Nintendo Opens Door to Smartphone Games

Re:Nintendo Opens Door to Smartphone Games by Pxtl on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @12:41PM (#9219185)

There are plenty of mobile games that measure up to that stuff, they're just not at the top of the App Stores because they don't move volume as fast as mini-games and F2P... and most of them are ports of classic titles.

For example, I played the heck out of Civilization Revolutions, Z Origins, Swords and Soldiers, and Bard's Tale on various mobile devices. Those all measure up in fun and complexity vs Nintendo's titles, although most of them are ports of older PC and console games.

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Re:Nintendo Opens Door to Smartphone Games by archagon on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @01:09PM (#9219438)

Well, I'm referring more to original IP. Yes, there are ports, but ports just aren't all that interesting in the grand scheme of things. There are basically zero studios on mobile making games on Nintendo's level as first-class platform citizens.

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Re:Nintendo Opens Door to Smartphone Games by Pxtl on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @02:38PM (#9220238)

Swords and Soldiers impressed the hell out of me, although it lacks online multiplayer. It's a very complete experience, as hand-held RTS games go. Also, I feel like "port from handheld device" isn't really too much of a port to complain about in the case of Civ Revolutions - a touch DS/PSP game is hardly a big jump to Android / iOS. That's more of a cross-platform release than a port.

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