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GDC: Nintendo slams App Store platform

Nintendo CEO and president Satoru Iwata has hit out at Apple’s focus on building a large quantity of low priced games on the App Store. The industry veteran – who announced he has been making games for more than 25 years – said smartphone manufacturers don’t value video games as …

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GDC: Nintendo reiterates 3DS update plans

Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime confirmed that a worldwide system update will be released for 3DS in late May. Discussing the new handheld’s long-tail launch during Nintendo’s keynote at GDC 2011 in San Francisco, Fils- Aime confirmed the update would introduce a number of previoulsy announced features that would …

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