Nintendo’s new Hello, Mario! mobile app lets kids play with Mario’s face

Hello, Mario! lets kids interact with Mario’s smiling face. | Screenshot: X

Nintendo has announced a caller escaped mobile app coming to iOS, Android and the Switch. It’s called Hello, Mario! and was revealed alongside a caller postulation of Mario-themed products designed for kids and toddlers launching successful Japan aboriginal this month.

All of Nintendo’s mobile apps person been escaped to download truthful far, but portion immoderate person offered in-app purchases and others, similar Nintendo Music, necessitate an progressive Nintendo Switch Online subscription, Hello, Mario! is comparatively basic. Reminiscent of Super Mario 64’s rubric screen that showed disconnected the N64’s capabilities with an interactive 3D mentation of Mario’s head, Hello, Mario! lets kids poke, tug, and fling Mario’s look astir the screen portion the quality reacts successful assorted ways.

The app astir apt won’t person arsenic overmuch entreaty for adults, but determination are a fewer items successful Nintendo’s caller My Mario collection that parents whitethorn find hard to resist. It includes plush toys, toddler-safe dinnerware, teething toys, clothing, and adjacent an interactive committee publication besides featuring Mario’s face.

The item is simply a brace of woody gathering artifact sets. There’s a ¥2,980 (~$20) 3-piece acceptable featuring Mario, a mushroom, and a question block. A larger ¥19,980 (~$135) 30-piece set adds Luigi, Peach, and Yoshi, positive a warp tube and different gathering elements. The quality blocks besides person Amiibo functionality, and tin beryllium utilized with the Switch successful lieu of each character’s modular Amiibo figure.

The My Mario postulation volition beryllium disposable successful Nintendo’s Japanese stores successful Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto starting connected August 26th, portion the Hello, Mario! app volition beryllium disposable for download connected the aforesaid day. Nintendo hasn’t confirmed if an English mentation of the app volition beryllium released, but immoderate of the My Mario products volition beryllium much broadly disposable adjacent year, according to Video Games Chronicle.