After a successful launch in Japan earlier this month, Nintendo’s first app designed for mobile devices, Miitomo, is available for download in the United States and other countries in its world premiere, confirm had been promised. The app debuted with great success racking up 1 million downloads in just three days.
Although it is not yet yielding profits, the app is doing very well for Nintendo so far. This is not only the first step in mobile applications, but also the large relaunch of their rewards program, now called My Nintendo, and the two programs work hand in hand.
Miitomo is an app free-to-play social that allows players to create and customize avatars called “Miis”. Using your Mii, the player can talk to each other and play mini-games. The goal is to earn coins and tickets increase your Mii.
The really curious thing about the success of Miitomo in Japan is that they only began to announce it a day or two ago. The mobile market is huge in Japan, and is practically part of the normal cost of business for a company to make a series of TV commercials for its most recent major applications. All this is so common that if you see a commercial for a game that is not in the mobile phone in Japan, is probably one of Nintendo products. Well, this is now past. The first game for the company’s mobile phone received the first TV commercial.
The premise is a girl who checks the Miitomo and discovers a shocking secret about her friend. She goes to school to confirm, and after a quick joke, the commercial ends. The highlight here is that Nintendo puts emphasis as the fact that with Miitomo users can know things about his friends who would never have known otherwise. And, well, they are not wrong. Users who already have given the application have already learned many things about your friends, such as the report on the Touch Arcade. Nothing too revealing or amazing, but curious and fun things about the people with whom we interact.
Miitomo is now available on the App Store and Play Store. There is no official list of countries with availability, and can not install on our devices, but maybe it’s just a matter of time. We will keep readers up to date.
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