At Pocket Gamer Connect DeNA West CEO Shintaro Asako went into a little more detail about what Nintendo’s plans are going to be regarding game releases for mobile devices. While the company recently went into a bit more detail on how they are thinking of monetizing their upcoming mobile games, they didn’t touch on what games, what genres, or how many at that time. However, now we know just a little bit more, which seems to be the pattern now.
According to DeNA West CEO Shintaro Asako, since DeNA will be doing the publishing on behalf of Nintendo, the company plans to release five games by the end of March 2017. There will be at least on game released by the end of 2015, and then four additional titles will be arriving in 2016 and 2017, with the last one arrive by the end on March 2017. This falls in line with what Nintendo recently said about publishing quality games over time with their IPs, and letting the user base for those games grow with them over time as well. This would be instead of just pumping out a plethora of games featuring their popular IPs.
Nintendo plans to try and hit a few different genres as well. Shintaro Asako mentioned that the companies understand people’s interests are varied across multiple genres, so they want to basically hit as broad of an audience as possible.
I understand some people like RPGs, casual games. That’s why we decided to work together to create five games, hitting on different genre-utilizing IPs. We want to make sure out of those five IP that we can end up attracting hundreds of millions of people. – DeNA West CEO Shintaro Asako
DeNA is considering their partnership with Nintendo their most critical and important partnership so far, even though they’ve worked with companies like Disney, Marvel, and others before them. That’s true if for no other reason than a good chunk of Nintendo’s potential success rests on DeNA’s shoulders with their back-end knowledge and publishing. Of course none of that matters if Nintendo ends up making games that aren’t that great, or just regurgitate gameplay styles that have been beaten with a stick relentlessly already.
We won’t get into the Glu Mobile and Kim Kardashian reference they made as an of how big brands and mobile development companies can work together and be a success. Hopefully Nintendo just sticks to their current plan. What games or franchises do you want to see Nintendo develop for mobile?
Website Referenced: PocketGamer
