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3DS to challenge Kindle and iPad

More details are emerging about Nintendo’s intended scope for its new 3DS handheld – with latest comments from Nintendo president Satoru Iwata suggestion newspaper and magazine content functions like those seen on the Kindle and iPad In a new interview with Japanese newspaper Nikkei, Iwata said the online functions of …

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NINTENDO: Has Vitality Sensor flatlined?

Nintendo struck a good chord between core games and mass market fare at its E3 press conference today. However the odd hardware unveiled at last year’s E3, the Wii Vitality Sensor, was mysteriously absent from proceedings. The device – which clips onto a finger and monitors the player’s heart-rate – …

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NINTENDO: Huge publisher support for 3DS

A raft of third-parties are on-board to make games for the Nintendo 3DS. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata unveiled a list of publishers supporting the device during the firm’s E3 press conference today. These include: Activision, Atlus, AQ, Namco Bandai Games, Capcom, EA, Harmonix, Hudson, Konami, Tecmo Koei, Level 5, Majesco, …

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NINTENDO: 3DS Nintendogs & Cats unveiled

A classic Nintendo DS franchise is confirmed for the 3DS: Nintendogs. But this time the game is called ‘Nintendogs & Cats’. The game was described by Nintendo president Iwata as famed deisgner Shigeru Miyamoto’s ‘update’ to the classic Nintendo DS title, which sold millions of copies globally and helped define …

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NINTENDO: 3D movie support for 3DS

Nintendo’s 3DS has charged out the gate at E3 – it already boasts major support from Hollywood studios working on 3D movies. Disney and Dreamworks are the first on board. Their movies Tangled and How to Train Your Dragon will be released for the device – presumably at retail – …

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E3 2010: 3DS super-wide display confirmed?

Very few specifics are known about Nintendo’s 3DS, the new handheld it will unveil next week. We know it will boast a glasses-free 3D display, and be backwards compatible with the old DS software – but Nintendo is keeping back many details until its E3 press conference next week. However …

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3DS is Nintendo’s ‘biggest launch’ since ’04

Nintendo has squashed any doubts that its 3DS handheld is just an extension of the current DS platform. In an interview with Bloomberg, Nintendo America’s president has described the new handheld – expected to hit the market by March 2011 – as the firm’s biggest launch since the original DS …

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