This has to be the most watershed moment in gaming a Pokemon game has just hit the App Store, imagine how much money Mario would make on iOS. Unthinkable
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No, it's just a Pok?dex.
Nintendo subsidiary The Pokémon Company will release a paid iOS app, an interactive encyclopedia of the fictional monsters that make up the popular game series, on Friday.
As it mentions there was a Pok?mon based minigame released on the App Store in Japan last year too.
Selling Mario on iOS would be unbelievably shortsighted of Nintendo. For so many reasons - they'd have to vastly reduce the price of games (no way you could sell a game for ?29.99 on the App Store), they'd drive sales of Apple hardware (their biggest competitor by far for handheld gaming), and they'd arguably devalue their own brand just as Sega did with Sonic.
Sure they'd make a few million fast. But they'd definitely lose out big time over the long term - they're not just a software company, but a hardware one too. And they rely on locking their customers into a system where the best games are (for the most part) the ones that they themselves make.
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So a Pokedex
In a watershed moment for Nintendo: the Japanese developer has released its first paid-for iOS app. A version of the ex…
Is this the start of something bigger? I know Nintendo shareholders have been crying out for them to move their IP on to the App Store...
Bwah, good post by Randicoot beating me to it.
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