Expected to be coming later this year (around July), a Paper Mario game has been confirmed for the DS in CoroCoro Magazine recently.

The actual firm details in the magazine were a bit sketchy, but they did mention that the game will be a direct port of Paper Mario on the Nintendo 64, and an expected release. (above)

It does seem more than a bit strange for Nintendo to be releasing a port of a game that can be bought on the Wii’s Virtual Console, but there is no doubting a handheld Paper Mario game will be brilliant.

Let’s just hope for now it doesn’t suffer the same delays it’s Wii counterpart did…