Honestly emulating mario on a smartphone is hard as fuck. For me at least, I need actual buttons to play platformers
How many more years this company will last? 5? Maybe a little more in japan?
[QUOTE=MatheusMCardoso;43607108]How many more years this company will last? 5? Maybe a little more in japan?[/QUOTE]
Oh look, an idiot!
Nintendo needs to release a phone of some kind.
I know they could rival the build quality of Apple.
A Nintendo Phone... That'd be interesting, if only to see how it'd turn out. They already have experience in the touchscreen department with their DS handhelds, so it probably wouldn't be all that big a leap to make in terms of an interface, so long as they don't forget to add actual controls if they want to make it game-oriented.
Or alternatively, give the next DS a bluetooth earpod and telephone functionality. And maybe a secure armstrap of some sort (secure as in it can be properly locked-in and would be incapable of falling out even if your arms are swinging like Bowser's) for similar one-handed benefits that a smartphone would offer, as well as the benefits of hands-free communications. However, a PiPBoy-styled DS would be more "spare-hand fingers" than "main-hand thumbwork" like most smartphones, which would make the "PiPBoy DS" look very unfamiliar.
[QUOTE=KnightVista;43607170]Nintendo needs to release a phone of some kind.
I know they could rival the build quality of Apple.[/QUOTE]
it'd actually survive being dropped on the ground, that's for sure
If Nintendo ever resorted to releasing games on smartphones (keyword: if), I have enough faith in them that they'll make a game that actually takes advantage of the platform. I don't want ports of the SMB games on phones because it would suck.
[QUOTE=MatheusMCardoso;43607108]How many more years this company will last? 5? Maybe a little more in japan?[/QUOTE]
Michael Pachter, you again?
[QUOTE=KnightVista;43607170]Nintendo needs to release a phone of some kind.
I know they could rival the build quality of Apple.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Makol;43596081]Someone's concept for Nintendo's "inevitable" entry into cellphone gaming.
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iPhone + Nintendo addon
Does anyone remember the Xperia Play? It was a Sony Android phone with a specialized version of PSN for Playstation 1 games on the phone.
[t]http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/wireless/detail-page/sonyeric-xperia_play-veriz-game-lg.jpg[/t]
It's actually pretty awesome. Nintendo should release a Virtual Console service on Android, perhaps with something like the Xperia Play. Everyone emulates shit on Android anyways, might as well add in a legal alternative.
[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;43607852]Does anyone remember the Xperia Play? It was a Sony Android phone with a specialized version of PSN for Playstation 1 games on the phone.
[t]http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/wireless/detail-page/sonyeric-xperia_play-veriz-game-lg.jpg[/t]
It's actually pretty awesome. Nintendo should release a Virtual Console service on Android, perhaps with something like the Xperia Play. Everyone emulates shit on Android anyways, might as well add in a legal alternative.[/QUOTE]
My brother has one of these. Besides being able to easily emulate every PS1 game with some tinkering around, it can also emulate some PSP games like Disgaea 2. It is pretty darn nifty.
[QUOTE=MatheusMCardoso;43607108]How many more years this company will last? 5? Maybe a little more in japan?[/QUOTE]
This phrase was said five years ago, and again ten years ago.
[QUOTE=DrPyspy;43607477]it'd actually survive being dropped on the ground, that's for sure[/QUOTE]
if Nintendo ever got into the phone business they should team up with Nokia, a phone made of a blending of Nintendium and the material the Nokia 3000 series was made of and you'd have a device that could be used as military-grade armor plating.
[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;43607852]Does anyone remember the Xperia Play? It was a Sony Android phone with a specialized version of PSN for Playstation 1 games on the phone.
[t]http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/wireless/detail-page/sonyeric-xperia_play-veriz-game-lg.jpg[/t]
It's actually pretty awesome. Nintendo should release a Virtual Console service on Android, perhaps with something like the Xperia Play. Everyone emulates shit on Android anyways, might as well add in a legal alternative.[/QUOTE]
Too bad it's a pretty pricey.
For a phone, that is.
[QUOTE=Swiket;43607561]If Nintendo ever resorted to releasing games on smartphones (keyword: if), I have enough faith in them that they'll make a game that actually takes advantage of the platform. I don't want ports of the SMB games on phones because it would suck.[/QUOTE]
I'm annoyed with Nintendo as much as the next guy, but I need to give them credit; if anybody understands the fact that you need to tailor games to the platform instead of making the games and shoving it on another platform as an afterthought, it's Nintendo.
[editline]20th January 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=Kegan;43612528]if Nintendo ever got into the phone business they should team up with Nokia, a phone made of a blending of Nintendium and the material the Nokia 3000 series was made of and you'd have a device that could be used as military-grade armor plating.[/QUOTE]
Nintendo would NEVER EVER make a smartphone. Smartphones have social networking features that are already very powerful via phone, email, and text, and in many cases built in Twitter and Facebook integration among others, and Nintendo strives to make their social networking experience as strict and obtuse as possible. They would need to start with a good, solid platform (The smartphone,) and work backwards to fit their draconian standards. And then nobody would want to buy a device designed for social networking with all the good social networking bits taken out.
It's a lose/lose for everybody involved.
[editline]20th January 2014[/editline]
I mean, imagine if you went to upgrade from an iPhone 4 to a 4s (or, if the iPhone 4 breaks and you need to buy another one,) and then you had to re-buy all your apps. That is what a Nintendo phone would be like.
While the 3DS is doing amazingly, amazingly well, I wouldn't be surprised if the successor (or even a more expensive edition ala DSi) had an improved mic and implemented some method of telephone service. I've seen people using it as a 3D camera and mp3/aac player, so it wouldn't be awful to tote it as an all-in-one device if done right.
It already has a touch screen to text/type numbers into, it wouldn't require much change to the external design to tack that on. Heck, if they make the Nintendo shop inviting enough (or also go the highly unlikely route of integrating Android, Ubuntu Touch, Firefox OS or Tizen), they could tap into the mobile crowd and garner some of their market too.
In other words, Nintendo would need to re-invent the wheel, and nobody in their right mind would want this new wheel because it's a step down from every other wheel currently on the market.
[QUOTE=avincent;43607023]Honestly emulating mario on a smartphone is hard as fuck. For me at least, I need actual buttons to play platformers[/QUOTE]
Not even games designed for touchscreens work well on touchscreens.
I've played most of San Andreas fine on a touch screen.
[QUOTE=MatheusMCardoso;43607108]How many more years this company will last? 5? Maybe a little more in japan?[/QUOTE]
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Yeah, whatever.
[QUOTE=The Duke;43612762]While the 3DS is doing amazingly, amazingly well, I wouldn't be surprised if the successor (or even a more expensive edition ala DSi) had an improved mic and implemented some method of telephone service. I've seen people using it as a 3D camera and mp3/aac player, so it wouldn't be awful to tote it as an all-in-one device if done right.
It already has a touch screen to text/type numbers into, it wouldn't require much change to the external design to tack that on. Heck, if they make the Nintendo shop inviting enough (or also go the highly unlikely route of integrating Android, Ubuntu Touch, Firefox OS or Tizen), they could tap into the mobile crowd and garner some of their market too.[/QUOTE]
They don't have to make a phone to get into the smartphone market. Like I mentioned earlier, a virtual console service on Android and Windows Phone would be the shit. They could even port old GameCube games to Android as well, which no one can currently emulate on phones (even though Dolphin is making pretty rapid progress). Maybe even a standardized mobile controller for their mobile games.
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Yeah, whatever.[/QUOTE]
Look at those amazing gains hahahahaha
Move aside, real gains coming through.
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They're down hundreds of millions and dropping employees every year. Just because they're nintendo doesn't mean they're invincible.
The 3DS is selling like absolute crazy, why the fuck is everyone obsessed with the idea of them putting Mario on smartphones?
"wow nintendo is fuckin dead they go bankrupt for not puttin mario on smartphones!!!" - probably a vita owner
[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;43607852]Does anyone remember the Xperia Play? It was a Sony Android phone with a specialized version of PSN for Playstation 1 games on the phone.
[t]http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/wireless/detail-page/sonyeric-xperia_play-veriz-game-lg.jpg[/t]
It's actually pretty awesome. Nintendo should release a Virtual Console service on Android, perhaps with something like the Xperia Play. Everyone emulates shit on Android anyways, might as well add in a legal alternative.[/QUOTE]
ninty needs to get their shit together with their virtual console on their own consoles first
the 3ds and wii u virtual consoles have a fuckin pathetic library
[QUOTE=MatheusMCardoso;43607108]How many more years this company will last? 5? Maybe a little more in japan?[/QUOTE]
They survived through 2008, I think they can survive through this.
[QUOTE=MatheusMCardoso;43607108]How many more years this company will last? 5? Maybe a little more in japan?[/QUOTE]
has this post time traveled from 1995?
[QUOTE=Rusty100;43614436]has this post time traveled from 1995?[/QUOTE]
Man Nintendo should go bankrupt, have you even [I]seen[/I] their hanafuda cards? They're so poorly made!
The kind of platformers where you hold a button to run pretty much the hold time are pretty irritating. I played through Mario 64 on my phone quite easily though.
Do people seriously think a massive company that has survived every economic downturn and crash (including the video game crash, mind you) since 1889 is going to disappear because one of their products isn't doing as well as expected?
If Nintendo died each time one their products flopped they'd fill up a graveyard single handedly.
They've hit another rough patch that's for sure but to claim they are as good as dead just makes you look like a stupid toss pot.
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