>This is rather surprising. Nintendo's IP is basically the main selling point of their hardware. It's not that surprising. There is precedent. Nintendo has lic

>This is rather surprising. Nintendo's IP is basically the main selling point of their hardware. It's not that surprising. There is precedent. Nintendo has licensed their characters to other platforms before("Mario teaches typing" anyone?). It's just that those games were never really the same type of games, and of the same quality. I can see Nintendo having free-to-play offshoots of Mario, Zelda and whatever else. I don't see them releasing first-party AAA titles on smartphones.