On this week's show: the flagship smartphones of 2018 begin to reveal themselves in mysterious ways and the app and ecosystem shutdowns that flew by.
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The company has since gone on to more renowned and successful games like Super Mario Run and Fire Emblem Heroes, so it may have been time to retire the social platform.
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10 million unique users may not be enough to save the fall of Nintendo’s virgin venture into the mobile world.According to SurveyMonkey, daily download numbers have fallen faster and are, on the whole, lower when compared to two recent games from mobile giants King and
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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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Though official Mario, Zelda or Donkey Kong support on iOS and Android remains a pipe dream Nintendo doesn’t appear willing to turn into reality anytime soon, we’ve known for a while now the famed Japanese video game developer has big mobile expansion plans.Much bigger than just helping socially awkward individuals ask their e-friends questions they’d never dare to ask in real life with Miitomo. But as ...
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Traffic. It’s one of the dreaded metrics in web life. But in this respect, there’s some great news for Nintendo — if we’re to believe SurveyMonkey Intelligence.In its first full week of global availability, Nintendo’s first mobile app was able to grab 2.6 million downloads. Miitomo got downloaded about 370,000 times a day last week, with the iOS-Android count split roughly 2 to 1. ...
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Nintendo has launched its Miitomo social networking/light gaming app in the US and elsewhere worldwide for Android and iOS and we are proud to announce that Pocketnow is on the network!You can now ask us questions about what we’re wearing, what we’ve most recently ...
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Nintendo’s first push into smartphones hasn’t exactly been the huge turning point it could have been. There’s no “Super Mario Touch” or other such title with instant must-have appeal, and the company is instead testing the waters with apps that feel less like classic Nintendo games, and more an extension of the Nintendo brand into the social-dominated mobile space. We saw
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It’s 2016 and Sony is finally ready to make its bid in the advancement of mobile gaming beyond casual titles like Candy Runner and Subway Somethingorother. After taking care of the ephemeral space with its announcement of the PlayStation VR, it’s now put together ForwardWorks Corp., a new unit that will incubate and sell “full-fledged game titles in the new filed(sic) of the smart device market.”The effort is focused at the Japanese and other Asian ...
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Let’s be honest, we haven’t exactly been waiting with bated breath for Nintendo to make Miitomo available for mobile downloads. But for better or worse, this is the hugely popular Japanese developer’s first Android and iOS title, so it deserves a bit of attention.Unveiled and ambiguously detailed back in October, the social “go-between” game felt like a fun little experiment meant to pave the way for much more ambitious Nintendo projects off the bat. Nothing less, nothing more. And now that it’s ...
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Perhaps Nintendo built up its smartphone game debut too much. Or maybe we simply had unrealistically high expectations, spawning from the Japanese giant’s reputation, and the ever-rising popularity of mobile devices. Finally, we heard whispers of a possible Nintendo tablet a long time ago, then Android ...
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