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Leading platform holder Nintendo is understandably quite smug about its strong performance in the North American market in October, with its hardware victory being joined by a strong software sales offering . Combined sales of Wii and DS reached 1.29 million for the month, with Wii shifting 803,210 units and …

Nintendo’s Play it on Wii range – based on several updated GameCube titles – is going to get more than a conversion to the new console, according to a report from Famitsu. The Play It line-up, including titles like Donkey Kong Jungle Beat and Pikmin, is to be fine-tuned to …

Ahead of the release of Nintendo’s rejuvenated DSi in Europe and North America some time next year, Nintendo has patented a number of DS-related titles that could offer a sneak peek at the plans the firm has for its machine. The eclectic list points to all sorts of possible software, …

Ahead of the release of both anticipated Wii title Animal Crossing: Let’s Go to the City and microphone-based peripheral Wii Speak, Nintendo has confirmed how it will be pricing its range of SKUs in the UK. To see the full list of SKUs and prices, head over to MCV’s newest …

As Apple continues to cement its position as a serious contender to the likes of Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft in the games space, it has emerged that the company has filed a new patent for an Apple remote control that bears more than a passing resemblance to Nintendo’s own Wii …

A new analytical study from Gamastutra claims that Microsoft’s Xbox 360 boasts the current highest attach rate of all the next generation consoles – though Nintendo can lay claim to having the highest first party software attach rate. The numbers show that the Xbox 360 can currently claim a ratio …

Nintendo has confirmed to MCV that today’s reports claiming that SD-card based piracy hardware the R4 will not work with the upcoming DSi are correct. The platform holder was not able to confirm whether this is a deliberate feature of the newly redesigned handheld. However, judging by recent history it’s …

Leading global games publisher Nintendo has said that it has teamed up with Tokyo-based stock exchange Nikkei to make a new game based on the workings of the stock market. To read more, click here to head over to MCV sister site CasualGaming.biz.

Nintendo’s revamped DSi handheld will include 256MB of internal memory, it has been revealed, though half of it will be taken up by downloading the free Opera web browser. Unfortunately, web browsing was criticised for being very slow, with sites such as Yahoo News reportedly taking over a minute to …

Nintendo president Saturo Iwata has stated that his firm is developing titles specifically designed for the recently unveiled DS remake, the DSi . GameSpot reports that a number of WarioWare titles will be heading for the upcoming DS download service, DSiWare. Along with some of the pioneering Game Boy Advance …