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Mobile games firm DeNA wants its partnership with Nintendo to rake in more than $25m a month, the firm’s CEO has said. The two companies recently agreed a major deal to collaborate onbringing Nintendo’s IP to mobile devices. Speaking toReuters, Isao Moriyasu said though DeNA has yet to discuss specific …
Read More »DeNA wants Nintendo’s mobile games to make $25m a month
'We want to create multiple hit games rather than aiming to succeed with just one powerful IP element'
Read More »Nintendo issues takedown demand for student Super Mario 64 HD project
A recreation of the first level from Super Mario 64 made with the Unity engine must be removed from the internet, Nintendo has said. Super Mario 64 HD was created by Roystan Ross as an attempt to learn Unity. It uses the level structure of 64 and character models from …
Read More »Yo-Kai Watch series surpasses 7m sales
Yo-Kai Watch developer Level-5 has revealed its RPG franchise has combined to sell in excess of 7m units on Nintendo 3DS. Gematsu reports on the figure, explaining that it accounts for both physical and digital sales since the release of the original Yo-Kai Watch in Japan. The IP has thus …
Read More »The Legend of Zelda Wii U to miss 2015
UPDATE: The Legend of Zelda for Wii U will not arrive this year as planned, Nintendo has said, and it won’t be shown at E3 either. Zelda franchise boss Eiji Aonuma said in a video today that the development team has come across ‘new possibilities’ in its bid to create …
Read More »Who is Nintendo’s saviour DeNA?
On Tuesday March 17th, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata surprised a gathering of press with a major announcement about the future of its business. In recent years, with the spread of smart devices, we’ve increasingly heard a variety of opinions on the future of the dedicated video game system business, and …
Read More »Iwata: Nintendo was not ‘cornered’ into mobile games push
Platform holder president insists DeNA partnership was not made "out of a lack of options"
Read More »Read our interview with DeNA in the Easter issue of MCV
Find out who Nintendo’s new partner DeNA is in this week’s double issue of MCV. We speak to the Japanese mobile giant to see what its plans are and why Nintendo was so eager to partner up with it. This issue also features interviews with Bandai Namco’s European president and …
Read More »Iwata: Nintendo was not cornered into smartphone backtrack
Nintendo’s change of mind in deciding to bring its titles to smartphones did not come about because the company believed it had run out of options. That’s according to director and president Satoru Iwata, who explained in a now translated transcription of a chat with investors the reasons behind his …
Read More »Nintendo UK seeks new consumer PR agency
Nintendo UK is in the final stages of selecting a new consumer PR agency, the firm says. The platform holder has teamed up with agency-client intermediary AAR to help find the new agency. The account was previously held by 77PR – the consumer arm of Fishburn. Fishburn will continue to …
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