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Masahiro Sakurai, the game director currently working on Super Smash Bros., is not at the moment exploring the possibility of creating downloadable content packs for the brawler that’s set to arrive on the Wii U home console and the 3DS handheld.He is quoted by the Official Nintendo Magazine as saying that, &ld... |
18 June 2013
17:01 GMT |
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The development team at GameFreak and publisher Nintendo are apparently exploring the option of delivering downloadable content packs for their upcoming Pokemon X & Y.
The information comes from a roundtable event that was attended by IGN, where the two entities talked about the possibility.
Fans of the series migh... |
18 June 2013
13:51 GMT |
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The development team at Nintendo says that it is working on a single-player game mode for the upcoming Super Smash Bros., but it will not use the Subspace Emissary structure that was introduced in Brawl.
Masahiro Sakurai, the director of the game, is quoted by the Official Nintendo Magazine as saying that, “On... |
18 June 2013
12:41 GMT |
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The team at Nintendo is launching a new firmware update for the 3DS handheld, labeled 6.0.011, which is designed to increase the overall stability of the gaming platform while also introducing a number of new titles that use StreetPass.
The list of new experiences offered includes:
StreetPass Squad – find a M... |
18 June 2013
05:14 GMT |
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Eiji Aonuma, the producer who leads the development of the entire Legend of Zelda series, says that players should expect to see a total new look for the Wii U version of the game that's currently in development.
He tells Nintendo Life that, "The thing about Zelda is we want everything to be unique, whether it&... |
17 June 2013
18:31 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has gone into further detail about its decision to not support the Wii U home console, confirming that, once the Nintendo device starts selling, it will make business sense to bring games to the Wii U.
Nintendo launched its Wii U last November, and Electronic Arts sustained it with quite a few experi... |
14 June 2013
23:50 GMT |
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Nintendo's famous designer Shigeru Miyamoto is more worried about piracy than used games, as he believes that, if a great game is delivered to consumers, they won't be tempted to trade it in or buy a pre-owned copy of it. Used games have been very controversial, and the fact that the Xbox One makes it more... |
13 June 2013
03:32 GMT |
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Nintendo announces that Mario Kart 8 will be launched on the Wii U home console during the spring of 2014, complete with new gameplay options for all fans of the long running series.The game was delivered during the new Nintendo Direct program, which the company uses to talk directly to its fans about future plans fo... |
11 June 2013
12:18 GMT |
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Nintendo announces that a new platformer called Super Mario 3D World will be launched for its Wii U home console in December.
The new game is designed to introduce four-player cooperative play, with Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, and one Toad joining forces in order to get through the variety of levels that Nintendo ... |
11 June 2013
11:54 GMT |
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Rumors that Gamestop was ready to ship its stock of the Basic Wii U models back to Nintendo are unfounded according to the company. Charlie Scibetta, the senior director of corporate communication at Nintendo of America, tells Polygon that, “To clarify: Nintendo is working with its retail partners to simply re... |
6 June 2013
17:00 GMT |
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Nintendo has chosen to eschew a traditional presence at E3 2013 and, instead, it is inviting fans to travel to nearby Best Buy stores in order to try out some of the Wii U and 3DS titles that are set to launch in late 2013 and early 2014. The locations will be open between 4 PM and 8 PM local time on June 12 and bet... |
30 May 2013
20:31 GMT |
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The development team at SEGA in charge of the newly announced Sonic: Lost World is delivering the first official trailer for the upcoming game, focused on the main character himself and on his battles with his nemesis, the Deadly Six.
Sonic: Lost World will be launched on the Wii U home console and on the 3DS handhe... |
29 May 2013
04:52 GMT |
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The Research and Development team at Nintendo Europe is currently exploring ways of using cloud technology and distributed computing techniques to increase the power of the Wii U home console.During an Iwata Asks segment, the NERD team said that they were working on ideas that the main Nintendo team could explore bec... |
27 May 2013
05:14 GMT |
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The team at Nintendo in charge of the upcoming Game & Wario video games is launching a new promotion for the title that mimics the core look of crowd funding while poking fun at it.
The Crowdfarter campaign has an official site that looks a lot like that of Kickstarter and asks fans of the game to promote it via Fac... |
20 May 2013
20:41 GMT |
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Video game maker and publisher Nintendo says that it initially envisioned Game & Wario as a launch title for the Wii U home console that was supposed to be pre-installed on the device.
Satoru Iwata, the leader of the company, states during one of his question and answer sessions that, “The original plan was th... |
20 May 2013
18:31 GMT |
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After Electronic Arts publicly distanced itself from Nintendo's Wii U home console, Ubisoft has issued a statement saying that it's quite confident in the Japanese company and that it will continue to make games for the device. Nintendo released the Wii U last November and, while it had been supported by m... |
20 May 2013
12:21 GMT |
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After hearing that Electronic Arts no longer has any Wii U games in development as of right now, a software engineer from the publisher decided to heavily criticize Nintendo for its strategy, and has even mentioned that it's less powerful than a Xbox 360. Nintendo's Wii U hasn't gone off to the greate... |
18 May 2013
05:21 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has confirmed that it has no games currently in development for the Nintendo Wii U home console, but it's not ruling out future projects for the recently released device.
Nintendo launched the Wii U home console last November, and one of the device's main third-party backers was EA, which l... |
17 May 2013
23:47 GMT |
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The development team at Nintendo is offering more information on the upcoming Pikmin 3, which is set to use three main characters, Alph, Brittany and Charlie, that players will get to know as they experience the game.
The company also says that the game will be launched on the European market on July 26, which is qu... |
17 May 2013
11:12 GMT |
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Video game publisher Nintendo announces that it is entering into a worldwide long-term partnership with SEGA, which will see a new Sonic title, called Lost World, launched exclusively on the Wii U home console and the 3DS handheld.
The game will use classic action platformer mechanics and Satoru Iwata, the president... |
17 May 2013
10:51 GMT |
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A team of hackers have apparently cracked the firmware of the Wii U's GamePad controller and found that the home console can actually support two gamepads at the same time, despite Nintendo's reluctance to talk about such a capability. Nintendo launched the Wii U last year and bundled it with a special Gam... |
15 May 2013
10:49 GMT |
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The main developer working on the PixelJunk series of video games believes that Nintendo needs to invent a new, special intellectual property in order to revitalize sales of the new Wii U home console.
Dylan Cuthbert tells Siliconera that, “they always come up with something. They are always very innovative.&r... |
13 May 2013
10:27 GMT |
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Dylan Cuthbert, the leader of Q-Games, believes that Microsoft needs to re-invent the Xbox brand in order to succeed on the Japanese market, which is currently dominated by Sony and Nintendo. He tells Siliconera that, “Their image is too corporate and big. They aren’t geared towards aesthetics and art an... |
13 May 2013
05:28 GMT |
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The development team at GameFreak and publisher Nintendo are ready to offer more information on Pokemon X & Y, which is set to launch on the Nintendo 3DS, including the names of four new creatures that players will be able to catch and control. Gemtasu cites details coming from CoroCoro saying that the new Pokemon a... |
13 May 2013
02:59 GMT |
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The Wii Street U application, created by Nintendo and Google, is being updated by the two development teams in order to allow players to take their own pictures and then upload them to the service.
Users can also tag their images using a variety of words, giving all those who are exploring a particular location a si... |
13 May 2013
02:37 GMT |
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Eric Hirshberg, the chief executive officer of the publishing division of Activision, says that his company would love to see the Wii U home console from Nintendo perform better in the marketplace.
The executive states during a call with investors, obtained by Seeking Alpha, that, “we've done well despite... |
11 May 2013
05:25 GMT |
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The development team at Avalanche Interactive, the creators of the Just Cause series, are not interested in working on the Wii U home console from Nintendo despite the fact that they have had access to the device for some time.
The leaders of the company tell Pressfire, in an interview cited by VG247 that, “It... |
9 May 2013
17:01 GMT |
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The Wii U is performing worse than expected and it seems that Nintendo wants to increase sales by allowing popular smartphone-based video games to be ported to the home console via a new set of tools that are now offered to developers. Gamespot is citing anonymous sources that spoke to the Japan Times as saying that... |
7 May 2013
20:41 GMT |
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The development team at DICE working on the next-generation Frostbite 3 game engine says that the technology cannot be used on the Wii U home console from Nintendo because of problems with its overall performance.
Johan Andersson, the Frostbite technical director, writes on Twitter that, “FB3 has never been ru... |
7 May 2013
05:49 GMT |
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A new 3D Mario video game will be launched on the Wii U home console during October in order to boost sales of the device in time for the crucial Christmas shopping season.A report from CVG cites sources inside Nintendo saying that the company is waiting for a new Wii U system update to be launched during the summer ... |
5 May 2013
19:51 GMT |
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Eiji Aonuma, the current producer working on The Legend of Zelda series at Nintendo, says that the upcoming A Link to the Past 2 will include sections that take place in the Dark World of the game universe. The area has only been explored before in the original Link to the Past and in Four Swords Adventures, accordi... |
2 May 2013
07:15 GMT |
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The development team at EA Sports confirms that it has no plans to launch its upcoming Madden NFL 25 on the Nintendo-made Wii U home console, after fans have speculated about the core platforms for the American football simulation. The Tiburon team tells Nintendo Life that, “However, we have a strong partnersh... |
2 May 2013
02:12 GMT |
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Nintendo is one of the most conservative companies in gaming, but it seems to acknowledge the problems with the current retail business model, according to statements coming from president Satoru Iwata.
He tells investors, according to Gamasutra, that, “I believe the future of the video game industry depends o... |
1 May 2013
17:02 GMT |
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Nintendo seems determined to make the Wii U a success and it appears that one of its initiatives will see an expansion in the variety of games launched on the console, which might soon be powered by technologies such as Unity, HTML 5 and JavaScript.
Satoru Iwata, the leader of Nintendo, tells investors that, “... |
1 May 2013
07:19 GMT |
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Hiro Yamada, a producer working at Nintendo, says that a reveal for the new Wii U title that developer Retro is working on should take place soon, potentially before the E3 2013 trade show in the middle of June.
The executive tells The Official Nintendo Magazine that, “I wonder what kind of game it is? I hope ... |
1 May 2013
05:47 GMT |
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Nintendo is interested in exploring new types of games, as its president, Satoru Iwata, has confirmed that the company will focus on downloadable titles, free-to-play experiences, and online subscription-based games. Nintendo has been very slow to adopt digital distribution, as only its recent consoles, like the Wii... |
1 May 2013
05:34 GMT |
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Satoru Iwata, the leader of Nintendo, says that his company has failed to adequately support the launch of the new Wii U home console with high-profile first-party titles because it has lacked the resources to back all its internal development teams.
He tells investors in a conference call that, "The reason for the ... |
1 May 2013
03:45 GMT |
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The team at hardware maker Nintendo is ready to resort to rather desperate moves in order to increase the sale of its new Wii U home console, with a wave of messages sent to those who already own an older Wii device, encouraging them to upgrade.The company says that its new console is a better device, mainly because ... |
1 May 2013
02:48 GMT |
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Video game publisher and hardware maker Nintendo is aware of the claim that the Wii U has been hacked and says that it is monitoring the situation and getting ready to act as soon as it sees any sign that piracy is becoming an issue.
Nintendo is telling CVG that, "no reports of illegal Wii U games nor unauthorized a... |
30 April 2013
17:58 GMT |
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A team of hackers operating under the name Wiikey, claims that it has managed to penetrate the protections of the Wii U home console in order to hack the device and reverse engineer elements like drive authentication and encryption.
Writing on their website, they state, “Yes, its real - we have now completely ... |
30 April 2013
09:23 GMT |
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Nintendo's Wii U marketing effort has been a disaster, according to games industry analysts, but the Japanese company can turn things around by accurately showing off the new home console and by releasing plenty of new games for it.
Nintendo released the Wii U back in November but sales haven't been that i... |
29 April 2013
11:51 GMT |
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Nintendo has just started selling refurbished consoles via its North American online store, as it offers used versions of the 3DS and the DSi XL platforms.
In an effort to make more money off of its portable platforms, Nintendo has decided to begin selling refurbished versions of the 3DS and DSi XL handhelds through... |
29 April 2013
10:07 GMT |
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The hardware team at Nintendo announces that it will use the Near Field Communications system of its Wii U home console in order to power microtransactions, using a system called Suica, which is very popular in Japan. Satoru Iwata, the president of the company, is quoted by EGM as telling investors that “We ar... |
27 April 2013
16:11 GMT |
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Video game developer Game Freak and publisher Nintendo are announcing that, during the coming week, players who own Pokemon Black & White 2 and the Pokemon Trading Card Game will get access to a new mythical creature, called Deoxys.
On May 8 a special event via the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection service will allow player... |
26 April 2013
20:31 GMT |
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Nintendo has admitted that it could have done a better job differentiating the new Wii U from the regular Wii, and even went so far as to say that some customers believed the Wii U's GamePad was just an accessory for the Wii.
The Wii U came out back in November last year around the world and, since then, the co... |
26 April 2013
13:41 GMT |
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Earlier during the week, Nintendo posted a set of disappointing financial results, linked to the poorer than expected performance of the Wii U home console, and analysts believe that the company might be able to revive the console if it makes the right moves.
Scott Steinberg, the chief executive officer of consultin... |
26 April 2013
08:43 GMT |
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Nintendo has officially released the Wii U firmware update 3.0.0, which can now be downloaded by the owners of the home consoles all around the world, bringing plenty of major improvements, including a faster interface.
Ever since Nintendo launched the Wii U last year, owners of the console have complained of the sl... |
26 April 2013
02:59 GMT |
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Eiji Aonuma, the producer currently leading the Legend of Zelda development team at Nintendo, says that the newly announced Link to the Past game is highly realistic despite the fact that it uses the stereoscopic elements of the 3DS handheld.
Siliconera quotes the developer as telling fans that the game “will ... |
25 April 2013
19:31 GMT |
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Eiji Aonuma, the series producer working on The Legend of Zelda, says that the recently announced A Link to the Past 2 has been in development at Nintendo since 2011, when his team decided to take the entire franchise in a new direction.
The developer is quoted by Siliconera as saying during a Miiverse-focused event... |
25 April 2013
13:41 GMT |
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Nintendo has just confirmed that it won't hold a huge press conference at E3 2013 in June, as the company has decided to organize several, smaller gatherings targeted at the public present at the expo. As part of this strategy, it will air special Direct videos for each specific market, including Japan, North... |
25 April 2013
11:41 GMT |
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