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Games created for Nintendo’s highly anticipated 3DS won’t be forced to make use of the device’s unique 3D capabilities. This revelation emerged from the latest Iwata Asks interview, in which iconic developer Shigeru Miyamoto was asked how compatible the new handheld would be with the DS titles already available. It’s …
Read More »Nintendo’s 5 years of US success
Gaming stalwart Nintendo is this morning rightly singing loudly about its transformation in this generation of machines, heralding its unprecedented success in the US market. The DS and Wii have been confirmed as the best selling consoles of 2010 in the US with sales of 8.5m and 7m respectively. These …
Read More »More 3DS games dated
Following confirmation earlier this week that eight games will launch alongside the 3DS in Japan on February 26th, Nintendo has now dated a further 16 games that will be out in the month that follows. As reported by Andriasang, seven games have been given definitive release dates: March 11th: Super …
Read More »Hut sites price 3DS at £300
A number of sites have gone live with pre-orders for the Nintendo 3DS, with a placeholder price of 299 having been put in place. Eurogamer spotted the listings on The Hut, WHSmith, Best Buy and Woolworths. What the site didn’t note, though, is that all of these portals are run …
Read More »Nintendo sets rivalry aside in praise of diversity
Yarnton positive about 'multitude of game systems and tools that can help stimulate development'
Read More »Nintendo praises console diversity
Nintendo UK boss David Yarnton believes rival firms Sony and Microsoft are as equally important in promoting the industry to the next generation of game development hopefuls. Speaking at the Learning Without Frontiers event today, Yarnton set aside old rivalries to say the arrival of both Sony and Microsoft in …
Read More »Iwata to keynote GDC
Satoru Iwata is to keynote the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco for the fourth time this year. He will deliver a session at next month’s event titled ‘Video Games Turn 25: A Historical Perspective and Vision for the Future’. The Nintendo president’s talk coincides with the 25th anniversary of …
Read More »3DS games region locked?
Software for the Nintendo 3DS will be region locked in much the same way as DVDs, consumer blog VG247 is reporting. In recent years the portable market has been free of region coding, with software for both the DS and PSP being (on the whole) universally compatible across all territories. …
Read More »Nintendo denies DSi discontinuation
Platform holder Nintendo has denied claims that it has stopped manufacturing the DSi ahead of the launch of the 3DS over the next two months. This morning Kotaku reported that the machine was out of production in Japan, with inventory stock being all that’s left of the machine in the …
Read More »Big Mario push planned for 2011
Nintendo reckons two new titles out next month can help keep consumers excited about Mario following the mascot’s 25th anniversary. Mario Sports Mix for Wii and Mario vs Donkey Kong: Mini-Land Mayhem are out for Wii and DS respectively on February 4th. Nintendo saw the full range of Mario games …
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