Monday, August 18, 2014

Pokemon on iPad: a bad score for Nintendo – Echoes

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But why the action Nintendo did it this morning surge of 3.98% at the Tokyo Stock Exchange? The answer is to find the side of Pokemon and tablets … Nintendo announced last night in the United States at the PokémonWorld Championship launch a Pokemon video game for iPad. A small revolution for the Japanese video game specialist, whose stock has lost on the stock market more than 80% since late 2007.

Car launch a Pokemon game on iPad indeed interpreted by investors as a first step towards a change in group strategy vis-à-vis mobile devices, including revenues from gaming applications should reach Gartner $ 17 billion this year. So far, Nintendo had refused to offer versions for smartphones games designed for its 3DS and Wii U consoles, saying that dedicated devices offer more suited to games developed capabilities. Conversely, investors believe that the group has everything to gain by attacking the growing market for mobile applications, instead of confining its own games consoles, also stiff competition.

Nintendo still cautious after the announcement, saying it is more of a diversification strategy, rather than a complete turnaround. “A subsidiary of Nintendo will offer a card game Pokemon on iPad after doing the same for PC and after years of success playing cards,” explains a spokesman for Nintendo. However, “the group’s strategy to not distribute games for smartphones remains unchanged,” he was assured.

In addition to this variation of the Pokemon game for iPad, Nintendo announced that the latest installment of the adventures of Mario Kart had exceeded the million units sold in the United States. Another good news for the Japanese group, which announced in May a net loss of € 170 million for its 2013-2014 fiscal year.

A Zelda game character named Robin Williams

Nearly 110,000 fans have asked over the internet at Nintendo to give one of the characters of his saga Zelda, the name of Robin Williams who liked this game. middle of the afternoon, 108,239 people had signed an online petition to support the proposal of tribute to the American actor who died last week, was a big fan of the “Legend of series Zelda. “
actor who has appeared in Nintendo commercials repeatedly loved the game so much that he even named his daughter” Zelda “in reference to this flagship series. “Robin Williams was loved Nintendo,” said the American subsidiary of the Japanese company said in a statement Friday. “We appreciate the outpouring of support from players and hear the request of fans to honor him in an upcoming game,” the statement said. The company has said nothing she could do but promised to maintain the memory of Robin Williams.

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