He says that F2P needs a wide audience, and the 3DS is easily the second most popular handheld device in Japan next to smartphones. We have suggestions amongst ourselves like 'wouldn’t this be a perfect game for a F2P title on Nintendo 3DS' and many more. 'At the moment, I can say that we've been thinking about plenty of things.

I believe that finding it will be our challenge, and in many ways, Initial D will be our first step.'Īs for future titles, Nagoshi says he is mulling them over. 'However, unlike games for smartphones, I believe there's a perfect shape of ways to do things, somewhere out there, for the Nintendo 3DS. 'We don't intend to stop with this title, and after looking over its results, we'll think about what to do next,' Nagoshi told Japanese magazine Famitsu (via Siliconera).

But Sega producer Toshihiro Nagoshi says they are already considering other F2P options moving forward. The company is planning to release the F2P racer Initial D: Perfect Shift Online this winter in Japan, based on the manga series by Shuuichi Shigeno. Sega is preparing its first free-to-play game on the 3DS, but doesn't plan to stop there.

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