As part of a strategic briefing organized in Tokyo for investors, Nintendo talked about its first game and its release date.
The first game for mobile platforms will be the shareware application Miitomo, which will be monetized through micropayments.
In the game, users will create their own virtual avatars — Mii. Then, with their help, they will be able to communicate and interact with other users.
You will need to pay in the game for virtual items that change the appearance of the character.
DeNA will help to operate the Nintendo project, which, by the way, was engaged in the development and maintenance of such games even on feature phones — in the mid-noughties. This, by the way, was also told by Jaime Ocampo a year ago at White Nights 2014. A video of his performance can be viewed here.
In the Western press, in turn, Miitomo is compared to Tomodachi Life, released on the Nintendo 3DS in 2013. In the latter, players also created a Mii avatar and watched their interaction with the world and other Mii that the player also created. There is an opinion that Tomodachi Life is a mix of The Sims and Animal Crossing.
In Tomodachi Life, unlike the future Miitomo, there was no full-fledged online functionality, but there was an in-game economy that made it possible to earn clothes for Mii.
Miitomo will be released in March 2016, and not until the end of 2015, as originally planned by Nintendo. The transfer is related to the company’s desire to have more time to promote the game. At the moment, the company is already busy promoting other titles. Advertising She will do Miitomo after the New Year.
Of the first five mobile products that the Japanese corporation plans to release before March 2017, Miitomo will be the only one distributed under the free-to-play model. The other four will be paid.
Sources: The Street Journal, Kotaku