The company that gave the world Mario, Link, and Samus is the undisputed champ of the modern console war, with nearly 150 million Switches sold since 2017. But now, speculation is rampant about the company’s next console, rumored to launch in 2025.
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Yesterday, Pokémon writer Takeshi Shudo was rushed to the hospital after suffering a hemorrhage and collapsing at Nara Station. He has since passed away. Shudo was 61 years-old. Shudo created TV anime Fairy Princess Minky Momo and worked on various anime through the 80s and 90s. He became the chief writer for the original Pokémon…
Today at a Tokyo hotel, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata shot down talk of a Wii price cut anytime soon. This comes as Nintendo posted losses due to slow sales and the strong Japanese yen. “Of course, we cannot say it will never happen, but we are not thinking of it for the near future,” Iwata…
LA animator Chris Houghton created this cartoon of me using Nintendo’s Art Academy. Pretty impressive for drawing on a touch screen with a stylus. I’m still having trouble mastering the apple in the “game.”
As seen on TShirtLaundry, via Gamefreaks
Already released in Japan, the Super Mario All-Stars Limited Edition will be making its way to the States this December, Nintendo of America revealed today. Priced at US$29.99, the Limited Edition comes with Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, Super Mario Bros. 2 and Super Mario Bros. 3 as well as a…
In the six months leading up to September 30, 2009, Nintendo sold 11.7 million DS units worldwide. In the six months leading up to September 30, 2010, that figure has dropped by nearly half, to 6.69 million. It’s to be expected, of course. Not only is the DS getting a little long in the tooth…
Rare owned by Activision? Could have been! Giant video game company Activision, who are publishing a Wii homage to GoldenEye next month, were thisclose back in the day to buying Rare, the studio behind the original 1997 Nintendo 64 first-person shooter, according to an interview in Develop. Former Microsoft executive Ed Fries, who was instrumental…
Japan’s Club Nintendo members do really get the coolest stuff. Takes these Animal Crossing cards, for example. This is “karuta”, which is a Japanese card game that is typically played during the New Year’s holidays. As one of the cards is read, players try to grab the corresponding card. The person who does it the…
These days, cross-promotions are all the rage in Japan. Monster Hunter in your Metal Gear Solid. Ace Attorney in your Professor Layton. This Tales of Graces collaboration might be overdoing it, though. In PS3 game Tales of Graces F, there is a downloadable “Toro” costume. Toro, aka the “Sony Cat”, is the company’s mascot character…
While we’ve seen plenty of screenshots and trailers for Nintendo 3DS games, one thing we’re short on is quality, real-time gameplay footage. Let’s fix that! We’re of course limited by the fact the 3D doesn’t work through a monitor, and that these are some pretty shaky shaky-cam shots, but they’re better than nothing! There are…
This Philips vacuum cleaner looks very familiar. As seen on Wii Nintendo
I want 3DS games like Steel Diver, games that aren’t from familiar franchises and aren’t just the side-scrolling submarine adventures I thought they were. Watch as the game turns the 3DS into a motion-sensitive virtual periscope. The system seems to be using the 3DS’ motion sensors to allow the user to rotate where they stand,…
In Japan, coin-operated Pikachu buggy rides are a common sight in front of arcades or suburban shopping centers. Children love them. In South Korea, they must scare the crap out of kiddos. These South Korean takes on Pikachu were spotted by blog Koya Log Everyday in South Korea. The Pikachu buggy ride below is the…
In Japan, Nintendo launched the Famicom in 1983. Besides the two controllers, the “Famicom” later had a keyboard, helping the machine live up to its “Family Computer” moniker. The version released in the West, however, was a different story. Nintendo was looking to bring the Famicom to North America and initially reached out to Atari…
What do you call Nintendo 64 game Pokémon Snap with no Pokémon? Snap? “Originally, Pokémon Snap for the Nintendo 64 system wasn’t a Pokémon game,” recalls Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, “but rather a normal game in which you took photos, but the motivation for playing the game wasn’t clear.” With the Pocket Monsters got-to-collect-them-all craze…
63,500,000. That’s the number of Wii Remotes Nintendo says it has sold in the United States since the Wii launched in November 2006. How did Nintendo manage to move so many of the damn things? Wii Play was a big help, responsible for nearly 13 million Wii Remotes being snapped up by U.S. consumers. Wii…
Bit.Trip Fate might be another game in a musically and graphically inventive series. Flashlight is a flashlight. Bit.Trip Fate might be fun. Flashlight might save your life (according to the official product description). Decision time, NIntendo download consumers! Our Mike Fahey usually chronicles the Monday releases brought to Nintendo systems by the ever-unusual collection of…
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The Nintendo 3DS has 3D and a gyro sensor. That doesn’t the 3D gaming and motion sensing gaming go together on the 3DS like peanut butter and jelly. The 3DS has a sweet spot for viewing 3D. Tilt the console to the side, and the 3D effect vanishes. Gyro sensing is based on tilt controls!…
In Super Mario Bros., the “A” button is jump, and the “B” button is run or shoot fireballs. It wasn’t always that way. The original plan for Super Mario Bros. was quite different. For example, it involved shooting. A booklet included in the Wii title “Super Mario Collection Special Pack” shows just how different. The…
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