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Nintendo’s exploration of the potential of “Super Mario” in the field of mobile games may only stop at the stage of scratching.Producer Miyamoto Shigeru recently accepted Variety During the interview, he said that “mobile apps will not be the main carrier of Mario games in the future”, and that the old Ren’s strategy in the future will focus more on “the game experience combining hardware and software”. In Miyamoto-san’s view, the lack of “controlling intuition” that is crucial to the gaming experience is the biggest flaw of mobile devices.
“When we tried to make a Mario game on a common general-purpose device like a mobile phone, it was very challenging to determine the game type,” said Shigeru Miyamoto. “That’s why I played Super Mario In the role of director of Oku Run, I hope to integrate Nintendo’s hardware development experience into smart devices.”
Super Mario Run, which launched in 2016, brought in $60 million in its first year, followed by Mario Kart Tour, which has brought in $300 million so far. Dollar. Such a number is not small, but in comparison, the total revenue of “Mario Kart 8” developed by Lao Ren for Wii U and Switch has exceeded 3 billion US dollars so far. However, it should be noted that Shigeru Miyamoto’s statement was only aimed at the IP of “Mario”, and he did not mention “Animal Crossing Pocket Camping Square” or “Heroes Gathering of the Holy Flame”. The latter is currently Nintendo’s most profitable mobile game, having surpassed the $1 billion mark in revenue as of last June.
