{"id":21368,"date":"2013-05-06T07:30:02","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T14:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=21368"},"modified":"2013-05-06T07:30:02","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T14:30:02","slug":"nintendo-considers-digital-strategies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/05\/06\/nintendo-considers-digital-strategies\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo considers digital strategies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"21368\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/wii-u-controller.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/wii-u-controller.jpg\" alt=\"wii-u-controller\" width=\"600\" height=\"327\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21369\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nintendo is courting smartphone app developers for its Wii U console. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2013\/05\/06\/business\/nintendo-taps-smartphone-apps-for-console-boost\/?#.UYeU87WG2uL\">The Japan Times<\/a>, Nintendo is offering conversion software to smartphone app developers to assist them in porting their software to the Wii U.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nintendo hopes smartphone software will help spur console sales, which will in turn lead to an increase in popular game titles for them, the sources said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A lack of popular games was one of the primary reasons cited in the recently released annual report for the lower than projected adoption rate of the Wii U console.<\/p>\n<p>Besides porting smartphone games to the Wii U, Satoru Iwata told investors that Nintendo is also looking into subscription and free-to-play games as a possible strategy to entice gamers more used to digital gaming prices.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We will not simply change our existing packaged software distribution channel. Rather, we might have many other types of business models in addition to packaged software.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For example, we might see more games that are similar to free-to-play games, games that cost much less or games that require a monthly subscription fee. Digitalization allows for greater flexibility, whereby having more ways to make payments, both software developers and consumers have more options.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And Nintendo 3DS and Wii U have flexible systems to handle such trends, so it is now a question of putting these ideas into action. I can definitely say that Nintendo will make new offers that go well beyond simply replacing packaged software with digital software.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nintendo considers digital strategies - Quarter to Three<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/05\/06\/nintendo-considers-digital-strategies\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nintendo considers digital strategies - 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