Nintendo's fourth smartphone game, Animal Crossing, has been delayed until the next financial year. A new release date window has been pencilled in for some time between April 2017 and March 2018.
Originally due to launch last year, this marks the second delay for Animal Crossing's mobile entry after it was put on ice and scheduled to release before the end of next month.
Instead, the free-to-play game has been pushed back once more so that Nintendo can focus on the Android launch of Super Mario Run in March, as well as the release of Fire Emblem Heroes on 2 February.
Nintendo slipped the news into its financial earnings statement, saying "To accommodate the releases and operation of these applications, we have revised the release schedule for Animal Crossing, which we had originally planned to release during this period. This title will be released during the next fiscal year."
The mobile version of Animal Crossing has been designed so that it can connect with handheld and console versions of the game. Fire Emblem, meanwhile, is said to be a more accessible version of the wider role-playing strategy game.
All four of Nintendo's smartphone games were intended for launch before the end of March 2017, with a fifth scheduled to come out of its partnership with DeNA. Its first two - Miitomo and Super Mario Run - have proved popular, with the former attracting over 10 million users worldwide.
Alysia Judge is IGN UK's video host, and is gutted that we'll have to wait even longer to find out why the animals crossed the road. Send her your bets on Twitter.
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