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Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa recently participated in an interview with Kyoto Shimbun, which was published just a few days ago. The company’s boss weighed in on selling 20 million Switch units by the end of the fiscal year and needing a steady stream of games for the system, mobile (including keeping smartphone games separate from Switch), and the future of 3DS. He also teased future plans for Labo, touched on eSports, and commented on looking towards the Chinese market.

Here’s a full translation of the interview:

Japanese daily Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun conducted an interview with Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa, which was published today. Furukawa primarily commented on sales, but some other things as well.

First, Furukawa officially confirmed that Super Smash Bros. Ultimate sold five million copies worldwide in its first week. Additionally, Switch is the home console seeing the fastest software sales so far in Nintendo’s history. The system’s sales began to increase in mid-November, which makes sense given the holiday period and the launch of Pokemon: Let’s Go. Switch is currently available in 60 countries.

Once again, Nintendo sees smartphone gaming as a pillar of earnings. Furukawa wants to land smartphone hits and publish multiple apps across multiple fields.

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New avatar outfits inspired by the villainous squads of Pokemon Ruby and Pokemon Sapphire — Team Magma and Team Aqua — are now available within Pokemon GO.

An image of the new attire can be viewed above.

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As teased through yesterday’s silhouettes, a new set of villagers have joined Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp. Puck, Skye, and Hans are the latest additions. We have an image showing all three above.

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The latest Tap Battle dungeon has gone live in Fire Emblem Heroes. Illusory Dungeon – Kingdom of Nohr will be available until February 7th. There will also be daily Tap Battle quests until January 22nd, as well as general Tap Battle quests starting on January 18th. As always, the later stages for this Illusory Dungeon will unlock gradually over the next few days, and there will also be extra stages that give out additional rewards.

Pokemon GO will be hosting a new event all about Hoenn tomorrow. That means you’ll be more likely to encounter Pokemon from the region, new avatar items inspired by Team Magma and Team Aqua will be available, and more.

The event goes live tomorrow at 1 PM PT / 4 PM ET. We have full information on what’s planned below.

Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp is gearing up for the arrival of three more villagers. As teased in the silhouettes above, they should be added sometime this week. We’ll give you a heads up when they’re officially live.

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A new set of Three Heroes quests has gone live in Fire Emblem Heroes. The featured Heroes this time are Marth: Altean Prince, Roy: Young Lion and Chrom: Exalted Prince. As always, you have to clear a couple of quests to get 3-star versions of these Heroes, and then clear some more quests using these Heroes to receive some orbs. The quests will be active until January 28th.

The next themed Summon Showcase is set to drop tomorrow in Dragalia Lost and it is titled “Circus of Dreams”.

The circus-themed event is set to last until the end of the month, January 31st. The featured five-star summons this time around are character Annelie, dragon Liger, and two wyrmprints titled “Dragon and Tamer” and “Stellar Show”.

A Twitter video provided by the official account, as well as a gallery of the featured summons is included below.

Fire Emblem Heroes has kicked off its latest summoning event. Summoning Focus: Heroes with Sword Valor has gone live.

A trio of Heroes with Sword Valor skills are now available as part of the 5-star event. If you happen to obtain these characters, they’ll come with Sword Valor skills, which grant up to double SP to all sword-equipped allies as long as the Hero with Sword Valor is active.

Summoning Focus: Heroes with Sword Valor lasts until January 20.


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