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nintendo's next console won't be ready for another year but you don't have to wait long for new Nintendo games on your smartphone I'm Bridget Carey this is your cnet update well there's no reason to buy a Wii U this year because Nintendo just announced that its next game console codename Nintendo NX is coming out next year in March 2017 the company's fiscal year earnings report indicated that this NX system is going to be a brand new concept so don't think of it as a new we we don't know much about what the new NX is going to be but there are some clues reports suggest this is a hybrid concept it might blur together the portable nintendo DS concept with a home system so you could take some games on the go nintendo filed a patent application last year that featured this image of a new oval touchscreen controller Nintendo said it will not show the NX at the big e 3 videogame conference in June instead it will reveal details later in the year now here's something don't have to wait too long for more Nintendo smartphone games the company announced animal crossing and Fire Emblem are coming to mobile app stores this spring Nintendo launched the me tomo app last month which is more of a social thing than a real game game it gets boring really quickly but Animal Crossing could certainly be more addicting as a time-wasting casual mobile game the series has been around since 2002 you live in a little town and collect fruit and go fishing and build a home and talk to animals and send them letters it goes on forever later this year Nintendo is launching what could be an even bigger mobile game pokemon go nine minutes of beta test footage was leaked online by youtube channel game previews once you customize your characters look you would turn on the phone's GPS and roam around the real world until the app alerts you of a Pokemon nearby to catch or to battle it'll use a live feed from your phone's camera to make it look like Pokemon are standing in front of you on the street outside of the gaming world there's a brand new app that's getting some buzz for being different but you can also just be a flop the app is called talk show and you have these text message conversations with friends where anyone can public observe your conversation I tried it out a bit I don't really see the appeal to texting live in public when you could just do that on Twitter and on Twitter people can interact with you back on talk show the only people that can talk back are the ones you allow to talk to you so it's a text form of podcasting its unique but yeah that's all for this tech news around up you can head to cnet.com for more from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey