Nintendo's mobile gaming move proves the company’s still got it
Nintendo shook the gaming world today when it announced a partnership with DeNA, a Japanese company that makes free-to-play games for mobile phones. Calls for Nintendo to make smartphone games have been a regular feature of media coverage and the company’s investor meetings, but CEO Satoru Iwata (pictured above right) has dismissed them at every turn, saying that mobile games risk cannibalizing and devaluing Nintendo’s valuable, popular characters. So with today’s shock announcement, has Iwata lost it, or at least gone back on his word?
The answer is neither. We haven’t seen the games that will result from the deal yet, but Iwata laid out his thinking with clarity and eloquence on stage in Tokyo today, leaving me in little doubt that…
Source:: The Verge
