Is Nintendo preparing its arrival on Android?

Users have been asking for it for a long time. Millions and millions of Android users would be a new market for a company like Nintendo, one of the few companies that has managed to reinvent itself time after time in the world of video games, and that could do it again if it decides to come to Android. New signs could prepare the arrival of Nintendo to Android.

Google Maps and Pokémon

Never before had Nintendo been present on Android or on any other platform that was not the company's own. Now, it has been possible to play a kind of Pokémon game on Google Maps. Obviously, that cannot be used as the only indication that the Japanese company is preparing its arrival on the Google operating system. However, the truth is that it is much more important than it seems. Big companies never act like this by accident. Neither Google nor Nintendo does, so it seems clear the Google Maps game has any meaning.

Nintendo is inflexible

Anyone could say that a simple game created by Google does not have to have anything to do with the arrival of Nintendo to Android. However, Nintendo has never been a company that allows other manufacturers, or any other company to take advantage of their creations for their own benefit. In fact, if Nintendo is characterized by something, it is for having always fought to preserve its rights and to be the only company that could exploit them. The fact that Google has now used one of the most famous video games of the company in the world, and that Nintendo has not done anything, evidence that the company knew about it, and even that it is possible that it promoted it.

It wasn't just a Google Maps game

In fact, what Google had prepared was not just a Google Maps game that was going to last a few days. That's what has been active lately, but the truth is that there was more. Users could even use the rod to fish for Pokémon, throwing their smartphone as if it were the rod itself. The same thing happened to throw a Pokeball, and all this without forgetting the augmented reality in which we could see the Pokémon on the screen of our smartphone as if they were in front of us. All of that was not in the Google Maps game. It seems difficult that Google would have created that game just to play a prank on users. For clear that Nintendo is responsible for that Google Maps game.

Maybe it was just a Google proposal

Although we do not want to rule out a last option, and it is that in reality this game was neither more nor less than a creation of Google whose objective was to show Nintendo what could be achieved if they decide to use other operating systems. The possibilities are immense, and there is no company like Nintendo to take advantage of social factors and manage large communities of players. When the Internet was still almost a joke, Nintendo video consoles already had their cable links to play multiplayer games, and there were already events in which content was distributed that could only be obtained through these events. Nowadays, it seems impossible to us that this can be achieved without the Internet, but Nintendo was able to do it at that time.

Maybe Google just wanted to tell Nintendo everything they can get if they decide to release Android games. All the big companies have launched applications for Android or iOS. Microsoft, a rival to Apple and Google, has launched applications such as Office. Google has Apps for iOS. And it is even said that Apple could consider launching iTunes for Android. Sony has released games for Android smartphones, when it has a portable game console on the market. Nintendo has to decide what to do with its future, and with its fan base, it is assured that any decision will be successful. They are the ones who have to decide if they just want to remain a profitable company, or if they want to make history again.