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Struggling to keep up with E3? The tidal wave of news from the past 24 hours has no doubt overwhelmed many a reader. Fortunately MCV is on hand to provide you with everything you might have missed. And if you missed it, here’s our E3 2011 Day One Roundup. NINTENDOOpinion: …

PlayStation Vita may not launch in territories outside Japan until 2012. That’s according to SCEA president and CEO Jack Tretton, who told Reuters the handheld console will go on sale in Japan by the end of the year, but may not arrive elsewhere until 2012. Sony also expects Vita to …

E3 2011: Nintendo president makes bold prediction for the future of the Wii U technology

E3 2011: Plans for simultaneous five-player gaming on Nintendoâ??s new console

E3 2011: Development on the peripheral curio continues, Nintendo says

SCE Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida is interested in Nintendo’s recently announced Wii U, and says it will likely inspire PS Vita developers to carry out experiments with the newly named Sony handheld. "It is very interesting the ways that Nintendo went with Wii U, and I was surprised it …

Shigeru Miyamoto has said that he is going through a process of finishing all development work on Wii games, following the revelation of the Wii U console at E3 yesterday. Miyamoto, best-known as creator of the Mario and Zelda franchises, said that he would be focused on the newest upcoming …

The international development industry was flushed through with giddy school boy (and girl) excitement following the E3 reveal of the Nintendo Wii U yesterday. The brand new home console, which features a ‘game changing’ controller with in-built screen, aims to appeal to core and casual players alike. But is it …

Nintendo’s new Wii U tablet-like controller and HD console will be sold as a single unit. Both the controller and the console will be sold as one unit. You won’t be able to buy the controller alone,” a Nintendo spokesperson told CVG at E3. The Wii U’s iPad-like controller has …

Despite the unveiling of its new home console Wii U, Nintendo’s share price has fallen to a five-year low. The format holder’s share price on the Tokyo Stock Exchange dropped 5.7 per cent from 17,950 YEN to 16,600 YEN yesterday, Bloomberg reports. However by the close of trading it had …