Miitomo First Impressions

<p>Nintendo is great at many things but I firmly believe that one of their biggest claims to fame is being able to convince us we want something that we didn&&num;8217&semi;t even know we wanted&period; They do it time and time again&period; Think about it&semi; they announce something that we aren&&num;8217&semi;t sure about and then we&&num;8217&semi;re hooked&period; Sometimes it might not even be right away but in the end&comma; we usually all end up loving the crazy things that Nintendo releases&period; When Nintendo announced Miitomo there were groans and confusion all over the internet but I knew they&&num;8217&semi;d change their tune&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I read a lot of video game news&period; My favorites on Google Chrome consists of 90&percnt; Video Game News websites&period; On Twitter&comma; I mostly follow Video Game News and so I know about things pretty fast in the video game world&period; As soon as I started seeing Tweets that were saying that <em>Miitomo<&sol;em> was available for download&comma; I was in the Google Play Store immediately&period; I couldn&&num;8217&semi;t wait to check it out&period; The majority of my free time over the weekend was spent enjoying <em>Miitomo <&sol;em>and I regret nothing&period; I have talked with friends much more than I normally do and I have learned a great deal about them along the way&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-112484 size-large" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;04&sol;02145619&sol;miitomo&lowbar;charts&lowbar;new-1200x6751-1024x576&period;jpg" alt&equals;"miitomo&lowbar;charts&lowbar;new-1200x675" width&equals;"690" height&equals;"388" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I used the world &&num;8216&semi;enjoying&&num;8217&semi; to describe my time with <em>Miitomo<&sol;em> thus far very intentionally&period; This isn&&num;8217&semi;t a video game and if people approach it as one then it is really going to get in the way of their enjoyment of it&period; In fact&comma; if it is measured as a video game then people are going to be very disappointed&period; <em>Miitomo<&sol;em> may come from one of the biggest video game developers out there but this is something entirely different from Nintendo&period; <em>Miitomo&&num;8217&semi;s <&sol;em>goal is to get gamers and people everywhere interacting more often and on a more personal level&period; It is about having a conversation with your friends and learning more about your friends&period; Nintendo has always been about bringing people together with video games and that just goes one step father in achieving their goal&period; The world may be addicted to Facebook and Twitter&comma; but we really aren&&num;8217&semi;t communicating enough and this is the biggest strength of <em>Miitomo<&sol;em>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>With <em>Miitomo<&sol;em> I have talked with and interacted with friends that I haven&&num;8217&semi;t talked to in months or if I did talk to them it was over the course of a few <em>Facebook<&sol;em> comments&period; That was it&period; Now I am talking to my friends even more and learning things about them that I had never known and&comma; honestly&comma; probably would not have asked or thought to ask&period; <em>Miitomo<&sol;em> makes interacting with friends addicting&period; You&&num;8217&semi;ll enjoy hearing your Mii and their Mii talk and you&&num;8217&semi;ll enjoy racking up coins&comma; points&comma; and rewards while talking to your friends&period; That&&num;8217&semi;s right &&num;8211&semi; Nintendo just turned <strong><em>real life <&sol;em><&sol;strong>into a video game&period; And it&&num;8217&semi;s a blast&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I look forward to seeing push notifications from friends popping up in my world and wanting to interact with me&period; My wife and I had a blast answering questions side by side just hearing our Miis interact and laughing at&comma; not only the way our Miis talk&comma; but also at our answers&period; This is just so much fun&comma; and it is doing what Nintendo is so great at&colon; bringing people together and making it fun&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>There are many rewards that you can get in <em>My Nintendo<&sol;em> just by setting up and registering different parts of <em>Miitomo<&sol;em> and this was brilliant because as a result many people have decided to give it a shot &&num;8211&semi; and that&&num;8217&semi;s all Nintendo needs to get you hooked on something&colon; two minutes of your time&period; <em>Miitomo<&sol;em> is engaging and more personal than many other social media outlets out there&period; It feels like the local couch co-op of social media&comma; whereas <em>Facebook&comma; Twitter&comma;<&sol;em> and Google&plus;<i> <&sol;i>feel like the online multiplayer side of things&period; Sure&comma; they get us talking but on a more distant level&period; <em>Miitomo<&sol;em> has us asking questions we wouldn&&num;8217&semi;t think to ask&comma; rewarding us for interacting with friends&comma; and we&&num;8217&semi;re having a blast doing something we normally tend to avoid&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I&&num;8217&semi;m excited to see how <em>Miitomo<&sol;em> grows and evolves with Nintendo&comma; <em>My Nintendo <&sol;em>and their vast game library and vault of IP&&num;8217&semi;s&period; I know it&&num;8217&semi;s going to bring everyone closer and make it fun as well&comma; in typical Nintendo fashion&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;