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Miitomo, Nintendo’s first mobile app, will launch in March 2016, Nintendo announced during its financial results briefing overnight.
Sadly the app isn’t a game, but a messaging app of sorts in which you communicate with friends using a created Mii character.
“The main character of Miitomo is you. First, you create your own Mii,” explained Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima.
“The Mii asks you a variety of questions and communicates your answers with your Friends’ Mii.
“The people you will be able to communicate with are limited to your friends whom you have registered as Friends. We are designing this communication application to enable Friends to share information comfortably and securely.”
Kimishima says the app is designed to allow more shy users to share information with friends when they otherwise would keep to themselves.
“Instead of the users proactively sending their own messages, Miitomo has a unique characteristic that can be called ‘friendly communication starters’ as your Mii will automatically dispatch the answers you gave to certain questions to your friends.
“These ‘friendly communication starters’ have an advantage that even the people who are less willing to send messages can easily participate.”
Miitomo is planned for launch in March 2016 as a free to start application, although it’s not clear if this date applies only to Japan. Nintendo intends to launch a total of five apps by the end of March 2017.
Source: Nintendo Investor
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