Although for years people clamoured for Nintendo games to appear on smartphones around the world, it took until 2015 for Nintendo to eventually relent and accept that it would need to risk eating into its own handheld market in order to profit from the enormous mobile gaming world.
While the announcement was made in 2015 though, the first game to come out on the platform is only debuting this year. Next month in fact. It's called Miitomo, and will feature those Mii characters that Nintendo has been pushing for more than a decade and felt like they fit in with the Wii's graphics rather than the Wii U's.
Set to debut on Android and iOS, the game will be available in all major territories and will require a specific Nintendo account to play - you can sign up for one as soon as February 17 according to Kotaku.
The game itself is thought likely to operate much like a smartphone capable version of Tomodachi Life. Miis will act out certain social functions, allowing chatting among players and friends, taking part in activities that you might enjoy in titles like the Sims, only with worse graphics and even more gibberish talking.
This isn't what fans have been waiting for with Nintendo though. The Mario games won't be far behind, but those will be the big sellers when they eventually hit handsets later this year.
