Nintendogs, an interactive pet romp features puppies cavorting around the screen that can be petted with a plastic pen.

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The launch of Nintendogs is responsible for making Nintendo DS the best-selling system in Japan, outselling the PSP by three times.

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Now they're showing off Mr. Miyamoto's latest pet project, Nintendogs.

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Well, not in China. iQue's website only lists a handful of major titles that are mostly, if not all, made by Nintendo, including the two aforementioned 3DS titles and six DS titles (Nintendogs, WarioWare, Yoshi's Island DS and more), along with several downloadable DSiWare apps.

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Nintendogs will launch later this year in North America, a game in which "owners" interact with and train a variety of breeds of digital puppies (what is up with all the pooch action lately?), giving voice commands, playing games and "developing real emotional bonds" (we'll have to see it to believe it).

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We wanted to implement that in Nintendogs, and obviously we have the idea of people taking their dogs for a walk as part of the game play, anyway, and we wanted to use that and again combine that with a way in the future to kind of create this communication aspect to the game, where it essentially allows you to interact with other people.

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