Nintendo Voice Chat: Miitomo and Nintendo's Mobile Future

Nintendo Voice Chat

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Leisure, Video Games, Technology

4.6 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2015

⏱️ 45 minutes

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WELCOME to Nintendo Voice Chat! This week, Nintendo shed some light on the future before delaying its first smartphone app until March 2016. Join host Sam Claiborn, Peer Schneider, and Kallie Plaggie, as the crew takes a long look at Miitomo, Nintendo’s quirky communication app, and discusses why it’s a good fit for the Japanese game maker. On this episode, the crew also discusses Nintendo's new account system, checkpoints coming to Super Mario Maker, and the Nintendo games that made the cut in IGN's Top 100 feature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Hey, listen, I should say that's what Navi says. My name is Sam Clayborn. I'm here with Parrish Niter and
0:05.7	Kali plaguing welcome. We are doing NBC together this week. Jose is out sick. It's been a long time
0:11.5	I used to host NBC and really happy to be back hosting here and you guys are on all the time, right?
0:15.2	That's right. So you guys will have to help me through this very tough time now. I love hosting NBC
0:20.9	It's been too long. I'm very happy to be here. This week we had a major Nintendo news about
0:26.8	their mobile plans and about many other things. We're gonna be talking about a lot of news today and
0:33.3	first of all
0:35.7	Nintendo's first smartphone game besides two Pokemon apps is a Pokemon game about
0:41.3	It was a Pokemon. What are you called up? There was one as early as in 2000
0:45.9	11 oh there there were earlier than that there was there was a 2011 Pokemon company game
0:51.7	And it's that's because Pokemon company operates independently from Nintendo right? It's its own business
0:57.2	So there's these two Pokemon apps, but there's a
0:59.6	smartphone game now called me Tomo. Mm-hmm. How do you pronounce it me Tomo me Tomo me Tomo me and then Tomo is together
1:06.5	Like you know like Tomo Dachi means friend. I'm not yeah
1:09.3	It's it's part social network part Tomo Dachi life like the game that some of us I played that game
1:14.5	I don't know if you guys got to play it and it's announcement freaked out investors a little bit
1:18.8	That it freaked out the internet a little bit, but we're here with another take
1:23.4	Yeah, I think I don't think it's it looks that bad. I think it's an interesting experiment
1:27.2	And I think Nintendo has been known for really experimental titles recently those things that I'm doing the best for them like brain
1:33.9	Age and of course we sports which are not Mario games. So I mean, let's look at the background right there
1:39.9	There was news leaked out that Nintendo would finally announce its first its first mobile game right the first full-fledged
1:46.7	Nintendo made mobile game and so I think expectations then ran high as to what franchise would they launch with everybody always thinks Mario first
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