Prominent Nintendo stock owner urges Nintendo to charge 99 cents to make Mario jump higher
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[QUOTE]The [URL="http://hk.linkedin.com/pub/seth-fischer/6a/818/ba5"]founder of Hong Kong-based Oasis Management[/URL] is calling on Nintendo to make a big move into the mobile game business.
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[QUOTE]Nintendo's forward-looking policy on making games for smartphones is a definite maybe, with a hint of probably not but hey, you never know. Satoru Iwata said late last month that he's not ruling out the possibility, although the likelihood of seeing any Nintendo characters you might actually care about on an iOS or Android device seems pretty remote.
But Oasis Management founder Seth Fischer wants to see it happen, and he's written to Iwata to push the idea, saying that Nintendo has "arguably the largest library of casual games" at its fingertips.
"The same people who spent hours playing Super Mario, Donkey Kong, and Legend of Zelda as children are now a demographic whose engagement on the smartphone is valued by the market at well over $100 billion," he wrote.
Oasis Management owns shares in Nintendo but it's a relative small fry in the business, so it doesn't have enough pull to force the issue. It does, however, hint at growing dissatisfaction among shareholders with Nintendo's financial performance; after years of slapping around Microsoft and Sony, Nintendo suffered a dramatic downturn in its fortunes, first with waning interest in the Wii and then with the launches of the Wii U and 3DS, neither of which have come close to matching the popularity of their predecessors.
Fischer had previously contacted Nintendo with his ideas last June and said he was prompted to reach out again by Facebook's recent $16 billion acquisition of Whatsapp. "We believe Nintendo can create very profitable games based on in-game revenue models with the right development team," he wrote. "Just think of paying 99 cents just to get Mario to jump a little higher."[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/132527-Pay-99-Cents-To-Make-Mario-Jump-Higher-Hedge-Fund-Urges[/url]
You're better than that, Nintendo. Seriously Nintendo don't fucking do it
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[QUOTE]Prominent Nintendo stock owner[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]Oasis Management owns shares in Nintendo but it's a relative small fry in the business, so it doesn't have enough pull to force the issue.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]Prominent[/QUOTE]
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Nintendo will never fucking do this because it will murder them if they do. They rather do things on their own terms and make their fans happy. Anyone who thinks the a micro-transaction smartphone game will make millions is a complete idiot.
It's nothing but a fad that will die hard when people realize how stupid they are just like facebook games.
i can't wait to see what bullshit replaces microtransactions
i can imagine some games would work perfectly on smartphones, warioware is pretty much the predecessor to every mobile game ever
still i don't think they're gonna do it, if anything they'll release apps that compliment games, like some kind of guide you can access for breeding in the pokemon games but not actual games. nintendo games have been profitable enough and popular enough to get people to buy consoles for them; that's pretty big selling power.
Sounds like a good argument against having shareholders.
[QUOTE=TheHydra;44062095]i can't wait to see what bullshit replaces microtransactions[/QUOTE]
Nanotransactions, pay 10c for every Kb of data in each piece of DLC.
they should start releasing some of their older IP on smartphone hardware, they aren't making anything on the original zeldas or kirby's and twitch plays pokemon showed the power of what the internet can do to these games letting them lie around and they would easily be adaptable to smartphone hardware, do what rockstar did please!
They won't make games if it's not on their hardware. That's their business
[QUOTE=TheHydra;44062095]i can't wait to see what bullshit replaces microtransactions[/QUOTE]
In the AA market, they're probably just going to evolve to a TF2-like system where games are multiplayer focused, and the balance is designed around you not being patient enough to wait to get all the loadout options.
In the mobile industry, I think what we have now is going to be around a while, it's just the form will morph due to how short the lifespan of each game is. The sentiment is gonna remain the same.
micro-transactions will save the wii u
the console is failing, right
you know what isn't failing? smartphones.
smartphone games have micro-transactions.
micro-transactions will save the wii u.
[quote]"We believe Nintendo can create very profitable games based on in-game revenue models with the right development team,"[/quote]
Why not invest in EA then? No company ethics and a business model constructed purely from capitalism and not customer satisfaction.
Nintendo would crumble if they used the same model.
oops
Investors are cancerous to video game companies in general.
This sounds like a jawbreaker scheme from fucking Ed Edd n Eddy.
Nintendo wouldn't be so stupid.
I love how when this topic was on /v/ they looked into that guy and found out he's Jewish and was enlisted in Israel Defense Forces. :v:
Flappy Plumber.
He's already fat, so they've got a name-excuse.
[QUOTE=timothy80;44062063]Nintendo will never fucking do this because it will murder them if they do. They rather do things on their own terms and make their fans happy. Anyone who thinks the a micro-transaction smartphone game will make millions is a complete idiot.
It's nothing but a fad that will die hard when people realize how stupid they are just like facebook games.[/QUOTE]
Okay I'm not sure this is a good business idea for them either but why, if they did make a mobile game, would it have to have micro-transactions? You do realize those are optional, right?
I wonder what would happen if they made a "Portable" WiiU, using the GamePad as a gaming platform itself.
It'd have no Wii U Disk Inserter Thing, but you would download games from the eShop, and it'd use SD cards like the 3DS does.
[QUOTE=Papytendo;44062016]Prominent Nintendo stock owner
Oasis Management owns shares in Nintendo but it's a relative small fry in the business, so it doesn't have enough pull to force the issue.
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prominent figure who is also a stock owner, not a prominent owner of stock
As a longtime Nintendo fan, I could see them getting into the mobile business by "mobilizing" many of their simpler titles. Many Mario Party, Game & Watch Gallery and WarioWare minigames would work as 99 cent titles; for example, I could see Pyoro, Pipe Cleaners, Fire and (G&W) Mario Bros. all being addicting on a mobile device:
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLhcmvu4dSo[/url]
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44VcCNrjkhs[/url]
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdzTEMfpNvc[/url]
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D23Y95xtKYo[/url]
[QUOTE=Kylel999;44062003]You're better than that, Nintendo. Seriously Nintendo don't fucking do it[/QUOTE]
Nintendo already said no to this multiple times when they had the chance.
For example, they got opportunity to do it in Animal Crossing: New leaf, but They decided against it because they think it would be unfair.
Honestly I think it'd be cool to have an Android version of Super Mario Bros on my phone. I think it'd be profitable for them to make a port of the game. But nothing else. Just a simple, 1-2 dollar port. No micro transactions, nothing, just literally the normal Super Mario Bros game. I'd play that every so often to kill some time, and I think a lot of people would. But I SERIOUSLY do not want them to go down the same road all the other shitty mobile app devs have so far, and this guy needs to fuck off just in general.
Since I've been following Nintendo stock for a while, I speak from the perspective of investors.
What's wrong with putting Mario on smartphones and tablets?
The home console business is dominated by Sony and Microsoft, as seen by the sales numbers of the Wii U vs PS4/Xbox.
The smartphone industry has created games (eg, angry birds would be the first one to come to mind) that are equal to the popularity and general acceptance as Mario did in the past.
If Nintendo develop their IPs into handheld games, it could quickly propel them to a dominating player in the handheld game industry.
Leaving the low margin hardware market and focusing on developing games for all platforms should have much higher user base and profits due to higher software margins.
None of this requires to be micro-transaction, Pay2Win/Freenium based.
For the consumer, now you can play remakes of Zelda/Metroid/Mario on your phone/xbox/PS4 instead on Nintendo's consoles with limited computing power and even more limited IPs.
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What's wrong with putting Mario on smartphones and tablets?[/QUOTE]
pretty much this?
[QUOTE=Trogdon;44062168]They won't make games if it's not on their hardware. That's their business[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Reds;44062333]Investors are cancerous to video game companies in general.[/QUOTE]
Without venture capitalist (investors) money, a lot of AAA games wouldn't have their budget to work with.
Also phones don't got buttons what you can press.
[QUOTE=Makol;44062737]pretty much this?[/QUOTE]
If Nintendo's business is declining, they'll have to change their business model if they want to avoid long-term ruin.
[editline]26th February 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=Mingebox;44062748]Also phones don't got buttons what you can press.[/QUOTE]
Can gestures not replace buttons?
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