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Iwata said supporting the formats would be too costly in relation to reward
Read More »More Wii U tech specs rumoured
Nintendo’s next generation home console will run a custom edition of AMD’s Radeon R770 GPU, according to a fresh round of unconfirmed reports. The graphics chip giant is apparently building a custom Radeon R770 GPU for the console, according to Japanese website Game Impress Watch. The report, citing AMD insiders, …
Read More »Nintendo shuns DVD once again
There’s nothing Nintendo likes to do more than be a little different and it’s a tradition that the Wii U will embrace in more ways than one. While both the Xbox 360 and PS3 offer DVD playback (and in the latter case, Blu-ray too) out of the box, the Wii …
Read More »Iwata: I wasn’t criticising mobile devs at GDC
Nintendo president gives post-mortem on his significant address to the industry
Read More »Wii will keep selling, says Iwata
The announcement of the Wii U may mean that Wii’s time left on the market has suddenly become finite, but Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata believes there’s plenty of sales opportunities left for the device. "It can be said that for any consumer product, different audiences buy a product at different …
Read More »Nintendo: 3DS has not met expectations
Platform holder Nintendo has admitted that the early performance of the 3DS at retail has fallen some way short of the company’s internal expectations. "I think it’s fair to say that while Nintendo 3DS had a strong launch day, the results since then have not met our expectations," president Satoru …
Read More »Wii U ‘running custom Radeon R770 GPU’
Unconfirmed reports claim new system will support Direct X 10
Read More »Wii U ‘friendlier’ to core games
Nintendo’s upcoming Wii U will be a far "friendlier" platform to traditional hardcore gamers and publishers who release games for that audience. "Trying to make a Call of Duty experience on the Wii, you’ve got to make real sacrifices in the game just based on processing power and some of …
Read More »Nintendo on board for Zumba TV ad
Zumba Fitness, the surprise hit of 2011 so far, is to get a significant second wave of marketing thanks to a collaboration between 505 Games and Nintendo. The pair have joined forces to create and fund a TV campaign for the Wii version of the title. It will hit screens …
Read More »Wii U ‘50% more powerful than PS3’
A speculative claim from Sterne Agee analyst Arvind Bhatia has suggested that Nintendo’s Wii U will offer a significant performance advantage over Sony’s PS3 and Microsoft’s Xbox 360. "Some of the developers we spoke to indicated to us that the console will have 50 per cent more processing power compared …
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