Cue the flying pigs, Nintendo making smartphone games. :Lupe

[Kingshango]

http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/17/8230477/nintendo-dena-mobile-games-announcement

Nintendo has long resisted the call of mobile gaming, but today it entered the space in a big way. The company has announced that it will team up with DeNA, a major Japanese mobile gaming company, to make smartphone games featuring Nintendo characters. The two companies "intend to jointly operate new gaming applications featuring Nintendo IP, which they will develop specifically for smart devices," Nintendo said in a statement.

Nintendo has flirted with mobile gaming before. In a tie-up with GungHo, the company will release a Mario-themed version of Japanese mobile smash hit Puzzle & Dragons for 3DS next month, and recent experiments like Pokémon Shuffle have adopted similar free-to-play business models.

We're at a hastily convened press conference in Tokyo that's due to start soon, and will bring you any further news as it happens.

Also, Iwata on their next gen system (NX)

Our Next Generation platform is not directly related to this event. I just wanted to communicate that we will still be passionately focused on dedicated gaming platforms in the future. Immersive and well developed game, the kind that video game lovers love, will continue to be made as our Core Business. Without that explanation, we wanted to make sure pessimists didn't get the wrong idea.

To further emphasize the point that Nintendo isn't giving up on dedicated games systems, president Satoru Iwata said at a press conference in Tokyo today that Nintendo is working on a new console, codenamed NX, with a "brand-new concept." No further details were revealed, and NX will be some way off; Iwata says the company hopes to announce more next year."