"Halo" effect?

Not that Halo. Basically, Pokémon Go's popularity spread to other Pokémon games. http://www.dictionary.com/browse/halo-effect?s=t

ah, thanks.

Here I've been shitting bricks that mobile success could lead Nintendo down the same path Konami went down but it actually works like they said, where a mobile game would bring people to the "real" stuff.  That's great!  If shareholders try to pressure them more and more into focusing on mobile at the expense of their "real" games they can stick to their guns and point to this as an example of a successful mobile game helping the sales of their dedicated gaming products.

Have you seen the new metal gear trailer? egh....

I'm pleasantly surprised that's working for them.  I guess having a fresh remake people can feel extra nostalgic about helps a bit.

egh means yuck nickmitch. It doesn't look very accurate to past metal gears for some reason.

I'm not sure what you mean.  I wasn't replying to your post about metal gear.  Sorry for the confusion.

soz

I hope the success of the last two Monster Hunter entries in the West pushes Capcom to bring Monster Hunter Stories over (if that hasn't already been decided internally). It's obviously a different kind of game and I'd imagine there's a fair bit more localization work involved, but, man, I really wanna play that game. The announcement of the anime coming to the West is encouraging, even if it's not any sort of guarantee that the game will follow it.

Overall it sounds like a good month for Nintendo and I'm glad their mobile initiative is, so far, working out like they had planned.