Nintendo has begun exploring the mobile space with titles on iOS and Android, but the company has no plans to make its games available to PC players: president Tatsumi Kimishima has admitted that PC is not part of his strategy, despite acknowledging the size of the market. Mobile games such as Miitomo, Super Mario Run, and Fire Emblem Heroes were merely developed to help expand the console business.



“We believe that the integrated hardware-software business is the best way for us to provide the surprises and new gameplay experiences that we want to achieve,” he said, before addressing the obvious contradiction presented by the release of Miitomo, Super Mario Run and Fire Emblem Heroes for iOS and Android devices. “Though the content and consumers playing the applications were different, each one was received extremely favorably,” Kimishima continued. “Super Mario Run, for example, achieved 150 million downloads worldwide, and consumers who had never played our games before were able to experience our IP on their smart devices.

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