Visitors are handed a customized Nintendo DS mobile-game unit and led to a screen in the floor made up of 70 large display panels showing a detailed, animated map of Kyoto.
Nintendo is also promising that a mobile app will launch sometime this year, which means you can get your fix of obscene stylus drawings wherever you may be.
Pushing the technology along will be Japan's three big manufacturers Sony, Sega and Nintendo which are working on mobile versions of their games.
After all, Skylanders has been enormously successful, spawning two major console releases, two handheld games on the Nintendo 3DS, and a bevy of mobile iterations including one that utilizes its very own Bluetooth Portal of Power.
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More than Sony or Nintendo, Apple is in the driving seat of mobile gaming.
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Disney Infinity launches June 2013, globally, for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Wii U, 3DS, PC, and mobile.
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The outfit's first foray into the mobile market got caught up in a bitter rivalry with Nintendo's dual-screen wunderkind, but never managed to surpass it.
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Nintendo and Sony are fighting the old war while the guerrilla attacks from mobile and social game companies steal a few seconds more of the consumer leisure time with each passing day.
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At a US games developers' conference last week, some suggested that new start-up studios should make games for mobile phones and handheld consoles, like the Sony PSP and the Nintendo DS, instead.
Keep in mind that this franchise launched in the mobile space and has built its audience without the help of Sony, Nintendo or Microsoft.
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Nintendo's had an unprecedentedly rough year, with a continually eroding sense of excitement around its aging Wii console and a lukewarm reception greeting the 3DS. And with mobile competition nabbing pretty sizable chunks from the company's casual offerings, Nintendo needs to remind people what the console can bring that handsets can't.
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But a new survey shows that Apple is actually closing in on Nintendo with respect to an important metric: total number of people actually playing games on the mobile devices.
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Los Angeles (CNN) -- As mobile games migrate to powerful smartphones and tablets that are becoming direct competition to portable gaming devices such as Nintendo 3DS and PS Vita, the E3 convention has become a prime stage for game publishers to showcase new titles.
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