Gaming Forums => Nintendo Gaming => Topic started by: UncleBob on July 05, 2013, 04:55:30 AM
Title: Dear Nintendo: Everybody Together
Post by: UncleBob on July 05, 2013, 04:55:30 AM
This is the latest in my series of posts where I pretend that Nintendo: A) Comes to these forums, B) Cares about what I think, and C) Would ever actually use any idea or thoughts that I post here. As usual, any ideas I give in this thread, I give freely for Nintendo - or really, any company - to adapt to Nintendo hardware, software or other Nintendo-related products. It would be nice to get some free swag sent my way though.
So, Nintendo has been pushing this "everybody together" gameplay for awhile. It's supposedly why they haven't been big into online gaming, why we see a focus on games like Wii Party, Wii Sports, New Super Mario Bros. Wii, etc., and why they've designed so many titles to be accessible to first-time players (like Mario Kart Wii, for example).
With that, I'd like to present this proposal to the Nintendo spies here on NWR.
I call this the "Everybody Together Series". It is a series of simple titles, designed to be released as 3DS eShop downloads. The catch is, each of these games has a multi-player focus - while the game may feature a single player mode, the real fun in the game is the versus action.
Now, because these games are designed for multi-player, selling them might be a little tricky. So, I propose a three-pronged method:
A) Free Upgrades/Downloads: Several titles in this series will feature a free download or upgrade based off your account history. This will become more evident when I start talking about the titles I have in mind. You only qualify for the free version if you meet the requirement at the time the game is released.
B) Low prices: Most titles should be fairly easy to develop, with a focus on tweaking existing game code to run on the 3DS with appropriate 3DS features.
C) Gifting: If we EVER get gifting back (which was one of the best things Nintendo did with the Wii Shop Channel), with every "Everybody Together" title you purchase at full price, you'll be able to gift a single copy to one of your 3DS friends. So, the two of you can just split the cost, each of you can buy a different game and gift the copy to one another or you can just buy a game you like and gift it to your friend so you have someone to play with. If you get your copy via a free method, you will not be able to gift a copy.
The basic specs on these games is:
A) They're downloadable 3DS eShop titles. This allows all 3DS features to be used (though most won't really be), but, most importantly, allows your 3DS to get StreetPasses when the software is running!
B) The games don't have to support online. It's cool if they do (and, in reality, I'd prefer it!), but that would add to the cost of retrofitting the code - which defeats the purpose of making the titles cheap.
C) Each title is a Nintendo title based off of a previous game. This should make for easy porting of the code.
And the final piece to this puzzle is - the free download of the "Everybody Together" app on your 3DS. This could be a stand-alone app *or* could be part of StreetPass Plaza. Basically, you can go in here and organize your multi-player 3DS titles (based off your Activity Log and your system's memory). Whenever you StreetPass someone who also has this app, they'll see your Mii and a list of the multi-player games you have, however you want to display them. You can turn off the display of individual titles (either you don't like that one's multi-player, don't have it anymore, whatever), move favorite titles to the front (star them?), etc. Similar to the "Last Played" feature in StreetPass Plaza, you'll also be able to select an option to visit the eShop for information on the title that your new StreetPass friend has in their "Everybody Together" app.
So... The games:
Title: Re: Dear Nintendo: Everybody Together
Post by: UncleBob on July 05, 2013, 04:58:11 AM
Have I ever mentioned that I hate this site and tables? :D
Title: Re: Dear Nintendo: Everybody Together
Post by: azeke on July 05, 2013, 05:52:01 AM
That's some fanfiction.
Going by descriptions, i would have liked to play some of these games on Wii U.
Title: Re: Dear Nintendo: Everybody Together
Post by: UncleBob on July 05, 2013, 06:04:25 AM
Yeah, if there's any chance if it happening, I seriously doubt the "Free Upgrade" thing will go through.
I thought about adding something to tie it all into the Wii U, but figured it would be a pretty significant undertaking to port all of this to the Wii U and make the multi-player work, since most all of these games are "Symmetric" multiplayer vs. the "Asymmetric" design of the Wii U.
Title: Re: Dear Nintendo: Everybody Together
Post by: Shaymin on July 05, 2013, 06:29:40 AM
These are good ideas that will probably never happen, but you could probably adapt this to the WiiU as well.
For the Tetris, maybe offer it as an upgrade for anyone who bought Tetris GB on Virtual Console or the eShop version of Tetris Axis?
