re: Let's discuss Nintendo's foray into the mobile market

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having to go outside is a novel concept, but being unable to really play this game inside your house (because nothing spawns there) will be the games downfall

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Yeah, I'm not going out wandering around town a making a special trip to go to a stop. I know it's supposed to get you out but I'm not going to a grave yard at night or drive to a river or lake to find a pokemon.

You can bet your arse they will come out with a game on the nx that allows you to bring your mobile captured Pokemon into play. Much like a Pokemon stadium concept or platform Pokemon adventure.

As someone who's never touched anything Pokeman related, ever, yet always been a Nintendo fan: Pokemon is unique within Nintendo and the gaming world at large. There is literally no way to duplicate this success. It's a property that is tailor made for something like this.

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Are location-based features far more potent money-making tools than anyone has realized?

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Does anyone remember FourSquare? Yeah me neither.

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Should Nintendo immediately ditch all of its console plans and put all its core franchises on the iOS platform?

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This would be infinitely stupid.

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Once Pokemon GO launches in markets other than the US, Australia and New Zealand, it will quite likely become a $1 billion annual behemoth.

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Good for Nintendo.

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With moderately professional updates and expansions, it can stay at that level for at least 3-5 years.

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Mobile games like this last 12-18 months tops. Candy Crush was a hit, for a short time. Crusaders. Does anyone talk about Angry Bird releases? It would almost have to be redesigned constantly to last 3 years.

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There is no reason why Animal Crossing,

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Would work in theory, but does not have near the following of Pokemon.

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Zelda

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Nope

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Mario

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Double nope.

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particularly since location-based features fit all three naturally.

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huh?

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Nintendo has now seen just how fantastically profitable its back catalogue can be. The app industry has witnessed how much money location-based and collectible-oriented titles can gross.

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I hope Nintendo sticks to its past, not goes all in on anything. Pokemon Go could be a great project to lead a particular type of interaction, maybe it feeds into some kind of console Pokemon experience or something, but no, they should not become a location-based mobile gaming company. This sounds dumb.

Mobile games fricking suck

I just want Super Mario Bros on my iPad . Is that too much to ask?

I find it amazing that people think mobile gaming is somehow a replacement for home consoles. I see this spewed all the time, it must come from National writers who have no clue about video games.

Pokemon go is interesting and I'm having fun with it, but if they don't significantly change how pokemon capturing works people will get burned out quickly.

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People are seriously over estimating the sustainability of this game

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This game will be just the latest fad. It will disappear in a couple months

Well the only redeeming quality about the game is that you have to leave your home to play. It's the interaction with the world and getting rewarded for it that's the draw.

The game itself is shallow as frick. It's not a pokemon game. It's an AR game with pokemon as the backdrop.

You level pokemon up by catching MORE pokemon of the same type... wtf? The candy system makes absolutely no sense in the context of pokemon, and you don't battle pokemon before you catch them.

It's like the developers had to come up with a way to addict people and get them playing for a long time and the first thing they wrote on the chalk board is what they went with.

So really the author of the article is saying nintendo should abandon their principles completely and go where the money is, which is the most gullible group of gamers in the history of the industry.

Don't get me wrong, I love nintendo and I'm happy they're able to have a mobile cash cow because I feel like they're a very genuine company with principals in an industry devoid of them and it helps them stay afloat, but the day they go mobile only is the day I say "well nice to have known ya".

Oh and probably the worst thing: I've heard so many new people say "oh man this is amaxing! I see what all the pokemon fuss is about!" Like this game is somehow an accurate representation of the franchise.

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I've seen the Trading update announced, not a battle system yet. If they add in a battle system then this game will exceed every expectation and more.

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In the original video, this as well as mass battles with Legendary Pokemon were promised. We are for all intents and purposes in the Beta version of this game. There's so much more shite they can add to this game that it's nuts.

Imagine if they put Team Rocket in to challenge you randomly to battles. Imagine if every city had an Elite 4 you could build yourself up to. They could rent out huge bars for whenever they put Mewtwo into play. Then of course they can release Gen II Pokemon and beyond. It is really the most limitless mobile game of all time.