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Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata has confirmed to investors that the company wants to start releasing downloadable content for some of its games, in order to keep them popular among existent owners and attract new customers.
While Sony and Microsoft have embraced the practice of downloadable content for their video games,... |
2 February 2012
19:51 GMT |
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Nintendo has taken extra care of its upcoming The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword game, which, according to its development team, is so easy to get into that even a five-year-old kid can grasp the basic controls and concept of the title.Skyward Sword has been awaited for quite some time and it's definitely one of... |
16 November 2011
20:11 GMT |
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The Nintendo 3DS console was released at the beginning of the year but, since then, only a few 3DS Classics titles have appeared, as Nintendo has apparently run into quite a few problems when converting games from its 8-bit or 16-bit eras into stereoscopic 3D for the new handheld device.
Nintendo released its new ... |
14 July 2011
02:25 GMT |
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The recently released Nintendo 3DS handheld console can be used as a controller with the upcoming Nintendo Wii U, even if the Japanese company isn't all that keen on the idea, at least according to some new statements from Nintendo President Satoru Iwata.
The Nintendo Wii U was showcased at last month's ... |
11 July 2011
03:20 GMT |
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Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata has admitted to investors that the online services and connectivity of the Wii home console weren't exactly the best, attributing this fact to Nintendo wanting to work on such features by itself, without any outside help.
The Nintendo Wii was a phenomenal success, drawing many gamer... |
3 May 2011
15:51 GMT |
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Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata has revealed recently that his company doesn't intend to release any sort of new controller with the already-confirmed Wii successor that doesn't have any traditional buttons.
Nintendo, after a huge amount of rumors and speculations, confirmed last week that it would be reveali... |
2 May 2011
17:21 GMT |
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The recently confirmed Nintendo Wii successor will be playable by everyone at this summer's E3 conference in Los Angeles and, according to the president of the Japanese company, will offer lots of new things over its competitors and even the old Wii.
Nintendo decided to officially confirm that it is working o... |
26 April 2011
16:51 GMT |
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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D, the remake of the classic Nintendo 64 title for the new 3DS portable device, has just received a release date and a batch of screenshots.
Nintendo is making sure that people are excited for the 3DS ahead of its launch later this month, and has just dropped more details abou... |
3 March 2011
15:51 GMT |
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Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata has shared some insight on his company's consoles, the Wii and the upcoming 3DS, and how he sees a bright future for them in the current market.
Nintendo's Wii home console is getting a bit old these days, and the fact that it doesn't have high definition graphics is resul... |
3 March 2011
03:20 GMT |
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Nintendo presented details about its upcoming 3DS handheld console a few weeks ago, but it has now started detailing some of the features of the device, including the expectancy of its battery.
The battery life of the 3DS was talked about for quite some time, as many people were wondering just what toll the 3D tec... |
31 January 2011
03:10 GMT |
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Nintendo is quite confident in its upcoming 3DS handheld console, with two of its most important executives saying that due to its unique features, its sales will be on par with the phenomenon that was the Nintendo Wii home console.
The Nintendo 3DS is set to be one of the most important portable console launches ... |
25 January 2011
03:10 GMT |
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Even if it is getting ready to launch the brand new Nintendo 3DS handheld device, the Japanese game company will continue to support its existing portable console, the DS, in all of its forms, be it DSi, DSi XL or other such variations.The Nintendo DS has been a phenomenal success, managing to sell lots of millions o... |
9 November 2010
02:27 GMT |
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Amidst the rumors of a possible price cut for the Nintendo Wii console, the company's president, Satoru Iwata, has just revealed that Nintendo isn't considering such a move in the near future, and that it is focusing on making the Wii more attractive to those that haven't bought it already.The Nintendo... |
1 November 2010
19:01 GMT |
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Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata has recently admitted that his company is bit a worried about the lack of third-party video game sales for Nintendo platforms, with the Wii being addressed specifically.While the Wii and the DS have become sales phenomenons, managing to ship millions upon millions of units around the world,... |
5 October 2010
14:21 GMT |
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A recent Questions and Answers session between Satoru Iwata, the president of Nintendo, and the company's investors brought up the presence of the Japanese gaming giant in developing countries. Nintendo does not officially sell it products in emerging markets, though customers located in these countries can buy ... |
3 August 2010
03:33 GMT |
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A recent Nintendo investor Question and Answer session has revealed a bit from the company's philosophy regarding its idea of competition. According to the president of the Japanese gaming giant, Satoru Iwata, Nintendo sees as a rival anything that could take people's attention from Nintendo products.... |
12 July 2010
18:01 GMT |
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More videogames are being launched each year, even with publishers vowing to cut down on quantity and focus on quality, but players often complain the industry fails to produce the gems that it created in the '90's and the early years of this new century. And now, one prominent videogame executive is joinin... |
24 June 2010
05:34 GMT |
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Satoru Iwata, Nintendo's president, gave some details about third-party support and online functionality on the 3DS during an E3 analyst Q&A session. Unlike other Nintendo products, the Nintendo 3DS will have quite a stellar third-party offering, with titles like Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D and Dead or Aliv... |
23 June 2010
05:43 GMT |
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Clearly the big news coming out from this year's E3 trade show was that the Nintendo 3DS is not only real but manages to deliver a full three-dimensional gaming experience without using any glasses.Most publishers are preparing videogames linked to the new device set to arrive in late 2010 or in early 2011 for a... |
18 June 2010
18:51 GMT |
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The existence of a successor for the Nintendo Wii has been talked about for two years, with analysts of the videogame industry saying that the Japanese manufacturer needs to offer more power and better graphics to its customers. But it seems Nintendo is more interested in selling as many Wiis as possible now and less... |
17 March 2010
15:41 GMT |
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The topic of Nintendo's DS2 is about as hot as it is mysterious. The most fiery part of it was carried out between Satoru Iwata, Nintendo's president and CEO, and one of Japan's biggest newspapers, The Asahi Shimbun. Initial reports from the newspaper stated that Nintendo's top man leaked some inf... |
17 February 2010
04:59 GMT |
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We have already learned that Satoru Iwata, the Chief Executive Officer and the president of Nintendo, is not in the least impressed by the potential of the new iPad tablet computing solution, which Apple recently unveiled. The device was characterized as being just a bigger iPod. And it seems that the Japanese busine... |
3 February 2010
16:31 GMT |
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The mobile gaming market became a lot more complicated after Apple released the iPhone line of devices. There was gaming on phones before that but no platform reached the same level of popularity and the App Store was a great distribution channel, which allowed developers to get videogames out to players quickly and ... |
2 February 2010
16:31 GMT |
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Satoru Iwata, the president of Nintendo in Japan, hinted that a successor to the DS handheld was being readied for launch later in the year and that it might have a motion sensor. The company he heads has since stated that his words were misinterpreted by the media. But the rumors about the impending announcement of ... |
18 January 2010
05:41 GMT |
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Nintendo is well known for the secrecy that surrounds new projects, specifically when they are hardware related. Despite the endless speculation, the company is still not saying anything about the rumored Wii HD, which some state could arrive as early as 2011.So, it was refreshing to see company president Satoru Iwat... |
13 January 2010
16:51 GMT |
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Before the Christmas shopping season was in full swing, Nintendo did an uncharacteristic thing. The Japanese company sent out some of its high profile leaders to tell the public that the Nintendo Wii could actually be in a bit of trouble.Its performance in Japan has been described as “less than healthy” a... |
8 January 2010
13:31 GMT |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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...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 |
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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 |
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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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