Miyamoto on Apple/Nintendo collaborating, creating mobile games, bringing in new/lapsed fans

Coming from a Yahoo! interview with Shigeru Miyamoto..

On how Nintendo and Apple teamed up for the Super Mario Run reveal

“It started when we were working on Miitomo or before that when Mr. [Satoru] Iwata was still with the company. Apple invited him to have a conversation about how the two companies could work together and they started working on “Miitomo” and then this opportunity came up."

On the benefits of creating games for mobile devices

“Certainly smart devices have their unique benefits: a persistent network connection and an individual account. And so we are looking at smart devices as an option going forward and we have more games in development for smart devices. We are looking at how we can use the unique elements of a smart device and how we can make unique games with those elements. One of the reasons we focused on iPhone first was the stability of the platform and being able to get the level of response that we want out of the games.

And that’s not to say that Android devices don’t have the same level of responsiveness. But because there are so many Android devices, trying to engineer the game to work across them all requires quite a lot of time.“

On recapturing lapsed fans and bring in younger gamers with Super Mario Run

“I feel very lucky, because there are a lot of people in Japan making characters and games that become popular in Japan. So I feel fortunate to be able to bring Mario to an audience around the world and now with the reach of smart devices, we can bring Mario to an entire generation of kids, and hopefully be able to recapture those older players who played when they were younger and remind them how much fun it is to play a Nintendo game.”

Miyamoto also went on to reconfirm that Nintendo's main focus is still firmly rooted in creating dedicated gaming platforms and games for that hardware. He also said that Nintendo places a lot of importance on "sitting down and playing face to face.”