Hasta La Gadget!

But you knew that already. After all, what’s a Nintendo console without an overweight plumber, right? Nintendo president President Satoru Iwata announced that Mario would indeed be getting his own seemingly inevitable title for the glasses-free 3D portable gaming console, during a keynote at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.

Details are pretty scare about the game, which unfortunately, won’t be among the launch titles when the console hits store shelves later this month, but Nintendo has promised that it will feature “traditional Mario gameplay,” which is probably a good thing. Sounds like sidescrolling to us, but who knows.

After all Nintendo has also promised that it,

Will fulfil the dream of Nintendo video game designer (and Mario creator) Shigeru Miyamoto to bring true depth and distance into the game’s mechanics.

Designers involved with the two Super Mario Galaxy games will be working on the title, which will likely be unveiled over the summer at E3.