Almost four years after its release, the mobile game Pokémon Masters EX (formerly known as simply Pokémon Masters) has crossed the milestone of 50 million downloads. This was announced by DeNA.

Last November, Nintendo announced that it was going to launch a subsidiary of Nintendo Systems together with mobile developer DeNA. Five months later, they actually opened a joint venture.

It will open in April 2023 in Tokyo under the name Nintendo Systems. According to the documents, the new company will be engaged in research and development, as well as help Nintendo with the development of the digital business.

Nintendo will introduce a subscription to another game. By the end of the week, this type of monetization will appear in Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp.Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp

Released in August, Pokémon Masters became a box office hit. Her income for the first month was $33.3 million. Nevertheless, players massively criticize its game design. The producer of the project personally had to apologize for this.

Nintendo aims to reduce user costs in its mobile games. She convinces her partners of the need to change the game mechanics in such a way that players resort to donation less often.

Nintendo has a new mobile partner. The company announced that it is developing and launching its next game for iOS and Android not with DeNA, but with LINE.

Developers Bayonetta and NieR: Automata from the Japanese studio PlatinumGames will no longer transfer intellectual rights to their projects to publishers. The studio does not want to depend on the customer’s requests during development.

The Japanese company DeNA closed the 2017 fiscal year (ended March 31 of this year). DeNA’s gaming business generated $895 million, and the segment’s operating profit was $229.2 million.

On February 8, Japanese game developer and publisher DeNA announced its financial results for October-December last year. The company earned more money in the quarter than in the same period a year earlier. The growth happened, among other things, thanks to the release of Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp.

Every tenth employee of the Japanese company DeNA is engaged in creating mobile games for Nintendo as part of the Nintendo Alliance partnership program.

The revenues of the Japanese Internet provider and game publisher DeNA at the end of fiscal year 2016 amounted to 143.8 billion ($1.2 billion).

The analysis of the gameplay of Fire Emblem Heroes was offered on the pages of his blog by Motoi Okamoto, who led the work on Wii Fit and Super Mario 64 DS.  We share the translation of the material.

Recently officially announced for mobile devices, the mobile versions of the Nintendo console hits Fire Emblem and Animal Crossing will be shareware projects.

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Mobile games jointly developed by Nintendo and DeNA will be shareware, – said the CEO of the latter. This statement contradicts the words of the president of Nintendo.

The authors of Blood Brothers presented the Mirrativ platform, with which mobile device users will be able to stream everything that happens on their screen.

Nintendo games, which will be monetized using the free-to-start model, will become popular both in Asian and Western markets,” says Shintaro Asako, CEO of DeNA’s western branch.

The first joint project of Nintendo and DeNA for mobile will be monetized according to the free-to-start scheme. This is reported by the Pocketgamer resource with reference to the speech of Nintendo President Satoru Iwata for the company’s investors.