Nintendo's Miyamoto reveals why it took so long to bring Mario to the iPhone.

The biggest surprise to come out of Apple’s huge iPhone 7 event on Wednesday wasn’t a new device, or even a new Apple product. No, the announcement that shook the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco was the appearance of a certain plumber and his father.

That’s right, Super Mario is coming to the iPhone in a completely original game called “Super Mario Run.” And while that’s an enormous surprise onto itself — Nintendo is notoriously protective of its intellectual properties — it was the arrival of Mario’s creator Shigeru Miyamoto that sent the crowd into frenzy.

Despite the obvious shock of seeing Mario and Miyamoto take the stage at an Apple event, the legendary designer and current Creative Fellow at Nintendo said the company and Apple had been working together on the project for some time.


By Daniel Howley.
Full story at Yahoo News.