An Interview With Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto
Join Uncle Shiggy for a chat about the 3DS, new games, and the next Nintendo console. Incidentally, when I grow up, I want to be this guy. The Telegraph has the story.
Nintendo suffers a recession but the new 3DS won’t save them
In the midst of fanfare of a release of the successor to the DS handheld, Nintendo is also suffering under the weight of a recession. They’ve had a good strong past three years, but now it looks like the tide is turning. Kit Dotson over at SiliconANGLE sheds some light to the subject,
For the past three years, Nintendo has been an unstoppable juggernaut of financial resolve in the face of falling revenues across their sector—but now it looks like their multi-year streak has come to an end. Even as of last year, the videogame giant saw their profits slipping, and this year they’ve slashed their fiscal year outlook
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Black colored Nintendo Wii to be released
Looks like we’ll be seeing an ebony colored Nintendo Wii console. Us voces, of course, have a black wiimote already (because we’re like that) but the Wii here happens to be the standard ivory.
Earlier in the month, Nintendo announced that they were going to start shipping black versions of the Nintendo Wii. What’s new? Not that much other than the color. It will though, be shipping with both of the Wii Sports games for users to enjoy. What’s in the box? Well included is the Wii console of course, nunchuk, and the controller. But, the new model will also include a Wii MotionPlus accessory along with the Wii Sports games. The price and what’s in the box deal will also be
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Wii Sales Slow, Investors Concerned, Nintendo Shrugs
Sales of Nintendo’s popular Wii console have slowed on the news that nearly every man, woman, and child on this green earth already has one. As the Wii reaches parity with the population of the globe, investors have become concerned. The Wii has seen a sales drop of better than 50% over the quarter, which places it, ah… let me see… Oh yes, places it some millions of units above its nearest rivals.
Nintendo’s top game designer, one Shigeru Miyamoto, has taken the news well. To help promote the upcoming Super Mario Bros. game, he’s packed up on a tour of the USA, showing off the game and giving a few rare interviews about how Nintendo is responding to the economic slowdown.
Read more at BusinessWeek.com.
Britain’s National Health Service Endorses Wii Fit, Not Playing Like A Complete Toolbox
The exercise and activity game Wii Fit, for Nintendo’s Wii console, has garnered more than praise in fitness circles; now, it’s been officially endorsed. A logo from the activity campaign, Change4Life, will appear on boxes for Wii Fit Plus, an updated version of the game. This comes from Britain’s National Health Service, the government organization that ensures British citizens of health care without having to face a medical bankruptcy.
The Change4Life campaign is part of an effort to combat youth and young-adult obesity rates.
Holy Mother of God – Nintendo Wii Price Cut
Responding to the first drop in Wii sales since their little white console hit the market, Nintendo is planning to slash the price tag on the Wii down to $200. The price cut will take effect through the end of September and the beginning of October.
Nintendo has resisted changes to the Wii’s price for some time now, ignoring the price cuts on the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, largely because the Wii was still anywhere from $50 to several hundred dollars cheaper than the other boxes. This move represents a major shift in Nintendo’s console strategy.
You can read more at Bloomberg.com.
Now if they’d just get on that Wii-based Pokemon MMORPG…
PopCap Games Bookworm and Bejeweled Twist Coming to DS, DSi
They’re coming to get you, Barbara. PopCap Games, publisher of small, desperately addictive game titles that sell millions to bored housewives and OCD college students, has recently announced that two of their more popular titles will be appearing on Nintendo’s DS and DSi systems.
Now, not only can you obsess over games whose rules could fit on the back of a business card, you can go portable with it, sneaking in rounds at work, while driving, during those long seconds between jumping out of the plane and opening your parachute, and so on.
Bookworm involves a caterpillaresque creature in massive spectacles named Lex, who devours words that you create from tiles on the screen. Think of it as Tetris by way of Scrabble.
Bejeweled Twist takes a field of gemstones, and tasks you with exploding them by turning and spinning the gems into groups and lines. It’s …
Xbox 360, Playstation 3 Slash Prices
This Friday, Microsoft will drop the price of its top-end Xbox package, the Xbox 360 Elite, by $100 to compete with a similar sticker slash from Sony. These cuts come at a good time, just into the holiday season and with newer, hit titles to back them. Both Xbox 360 and the Playstation 3 carry the latest Madden title, John Madden NFL 10, as well as Batman: Arkham Asylum. Word on the street puts the new Batman game as a solid Game of the Year title, so that should help sales on both consoles.
When asked when they’d cut prices on the Wii, Nintendo responded with the finger from atop their ever-growing tower of raw cash.
Slightly Late Game Reviews: NES Joust
Arcade machines in the 80s were bastards. Later on, I would learn they were built to the two-minute standard. Three lives, just enough to last through two minutes of play, then you’re out and pawing through your Levis for another quarter. But way back then, younger me just knew I’d better have a few week’s worth of allowance on me when the family went out to the frozen yogurt shop. And for good reason.
That’s where the Joust machine lived.
Lived, perhaps, isn’t the best term. Lurked, waited, hungered, maybe. Crouched in darkness near the back of the store, just off the restroom entrance, it was a sit-down cabinet, the table-top kind, where 1982′s most glorious colours and sounds flickered with temptation beneath a glass top and your vanilla-chocolate …
Power Glove Wii Remote
It’s a Nintendo Power Glove packing a Wii remote. Yeah, I know, old news is old, but I actually have the Power Glove and loved that thing in its day. Sure, it was bulky, unresponsive, and tiring to wear, but throwing out your hand to make lightning smite your pixelated foes or clenching your fist to use items or grab baddies was just so damn cool.
Oh, and there’s a cat in the YouTube vid, too, so that makes it worth watching on its own.
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