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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

Epic Games president- We are “very interested in Wii U”

Epic Games president- We are “very interested in Wii U”

A handful of Epic Games executives, like Mark Rein and Cliffy B, have already expressed their interest in Nintendo's upcoming new home console, the Wii U. Now Mike Capps, president of Epic Games, ha... Read More

Amazon Suspends 3DS Sales in the US, Resumes Them Again

Amazon Suspends 3DS Sales in the US, Resumes Them Again

In what threatened to be the most damaging development to the beleaguered 3DS's prospects in the market, online retailer Amazon, the largest online retailer in the world, stopped selling the c... Read More

Tales of the Abyss: Lovely Gameplay Screens Will Leave You Wanting For More

Tales of the Abyss: Lovely Gameplay Screens Will Leave You Wanting For More

Namco Bandai have released a ton of gameplay screens for Tales of the Abyss. The game is due on the 3DS and is expected to be released on 10th November 2011. [gallery link="file" columns="3"]Read More

Skyward Sword will have upgradable items

Skyward Sword will have upgradable items

The many whimsical, innovative items in Link's arsenal are some of the most lovable things one can come across in a Zelda game. Nintendo has now announced that these very items will now be upgradabl... Read More

Ode to Nintendo DS: The Little Handheld That Could

Ode to Nintendo DS: The Little Handheld That Could

  This November, the Nintendo DS will be completing seven years on the market. Few game systems have ever seen that kind of longevity- most of them are phased out around the five year mark, and the... Read More

REPORT: Gamecube Games to be Downloadable on Wii U Store

REPORT: Gamecube Games to be Downloadable on Wii U Store

The Gamecube may have been Nintendo's least successful console ever, as well as the wooden spoon holder of its generation, but in recent years, it has come to stand as a symbol for the Nintendo of o... Read More

Sony India On Wii U: ‘We will also do what it takes’ to be competitive

Sony India On Wii U: ‘We will also do what it takes’ to be competitive

I got an opportunity to speak with Atindriya Bose, country manager of PlayStation India on various topics ranging from the PS3 exclusive RA One, PS Vita, PSP, PS4 and India as an upcoming video g... Read More

Release date confirmed for Pokemon Rumble Blast

Release date confirmed for Pokemon Rumble Blast

The first Pokemon title for 3DS has been given an official US release date of October 24th. The press material describes the upcoming Pokemon Rumble Blast as "An action-packed Pokémon adventur... Read More