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Mashiro Sakurai says he doubts he'll be able to continue making games under current working conditions
Read More »Nintendo to share ad revenue with YouTubers
New Nintendo Creators Program promising up to 70 per cent share
Read More »Nintendo Creators Program wants to recruit YouTubers with new ad sharing offer
Wii U and 3DS platform holder Nintendo is taking another step toward repairing relations with video creators by launching a new ad revenue sharing video model. The Nintendo Creators Program offers users a 60 per cent share on ad revenue form any videos using footage from a Nintendo title. Those …
Read More »New Nintendo and Bandai Namco titles depose Yokai Watch 2 and Pokemon in Japan
Three new entries in the Japanese software charts push down previous top dogs Yokai Watch 2: Shinuchi, and Pocket Monster Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire. According to data provided by Famitsu,Bandai Namco’s Tales of Zestiria debuted this week and shot straight to the top of the charts, selling 316,824 units. …
Read More »Pokemon, Smash Bros and Mario Kart fire Nintendo back to profit, but 3DS sales slow
Nintendo posted a huge increase in profits and raised its earnings forecast, but cheap yen is masking weak sales. Nintendo profits for the nine months ending December 2014 hit 59.52 billion yen (332.6m), which is up almost six fold on the year before. This is primarily down to the launch …
Read More »Hyrule Warriors ships 1m units worldwide
Hyrule Warriors has shipped a million copies internationally since its launch last year, publisher Koei Tecmo has announced. A Koei Tecmo Europe representative confirmed the milestone to Joystiq, and the company is celebrating by releasing a batch of desktop wallpapers based on the fighting mash-up. Hyrule Warriors originally launched last …
Read More »APPOINTMENTS: Fresh changes at Nintendo UK
There have been a number of changes in Nintendo’s UK team. Social media and community manager Jonathan Town and product manager Vanisha Kavia are leaving Nintendo UK this January. We are sorry to see Jonathan and Vanisha leave the Nintendo family, they have both been valuable members of the UK …
Read More »Yokai Watch: Can Japan’s biggest video game conquer the West?
Over 6m units of a game you’ve never heard of was sold in Japan last year. And now it’s coming to the rest of the world. What is it? Should we be excited? Christopher Dring investigates Towards the back end of 2012, Japan’s massively popular CoroCoro Comic magazine published a …
Read More »‘Nintendo needs more powerful hardware to attract devs’
Former Nintendo exec Dan Adelman says Unity 3DS support would entice more indie studios
Read More »Adelman: Most senior Nintendo execs ‘don’t really understand modern gaming’
'In general, bolder ideas don’t get through the process unless they originate at the top'
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