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_Published 2015-03-17. Nintendo and mobile gaming company DeNA announced Tuesday that the venerable gaming giant will at least be bringing its games to the mobile world._


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## Transcript

If you've ever wanted a little Super Mario on your android or some Metroid on your iOS, we've got some good news for you. Nintendo has teamed up with mobile gaming company, DeNA, to do just that. On Tuesday, Nintendo and DeNA announced a partnership. Nintendo will create mobile games using familiar. Characters like Mario or Samus and DeNA will distribute them. Both sides will also receive about a 181 million dollar stake in each other's companies as well. As for what these Nintendo mobile games will look like, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata revealed during the joint press conference games won't be coming.

Copies of games made on other systems, but rather games built from the ground up for smart devices. Which brings us to another detail. The two companies didn't say exactly what operating systems they'd be releasing these games on either. DeNA publishes games on both Apple's App Store and Android's Google Playstore, meaning it's likely Nintendo's games will be specific to one operating system either. Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, a Tokyo- based game consultant says the move by Nintendo comes as a surprise. " This is about the most drastic, bold shift in strategy Nintendo could have undertaken .".

That's because, up until today, Nintendo had resisted letting it's content show up on mobile phones, referring customers to use it's 3DS instead. Folks typically relied on emulator software to get around that, though. This announcement far from spells the end to Nintendo's console aspirations. Iwata hinted a new console codenamed the NX but would give no other details aside from it being a brand new concept. There is no word on when any of the new mobile games will be released, though a new subscription service Nintendo and DeNA are working on together will launch in the fall of 2015.

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