Level 5 Wants Games to Support Smartphones

<p>During an interview&comma; President and CEO of Level 5&comma; Akihiro Hino&comma; stated that he wants the company to make all future Level 5 games support smartphones&period; In the interview&comma; the CEO went on about the <em>Yo-kai Watch<&sol;em> series&comma; an update on their new cross-media project <em>Snack World<&sol;em>&comma; and a new focus on smartphones for gaming&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>After releasing their smartphone app <em>Yo-kai Watch PuniPuni<&sol;em> &lpar;<em>Wibble Wobble<&sol;em> in the West&rpar;&comma; the company has been astounded by the game&&num;8217&semi;s success&comma; Level 5 will focus more on smartphone compatibility&period; Hino even goes on to mention that he hopes to see all future titles from the company be compatible with smartphones &lpar;rough translation follows&rpar;&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;<em>Basically&comma; we want to continue to correspond to all the game of the future is smartphones&period; Made with consumer titles&comma; and let as play also in the smartphone&&num;8230&semi;<&sol;em>&&num;8220&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Hino wants all games in the future to have a way to be played via smartphone&period; He also expects that they will need some kind of rule on how these console games will be carried onto smartphones&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Hino goes on to talk about how kids today are starting to play games on smartphones and he has felt a change in generations&comma; looking back not so long ago when all the boys in first grade would only talk about the Nintendo 3DS&period; He feels that smartphone presence in the industry will only continue to grow for adults and kids&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>After the huge success of <em>Yo-kai Watch 3<&sol;em> this year&comma; Hino believes the series will be on hold for awhile and that 2017 and beyond will bring many new things from Level 5&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;trendy&period;nikkeibp&period;co&period;jp&sol;atcl&sol;column&sol;16&sol;032800001&sol;060600006&sol;">Trendy<&sol;a><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;