Nintendo Fire Emblem and Animal Crossing games announced for smartphones

Hot off of the success of their first mobile app, Miitomo, Nintendo announced at today's investor meeting that two new smartphone games would launch this fall: one for Fire Emblem, and one for Animal Crossing. Quoth Nintendo's press release:

They also make sure to stress that these will definitely be games, as opposed to Miitomo's social network, and promise more information as the releases draw nearer.

 

With today's announcement of Super Mario Run comes the unfortunate additional announcement that the Animal Crossing and Fire Emblem games have been pushed back to release after Super Mario Run's December release. The games are still planned to release before March 31, 2017, the end of Nintendo's fiscal year.

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The Fire Emblem game was fully revealed today as Fire Emblem Heroes, which will release on Android on February 2 (with pre-registration opening tomorrow) and on iOS later. Heroes is a new game with new characters and a new story, but will also feature characters from previous (and future!) games through the player character's summoning abilities. Battles will take place on an 8x6 grid with your party of four units at a time, and you can drag and drop units to their destinations or just tap where you want them to go. In addition to the game's story mode, there will be an online competition arena, special event maps, and training maps to grind your units.

You can check out the official site here and vote once a day for which Fire Emblem characters you want to appear in a special outfit in the game until January 31.

 

Due to Super Mario Run releasing for Android in March, the Animal Crossing mobile game has been delayed to sometime within Nintendo's next fiscal year (April 2017-March 2018).

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