Posts By Pramath

Nintendo: You Can Use More Than One Wii U Controller

Nintendo: You Can Use More Than One Wii U Controller

Nobody at Nintendo has no f**king clue, do they? Unlike the debut of the 3DS at last year's E3, which won rave reviews from everybody, the Wii U reveal left everybody's head scratching. The fun... Read More

Five Reasons The 3DS Will Not Fail

Five Reasons The 3DS Will Not Fail

The Nintendo 3DS finds itself in a bit of trouble. It's launch was horribly botched, with little to no marketing, a horrible launch lineup, and some key features missing, promised in a vague 'future... Read More

Iwata: Smartphones Are ‘Not to Blame’ For Low 3DS Sales

Iwata: Smartphones Are ‘Not to Blame’ For Low 3DS Sales

Satoru Iwata recognizes that the handheld market has changed since the company introduced the DS back in 2004. However, he maintains that modern smartphones, which, in the last few years have had an... Read More

Iwata: We Should Integrate the 3DS With Social Networks and Smartphones

Iwata: We Should Integrate the 3DS With Social Networks and Smartphones

Iwata has been looking at moving Nintendo's handheld business into the twenty first century with the 3DS. Previously having reaffirmed the company's commitment to making digital distribution a key p... Read More

Iwata: Not Every 3DS Game Has to be 3D

Iwata: Not Every 3DS Game Has to be 3D

Satoru Iwata has recently confirmed in a recent investors meeting that Nintendo is looking into developing 3DS games that do not utilize the 3D capabilities of the handheld, and are instead develope... Read More

Japan Sales 25th to 31st July: 3DS Bombs, PSP Dominates

Japan Sales 25th to 31st July: 3DS Bombs, PSP Dominates

It was kind of obvious after last week's announcement of a massive price cut for the 3DS, which takes effect on August 11, that the system wouldn't be as hot on the sales charts for the upcoming two... Read More

Miyamoto Confirms Star Fox in a Do or Die Situation

Miyamoto Confirms Star Fox in a Do or Die Situation

Star Fox is probably one of Nintendo's best franchises, appealing as it does to every crowd- people who traditionally like Nintendo games, and people who don't. Also, unlike Metroid, Star Fox has ap... Read More

Two More 3DS Ambassador Games Announced

Two More 3DS Ambassador Games Announced

The 3DS Ambassadors program should be familiar to anybody who has been following news of Nintendo's unprecedented massive price slash for its latest handheld, the Nintendo 3DS. As part of a strategy... Read More

Capcom Considering Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition and Street Fighter X Tekken For the 3DS

Capcom Considering Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition and Street Fighter X Tekken For the 3DS

Super Street Fighter IV was an absolute success on the 3DS, becoming the sole highlight of its anemic launch lineup, one of the 3DS's highest rated games, and also managing to sell over a million un... Read More

Metroid, Killzone Designers Working on Halo 4

Metroid, Killzone Designers Working on Halo 4

If there is anything that would make Sony and Nintendo fanboys eagerly await the upcoming Halo 4, and anything that might make Microsoft fans dread it, it's probably this piece of news that has rece... Read More

STORM: Frontline Nation Review

STORM: Frontline Nation Review

The incredibly generic title and the Advance Wars level graphics might not make much of a first impression, especially to the PC gamer used to such stunning (and imaginatively titled) games such as ... Read More

Top 5 Expected Biggest Sellers of Holiday 2011

Top 5 Expected Biggest Sellers of Holiday 2011

This holiday season is going to be hard on our wallets as gamers- with so many awesome games releasing in the short span of two months, it'll be hard to keep up with all the releases as they swiftly... Read More

3DS Ambassador Games To Get Upgraded With Multiplayer Support

3DS Ambassador Games To Get Upgraded With Multiplayer Support

Following on the heels of the 3DS price cut, Nintendo quickly announced that early adopters of 3DS, who paid the full $249 price for the handheld, would be eligible for 20 free games as part of a sp... Read More

Pokemon Black/White Lifetime Sales Over 12 Million, Mario Kart Wii Over 28 Million

Pokemon Black/White Lifetime Sales Over 12 Million, Mario Kart Wii Over 28 Million

Amidst all the bad news for Nintendo lately, here's a lone bright spot- along with Ocarina of Time 3D, which was reported to have sold in excess of a million units worldwide yesterday, two more Nint... Read More

PS Vita Might Not Have Had Its Specs Cut After All

PS Vita Might Not Have Had Its Specs Cut After All

Remember the report yesterday, which seemingly confirmed that the Vita had indeed seen a spec reduction, with the RAM in the base model in particular having been slashed to 256 MB? Well, it turns ou... Read More

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D Crosses 1 million Units Sold

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D Crosses 1 million Units Sold

Whereas the Nintendo 3DS might have performed sluggishly at retail on the hardware front, on the software front, it seems to have done pretty well for itself, with two games (Nintendogs+Cats and Sup... Read More

Nintendo Selling 3DS Hardware at a Loss

Nintendo Selling 3DS Hardware at a Loss

Today's massive 3DS price cut that makes the hardware cheaper than the DSi XL at retail will allegedly cost Nintendo heavily, as Bloomberg Japan reports that for every 3DS unit that Nintendo sells, ... Read More

Tekken Boss: ‘If You’re Not On Xbox 360, You’re Doing It Wrong’

Tekken Boss: ‘If You’re Not On Xbox 360, You’re Doing It Wrong’

In what must be one of the most outspoken instances of a developer speaking out for the Xbox 360, Tekken series producer Katsuhiro Harada has said that all developers must ensure their games are o... Read More

Nintendo 3DS Sees Massive Price Cut; Now Retails for $169.99

Nintendo 3DS Sees Massive Price Cut; Now Retails for $169.99

And with that, Nintendo gets the upper hand in the price wars again. The 3DS, which retailed at $249.99 currently, will get a massive $80 price cut starting August 12, taking its new price down t... Read More

EA: Wii U Can Do Anything Xbox 360 and PS3 Can

EA: Wii U Can Do Anything Xbox 360 and PS3 Can

Third parties seem to be in love with the Wii U. So far, developers like Irrational, Activision, Ubisoft, Bethesda, DICE, Crytek, Epic and Junction Point have all sung praises for the hardware. No... Read More