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Pokemon Go was a start. Mario runner - everyone expected it, of course. BUT, I personally believe, should they decide to make it, a Nintendo Universe game will be the biggest thing to ever hit mobile. If I can create my own massive Nintendo land, with Mario and Luigi's house, tubes, Koopa Castles, goombas running around, and then there are mini games to earn "coins", etc.... I think I'd finally play a game on my phon…
I've seen a lot of people saying that Nintendo were kinda dumb for taking so long to capitalize on the incredible brand recognition of mario and pokemon, and looking at the money pokemon go is making, I don't disagree. But I think that the reason a lot of non-nerds cared so much about pokemon go is that pokemon still meant the same thing to them as it did 10 years ago. So the reason that those brands are still such a…
Being slow and conservative has probably contributed to the fact that they have been in business for over 120 years.
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Does Nintendo actually have a hand in Pokemon Go? I don't know what the relationship between Nintendo and the Pokemon Company is.
They own a piece of The Pokemon Company and a piece of one of the companies that owns a piece of The Pokemon Company. No one really seems to know if that amounts to a controlling interest or not. But empirically, it seems unlikely an independent Pokemon Company wouldn't put out Pokemon games for non-Nintendo platforms.
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First endless runner anywhere! Invented the genre.
Hmm... I'm not sure about that. https://blog.codinghorror.com/bill-gates-and-donkey-bas/
Nintendo needs a share of the mobile gaming market, beyond handheld consoles. This is why they invested in DeNA (and DeNA invested in Nintendo).
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Does Nintendo actually have a hand in Pokemon Go? I don't know what the relationship between Nintendo and the Pokemon Company is.
They own a piece of The Pokemon Company and a piece of one of the companies that owns a piece of The Pokemon Company. No one really seems to know if that amounts to a controlling interest or not. But empirically, it seems unlikely an independent Pokemon Company wouldn't put out Pokemon games for non-Nintendo platforms.
[1] http://www.recode.net/2015/10/15/11619616/nintendo-google-to...
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Being slow and conservative has probably contributed to the fact that they have been in business for over 120 years.
Eh, that's sort of disingenuous to say, though. They made playing cards for more than half of that. Ditching your business model of 70 years to going into an emerging technology market (video games in the 80's) isn't really conservative.
And it took them 18 years (1956-1974) of experiments with new ventures (including a cab company, and love hotels, and assorted toy ranges) before they started selling video games. Another 5 or so before they got successful. Donkey Kong came out in 1981 and finally made them lots of money from it.
So ~25 years from they realised the playing card business didn't have room for further expansion until they had settled on a new direction that made them enough money for it to become the main driver of the company.
Yet 35 years after Donkey Kong, they're still selling playing cards...
Seems pretty conservative to me.