Nintendo will launch its first-ever smartphone app next week

Few companies are as slow to adapt to market changes as Nintendo, but the beloved video game company has finally decided to get with times and embrace the smartphone market. The company partnered up with DeNA a while back to develop a handful of smartphone apps that it plans to release over the next year or so, and it announced on Thursday that the first of those apps, known as Miitomo, will launch in Japan next week. The app will launch outside of Japan sometime this month as well, but we don’t know the exact date.