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Nintendo Still Has an Edge

Nintendo is the biggest winner of the current console generation, with its Wii home console managing to consistently beat the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 when it comes to sales, despite having less storage space and a less powerful graphics engine, thanks to the impressive and forward looking motion tracking contr...

16 November 2009
03:46 GMT

Satoru Iwata Admits the Wii Has Stalled

The Nintendo Wii is not the same successful videogaming console that it was during 2008. Sales of the platform have slowed down a lot this year, falling by no less than 34% in Japan, the home territory of the company. The reasons are complex, ranging from market saturation to the impact of the economic downturn on ga...

2 November 2009
06:54 GMT

Wii Vitality Sensor Set for 2010 Release

Nintendo is one of the biggest companies in gaming today, thanks to its permanent innovation and the fact that it manages to market its products extremely well, no matter how strange they may look or feel. But with the recently announced Wii Vitality Sensor, which was introduced to gamers at this year's Electro...

12 August 2009
04:37 GMT

Nintendo Isn't Pleased with Its E3 Press Conference

This year's Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles took a big step into the direction of its more successful iterations as all of the big companies arrived and made some pretty interesting announcements, the likes of two new Metal Gear Solid games or Left 4 Dead 2. But one press conference from which...

10 August 2009
11:11 GMT

A DS for Everyone Is Nintendo's New Strategy

Nintendo is one of the biggest companies active in gaming at the moment. Not only has the Japanese corporation taken the world by storm thanks to its hugely successful franchises like Mario or The Legend of Zelda, but its newest lineup of hardware, in the form of the Nintendo DS and Wii, have broken sales records for...

7 August 2009
02:18 GMT

Wii Price Cut Won't Happen Anytime Soon, Iwata Says

During recent months, things haven't been so rosy for video game companies, starting with small developers, who keep their high-end titles for the end of the year, and ending with console manufacturers, which have recorded losses across the board, with a few exceptions here and there. This is evident with the s...

5 August 2009
15:01 GMT

Nintendo Sees No Reason to Upgrade the Wii to HD

The Nintendo Wii is one of the most popular consoles on the market. It introduced new motion controllers and concepts that are now being copied by its rivals, but in terms of technology it is nothing more than an upgraded GameCube, which is blatant when you compare it to the Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3. However, there...

16 June 2009
02:39 GMT

Nintendo President Expected Rival Motion Controls Last Year

Nintendo is a huge company in the gaming industry these days, thanks to the hardware best-sellers Wii and DS, and due to the big number of high-grossing franchises that further fuel the Japanese company in order to make even more innovations. A big part in the success that Nintendo has been recording was played by t...

11 June 2009
02:40 GMT

Price Cuts Can't Sustain Momentum, Says Nintendo's Iwata

Nintendo has been experiencing some very strong sales ever since it released the Wii and DS consoles onto the market a few years ago. But after a long time, when it seemed that almost every person on the planet was buying one of these devices, sales were beginning to decline for the Japanese company. This, coupled w...

9 June 2009
03:01 GMT

E3: Nintendo Reveals Wii Vitality Sensor

Nintendo is one of the biggest companies currently active in the gaming industry and one of the most successful, seeing that the Nintendo Wii and DS consoles alongside great franchises like Mario and Zelda are selling quite well.The Japanese company has always taken great pride in thinking outside the box, and thus c...

3 June 2009
11:11 GMT

Nintendo Isn't Worried About Swine Flu, Brings Iwata and Miyamoto to E3

The swine flu has devastated a lot of countries in its worldwide journey, but the starting point, which was in Mexico, has made a lot of companies fearful of traveling towards that country or to the south of the United States. As you all know, one of the biggest gaming conventions in the world, the Electronic Entert...

28 May 2009
13:01 GMT

Nintendo: the Wii and DS Won't Last Forever, New Consoles Will Arrive

Nintendo has been going through a great period in terms of sales and popularity in the last few years, thanks to the release of the DS and Wii consoles, which have changed the way people view gaming in general. The two devices have been breaking sales records left and right, with the small handheld console managing ...

25 May 2009
03:00 GMT

Miyamoto Isn't God, Says Nintendo President

The gaming industry has a lot of iconic figures in the form of reputed game designers that have shaped the way we interact with games and how we can enjoy them in the privacy of our own home or on the go, thanks to handheld devices. Without a doubt, one of the most respected designers is Nintendo's Shigeru Miyam...

22 May 2009
02:56 GMT

The Wii Dominates the Living Room, Says Nintendo

Video game consoles are some of the most important devices currently on the electronics market, thanks to the fact that a lot of people have begun to realize that games provide a higher degree of entertainment than other types of media, like TV or movies. In an effort to get people even more interested in its consol...

11 May 2009
11:11 GMT

The Wii Is in an 'Unhealthy Condition', Says Nintendo President

The Nintendo Wii is without a doubt the most popular console of this generation, as it has amazed a lot of people through its motion-sensitive controls and its unique features. Ever since its launch it has been breaking sales records left and right, but in the last few months the small white Japanese console hasn...

15 April 2009
13:01 GMT

Wii Fit Gets Japanese Families Together

Ever since Nintendo released the record-breaking Wii Fit video game, which has now taken the Xbox 360's blockbuster Halo 3 title in terms of sales, a lot of things have been said about it. These have ranged from debates on whether it can make you fitter, as it is a fitness game, to propaganda about it being resp...

30 March 2009
02:34 GMT

Nintendo Says Americans Want Its Products

Nintendo has definitely been on a high ascending trend ever since it launched the Wii console and DS handheld, a few years ago. Big sales have been registered, placing the Japanese company on top of every chart. It has left its main rivals, Microsoft and Sony behind, now fighting for the second place.Although the fin...

9 December 2008
11:01 GMT

Nintendo President Says Price Cuts Are Bad

How do you know Nintendo feels in no way threatened by the way Microsoft aggressively cut the price of its Xbox 360 gaming console? It’s easy. You just have to take a look at the statements made by Nintendo’s president, Satoru Iwata.He spoke to a Japanese site, Touch-DS, saying that “This is my pers...

6 November 2008
20:11 GMT

Nintendo Boss Says the DSi Won't Compete with the iPhone

Even when it was in the rumor stage, the launch of the highly awaited Nintendo DS upgrade, the DSi, was subject to claims that Nintendo was finally taking the fight to Apple and Sony. The iPhone and PlayStation Portable respectively are provided with features that do not exist on the normal DS. Recently, speaking wi...

6 October 2008
20:01 GMT

It's Official: Wii 2 in the Works

Current-gen consoles are still years away from becoming "last-gen" according to analysts and sales figures, but this does not necessarily mean that work on the next-gen devices hasn't started yet. Although manufacturers usually love secrets and tend to deny everything until the last minute, it seems that Nintend...

31 July 2008
04:04 GMT

Nintendo's President Makes Humble Statements In Light of the Wii's Success

...not that the man's lying, but they're probably feeling a lot better about themselves than what they're actually showing. Satoru Iwata, Nintendo's President, is known for his modesty. Although the company has had the greatest of times with the Wii and DS, there seems to be room for more, accordi...

13 September 2007
05:31 GMT

Hidden Messages Found in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

Metroid was always about finding that secret compartment, item, weapon and so on, but secret messages...? Yes, according to... well, everyone on the Internet plus YouTube, both Satoru Iwata and Shigeru Miyamoto have recorded their voices and implemented them as secrets (easter eggs) in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. Ch...

3 September 2007
04:56 GMT

2007 Wii Lineup from Nintendo

When Nintendo president Satoru Iwata held a conference to talk about company issues and outline for the current fiscal year, the Japan-hosted event revealed an amazing 124 Nintendo titles prepping to hit the two most beloved consoles in the world: the Wii and the sales record holder for handheld gaming systems, the ...

2 May 2007
04:10 GMT


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