Nintendo open to free-to-play for new franchises

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But business model won’t be adopted for established series like Mario

However, global president Satoru Iwata told Japanese business publication Nikkei that the company won't be experimenting in the free-to-play market with established franchises like Mario and Pokemon.

"We [as an industry] can now do distribution by digital means as well as micro-transactions, and the ways to obtain money through supporting entertainment have increased," Iwata said, according to a NeoGAF translation of the interview.