Nintendo Goes Mobile

[A Black Falcon]

About a week ago, Nintendo announced a partnership with the Japanese cellphone software company DeNa. DeNa will make the service that apparently will replace Club Nintendo, and Nintendo is going to make... ugh... cellphone games. Naturally Nintendo's stock has gone up because of this, because investors like mobile. I'm not happy because if Nintendo eventually turns into another one of those evil cellphone/browser-game companies that make nothing but exploitative trash designed to suck up your money it would be a horrible tragedy, but hopefully they can balance things so as to make apps that encourage people to buy Nintendo platforms so that they can play real games. I hope it works, there should be a place for games beyond exploitative not-free-to-play garbage.

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2015/03...t_fight_it

http://time.com/3748920/nintendo-mobile-...d=tcoshare

http://time.com/3747342/nintendo-ceo-sat...YHF6738a5f


Here is what some of the top cellphone games are like:

... I honestly don't quite get why people actually WANT to play "games" like those, much less why they're so successful.