Topic: Nintendo Inks New Mobile Partnership: First Game To Hit In Summer

[Shaymin]

But not on a worldwide basis to begin.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/47107/nintendo-inks-new-mobile-partnership-first-game-to-hit-in-summer

Nintendo is entering into a new partnership for its mobile efforts.

The new partner is Cygames, an Asian-focused developer who is best known for the mobile hit Granblue Fantasy. Nintendo has acquired a 5% stake in Cygames's parent company, to go along with their 10% holding of DeNA.

The first title to release in this partnership will be an original action RPG called Dragalia Lost. For the first time since Miitomo, a Nintendo mobile title will have a staggered release as Dragalia Lost will launch first in Asia this summer. No date has been given for other regions.

[ShyGuy]

This is their plan to make money, isn't it?

[Enner]

Out with DeNA, in with Cygames. Well, not exactly out with DenA.


Granblue Fantasy is the one of the few Japanese gacha games (wearing a JRPG skin) that garnered infamy for how effective it is in getting players to pull those gacha levels thousands of time.

[Soren]

I don't know if RPG is a genre I want to play on my phone.

[Adrock]

Yeah. Something like Super Mario Run worked well as a mobile game because the premise is pretty simple. However, I’m confident Nintendo has taken that into account. I can see Dragalia Lost seeming simplistic on the surface yet featuring a surprising amount of depth like a lot of Nintendo’s games.

Still, I can’t really see myself playing it. Mobile gaming isn’t really my bag though I did really like Super Mario Run.

[Lemonade]

I will be interested to try out Dragalia Lost. It must be good if Nintendo are partnering with the developer.