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Super Mario Land 2 and Metroid 2 Coming to 3DS eShop, Zelda: Four Swords to DSiWare

Nintendo has announced that three classic games will soon arrive as digital offerings for the 3DS and DSi handheld platforms, in the form of Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins and Metroid 2: Return of Samus, for the first console, and The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords, for the latter. Nintendo has seemingly started...

22 August 2011
03:20 GMT

Nintendo Download Update: Kirby, Final Fantasy and More

Nintendo is still releasing plenty of special content for its various platforms week after week, and has just revealed that owners of its devices will be getting quite a few high-quality remakes this week, including Final Fantasy III or Kirby's Dream Land. First up, Nintendo Wii owners will be able to downloa...

1 July 2011
03:10 GMT

Nintendo Download Update Brings Wrestling and Arcade Games

Nintendo has once again updated its WiiWare and DSiWare online services with a wide array of different games, including wrestling, arcade or tank ones. Retro game fans will be thrilled to hear that Natsume Championship Wrestling is now available on the Virtual Console section of the WiiWare. The game brings 12 out...

23 March 2011
03:35 GMT

Nintendo Download: Plants vs. Zombies and More

After two weeks of lackluster updates, Nintendo is making things right by finally releasing hit tower defense game Plants vs. Zombies onto the DSiWare, and lots of other titles for the WiiWare service. First up, on the DSiWare front, we have PopCap's Plants vs. Zombies, a fun tower defense game that finally m...

15 March 2011
15:21 GMT

Nintendo Download Update: Racing, Puzzles and Fireplace Simulators

This week's Nintendo WiiWare and DSiWare updates are a bit on the weird side, including regular puzzle and racing titles but also an NES classic, Faxanadu, and a rather peculiar fireplace simulator. The WiiWare service has received two full games and two demos. The first is Jewel Keepers: Easter Island, a ...

23 February 2011
02:40 GMT

Nintendo Download Update: Pucca's Kisses, Pandas and Treasures

This week's Nintendo download has a bit of a Valentine's Day theme, with titles like Pucca's Kisses Game, but also a childish one, with plenty of entry-level puzzle games. First up, on the WiiWare, we have Pucca's Kisses Game, starring the popular Pucca anime character, who tries to kiss the sw...

16 February 2011
02:30 GMT

Nintendo Download Update: Air Hockey, Mahjong and Zombies

Like clockwork, Nintendo has updated its North American WiiWare and DSiWare online services with brand new downloadable games and demos, for all the Wii and DSi owners out there. First off, for the WiiWare, Nintendo released one new game and two demos. The first is Magic Destiny, which helps you predict the fut...

1 February 2011
14:21 GMT

Nintendo Download Update: Rollergirls, 1942 and Black Tiger

Nintendo once more updated the WiiWare and DSiWare online services, this week with a couple of demos and some interesting additions to the classic Virtual Console section, courtesy of Capcom. First off, WiiWare users will be able to get the very interesting Jam City Rollergirls, a new type of title that aims at si...

25 January 2011
14:21 GMT

Nintendo Download Update: Doc Clock, Bit.Trip Beat and Animal Boxing

Nintendo has updated its online services, the WiiWare and DSiWare ones, with all new downloadable games, each trying to present new gameplay experiences. First off, on the WiiWare, we have the interestingly-named Doc Clock: The Toasted Sandwich of Time. The title sees you control Doc Clock, that must travel thr...

18 January 2011
14:21 GMT

Nintendo Download Update: Ghosts'N Goblins and Petz

The second Nintendo download update of the year brings some classic Capcom titles to the Nintendo Wii, as well as a downloadable version of Ubisoft's extremely popular Petz series. First off, let's start with the WiiWare online service, which brings three new titles for the Nintendo Wii. The first is ...

11 January 2011
14:21 GMT

Nintendo 3DS Production Model Leaked Onto the Web

The Nintendo 3DS, one of the most important handheld devices of the new year, has just been leaked in its production form onto the web, courtesy of a Chinese factory worker that reportedly smuggled it out from the production plant. Nintendo revealed the 3DS at last year's E3, and even let journalists play wit...

4 January 2011
18:01 GMT

Nintendo Download Update: Sneezies, Ghost Mania and More

The first Nintendo download update of the year brings quite a few interesting titles, both for the Nintendo Wii, through WiiWare, and for the Nintendo DSi, through the DSiWare service. First off, Nintendo Wii owners can enjoy three new titles, Sneezies, Ghost Mania and Robox. The first is published by Chilingo ...

4 January 2011
14:21 GMT

Nintendo Download Update: Puzzle Games and Class NeoGeo Titles

Even if this is the last update of the year for Nintendo's WiiWare and DSiWare services, it isn't the weakest, as the Japanese company added a few new titles across the board, as well as classic NeoGeo ones to the Virtual Console section.First off, the WiiWare service has received three new games, Chick Chi...

28 December 2010
14:21 GMT

Nintendo Download Update: Mario Party 2 and Dragon Lair II: Time Warp

Nintendo updated its download services today, with the WiiWare and DSiWare services getting fresh downloadable titles, including retro classic Mario Party 2 and others. First off, the Virtual Console section is getting one of the most memorable titles released on the Nintendo64 console, Mario Party 2. You will ...

21 December 2010
14:21 GMT

Nintendo Download Brings Family Games and Zombie Ones

This week's Nintendo WiiWare and DSiWare updates bring quite a lot of different experiences, ranging from wholesome title Family Games to Red Riding Hood's Zombie BBQ. First off, we have the WiiWare service, which received three new downloadable games and a virtual console one. The first title is call...

14 December 2010
14:21 GMT

Japan: Nintendo DSi and Pokemon Still Leading the Charts

The Japanese market has seen another good week at retail, with the Nintendo DSi handheld continuing to see an increase in sales over the PlayStation Portable from Sony just as the dual launch of Pokemon Black and White continues to lead the video games chart.The DSi is the biggest seller of its family of hardware des...

4 October 2010
13:31 GMT

Japan: Nintendo DS Benefits from Pokemon Launch

Pokemon Black and White, the fifth generation of title based on the popular franchise, has launched on the Japanese market, predictably taking the first spot in the video games chart and pushing the Nintendo DS family ahead in the hardware oriented chart.The best sold version of the device has been the somewhat older...

27 September 2010
03:23 GMT

Weekly Nintendo Download Update Brings Lots of Sports Games

Nintendo has just revealed its new update to the WiiWare and DSiWare online services, which brings new downloadable titles and a new Virtual Console game for the Wii, as well as a few applications for the Nintendo DSi.In this new Nintendo Download Update, the Japanese company brings two new WiiWare titles, Triple Thr...

22 September 2010
15:51 GMT

The Nintendo DSi and the DSi XL Getting Price Cuts in Japan

Nintendo has cut the price of the Nintendo DSi XL and the Nintendo DSi in Japan with the unveiling of the 3DS at E3 2010 being imminent. On top of that, three new DSi XL colors will be available in the Land of the Rising Sun, as Blue, Yellow and Green models will hit the store shelves on the 19th of June, 2010. The ...

2 June 2010
05:50 GMT

DSi Bundles with Preinstalled Games Coming to the United States

Nintendo has announced that it plans to release two bundles involving the Nintendo DSi in the United States. On November 27, in time for Black Friday, the Japanese manufacturer will offer interested buyers a Metallica Blue and a White version of the Nintendo DSi handheld, which will include 20 dollars worth of softwa...

24 November 2009
14:41 GMT

Rumor Mill: Nintendo Planning DSi with Larger Screen

The DSi is a true success for Nintendo, the company that has designed it and offers the biggest array of games on it, but it seems that there are more improvements that can be made to the handheld and that the hardware manufacturer is planning to release an updated device that will feature bigger screens, designed to...

27 October 2009
17:41 GMT

NPD Hardware: PlayStation 3 Beats the Wii and Xbox 360

The much awaited NPD Group hardware and software sales figures for September have finally arrived and while the picture looks less grim for the videogame industry (where are the times when we deemed it recession proof?), there are still signs of trouble.The Nintendo DS handheld still manages to be the best sold gamin...

20 October 2009
08:07 GMT

Console Sales Fall, Nintendo DS on Top

While we are waiting for the NPD Group to release the sales figures for September, which should have been out on Friday but have been delayed because of some processing issues, the latest hardware and software numbers out of Japan are available, with sales of all gaming hardware falling even as all the big consoles a...

19 October 2009
13:31 GMT

PSP Go Has a Fundamental Concept Problem

Regie Fills-Aime, who is the Chief Executive Officer of Nintendo of America, has launched scathing attacks on the various devices that are trying to position themselves as being rivals to the company's Nintendo DS handheld. The company man touted the advantages of the platform, which at the moment leads the mark...

13 October 2009
15:41 GMT

PSP Go Launches in Japan, DSi Still on Top

Sony released its new handheld, the PlayStation Portable Go, in Japan last week while also taking down the price of the older PSP-3000, which resulted in a series growth for the line. Still, the Nintendo DSi managed to be the biggest seller of the week, moving no less than 53,293 units. The Sony-made PSP only shipped...

12 October 2009
14:21 GMT

PlayStation 3 Sales Fall Again in Sync with Pokemon

The beginning of another week means that we have an update related to the hardware and software charts in the far away land of Japan. It seems to be a week without big surprises, with the PlayStation 3 Slim continuing to decline in sales slowly while the Nintendo DS dominates hardware.The Nintendo-made handheld has m...

5 October 2009
04:39 GMT

No Videogame Transfer Between Nintendo DSi Handhelds

One of the biggest innovations coming alongside the DSi, the new handheld model released by Nintendo earlier in the year all over the world, is that it can actually receive content via its WiFi connection. Nintendo has exploited this by offering a DSiWare service, modeled after WiiWare, which allows users to create u...

1 October 2009
03:54 GMT

Pokemon Soul and Heart Dominate Japan

The Japanese videogame market has been reinvigorated in the last few weeks by the release of the all new and cheaper PlayStation 3 Slim and by the launch of fresh Pokemon videogames. These twin forces seem, for the moment at least, to be holding up the market in preparation for the upcoming slew of releases that will...

28 September 2009
04:58 GMT

Bookworm and Bejeweled Twist Coming to the DsiWare and the DS

PopCap Games, the company that has made a fortune on the back of casual experiences designed to charm the player with their personality and their simplicity, has announced that it plans to bring two Bejeweled Twist and two Bookworm releases to the Nintendo handhelds. The company is aiming to deliver content for both ...

24 September 2009
02:39 GMT

SUDOKU and MySims Camera Launch on the Nintendo DSi

Electronic Arts is announcing that it has released two new video games for the Nintendo DSi, called SUDOKU and MySims Camera. They are just the beginning of a wider move on the part of the publisher to create video games that are uniquely suited to be played on the new device created by Nintendo, which sports two new...

23 September 2009
02:36 GMT

Nintendo DSi Beats the PlayStation 3

Last week, the PlayStation 3 Slim, with its newly reduced price point, managed to top the charts and move more units than the initial launch of the Sony home console. This week is more normal, with the Nintendo DSi handheld getting back to the first spot in the hardware chart. Still, Sony must be pleased to see that ...

21 September 2009
04:48 GMT

DSi Dominates Japan, PlayStation 3 Dead Last

For the second week in a row, sales of the PlayStation 3 have fallen sharply on the Japanese market, as supply is dwindling and buyers are keeping their money in their pockets, getting ready to buy the PlayStation 3 Slim, with its sleek profile and its lower price, once it is widely available on sale.Meanwhile, the N...

7 September 2009
05:23 GMT

PS3 Sales Slum in Japan, Slim Eagerly Awaited

The Japanese hardware chart is showing a steep fall in sales of the PlayStation 3 in the territory, as players who are interested in one of Sony's gaming consoles are holding off so that they can pick up the new PlayStation 3 Slim when it comes out at the beginning of September.The main reasons behind the waitin...

31 August 2009
04:56 GMT

Dragon Quest IX and the DSi Dominate Japan

It seems that the fate of the Square Enix role playing title Dragon Quest IX and that of the Nintendo-made DSi handheld is linked, at least for the time being. Sales of the device have surged by about 17,000, as the RPG again topped the hardware chart in Japan.The Nintendo DSi sold 87,936 units in the week that ...

24 August 2009
05:14 GMT

Nintendo DSi Gets Facebook Integration

Nintendo is announcing that all users of its DSi handheld can now enhance their social experience with the console by connecting directly to Facebook and posting photos taken with the cameras of the device.The Facebook Connect feature is being offered via a free system update that the gadget is set to download via th...

4 August 2009
06:04 GMT

Dragon Quest IX Rules Japan

It's truly amazing to see the impact that one successful videogame release can have on the industry as a whole. The Japanese videogaming market has been pretty much stagnated this year, with sales below 2008 levels in both the hardware and the software categories. The summer release of the Square Enix developed ...

27 July 2009
13:01 GMT

Download-Only PlayStation Portable Games Might Be Cheaper

Sony has placed a big bet on the success of the PlayStation Portable Go, the new device, officially unveiled at E3, which is set to be released this fall. Designed in part as the firm's response to the success of the new Nintendo DSi, the PSP Go still has some problems, in the eyes of analysts, like the price ta...

15 July 2009
14:41 GMT

Wii Sports Resort Still Selling Very Well

Japan seems to be still interested in handhelds and in Wii Sports Resort or so the charts coming out of the country suggest. The Nintendo DS is the best sold gaming console and the Nintendo made game still leads the software charts by a huge margin.The DSi has sold no less than 46,855 units in one week with its only ...

13 July 2009
15:01 GMT

Facebook Is Great for the Nintendo DSi

The Nintendo DSi, the latest iteration of the DS handheld console from the Japanese company, has taken the world by storm even though analysts predicted that it wouldn't be as successful because the user base was already very large. But they were wrong, as the DSi is selling like hot cakes all over the world. T...

1 July 2009
02:23 GMT

Nintendo DSi Still Top in Japan

The Japanese hardware chart was a source of surprises earlier this year as the PlayStation 3 from Sony managed to outsell the Nintendo Wii by several thousands of units in March and in April. But now things seem to be back to normal and only a very big videogame release might upset the delicate balance of this chart....

29 June 2009
04:06 GMT

Nintendo: DSiWare Will Grow, No Plans for DSi Virtual Console

The DS is a hugely successful gaming console, largely due to the fact that it has a lot of video games made for it and because of the great support that it has been enjoying from Nintendo.As its latest iteration, the DSi, is breaking records left and right, and is extremely popular, even though the user base for the ...

25 June 2009
02:21 GMT

Xbox 360 Surges in Japan

In Japan, the Xbox 360 is gaining ground on the PlayStation 3, with the gap for the week ending on June 14 being of about 2,000 units. Of course, the dominant gaming devices are still handhelds, with the Nintendo DSi, updated and improved, selling 36,872 units, leading the hardware chart, again pushed forward by a ne...

22 June 2009
13:21 GMT

DSi Sales Crash in Japan

In what is surely unpleasant news for Nintendo, its DSi handheld has lost quite a bit of its sales edge over the PlayStation Portable, despite the fact that the two top games in the chart have been developed for it.Japan might be, at last, getting tired of the new device as most of the early adopters have already got...

15 June 2009
13:21 GMT

Nintendo Scrapped a DSi Competitor

Apparently, the DSi was not the only handheld on which Nintendo worked after launching the original DS. At some point in the last three years, the company completely discarded another hardware prototype, an event that might have left a greater imprint on any other firm but Nintendo.Satoru Iwata told CNBC that “...

10 June 2009
14:51 GMT

Analysts: May NPD Numbers Will Be Disappointing

The NPD Group, which tracks software and hardware sales in North America, is set to release its data for the month of May at the end of this week and, ahead of that event, several analysts are saying that the numbers will be disappointing, mainly because of the fact that May 2008 was a very good month, with Grand The...

9 June 2009
18:11 GMT

Japan Gets Black Wii and Red DSi This Summer

Nintendo has experienced some huge sales ever since it released its Wii and DS consoles. Both of them have broken records and have been met with huge demand from fans of the Japanese hardware manufacturer. But now things aren't going as they used to, with the Wii losing ground to its arch rivals, the Xbox 360 a...

5 June 2009
14:41 GMT

E3: Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story Comes to North America

Mario is again one of the main stars of the Nintendo line up of videogames, as shown at E3, which takes place in Los Angeles at the moment. At the Nintendo presentation, quite a few titles featuring the well-known Italian plumber have been unveiled.One of them is Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, set to appe...

3 June 2009
16:51 GMT

Mass Effect Debuts in Japan, Wii Still Going Strong

As always, handhelds are the best sold gaming devices in Japan, with the Nintendo DS again edging out the PlayStation Portable. When it comes to home consoles, the domination of the PlayStation 3 seems to have come to an end, as for the third week, the Nintendo Wii captured the top spot. And Mass Effect, recently rel...

1 June 2009
14:31 GMT

The DSi Has Been Cracked and Now Supports Piracy and Homebrew

Piracy is a huge concern for the gaming industry these days as it isn't limited to the PC platform, where it reached the highest levels, but to almost all platforms, including the Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii or the PlayStation Portable. Nintendo's small handheld, the DS, made no exception as pirates easily foun...

20 May 2009
15:01 GMT

Nintendo Mounts Comeback

In the Land of the Rising Sun, the skies were a bit dark for Nintendo, as the PlayStation 3 solidly outsold the Nintendo Wii, and as the PlayStation Portable overtook the Nintendo DS. But the situation has been reversed, with the Wii and DS becoming the best selling products in their categories.The Nintendo DSi sold ...

18 May 2009
04:37 GMT


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