Miitomo is Nintendo's first foray as a social video game that will pave the way for new additions that we will see in the next year, which has not even two days left to be with us. A 2016 that will mean a great change for gaming, due to the appearance of better hardware that will enable other game mechanics and higher graphics. Also, that we have Nintendo finally with us, It will be a fact that we cannot ignore, since we are facing one of the guru companies in this world where entertainment passes through Mario Bros or that Zelda that managed to take the RPG to a greater height.
Isao Moriyasu, President of DeNA, has lent himself to give some details about Nintendo's first bet for smartphone devices. In Miitomo, players will be able to buy clothes for their characters through micropayments. Moriyasu confirmed more details about this first video game that will be developed by the famous video game publisher in an agreement with the Japanese giant DeNA. The minigames, Mii avatars and other forms of fun are part of the content of the interview offered by Moriyasu to The Wall Street Journal that opens the way to the arrival of that bet created for smartphones and which has been called Miitomo.
Miitomo as a hub
From Miitomo we knew that it will be the social powerhouse for gamers who attend Nintendo to access high-quality video games. Let's say that it is the base from which mini games will be launched and where we can contact our virtual friends to be able to jointly meet those entertainment and leisure needs.
It is precisely here where we collect the words of the president of DeNA who comments on how communication is the central axis for Miitomo, where users will be able to talk to others using the Miis «who will seem as if they were your friends in real life», and which is itself an experience that is offered to give other sensations than what is communication based on the text.
For added emphasis, DeNa is considering link Miitomo with your Facebook friends list, to which Moriyasu says that he thinks it would be a lot of fun to connect with friends that we don't usually communicate with in this way.
A different social network
The idea that is taking more shape is a kind of social network for video games from which they can be launched. The big difference found, and as Moriyasu says, is that users they will have a Nintendo flavor that will bring you some nostalgia and comfort to be in this app every day. The difference to other social networks is to focus mainly on entertainment, and although that may be the case, many will have the feeling that they are facing a Nintendo video game in short.
However, they will have micro payments as one of the main points for this social video game called Miitomo. The clothes for the Miis will be the first items that can be purchased for real money, but Moriyasu says there will be several possibilities as options for future microtransactions. And although DeNA does not have a very good experience with this Freemium business model, the final product could look something like the Line chat app, where micropayments are used to get stickers and other repertoire.
What is clear to us is that Miitomo is the basis for the arrival of mini games and other bets by this company called Nintendo to become the Facebook of video games in the near future. That we can one day access some of its iconic characters or what would be a port of those Mario World and others, is a topic for another day and that we hope at some point to be able to clarify it, ¿¿who wouldn't like to have Zelda or Mario on your smartphone?
