Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata used an investor briefing to confirm that the company’s Mii app for smartphones has been pushed into 2015.
“The application under development that I said we would like to release within this year at the Corporate Management Policy Briefing in January is one that utilizes Mii on smart devices,” Iwata said. “If we were able to expand the Mii population and Mii were usable on consumers’ smart devices, for example, if consumers were able to create their profile icons on social media using Mii, we believe consumers would be happy, and we are developing something like it now.
“However, it is clear that the main pillars of this year-end sales season for us will be the Super Smash Bros. and Pokémon games, and when we started designing the Mii application, we realized that by refining various elements, we could end up with a better final product, so we decided that we should release it when we are confident it is capable of making a solid bond with our consumers.
“When Nintendo first releases its application for smart devices, I believe that many people will be interested in it enough to try it.”
Iwata furthered that Nintendo would rather push the app’s release back than have a lesser quality product out on the market.
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