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Though Nintendo’s third iteration of its successful handheld the DSI only arrived in Europe and North America a few months ago, Japan’s often reliable newspaper Nikkei has predicted that a new version of the handheld will be released in Japan before the end of the year. The fourth version of …
Read More »Black Wii targets lapsed gamers
Nintendo believes that its new sleek black Wii console can single-handedly lure hard-to-reach consumers back into gaming. As revealed by MCVUK.com last week, the console will be launched in the UK and Ireland on November 6th – two weeks before mainland Europe. The move has widely been seen as a …
Read More »Change4Life backs Wii Fit Plus
ELSPA has welcomed the decision by the Department of Health to endorse Nintendo’s Wii Fit Plus – making the first game to be allowed to use the NHS’s Change4Life logo in future advertising. As first reported by MCV, the Change4Life endorsement will be used across Nintendo’s promotion for Wii Fit …
Read More »DS and PSP have ‘peaked’
Though both DS and PSP are expected to continue to lead the market for quite some time, both Sony’s and Nintendo’s machines have peaked – leaving Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch to drive the future growth of the handheld sector. That’s the prediction of DFC Intelligence, which predicts that Apple’s …
Read More »Black Wii coming next month
Nintendo has confirmed it will launch a limited edition black Wii in the UK and Ireland on Friday, November 6th. The console will hit mainland Europe two weeks later on November 20th. Nintendo senior product manager for Wii Rob Lowe told MCV: Nintendo has always taken the European market seriously …
Read More »Nintendo profits under threat?
Falling sales of the Wii and the decreasing value of the yen could force Nintendo to lower its profit forecasts for the first time in six years – that’s the warning from US news agency Bloomberg. The predictions are that the platform holder’s net income is set to fall by …
Read More »Nintendo hails strongest Xmas Wii line-up
Nintendo is convinced that Wii Fit Plus and New Super Mario Bros. Wii make up its best Christmas Wii line-up yet, and expects both titles to dominate the Top 40 well into 2010. The new releases – along with Wii Sports Resort – will be backed by the platform holder’s …
Read More »Miyamoto interested in LittleBigPlanet-style Mario
Shigeru Miyamoto is definitely open” to the concept of user-generated content in a Super Mario title. Speaking to Joystiq, he revealed Nintendo has already discussed the notion of allowing players to create element of a future platformer, in a similar style to Sony’s LittleBigPlanet. This is an area that I …
Read More »Nintendo announces Wii Pokémon game
Nintendo of Japan has announced it will release a new Pokmon game for Wii in the form of Pokpark. The game puts players in the paws of Pikachu as they wander around a Pokmon-themed amusement park, interacting with other Pokmon and competing in a variety of mini-games, according to CVG. …
Read More »Nintendo House Tour dates announced
Nintendo has announced the dates for its Nintendo House sampling tour. The makeshift Wii- and DS-themed house will be travelling to some of the nation’s biggest shopping centres, starting from October 22nd and running right up to Christmas Eve. Locations range from London’s Westfield and Essex’s Lakeside to Manchester’s Trafford …
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