Building on the positive consumer reaction to Miitomo, Nintendo announced that its next two mobile apps would be based on the familiar and beloved Fire Emblem and Animal Crossing franchises. Nintendo plans to release both of these applications this autumn. As for the former app, while making it more accessible in comparison to the Fire Emblem games for Nintendo’s dedicated gaming systems, Nintendo aims to offer the great value of a role-playing strategy game. Nintendo will design the latter game so that it will be connected with the world of Animal Crossing for dedicated gaming systems. By playing both Animal Crossing games, users will find increased enjoyment. Both of these are pure game applications. Compared to Miitomo, they have more prominent game elements, and the game content will tie closely into Nintendo’s dedicated games business. Nintendo will provide more details about these applications closer to their launch period, and aims to have multiple types of apps that appeal to different audiences and different groups of players.
Source: PR

And hate begins in 3…
… 2…
… *grabs popcorn*…
… 1…
In all seriousness, though, I expected them to do something like this. Just not this quickly (I honestly thought there was just going to be a Super Mario Bros. game (with micro transactions) that would have been playable on mobile devices and then it would have been ported over to the 3DS eventually).
Why did I think that? I don’t know.
I’ll say I honestly wasn’t expecting both their remaining mobile offerings of the year to be announced today (just #2), but I’m glad they did. It’ll be interesting to see what they do w/ these franchises on mobile.
That said, hopefully either 4 or 5 is a new IP designed from the ground up for mobile.
Oh boy, can’t wait for more accusations of Fire Emblem bias from Nintendo.
I’M AN ANIMAL CROSSING FAN YESSSSS (Also excited for Fire Emblem but I suck at it…)
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