No Sales Projections From Nintendo Hint at the DS Going Into Sunset

The long-lived and long-loved Nintendo DS, the thing that's sold more than 150 million devices (in four formats) and damn near a billion games, received no projected sales in financial statements the company filed today. Is this the end of the world's most successful gaming handheld?

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Meet Nintendo's Hardware Ladies

For nearly a decade now, Nintendo has made a very focused effort to makeover how Japan views video games. To do that, Nintendo's needed help from the country's most famous females.


With the DS, Nintendo changed the stereotypical notion that video games were toys or for guys. It wasn't just the games that had…

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Congratulations, 3DS Owners. You Just Helped Nintendo Beta Test a…

Nintendo is no stranger to hardware iterations. Its last portable, the Nintendo DS, saw several major revisions. The 3DS is a different story. It just came out a few months ago but is already seeing half-hearted hardware upgrades. (A snap-on second slide pad? Ugh.) And 3DS owners should be pissed.

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Trade Your DS In At Walmart, Score 3DS Credit

Walmart stores in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Missouri, Mississippi, Oklahoma, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and South Carolina will be offering up to $100 trade credit towards the 3DS for your old Nintendo DS systems March 27 through April 30.

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American Students Are Now Kinda Like Japanese Students

For years now, Nintendo has put its DS in test-runs in Kyoto classrooms on the grounds that it was a good tool to study math or foreign languages with. Nintendo's probably right. And now, the game maker is doing the same in the States but with art.

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