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Mobile Games Developed by Nintendo and DeNA Will be Free-to-Play

Mobile Games Developed by Nintendo and DeNA Will be Free-to-Play

Nintendo has long tried to resist entering the smartphone market, however, due to sales for it’s games on dedicated hardware compared to smartphones, now the famed console maker is ready to ride on the mobile gravy train with their new game Miitomo on mobile devices which pretty much looks like a port from the Mii based life simulation game Tomodachi’s Life on the Nintendo 3DS.

Today Nintendo has just announced that games developed by the joint collaboration of Nintendo and DeNA for mobile devices will be Free-to-Play, meaning that you can download the game and expect micro-transactions for it’s games to generate revenue.

Nintendo and DeNA has confirmed that 5 games are currently in development for mobile platforms and its planning to release them by March of 2017.

“First Nintendo Smartphone Games Will Be Free

All the smartphone games DeNA is now developing with Nintendo will be free to download, DeNA said, suggesting the joint project’s first few games will rely on revenue from in-app microtransactions.

“Games currently in the pipeline are all free to play,” said DeNA Chief Executive Isao Moriyasu said at an earnings briefing Wednesday. The smartphone-game and platform provider announced that April-September net profit was up 50% from a year earlier, to ¥16.2 billion ($132 million).”

For more information please visit The Wall Street Journal

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