Nintendo loses a little piece of its identity with 'Super Mario Run'

[Joystiq]

Today, Nintendo announced

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-- Super Mario Run will launch on iOS and Android before the end of the year. We knew the company was

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, but for long-time Nintendo fans, this announcement still feels like a shock. For years, Satoru Iwata

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bringing Nintendo characters to the small screen. "If we did this," he said in 2011, "Nintendo would cease to be Nintendo." The company's leader was adamant: putting Mario on mobile would make good short-term profits, but would ultimately devalue the property. Now that it's here, we have to wonder -- is Nintendo still Nintendo?

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