Nintendo is shutting down its Miitomo social app in May

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by Sindy Cator on January 25, 2018 at 6:59 am

Posted In: Around the Web, gaming, Insider

Nintendo announced today that it’s shuttering Miitomo, its first foray into mobile that launched in March 2016. More of a social app than a game, Miitomo allows users to create a digital avatar in their likeness (with the help of their phones’ front camera), answer a few BuzzFeed-quiz-style questions, and interact with friends in a virtual environment. The idea behind the service was to help people get to know their friends better, as the virtual characters exchanged facts about each other. Within a month of launching in Japan, the US and Europe, it had racked up four million users. Miitomo…