Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of the Super Mario series, has revealed the difficulty faced when creating Mario games for mobile.
Mario has had a few mobile outings over the last seven years – starting with Super Mario Run in 2016, and then Mario Kart Tour and Dr. Mario World in 2019.
Nintendo has since moved away from Mario on mobile, after it shut down Dr. Mario World for good just two years after it launched.
In an interview with Variety about Super Mario Bros. Movie, Miyamoto stated it was “challenging to determine what [a Mario game for mobile] should be”. The reason, he said, was due to a difference in controls between console and mobile games.