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Re:Nintendo Opens Door to Smartphone Games by Pxtl on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @10:06AM (#9217968)
I'm honestly surprised they took this long. I assume they'll still resist porting their core games - the Pokemon and Mario flagship games will still stay exclusive, but I'm betting Pokemon Shuffle is what they're eying up to port to consoles.

Personally, I'm a bit disappointed. I know the F2P thing is where the money is, but I've always liked that Nintendo kept the traditional approach of "just sell really good games".

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Re:Nintendo Opens Door to Smartphone Games by jwcooper on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @11:19AM (#9218476)
They've been driving towards this for a little while now. There are a few F2P games on the 3DS already.

I'm guessing those games did fairly well (some were fun, and fairly priced) and Nintendo is realizing the potential of using their IP on a massive audience.

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