Nintendo plans to release more than 3 iOS and Android games every year

You can expect more than Animal Crossing, Fire Emblem, and one other Nintendo game to hit your iPhone in 2017.

Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima said the company will launch more than three games for tablets and smartphones each year, according to an interview with Japanese newspaper Sankei (as noted analyst Kantan Games consultant Dr. Serkan Toto has translated it). This counters a Kimishima quote from December 22, when he told Japanese news site Kyoto Shimbun that the company will launch only two or three mobile games every year. The company had previously promised to release mobile versions of its social-life simulator Animal Crossing and strategy battler Fire Emblem for mobile devices, but with Super Mario Run performing so well, Nintendo is going to expand its publishing strategy in the $36.6 billion smartphone-gaming market.

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