Image: Pokémon: Let’s Go official website
Japanese games giant Nintendo is teaming up with the United States firm behind runaway hit Pokemon Go to develop augmented reality smartphone games, the two companies said Tuesday.
Their first joint venture will involve Nintendo’s lovable half-vegetable, half-animal Pikmin characters in a game expected to launch sometime this year.
Augmented reality (AR) technology allows images and animations to be superimposed on the real-world view seen on a smartphone’s rear camera.
It was key to the success of Niantic’s Pokemon Go, which thrilled users around the world with the appearance of Pokemon characters in their neighborhoods across the globe.
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“Niantic’s AR technology has made it possible for us to experience the world as if Pikmin are secretly living all around us,” Nintendo representative director Shigeru Miyamoto said in a press release.
Miyamoto, creator of Pikmin and other famed Nintendo characters including Super Mario and Donkey Kong, said the new app would be designed around “making walking fun.”
