Nintendo delays the launch of Miitomo, its first smartphone game

The House of Mario is laying out its plans for making the leap to iPhone and Android, but it’s going to need more time.

During a meeting with investors in Kyoto, the publisher revealed it will not have a new smartphone game before the end of this calendar year (via Wall Street Journal). Instead, it will launch the app, called Miitomo, by March 2016 — and it hopes to make that a global release. It’s a free-to-play game with microtransactions.