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Nintendo has announced the first ever ‘proper’ 3D Pokemon outings – Pokemon X and Pokemon Y. It’s also the first time the series has been released on 3DS. Nintendo president Saturo Iwata went to great lengths to repeatedly tell his Pokemon Direct audience that the game will release simultaneously worldwide …
Read More »EA decides against Wii U port of Crysis 3 for "business" reasons
Crytek will not be bringing Crysis 3 to Wii U. CEO and founder Cevat Yerli would to, the exec claims, but EA has apparently told him it has no interest in publishing the game on Nintendo’s new platform. "There has been discussions between Nintendo and EA and Crytek, but the …
Read More »Iwata: Wii U sales are "steady"
Nintendo president Saturo Iwata has described sales of the Wii U as steady”. The company, however, has still not revealed any concrete sales numbers, although neither has it retracted its initial target of 5.5m Wii U unit sales by the end of March. So far we know that the console …
Read More »Pirates make 3DS breakthrough, leaving devs worried
Having held out for the best part of two years, Nintendo’s 3DS seems to have sadly succumbed to pirates. With both the Wii and DS suffering intense levels of piracy, Nintendo put a lot of effort into securing its latest hardware. And it had been very successful, until now. Gamasutra …
Read More »Pre-owned Wii U consoles can access former owner’s downloads – report
Claims are circulating that pre-owned Wii U consoles are able to access digital content purchased by the machine’s previous owner. Eurogamer reports that even machines whose hard drives have been wiped and accounts removed are still susceptible to the loophole. Speculation suggests that the problems stems from the fact that …
Read More »Miyamoto wants Pikmin 3 to stress you out
Pikmin may be one of the cutest IP on the planet, but don’t expect the next game to be a walkover. Speaking to GamesMaster (as reported by ONM) Nintendo development boss Shigeru Miyamoto has admitted that he thought the second game in the series was too easy going and that …
Read More »Dev: I’ll quit 3DS if piracy gets bad
Dementium maker says pirates crippled the DS market
Read More »3DS passes PS3’s lifetime sales in Japan
And you thought Nintendo’s handheld wasn’t popular? The latest charts data from Media Create shows that in just two years sales of Nintendo’s 3DS have already passed the lifetime sales of Sony’s six year old PS3. PS3’s lifetime Japanese sales stand at 8.7m. Last week 3DS sold 211k units, taking …
Read More »Nintendo decides it can transfer Network IDs to a new Wii U console
It now seems as if it IS possible to transfer Nintendo Network IDs from one Wii U to another. Until now official Nintendo guidelines had suggested that once created a Nintendo Network ID is locked to a single machine and cannot be transferred to another under any circumstances – even …
Read More »Hackers make first step toward cracking Wii U
Nintendo’s Wii U hasn’t even been out for two weeks in the UK and hackers are already enjoying early success in cracking the console. A renowned hacking site reports that the Wii’s Homebrew Channel is already up and running on Wii U. It doesn’t run in the Wii U’s UI …
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