To me the most interesting part of this story to me was that Nintendo only owns 32% of The Pokemon Company. I had always assumed TPC was a fully-owned subsidiary of Nintendo.
I'd love for Nintendo to just be a 3rd party developer.
Sorry, but that would suck.
If Nintendo goes 3rd party, we are the losers.
And wtf, Nintendo did good this gen, but they should not be allowed to make a console just because they have a different way of thinking than the others that don't even have games as their main focus? That is kinda....
I agree, Nintendo should not make a new console but release their big games on Xbox and Playstation, small games on Mobile. The 3DS has stalled and the new Wii will as well.
The phone has potential to take over the handhelds, but I have my doubts.
The phone is popular because everyone have one, put a game like Pokemon B and W for the same price on it and it wouldn't be downloaded more than it sold on the DS. ( Which was 1 million in NA day one, btw)
I feel like whiskey media lives in an apple reality distortion field sometimes. This post handheld notion is more media sensation than reality. Yeah everyone (and by everyone I mean like half of cellphone users) has a super phone, and people download games for them. Its unlikely anyone spends real time playing those games though, especially to the exclusion of other platforms. Just because the ds/psp/3ds/vita dont fit into anyone of the games media's lifestyles doesn't mean theres no market. For every journalist out there with their iphone theres tons of kids still playing their ds at school (who I'm sure want a 3ds and we'll see sales pick up for the holidays.)
Theres been an overwhelming trend lately in games/technology media lauding revolutions and futures that just aren't taking place. Phone games are not the future, they're a future.
You probably wouldn't know it from Giant Bomb, but mobile gaming is exploding right now. Not only is the App Store generating huge profits, (it recently passed 15 billion downloads) but a recent Nielsen study found typical iPhone users spent almost fifteen hours a month playing games on their phones, and that Android users spend about ten.
But, that's exactly what the Giantbomb crew says every time mobile gaming is brought up. Cell games are huge and there's just no market for handhelds.
Well then I misspoke. I don't listen to the Bombcast all that often, so the only iOS coverage I've seen was the preview of 1-Bit Ninja and the editorial review for Game Dev Story.
I feel like whiskey media lives in an apple reality distortion field sometimes. This post handheld notion is more media sensation than reality. Yeah everyone (and by everyone I mean like half of cellphone users) has a super phone, and people download games for them. Its unlikely anyone spends real time playing those games though, especially to the exclusion of other platforms. Just because the ds/psp/3ds/vita dont fit into anyone of the games media's lifestyles doesn't mean theres no market. For every journalist out there with their iphone theres tons of kids still playing their ds at school (who I'm sure want a 3ds and we'll see sales pick up for the holidays.)
Theres been an overwhelming trend lately in games/technology media lauding revolutions and futures that just aren't taking place. Phone games are not the future, they're a future.
You probably wouldn't know it from Giant Bomb, but mobile gaming is exploding right now. Not only is the App Store generating huge profits, (it recently passed 15 billion downloads) but a recent Nielsen study found typical iPhone users spent almost fifteen hours a month playing games on their phones, and that Android users spend about ten.
But, that's exactly what the Giantbomb crew says every time mobile gaming is brought up. Cell games are huge and there's just no market for handhelds.
I feel like whiskey media lives in an apple reality distortion field sometimes. This post handheld notion is more media sensation than reality. Yeah everyone (and by everyone I mean like half of cellphone users) has a super phone, and people download games for them. Its unlikely anyone spends real time playing those games though, especially to the exclusion of other platforms. Just because the ds/psp/3ds/vita dont fit into anyone of the games media's lifestyles doesn't mean theres no market. For every journalist out there with their iphone theres tons of kids still playing their ds at school (who I'm sure want a 3ds and we'll see sales pick up for the holidays.)
Theres been an overwhelming trend lately in games/technology media lauding revolutions and futures that just aren't taking place. Phone games are not the future, they're a future.
You probably wouldn't know it from Giant Bomb, but mobile gaming is exploding right now. Not only is the App Store generating huge profits, (it recently passed 15 billion downloads) but a recent Nielsen study found typical iPhone users spent almost fifteen hours a month playing games on their phones, and that Android users spend about ten.
I knew non-geeks who jailbroke their iPhones, put an emulator of some sort on there, and were playing Pokemon games. Some kid told them how to do it (or so they say).
If they remade Pokemon (Fire)Red for iOS(whether it would be a graphical update with some interface redesigns or re-doing the balance/battle system to add elements and various other features from Black & White and beyond), that would be insanely popular and I'd buy it in a heart beat.
Oh and obviously they would have to redo things like trading and wireless and how to acquire non first gen. pokemon again I guess, but that's a given for any official release(expand/alter the Sevii Islands? At least it should have everything in FireRed/LeafGreen).
Not surprising, of course, but still disappointing to hear it laid-out like that. I'd love to see an iOS Pokémon game, especially something that could utilize Facebook Connect or offer asynchronous multiplayer. Pocket Monsters with Friends, basically. Pokémon's such a low-tempo game--I can't imagine a more natural fit for mobile platforms.
But I'm sure someone will make that kind of game happen sooner or later on iOS, even if it's got nothing to do with the Pokémon IP. Fingers crossed?
There's been like 30 generations of Pokemon cards now. I'd love a new Pokemon Trading Card Game. Especially since we now have the tech to add more cards as they are released...
I've always thought that Pokemon for iPhone would be a fantastic idea, as it is such a portable game, and, since everyone always has their iPhone on them, it'd be massively easy to do multiplayer.
While I understand why Nintendo hasn't made a Pokemon game for the iPhone yet, and probably never will, I have no idea why we haven't seen a good Pokemon knock-off come to the app store yet.
man I bet an iphone android version of a pokemon game would make BANK!
Saved me some time typing that. It would make a killing.
I can't be bothered to take my original DS with me everywhere I go, and I'm not buying a 3DS, but if i could just play 10 minutes at a time on my phone? I'd 100% play Pokemon again. But it makes sense with Nintendo's philosophy, they want their own hardware to run their stuff. Hard to fault their business strategy, but it sucks for us a little.
I love reading articles about what Nintendo of America is not doing. They just seem like a lazy parent who won't do anything for you, but doesn't want you to do it either.
For all the talk of Nintendo becoming more appealing and targeting the "hard core" market again, they still seem awfully obsolete. At least, the American branch does.
They should stop making Pokemon games for a while. Take a break and come up with somthing diffrent insed of feeding us more of the same each installment. *coughlegendofzeldacough*
