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Re:Nintendo Opens Door to Smartphone Games by macspoofing on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @09:08AM (#9217600)
>This is rather surprising. Nintendo's IP is basically the main selling point of their hardware.

It's not that surprising. There is precedent. Nintendo has licensed their characters to other platforms before("Mario teaches typing" anyone?). It's just that those games were never really the same type of games, and of the same quality. I can see Nintendo having free-to-play offshoots of Mario, Zelda and whatever else.

I don't see them releasing first-party AAA titles on smartphones.

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Re:Nintendo Opens Door to Smartphone Games by TazeTSchnitzel on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @09:36AM (#9217761)
Yeah, this strategy would make sense. Could be a great marketing tool, too. Try out F2P Mario on your iPhone, like it? Get a Nintendo console to play their full games.
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