Archive For Nintendo Tag

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

Mario Kart 7 logo and artwork revealed

Mario Kart 7 logo and artwork revealed

New artwork and a logo of Mario Kart 7 have been officially revealed. The artwork shows Mario, Luigi and Bowser riding some karts. Mario Kart 7 was (along with Super Mario 3D Land) officially named... 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

Nintendo will announce Wii U price and release date next year

Nintendo will announce Wii U price and release date next year

Nintendo, in a meeting with investors, said that they would reveal details on the Wii U's release date and price in 2012. President Satoru Iwata feels after the recent 3DS price cut announcement, fa... Read More

How The Names Of Starfox Came To Be

How The Names Of Starfox Came To Be

If there is ever a computer game category added to Trivial Pursuit, Nintendo's Iwata Asks will be a goldmine to the poor soul lumped with the question writing. In the latest addition to the series, th... Read More

Here is what Satoru Iwata’s letter to 3DS owners looks like

Here is what Satoru Iwata’s letter to 3DS owners looks like

Completely translated letter from President of Nintendo, Satoru Iwata.

BioWare: We need to ‘spend more time’ with the Wii U

BioWare: We need to ‘spend more time’ with the Wii U

BioWare, in an interview with NowGamer, said that they are very interested in Nintendo's new upcoming home console, the Wii U, but they need to 'spend more time' with it. "It's an interesting syste... 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

3DS price drop should result in “explosive sales in the year-end sales season”- Iwata

3DS price drop should result in “explosive sales in the year-end sales season”- Iwata

Satoru Iwata, President of Nintendo, says the firm is expecting the massive $80 price cut for their new handheld to result in a huge sales spike and they expect it will show in the end-of-year sales... Read More

3DS Tops Japan Charts

3DS Tops Japan Charts

The 3DS, which has been topping the Japanese hardware charts for two weeks, has topped the charts again, with the PSP also maintaining its second place. It's a surprise, really, to see the 3DS still... Read More

Paid DLC coming to the 3DS and Wii U

Paid DLC coming to the 3DS and Wii U

This was revealed at a Q&A session at Nintendo's Tokyo earnings briefing.

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

3DS: Iwata chops off his own salary, takes responsibility for price cut

3DS: Iwata chops off his own salary, takes responsibility for price cut

During a meeting with shareholders in Tokyo, Satoru Iwata, Worldwide Nintendo President, took responsibility for the recent 3DS $80 price cut and also announced that he will be bringing down his sa... Read More

Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 release date confirmed

Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 release date confirmed

Nintendo have announced the UK and European release dat for Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2. If you played the original, you'll know that you're in for a treat when the game releases on October 7t... 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

Nintendo fears ‘loss of fan trust’ over 3DS price cut

Nintendo fears ‘loss of fan trust’ over 3DS price cut

Nintendo have recently made a surprise price cut to the 3DS, but fear there may be negative ramifications from this. "Never in Nintendo's history have we dropped a system's trade price so signifi... Read More

Super Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart 7 Get Release Dates

Super Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart 7 Get Release Dates

Super Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart 7 have not only seen a change in their names from Super Mario 3D and Mario Kart 3D respectively, they have also been given official release dates by Nintendo. Sup... 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

Ubisoft: Wii U Controller is an ‘Improvement’

Ubisoft: Wii U Controller is an ‘Improvement’

The standout feature of Nintendo's upcoming Wii U home console is undoubtedly its tablet controller, with that gorgeous screen and the 'throw in everything and the kitchen sink too' mentality. The... Read More