Nintendo Announces New Mobile Deal, Teases “NX” Platform

<p>No&comma; Nintendo&&num;8217&semi;s not going mobile just yet&comma; but after today&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s going to be letting someone else play with its IPs&&num;8230&semi;on mobile&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>At a press conference today&comma; the company formally announced its new partnership with Japanese mobile developer and e-commerce provider&comma; DeNA&comma; with the intent of making all-new Nintendo games for mobile phones&period; Any and all Nintendo franchises are up for grabs and if you were holding your breath for old New Super Mario Bros&period; ports&comma; forget about it&period; Ports of any old games will&comma; by all accounts&comma; not be in the cards&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;03&sol;05020207&sol;Nintendo-DeNA-Partnership-BagoGames&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"alignleft wp-image-79568 size-medium" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;03&sol;05020207&sol;Nintendo-DeNA-Partnership-BagoGames&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Nintendo DeNA Partnership BagoGames" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"174" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>You might remember DeNA as the company behind a recent Transformers mobile title and is working with Square on <em>Final Fantasy Record Keeper<&sol;em>&period; No games have been announced by either them or Nintendo yet&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>And do you <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;top-5-stories-week-club-nintendo-to-say-goodbye&sol;">remember Club Nintendo<&sol;a>&quest; The folks at DeNA will apparently be some of the brains behind renewing the membership service&comma; reportedly via Wii U&comma; 3DS&comma; and – coincidentally – PC&period; The as yet unnamed service is supposed to be out this year&comma; but where in the world it&&num;8217&semi;ll be is still unknown&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On top of all that&comma; Nintendo let its biggest news slip&colon; it&&num;8217&semi;s apparently working on <em>some<&sol;em> kind of new game platform&comma; but whether it&&num;8217&semi;s hardware&comma; software&comma; or an outright home console is known to only the folks deep inside Nintendo right now&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;As proof that Nintendo maintains strong enthusiasm for the dedicated game system business&comma; let me confirm that Nintendo is currently developing a dedicated game platform with a brand-new concept under the development codename &&num;8216&semi;NX&&num;8217&semi; &&num;8221&semi; Iwata said&period; &&num;8220&semi;It is too early to elaborate on the details of this project&comma; but we hope to share more information with you next year&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It&&num;8217&semi;s been just shy of two-and-a-half years since the Wii U debuted in &&num;8217&semi;12 and if this &&num;8220&semi;NX&&num;8221&semi; thing is both a thing and an actual console or handheld&comma; that&&num;8217&semi;s big news indeed&period; Do you want either just yet&quest; Or are you betting on it being something else&quest; Tell us in the comments below&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><b>Via <&sol;b><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;techcrunch&period;com&sol;2015&sol;03&sol;17&sol;nintendo-partners-with-dena-to-brings-its-games-and-ip-to-smartphones&sol;">TechCrunch<&sol;a> &amp&semi; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;eurogamer&period;net&sol;articles&sol;2015-03-17-nintendo-nx-is-new-hardware-with-a-brand-new-concept">Eurogamer<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;