Nintendo has no current plans to create physical controllers for its mobile applications, but the company is considering it.
"Physical controllers for smart device applications are available in the market and it is possible that we may also develop something new by ourselves," Shinya Takahashi, Nintendo's general manager of entertainment planning and development, said during the Nintendo shareholders meeting.
However, Nintendo tends to look at games from a different point-of-view—and the company believes it's possible for Nintendo to create an action game for a smartphone that doesn't need a separate controller. According to Takahashi, it's "not impossible" to make such a game without a physical controller, and Nintendo will look into creating a game in that way, too.
"I think we will make applications, and not just action games, in consideration of what best embodies 'Nintendo-like' applications," Takahashi said, "including applications for everyone from children to seniors."
Since the launch of Miitomo (the first of Nintendo's applications), over 10 million users have downloaded the application. The response from releasing the application on non-Nintendo platforms has been good—hitting "various age groups in each country," which has been very interesting for the team.
"Releasing applications for non-Nintendo platforms is one challenge for us, and we will try all kinds of things as we continue this challenge," Takahashi added.
Nintendo has two new smartphone games releasing on iOS and Android—titles based on the Fire Emblem and Animal Crossing franchises. The rest of the first wave of smartphones games are slated for release "before the end of next March," according to Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima.
Nicole is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow her on Twitter.
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