![]() I can't see a stubborn Nintendo ever offering free-to-play first party titles littered with microtransactions, and in this case, I think they would be right to be intransigent. While I think it's perfectly acceptable for a company like Sega to experiment with the model like they're doing with Initial D, I don't think it's a direction the 3DS should move en masse. And add on Nintendo's unstable relationship with the internet, and such a device seems fairly useless. If it simply opens up an "app store" in the traditional sense, it would just be another smartphone without even being a phone to boot. The 3DS is an alternative to smartphones because it offers a far richer gaming experience, hence the hefty individual price of games. If you start opening the 3DS up to a market that can be flooded with cheap games, quality is bound to take a nosedive. Smartphones might be more expensive overall, but offer incredible functionality and hugely popular games that are dirt cheap.īut then, that's the problem. It's a hard sell asking people to pay $200+ for a device that only plays games, and $40 for some individual titles. ![]() Either this idea is a great way for Nintendo to compete with the massive smartphone market. ![]() Nagoshi says it's worth investigating as the 3DS is the most popular device in Japan after the smartphone. The plan is to see if freemium games can work on the 3DS the way they do on mobile, which has exploded that gaming scene exponentially over the last few years. I believe that finding it will be our challenge, and in many ways, Initial D will be our first step.We have suggestions amongst ourselves like ‘wouldn’t this be a perfect game for a F2P title on Nintendo 3DS’ and many more. However, unlike games for smartphones, I believe there's a perfect shape of ways to do things, somewhere out there, for the Nintendo 3DS. "We don't intend to stop with this title, and after looking over its results, we'll think about what to do next. ![]()
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