Nintendo’s New Hello, Mario! Mobile App Lets Kids Play With Mario’s Face

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

Nintendo has announced a caller free mobile app coming to iOS, Android and nan 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 later this month.

All of Nintendo’s mobile apps person been free to download truthful far, but while immoderate person offered in-app purchases and others, for illustration Nintendo Music, require an progressive Nintendo Switch Online subscription, Hello, Mario! is comparatively basic. Reminiscent of Super Mario 64’s title screen that showed disconnected nan N64’s capabilities pinch an interactive 3D type of Mario’s head, Hello, Mario! lets kids poke, tug, and fling Mario’s look astir nan screen while nan characteristic reacts successful various ways.

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

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

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