NINTENDO’S FIRST SMARTPHONE game is a communication game called Miitomo, and it will be released in March 2016, the company said today.
NINTENDO’S FIRST SMARTPHONE game is a communication game called Miitomo, and it will be released in March 2016, the company said today.
New Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima, in his first public appearance as the company’s head, said at a press briefing today in Tokyo that in the free-to-play game, users will create a “Mii” avatar character, which will go out and communicate with their friends’ Mii avatars automatically.
Miitomo is meant to facilitate more communication between friends, getting them talking about things they wouldn’t have brought up on their own, Kimishima said at the press briefing today in Tokyo. “You might dig up some previously-buried topics of conversation, learn about a surprising side of your friend you’ve never seen before, find things you never knew you had in common,” Kimishima said.
Kimishima also said that Nintendo’s new online customer account system would be called Nintendo Account, and transfer data between mobile and home games.
Additionally, Nintendo announced the replacement for its shuttered Club Nintendo service. It’s called My Nintendo, and it’s described very much like Club Nintendo: By buying and playing games, customers earn points that they can redeem for digital game content like wallpapers or in-game items, or redeem them for actual physical goods like game figurines, or for discount coupons.