Nintendo has announced a delay in their Mii app for smart phones, which will now be released sometime in 2015.
The Mii app has been in development since 2013 and was initially announced as seeing a release sometime in 2014, which is no longer the plan as Nintendo has announced. During an investors briefing, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata stated that the reason for the delay was the need for more time to tweak up “various elements” for the app.
Iwata also elaborated on the app and it’s plans for it:
“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. 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.”
So while the app is delayed until next year, Nintendo is promising the app will be a much better product when it sees a release next year.
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