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"Nintendo has again confirmed today that it won't introduce its games to smartphones and tablets, however, company\u00A0President Satoru\u00A0Iwata did reveal plans to introduce non-wearable technology that monitors users' health. Further details will be announced this year, with the new products slated to launch before March 2016.\r\n\r\nWhile Nintendo's games won't grace mobile devices, the company will leverage mobile. Iwata said the company will\u00A0\u201Cactively\u201D use smart devices to \u201Cmake connections with customers.\u201D Nintendo is planning 'service apps' aimed at bringing the medium, although the company was light on specifics.\r\n\r\nThe\u00A0Wall Street Journal reports\u00A0that\u00A0Iwata began his address at the company's investor briefing day with a three-second bow to apologize for the company's financial woes.\u00A0Those problems are embodied by poor sales of Nintendo's Wii U console; the company recently slashed annual sales estimations for the device by 69 percent and has sold just over two million units in the last nine months.\r\n\r\nIwata revealed that\u00A0the company will license its game character rights to new partners, although, again, don't expect Mario and co to arrive on your smartphone. Instead it seems that health will be the big new focus for the Japanese gaming giant -- the Journal reports that Nintendo aims to 'enhance the quality of life through entertainment'.\r\n\r\n\u27A4\u00A0Live: Nintendo\u2019s Strategy Briefing to Address Future Direction\u00A0[Wall Street Journal]\r\n\r\nImage via\u00A0FREDERIC J. BROWN / Getty Images / AFP"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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