Getting your player ready...
After years of scoffing at the threat from smartphones, Nintendo Co. is doing an about-face and entering an alliance with DeNA Co. to develop games for mobile devices.
The announcement Tuesday means that Super Mario and Pokemon, previously appearing only on Nintendo platforms such as the Wii, could finally be featured on smartphones and tablets.
Both sides said they will build a global membership service for various devices, including personal computers, smartphones and Nintendo machines. The service is set to launch in the fall.
They said the mobile games won’t be mere adaptations of the games already out for the Nintendo machines but developed for smartphones.
