{"id":5473,"date":"2014-09-04T02:31:49","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T02:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=5473"},"modified":"2014-09-04T02:31:49","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T02:31:49","slug":"nintendo-still-unable-to-solve-smartphone-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=5473","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo still unable to solve smartphone puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nikkei Asian Review has a good article on how <a href=\"http:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/Business\/Companies\/Nintendo-still-unable-to-solve-smartphone-puzzle\">Nintendo still unable to solve smartphone puzzle<\/a>. At the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/philosophi.ca\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ReplayingJapan2014\">Replaying Japan 2014<\/a> conference I had a talk with some of the folks at Ritsumeikan who have insight into Nintendo. We talked about how Pokemon is controlled by Nintendo so the announcement of a Pokemon Trading Card Game for iOS is significant. It shows Nintendo is experimenting with tablets in a way that still protects the heartland (consoles and core franchises.) If the experiment works they might try some of the other franchises. If it doesn&#8217;t they can pretend Nintendo never bowed to app pressure. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nikkei Asian Review has a good article on how Nintendo still unable to solve smartphone puzzle. At the recent Replaying Japan 2014 conference I had a talk with some of the folks at Ritsumeikan who have insight into Nintendo. We talked about how Pokemon is controlled by Nintendo so the announcement of a Pokemon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=5473\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nintendo still unable to solve smartphone puzzle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5473"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5480,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5473\/revisions\/5480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}