Nintendo unveilled it’s first mobile game on Wednesday at their strategy briefing for Japanese investors, though it may seem familiar.
The new game, which is more of a social application, bears some similarity to last year’s Nintendo 3DS title Tomodachi Life. While this new app, which is being called Miitomo, isn’t nearly as deep as that game was, the basic building blocks seem to be very similiar.
Here is how the application was described at the meeting.
The main character of Miitomo is you. First, you create your own Mii. Hopefully there will be a way to link to your NNID and import your existing Mii. The Mii asks you a variety of questions and communicates your answers with your Friends’ Mii. The people you will be able to communicate with are limited to your friends whom you have registered as Friends. Nintendo is designing this communication application to enable Friends to share information comfortably and securely.
In this way, instead of the users proactively sending their own messages, Miitomo has a unique characteristic that can be called “friendly communication starters” as your Mii will automatically dispatch the answers you gave to certain questions to your friends. These “friendly communication starters” have an advantage that even the people who are less willing to send messages can easily participate.
Another unique characteristic of Miitomo is that you may be able to find out unknown aspects about your friends or unexpected commonalities you share with your friend because Miitomo may pick up the topics that you usually do not discuss but would be willing to answer if asked.
Miitomo, along with Club Nintendo replacing “My Nintendo,” will be available in March 2016.
