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Nintendo has said that online petitions and fan outcries don’t play a part in shaping its overall strategy. When asked about the likes of Operation Rainfall – a pressure group that is trying to get Nintendo to localise a handful of Japanese-only Wii games – Nintendo of America president Reggie …
Read More »Nintendo 2DS Pokemon X&Y bundles arrive this week
Nintendo has revealed a pair of 2DS hardware bundles featuring Pokemon X and Pokemon Y for a select US retail release later this week. Target will begin carrying one of the bundles on December 6th, and Toys R Us will offer the other starting on the same day. The Target …
Read More »"Nintendo steadfastly refuses to consider that Wii U is not interesting to consumers"
Wii U will fail to sell the 9m units Nintendo has predicted for the current financial year, analysts have said. After sales of just 460k units in the six months ending September and a global install base of below 4m units, this is looking increasingly unlikely. That Xbox One beat …
Read More »Jason Rubin calls Nintendo ‘irrelevant’
Jak and Daxter co-creator also criticises Nintendo’s ‘criminal’ approach to third-party hardware
Read More »Rubin: Nintendo is irrelevant as a hardware manufacturer
Naughty Dog co-founder and former boss of now defunct publisher THQ has written off Nintendo’s position in the hardware business. "Nintendo is irrelevant as a hardware manufacturer in the console business," Jason Rubin told GameTrailers, as reported by GameRevolution. He added, however, that the platform holder is a "worldwide treasure" …
Read More »Pikmin design working on Nintendo’s new IP
Masamichi Abe's current project teased by Tekken's Katsuhiro Harada
Read More »Luigi’s Mansion 2: Dark Moon 3DS bundle lands this week
A new 3DS bundle featuring Luigi’s Mansion 2 will hit shops in US and Canada in time for Black Friday, Nintendo has revealed. Game Informer reports the bundle includes a cobalt blue 3DS system and a preinstalled digital version of Luigi’s Mansion 2: Dark Moon. The package will cost $169.99 …
Read More »Nintendo experimenting with Android tablet, engineer claims
A Nintendo software engineer has claimed that the company is working on an Android-based tablet. Nando Monterazo tweeted that he was "experimenting with a tablet of Nintendo, the system is based on Android, fully modified and unified as a database of the tablet." The tweet was one of several mentioning …
Read More »Free Super Mario 3D Land download for new 3DS owners
New (or old) 3DS owners who register their system after November 27th will get a free copy of Super Mario 3D Land. To be eligible a user must register both a console and one game from the list below between then and January 13th. The simply head over here and …
Read More »How the Wii U launch nearly derailed development of A Link Between Worlds
Team behind 3DS title disbanded during prototype phase to work on next-gen
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