Nintendo will reveal its first video game for mobile phone platforms tomorrow in Japan, which could be as early as later this afternoon in the US. Nintendo President Tatsumi Kimishima said “We will talk about details tomorrow” regarding Nintendo's long-anticipated first foray into smartphones, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal

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The announcement comes on the heels of a March report that Nintendo would enter the potentially-lucrative mobile games market in partnership with Japanese mobile game company DeNA. Nintendo also previously stated that consumers would see the first game resulting from that partnership before the end of 2015 Nintendo's r ecent financial report also revealed that Mario Kart 8 has achieved an attach rate of over 50% and Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer sales have been strong, but that Wii U console sales have remained slow. Nintendo's dedicated NX gaming platform remains in developmen t with "industry-leading chips" as part of the design architecture. Nintendo has said it will not be talking about NX until 2016.

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