It is officially released today: Nintendo is developing Nintendo games for smartphones and tablets together with the smartphone games developer DeNA. However, this should not be purely porting of existing video games from Nintendo. According to DeNA, new games are developed which are directly tailored to the functions of mobile devices. Since these new games are not to be based on well-known Nintendo franchises, it is presumed that Nintendo will publish spin-offs of known games for smartphones.
The video game giant promises itself from this step, to win new customers who are inspired by the smartphone games for the purchase of Nintendo handhelds or consoles. To this end, there is also a cross-platform service that is compatible with smartphones, tablets, PCs and Nintendo devices. Launch of the "multi-device membership service" is planned for the autumn of 2017.
Although Nintendo had so far opposed to offer its games apart from its own consoles, the game maker now opens to the global smartphone market. This could be due to the unexpectedly poor sales figures of the Wii U and the handheld Nintendo 3DS, which so far were in competition with the mobile games for smartphones and tablets. In terms of gameplay, however, the transition to smartphone games for Nintendo does not appear to be too big. For example, the recently released puzzle game "Pokemon Shuffle" for the 3DS already has various features that are also good on smartphones and tablets Could be implemented.
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