Nintendo goes freemium for Animal Crossing, Fire Emblem mobile games

Nintendo’s first mobile app, Miitomo, has proven to be a popular social pad so far. It’s also shown that the company seems to acquiescing to how the freemium revenue model works for it.We’re now learning that its first two mobile gaming titles will be “free-to-start” from DeNA Co., Nintendo’s main development partner for Miitomo. A Nintendo ...

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Apple Music’s Iovine: Freemium model is “on the back of the artist”

Jimmy Iovine has a long rap sheet in the record industry, producing works from Tom Petty to John Lennon. It looks like he has a long one to go as he currently sits as CEO of the Apple-owned Beats Music and is fully involved in the promulgation of the Apple Music service. And he wants to end the freemium streaming model.A reminder here that Spotify and other streaming platforms have a free tier with occasional ad ...

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Amazon launches Underground, a new freemium approach to apps

Android is a very interesting platform since you’re not forced to get your apps from Google Play. The Amazon App Store has been a major alternative for years, and its “Free App of the Day” feature did a good job of luring new customers to the platform. Today we learn that the promotion system we knew is gone, and as of today we learn about Amazon Underground.Amazon’s new Underground service is a new type of App Store ...

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