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Analyst Predicts Wii Price Drop

Wedbush-Morgan’s Michael Pachter — the guy that was so harsh on the PSPgo’s price tag — thinks the Wii will drop to $199.99 this holiday season Edge Online reports that Nintendo has already sold 20 million units — 50 million worldwide — and plans to sell another 26 million this fiscal year. Noting that a…

Nintendo: Other M Will be A “Metroid Unlike Anything Ever Experienced Before”

Two of the men leading the new Metroid Wii game told Kotaku about their narrative ambitions for the 2010 sequel Metroid Other M and explained why the Metroid Prime team isn’t involved. Yoshio Sakamoto, Nintendo’s long-time developer of 2D Metroids, and Yousuke Hayashi, head of Tecmo’s Team Ninja, wouldn’t tell me and Brian Crecente how…

Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles Preview: A Chilling Shooter

Capcom returns to Raccoon City in Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles, dropping gamers back into the zombie-killing action in a game that plays like a on-rails shooting title, but promises to deliver a sense of action and suspense. Can those two even go together? What Is It? Capcom’s on-rails shooter for the Wii boasts two-player…

Yup, Looks Like A New Tingle Game

Famitsu were right to sense more Tingle from Nintendo, because a teaser website for what must surely be a new game starring the company’s most…eccentric little man has gone live. There’s a brief cameo from Tingle, there’s a fortune teller surrounded by skulls, and there’s a section where you can write in and say what’s…

Here Is Your Japanese Pokemon Heart Gold/Soul Silver Packaging

This fall, Nintendo is releasing Pokémon Heart Gold and Pokémon Soul Silver for the Nintendo DS. These are tenth anniversary remakes of Pokémon Gold/Silver. The original Gold and Silver appeared on the Game Boy and sold 23 million copies worldwide. Pokémon Heart Gold and Pokémon Soul Silver will be packaged with pedometers dubbed the Poké…

WireWay Preview: Drawn to Flight

Konami’s WireWay has gamers drawing elastic lines on a DS screen to flick an alien hero through dangerous environments. Can such a simple concept deliver enough fun to warrant a full blown game? What Is It? WireWay is a DS puzzle game that has you flicking a tiny alien around a world using elastic bands…

Team Ninja Bringing Special Sauce To Metroid

Nintendo has wrangled in Tecmo’s Team Ninja to develop upcoming Wii title Metroid: Other M. Team Ninja is best known for its work on action title Ninja Gaiden and bouncy fighter Dead or Alive. Company president Reggie Fils-Aime dishes about why the company signed the developers to do Metroid, “We could’ve done a fine job…

Famitsu Senses More Tingle From Nintendo

Nintendo’s upcoming line-up may have more than just new appearances from Link, Mario and Samus, as the venerable fairy Tingle from The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask may be starring in a new game of his own. The newest issue of Famitsu teases Tingle’s return, offering little more than an elfin sprite, the text “Fairy?”…

How The Wii Vitality Sensor Actually Works

When Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata took to the stage last week to unveil the Wii Vitality Sensor, he didn’t really tell us how it all worked. No, that information now comes a week later. Seems that the WVS works by measuring the flow of blood through the user’s body, a small light sensor inside the…

Nintendo Expected Rival Motion Control Last Year

This year, both Microsoft and Sony announced motion technology platforms. This comes years after Nintendo first launched its own motion controlled console, the Wii. So what does Nintendo think? According to Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, “To tell the truth, I expected them to come up with stuff like this last year. So in my mind…

Nintendo DS Software Allows For Classroom Test Taking

The Nintendo DS is used to play games, communicate with friends and, in Japan, take tests. Yay? The Kyoto-based game maker has teamed up with Sharp System Products to produce Nintendo DS Classroom. The game software enables students to use DS consoles in case to do multiple choice exercises and take tests. A room full…

Old Is New: Nintendo Released A Bio Sensor A Decade Ago

The Wii Vitality Sensor tracks a players pulse while playing. A novel Nintendo idea — or is it? Nintendo has never been afraid of mining its own past for new product ideas — take the DS’s dual screen design that echoes Nintendo’s own Donkey Kong multi-screen Game & Watch. The Wii Vitality Sensor appears to…

Nintendo Scrapped New Portable Hardware Over “Momentum” Concerns

Nintendo global president Satoru Iwata isn’t afraid to make hard decisions, having recently scuttled a new piece of Nintendo hardware that might never see the light of day, never to put smiles on faces. According to a report from CNBC, Iwata says that Nintendo had another handheld gaming system in the works as recently as…

Mario Vs. Donkey Kong Mini-Marches To DSiWare

What new digital treasure await the Wii Point and DSi Point bearing Nintendo fan this week? Perhaps most noteworthy is arrival of Mario vs Donkey Kong: Minis March Again!, announced last week for the Nintendo DSi and available right now. This week’s new downloadable titles for WiiWare, DSiWare and the Wii Virtual Console has a…

Nintendo Lays Out DS, DSiWare Release Schedule At E3

We’ve already gotten a peek at Nintendo of America’s newly released, but still tentative, Wii release schedule, which shows 2010 will be very good year. But what about all those great Nintendo DS games? When are they coming out? Nintendo has penciled in a few of its releases for this year, but some, like Golden…

Sin And Punishment 2 Hands-On: Up, Down, Up, Down, Shoot, Shoot, Shoot

Nintendo’s best evidence that its E3 2009 showing was all “about the games” were the four kiosks dedicated to Sin And Punishment 2. Treasure’s sequel to the Nintendo 64 shooter was given prominent attention at the front of Nintendo’s booth. A sequel to a Nintendo 64 game that wasn’t offered stateside until the Virtual Console…

Miyamoto No Longer Sad, But Wants To Refute One Criticism

Shigeru Miyamoto is no longer suffering the GameCube blues, we learned at E3. In fact, he’s been turning heads. But he is still trying to shake the criticism that Nintendo’s Wii games are shallow. This is part of a longer interview conducted by Kotaku with Miyamoto, the lead creative director for Nintendo, at E3 last…

Mario’s Creator Talks About Vitality Sensor

Despite having a direct hand in casual-friendly Wii and Wii-Fit, Shigeru Miyamoto says he had nothing to do with the Vitality Sensor‘s creation. Despite not being directly involved, Miyamoto says he can see some potential in the device. Is it a game controller though? Even Miyamoto isn’t quite sure.

Tracking The Ups & Downs Of Nintendo’s E3 Press Conference

Nintendo had some ups, and downs, during their E3 2009 press conference. So Bitmob’s Andrew Hiscock decided to do a little rough science and note just when, and how high/low they were when they occurred. Taking hardcore gaming forum NeoGAF as his subject matter, Hiscock tracked the comments on the site’s Nintendo presser thread, and…

Mod Lets You Store Wii Games on HD — With Current Menu

Let’s be real here – storing your console games on a hard drive has shit to do with “backing them up.” More like “keep playing after you trade them in to GameStop.” OK, yeah, they also load and play faster. But whatever your objective, sister site Lifehacker found a new hack that allows you to…