Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima reiterated the company’s thinking when it comes to mobile apps during the Q&A portion of the company’s financial results briefing last week.

Kimishima highlighted two points. By releasing mobile apps, Nintendo wants more people to be exposed to its IP, and have them “achieve a synergistic effect” with its dedicated gaming platforms. The other goal is for mobile to be a pillar of revenue.

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Nintendo exceeded its forecast for the previous fiscal year by selling 15.05 million units. For the coming fiscal year ending March 2019, the company hopes to sell another 20 million systems.

Current Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima was asked about that goal during the Q&A portion of its financial results briefing last week. He spoke about the need to get Switch “into the hands of consumers who have never played a Nintendo platform before, and to those have played before, but not recently.” Kimishima also mentioned that “in order to sell more units than we did last fiscal year, the software lineup we have planned is meant to attract people including those who have not been playing video games recently.”

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Last week, Tatsumi Kimishima announced that he’s stepping down as Nintendo president. Though it was initially surprising, it was somewhat expected. Kimishima was always intended to be more of a temporary replacement for the late Satoru Iwata, who passed away in 2015.

Kimishima spoke more about the decision to step down during the Q&A portion of Nintendo’s financial results briefing last week, stating that his primary role was to guide Switch to a successful launch and change Nintendo’s “directorial structure to speed up decision-making and execution on a variety of projects that members of the management team were considering at the time.” Kimishima said of retiring as president, “With the breadth of projects we are working on, now is the time to transfer power further to new people and to promote a generational shift to bring stronger momentum to Nintendo through these changes.”

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Assuming he’s approved in a couple of months from now, Shuntaro Furukawa will be promoted to president of Nintendo. He’ll be taking over for Tatsumi Kimishima, the current president.

At Nintendo’s financial results briefing last week, Furukawa was asked about his goals at the company. He pointed to maintaining Switch’s momentum, expanding mobile efforts, looking at projects like Super Nintendo World and movies, and “how we can lay down new pathways that positively enhance our dedicated video game platform business.”

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Nintendo surprised everyone with the announcement of its partnership with Cygames last week. In addition to purchasing some stake in the company, Nintendo is teaming up with the mobile developer on the brand new smartphone title Dragalia Lost.

During the Q&A portion of its latest financial results briefing, Nintendo was asked about the partnership and how it may differ from what has been done in the past with DeNA. Aside from reaffirming its commitment to DeNA, current president Tatsumi Kimishima explained that working with Cygames was needed to expand its lineup of mobile apps.

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Disco Dodgeball Remix is coming to Switch, Zen Studios announced today. A release is planned for May 22 via the eShop. On PC, the game has a dedicated fanbase and has received quite a bit of attention from popular YouTubers.

Zen Studios recently announced a publishing initiative to bring some of the best PC titles to other platforms. Disco Dodgeball Remix will be the latest example of that, with more projects to be announced in the months ahead.

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The latest Japanese hardware sales from Media Create are as follows:

Switch – 38,752
PS4 – 25,005
PS4 Pro – 10,004
Vita – 4,562
New 2DS LL – 4,377
New 3DS LL – 2,840
2DS – 516
Xbox One – 123
Xbox One X – 56

For comparison’s sake, here are the hardware numbers from last week:

Switch – 34,165
PS4 Pro – 8,967
PS4 – 4,480
New 2DS LL – 4,191
Vita – 2,892
New 3DS LL – 2,842
2DS – 439
Xbox One – 59
Xbox One X – 57

And here are the software charts:

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After it was announced for Switch last year, Touhou Sky Arena now has a release window. It’ll be heading to the console sometime this summer.

The first DLC character is Toyosatomimi no Miko, and she’ll be available around the time of the Switch version release. From fall and beyond, the developer will be releasing even more DLC characters.

Touhou Sky Arena will have a playable Switch demo at Play Doujin’s booth in Reitaisai event on May 6. Those who try the game out will get a special music CD.

Thanks to m_t for the tip.

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From the creators of Million Onion Hotel (a top-rated mobile game) comes Black Bird, an atmospheric arcade shoot-em-up. It’s been confirmed for release on Switch sometime this summer. There’s a trailer from Onion Games below.

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Nintendo and Intelligent Systems have confirmed the next update for Fire Emblem Heroes. According to an in-game notification, it will be out early this month.

Here’s what to expect from version 2.5.0:

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