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Re:Nintendo Soars as Super Mario Mobile Game Comes to the iP... by tracymorgan8520 on Thursday September 08, 2016 @03:33AM (#12450986)
Pokemon Go is perfect for mobile gaming but 3D games are impossible to be playable in the long run on mobile platforms. But, Nintendo is still new in this area. They made a revolution with Pokemon go and I expect them to push forward.
Re:Nintendo Soars as Super Mario Mobile Game Comes to the iP... by f_m_9 on Thursday September 08, 2016 @03:44AM (#12451038)
-Usual "The Pokemon Company and Nintendo are two completely independent entitys in this regard" comment goes here.
Re:Nintendo Soars as Super Mario Mobile Game Comes to the iP... by pbhjpbhj on Thursday September 08, 2016 @05:26AM (#12451477)
So Nintendo are making nothing from Pokémon Go? I thought -- from reading in various places -- the project was a collaboration between Niantic, Google, and TPC; and that the latter had Nintendo as the major shareholder (minor shareholder + using a shell company that they're major shareholder of)?

Am I completely mistaken?

Re:Nintendo Soars as Super Mario Mobile Game Comes to the iP... by Volt on Thursday September 08, 2016 @04:44AM (#12451275)
If Nintendo is a big shareholder in The Pokémon Company, then they aren't completely independent now, are they?
Re:Nintendo Soars as Super Mario Mobile Game Comes to the iP... by gambiting on Thursday September 08, 2016 @04:05AM (#12451126)
" 3D games are impossible to be playable in the long run on mobile platforms"

So.....people putting hundreds of hours into 3DS and Vita games are what, wrong?

Re:Nintendo Soars as Super Mario Mobile Game Comes to the iP... by creshal on Thursday September 08, 2016 @10:19AM (#12453219)
Worse: They're having fun in ways someone doesn't like.
Re:Nintendo Soars as Super Mario Mobile Game Comes to the iP... by ungzd on Thursday September 08, 2016 @08:10AM (#12452215)
Revolution by putting stale 90s kids' franchise to Ingress?
Re:Nintendo Soars as Super Mario Mobile Game Comes to the iP... by AaronRamsey on Thursday September 08, 2016 @03:36AM (#12450996)
Going to agree with you on that one. As a gamer, I find it hard to embrace mobile gaming but with Pokemon go things went in a different direction.
Re:Nintendo Soars as Super Mario Mobile Game Comes to the iP... by Jaruzel on Thursday September 08, 2016 @03:44AM (#12451039)
Nintendo didn't develop Pokémon Go - they just licenced out the IP to Niantic.

http://pokemongo.nianticlabs.com/en/

Re:Nintendo Soars as Super Mario Mobile Game Comes to the iP... by f_m_9 on Thursday September 08, 2016 @03:45AM (#12451049)
The Pokemon Company licensed out to Niantic, Nintendo is just a big shareholder of that. Aka, Nintendo did not do anything there.
Re:Nintendo Soars as Super Mario Mobile Game Comes to the iP... by tobiaswk on Thursday September 08, 2016 @04:22AM (#12451186)
Incorrect. They actually had a finger on this product.

"The concept for the game was conceived in 2014 by Satoru Iwata of Nintendo and Tsunekazu Ishihara of The Pokémon Company as an April Fools' Day collaboration with Google, called Pokémon Challenge." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Go#Development

Re:Nintendo Soars as Super Mario Mobile Game Comes to the iP... by greggman on Thursday September 08, 2016 @06:57AM (#12451842)
I'd recommend Severed

http://severedgame.com/

It's totally designed for mobile but ends up feeling like good console game. It's easily my favorite iOS game to date