Kimishima says mobile games for Nintendo will be ‘pillar’ of profit.

With Nintendo’s English translation of company President Tatsumi Kimishima’s investor Q&A session, we can finally get some more information from them.

While a number of questions were asked of Kimishima, one asked just how much are Nintendo investing into mobile and were people like Shigeru Miyamoto were getting involved. Here was his response.

If people are “not sure about how serious we are” about smart devices, it means that information issued from our company is not accurately conveyed, and I have to reflect on that. As we have reiterated, we want to grow smart device gaming as one of the pillars of Nintendo’s revenue stream. As for shifting managerial resources in that direction, we have very capable developers who are working on development of games for smart devices, as you already know.

Of course, Mr. Miyamoto, our Creative Fellow, is also supporting the business for smart devices from a company-wide perspective. To explain the level of engagement of Mr. Miyamoto, he is having specific talks with developers of games for smart devices on what would be desirable overall. In that sense, what you see from the outside may be markedly different from what we see on the inside. As I have said, we want this to be one of the pillars of our business. Our level of engagement has not lessened, so I hope you will understand that.

We’ve heard Nintendo refer to ‘pillars’ before, the Nintendo DS was set to be one beside the Game Boy Advance. Could mobile stand as tall as the 3DS eventually, perhaps even toppling it? We’ll have to wait for Fire Emblem and Animal Crossing mobile or later to find out.

Source: Nintendo IR