload of money from this to use for attracting 2nd party and 3 party developers to the NX.



Platina on 09 September 2016

There may be an endless mode in NSMB but hopefully not the one tap feature :/



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Poojipoo on 09 September 2016
bigtakilla said:
Poojipoo said:
Nah, they've mentioned several times that their smartphone games are a gateway drug to their devices/full games. They want people to play this and go "huh, I wonder what a REAL Mario game is like". Which is great, with all the young 'uns being brought up on tablet and smartphone games, we need someone like Nintendo to introduce them to console gaming.

But it's not really like a real Mario game. It's like giving someone pot and hoping they'll want to know what crack is like. It's a pretty big leap.

Wait, your analogy is literally the (mostly fictitious) scenario everyone talks about when talking about gateway drugs and pot-->crack...  :p

But anyways, I don't think endless runner-->platformer is at all a big leap?  Endless runners like this essentially teach you timing jumps; platformers are about timing jumps with horizontal movement.  Endless runner-->3D platformer might be a bit more difficult, but not such a huge leap that a kid who plays mobile games won't be able to figure it out.



onionberry on 09 September 2016
Hiku said:

NX has a controller So I think they'd rather utilize its options. The running thing is to make it playable one handed.

onionberry said:
It's a game developed for phones, to play one handed while you eat a hamburger like he said. A

*Burger eating sound effect*
*Apple eating sound effect*

miyamoto is funny :D



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bigtakilla on 09 September 2016
Poojipoo said:
bigtakilla said:

But it's not really like a real Mario game. It's like giving someone pot and hoping they'll want to know what crack is like. It's a pretty big leap.

Wait, your analogy is literally the (mostly fictitious) scenario everyone talks about when talking about gateway drugs and pot-->crack...  :p

But anyways, I don't think endless runner-->platformer is at all a big leap?  Endless runners like this essentially teach you timing jumps; platformers are about timing jumps with horizontal movement.  Endless runner-->3D platformer might be a bit more difficult, but not such a huge leap that a kid who plays mobile games won't be able to figure it out.

Tapping a button and controlling a character in a 3D game are pretty different, and scratches different itches.



bigtakilla on 09 September 2016
RolStoppable said:
Poojipoo said:

Wait, your analogy is literally the (mostly fictitious) scenario everyone talks about when talking about gateway drugs and pot-->crack...  :p

But anyways, I don't think endless runner-->platformer is at all a big leap?  Endless runners like this essentially teach you timing jumps; platformers are about timing jumps with horizontal movement.  Endless runner-->3D platformer might be a bit more difficult, but not such a huge leap that a kid who plays mobile games won't be able to figure it out.

A more fitting comparison would be "it's like giving someone Pokémon Go and hoping they'll want to know what real Pokémon is like."

You would think that people on a website dedicated to sales of video games already know that this works, so this shouldn't even be questioned in the first place.

It's  not a question of does mobile games raise awareness or sales, it's if the analogy is correct. What you're talking about literally has no relevance.



Cloudman on 09 September 2016

No, I don't think this is the drastic change he was talkin' about, as this game isn't really drastic at all. The only major thing about this is that it's another mobile game and it's a very safely designed game.



 

              

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sundin13 on 10 September 2016
bigtakilla said:
Poojipoo said:

Wait, your analogy is literally the (mostly fictitious) scenario everyone talks about when talking about gateway drugs and pot-->crack...  :p

But anyways, I don't think endless runner-->platformer is at all a big leap?  Endless runners like this essentially teach you timing jumps; platformers are about timing jumps with horizontal movement.  Endless runner-->3D platformer might be a bit more difficult, but not such a huge leap that a kid who plays mobile games won't be able to figure it out.

Tapping a button and controlling a character in a 3D game are pretty different, and scratches different itches.

Pokemon GO boosted Pokemon mainline sales by a pretty significant margin. A franchise entering in to the public consciousness will boost sales of other things in that franchise. Yes, they are different, but I wouldn't be surprised to see a significant increase in sales of Mainline Mario games following the release of this mobile game.



Leadified on 10 September 2016

It could work as an extra mode like Endless mode in Mega Man 9 and 10 but not as a full game on a console. The advantage of such a game is that it's easy to make and cheap to produce which works well for a platform like mobile but not something like on a console where you would want something that has more depth.