Nintendo promises more smartphone games – two or three every year – after Pokemon Go’s success
The worldwide triumph of Pokemon game has spurred the Japanese consumer electronics giant to aim for a steady roll-out of mobile games in the next couple of years
Nintendo is to deliver more content for smartphones, following last year’s success of Pokemon Go, a smartphone augmented-reality game that boosted sales of other Pokemon games as well as the 3DS handheld consoles, according to the company’s president Tatsumi Kimishima.
The worldwide Pokemon Go craze last summer helped Kyoto-based Nintendo, which creates Super Mario games, report a better-than-expected October-December profit of 64.7 billion yen (US$569 million), more than twice its same-period profit in the previous year.
The Japanese video-game maker also maintained its original target of selling 2 million Switch consoles in the first month after its launch, despite speculation it might aim higher because of brisk pre-orders.
The Switch, the first major hybrid console-and-hand-held game device, goes on sale on March 3. It costs US$299.99, more expensive than many had hoped.
But Kimishima says the company does not want to go into the red.