It’s no secret Nintendo has intentions of making smart device gaming one of its major forms of revenue. The company has already reiterated its commitment on several occasions, and the proof is more evident than ever before with the producer of the Mario Kart series being recently appointed as the head of Nintendo’s mobile development division.
Further evidence of Nintendo warming to mobile gaming has been its recent alliance with DeNA and the release of GungHo Online Entertainment’s Puzzles & Dragons Z + Puzzles & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition on the 3DS.
Japanese mobile gaming and social networking company Mixi looks to capitalise on these recent trends, with the president, Hiroki Morita. announcing during the company's recent financial results briefing that the insanely popular mobile RPG, Monster Strike, will be released on the 3DS in Japan later this year.
Monster Strike was originally made available on smart devices in 2013, and gained more than 10 million downloads halfway into 2014 within Japan. An English version of the title is also available. While Morita did not share any details about the upcoming 3DS release, he did reveal a Monster Strike anime adaption was also in the works and will premiere in Japan later this year.
Let us know in the comments how you feel about more smart device games being ported across to the 3DS and also take a look at the mobile trailer below.
[source siliconera.com, via venturebeat.com]
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wait .... I have to futher look into this, but was this son goku just now in this trailer? I think it was .... is this being inspired by something or am I just a bit too narrowminded? .....
I don't get it what is going on in the film clip
@Josaku Well, as with several mobile games, they usually feature a truckload of stolen content, artwork etc.
And yes, at 0:23...thats modified Goku artwork among several others.
That green frog thing right next to him shortly after ? Modified Politoed artwork.
And im pretty sure everything else is also stolen and slightly modified from somewhere, like Etrian Odyssey...
But, you know, they merely took "inspiration" from several sources....
After looking at images of several "monsters", I can confirm that almost all of these are modifications of artworks from other sources - among them Ragnarök Online, Dragon Ball, Suikoden, Etrian Odyssey, Puzzle & Dragon (ironic, huh?), Pokémon, and apparently UnchainBlades EXXiV, and possibly others.
That's pretty pathetic, even if it's not really illegal.. I guess?
Hopefully Nintendo doesn't get themselves into a pickle publishing/hosting/selling these titles which are reusing modified assets...
I dont mind the mobile apps coming to 3DS at all. My only issue is the price difference from android and iOS being Jacked up in price to 600% higher in price to the Eshop. Not cool.
As a guy that willing to put up with Puzzle and Dragons copy and pasted artwork, this game draws the line.
This game actually looks pretty cool for a smartphone game. Makes me really wish I hadn't bought a Windows Phone. D:
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