Tencent has eyes on building Nintendo-style games with Nintendo characters, according to the Wall Street Journal.

It quotes an unnamed Tencent official as saying that the company wants to “expand from China” by building console games for the United States and Europe.

The Chinese giant wants to “create console games with Nintendo characters” and, in doing so, “learn the essence of making console games from Nintendo engineers.”

On one hand, the partnership is plausible*, since Tencent and Nintendo already have a corporate tie-up, which started earlier this year. The pair teamed up with the intention of selling the Switch in China.

And Nintendo has made tentative* moves towards allowing others to play with its toys, especially when China is involved. Some Wii and GameCube games were published in China for the NVIDIA Shield, including “New Super Mario Bros” and “The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.” Similarly, Nintendo has made mobile games, including “Super Mario Run,” with developer DeNa. Not to mention that it allowed Ubisoft to make “Mario+Rabbids.”

Tencent’s power position in the games industry is also compelling, since it’s now the world’s biggest game company by revenue. That’s mostly down to investments in publishers and developers with a big U.S. presence, including Riot Games, Epic Games, Activision Blizzard and others.(SD-Agencies)