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Report: Nintendo management want Iwata out and Mario on smartphones

5 Aug 2014
Steve Wright

A new report by Japan’s Business Journal (as translated by NeoGAF) alleges that Nintendo management wants to give company President Satoru Iwata the boot over his reluctance to put popular characters like Mario on smartphones.

This isn’t the first time that Nintendo’s floated the idea of putting their franchises on iOS, Android and maybe even Windows Phone, nor is it the first time that Iwata has flat-out refused.

Would you like to play Mario on your iPhone? How about Pikmin on Android?

 

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Steve's the owner and Editor-in-Chief of Stevivor.com, the country’s leading independent video games outlet. Steve arrived in Australia back in 2001 on what was meant to be a three-month working holiday before deciding to emigrate and, eventually, becoming a citizen.

Stevivor is a combination of ‘Steve’ and ‘Survivor’, which made more sense back in 2001 when Jeff Probst was up in Queensland. The site started as Steve’s travel blog before transitioning over into video games.

Aside from video games, Steve has interests in hockey and Star Trek, playing the former and helping to cover video games about the latter on TrekMovie.com. By day, Steve works as the communications manager of the peak body representing Victorians as they age.