Nintendo is launching a news app

Nintendo closed retired today’s Direct with a astonishment announcement: a quality app that volition support players up to day connected everything Nintendo. It’s called Nintendo Today, and it’ll beryllium disposable connected some iOS and Android. According to Shigeru Miyamoto, the app was designed to compliment its event-like livestreams, which person go incredibly fashionable successful the Switch era. After the Switch 2 Direct connected April 2nd, the app volition diagnostic regular updates connected the company’s adjacent console.

Here’s however Nintendo explains it: “this smart-device app is similar a regular calendar which delivers a assortment of contented including latest news, videos, and comics of your favourite Nintendo games and characters from prime franchises.”

The announcement comes astatine a clip erstwhile Nintendo has an atrocious batch going on, truthful keeping quality unneurotic successful 1 abstraction makes a definite magnitude of sense. In summation to launching a caller console this year, Nintendo has besides been expanding into theme parks and feature films, portion besides releasing surprises similar its Alarmo alarm clock and Nintendo Music streaming service (which is besides a mobile app). The institution adjacent has its ain depository now.

While it doesn’t look to beryllium successful app stores astatine the clip of this writing, Nintendo says that the Nintendo Today app volition beryllium disposable aboriginal today.