Nintendo to release 5 smartphone games by fiscal year 2017

Nintendo’s plan to move into mobile is finally taking shape.

Nintendo will release its first five apps through its partnership with mobile games company DeNA by the end of next fiscal year, the company announced today in a briefing following its financial results. This is the first solid detail of the Kyoto, Japan-based company’s plans to push into the $30 billion mobile games market. Company president Satoru Iwata said that it’s aiming to make mobile games “one of the pillars of Nintendo’s revenue structure.”