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Here’s Some More Information And Screens For Miitomo

Nintendo’s first-ever app for smart devices, Miitomo, launches next month, but now’s the time to sign up to receive a notification when the app is available for download. Now through launch day, anyone can preregister for Miitomo by signing up for the new Nintendo Account service at http://www.Miitomo.com and be among the first to be notified about the availability of Miitomo when it launches in March. Those who create their Nintendo Account before the launch of Miitomo will also receive Platinum Points for the new My Nintendo rewards program, which will launch simultaneously with Miitomo.

“Miitomo makes it easy for people to express themselves and interact with their friends in new and fun ways,” said Scott Moffitt, Nintendo of America’s Executive Vice President of Sales & Marketing. “Preregistering now is the best way to be among the first to get in on the fun when Miitomo launches next month.”

Miitomo is a free-to-start social experience that lets you spark conversations with your friends in a whole new way and uses Nintendo’s Mii characters, which first debuted with the launch of Wii Sports in 2006. More than 200 million Mii characters currently exist across Nintendo systems worldwide. To get started, users can quickly create a Mii character, customizing its facial features, eyes, hair, as well as voice and personality. Users can also use the camera of their smartphone or tablet to snap a photo that will be translated into Mii form, or they can simply import their Mii from the Wii U or Nintendo 3DS systems using a QR Code.

Once their Mii is ready to act as their social go-between, users can add friends in person, or through their existing Facebook or Twitter accounts. Once that step is complete, then it’s time to answer some questions. Miitomo creates conversations and turns discussions into a form of play by prompting users to answer all kinds of questions. Did you know that your best friend’s favorite food is pizza? Maybe, but did you know her favorite music genre is secretly polka? And that she believes in aliens? The answers get shared among friends, sparking interesting conversations – part of the fun is discovering surprise facts about your friends that you never knew before. When users hear how their friends responded to questions, they can give it a “heart” or comment through text or with a picture.

Mii characters will travel around and visit others that users have added as friends in the app, so it’s important to look good. As users experience Miitomo, they’ll earn Miitomo coins, which can be redeemed in the in-app shop to get all kinds of cool outfits. Users also have the option to get more Miitomo coins via in-app purchase. Users can set their own style with shorts, pants, socks, shirts, shoes, accessories and hats. If users want to go further in expressing themselves, they can dress up in a variety of outlandish costumes, such as a bear costume, pirate costume or hot dog costume.

Users can also express themselves with the Miifoto feature, which lets them put their Mii characters in fun poses with cool stamps, or by combining their Mii image with photos they have taken themselves. These creations can then easily be posted to social media services like Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.

Launching alongside Miitomo in March, My Nintendo aims to become much more than a traditional rewards program. It is a more comprehensive service that rewards users for interacting with Nintendo products and services in a variety of ways. Miitomo users with a Nintendo Account will be able to take advantage of My Nintendo to enhance their experience.

Source: PR

24 thoughts on “Here’s Some More Information And Screens For Miitomo”

    1. I actually think that they’re aiming for a lot of people who enjoyed Tomodachi Life. The Mii interactions were the best part of that game (since it practically *was* the game).

      1. That was also the only reason I wanted the game! If only I had enough money to buy every game I want to try, and not just the games I know are good…

      2. Yeah, I was being sarcastic. I imagine they are indeed aiming all the age groups from their fanbase.

        I had access to the early demo of Tomodachi Life… Don’t get me wrong, but I quit playing it after half an hour.

        The only thing that crosses my mind when I see things like miitomo, amiibo, happy home designer, federation force, amiibo festival, etc, is that Nintendo is moving away from core gaming and relevance.

        1. I see all of them as Nintendo’s way of trying to fill niche audiences. Happy Home Designer and amiibo Festival are obviously aimed at fans of decorating their homes in the main series and the character interactions in Animal Crossing games (respectively), but because they are new spin-off games and not main series games, they are automatically shunned by most of the fanbase. The same thing happened with Federation Force. They may not be the games that everyone wants, but they wouldn’t be making them if they didn’t think that there’s an audience for them. Although, I will admit, Federation Force looks like a mix of a N64 and DS game in terms of looks, but I’m still looking forward to it as possibly the good handheld Metroid Prime game that a lot of people wanted (and not Metroid Prime Hunters).

          In a lot of ways, you have to be in a certain audience and mindset to enjoy or look forward to these games, and I think that Nintendo is trying to find that thing that their fans didn’t know that they wanted (with some obvious trial and error lately).

    1. Luxembourg has the astonishing number of 562,958 inhabitants*, of which 0.0001% are part of Nintendo’s userbase.

      Don’t you see the Nintendo’s — aka High Command — logic in action?

      *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourg

      1. |||Nintendo Dark Commander Quadraxis-NX Prime|||

        -||I don’t blame them considering Scandinavia is an infected territory with Xbots and Sonyans running wild all over the place||-

        1. In this case, by your supreme logic, they are the ones to blame, since the only way to erradicate the evil is getting into battle against it.

          Or I am wrong? ;)

          1. |||Nintendo Dark Commander Quadraxis-NX Prime|||

            -||That’s why I’m here but you can’t battle everyone at once when our forces were pushed away since the N64 era||-

              1. ~*Let the shackles be released!*~ Chains of Lucifer X3 ~*Or fall forever!*~

                ~*That is one awesome picture if I might say so myself.*~

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