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Nintendo has revealed that Mario Kart 8 will be released in May during its quarterly earnings presentation tonight. Previously the Wii U-exclusive had only been pegged for a general "spring" release. The presentation just went down in Tokyo, but senior analyst at Macquarie Research Japan Dave Gibson was present and tweeted the announcement in addition to a slew of other facts about Nintendo's current strategy.
The most immediate change will be the Kyoto-based company bringing Nintendo Network IDs to mobile platforms. "Nintendo Network ID is important," Gibson tweeted, where he noted that Nintendo plans to implement this on all future hardware and even smartphones. "It doesn't make sense for us not to do business in [sic] smart devices," the analyst paraphrased. That being said, Nintendo was clear that it won't actually be developing games for these platforms.
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