The Wii U GamePad supports Near-Field Communication (NFC), but you wouldn’t know unless you are ahard core geek about NFC or the the big N. At the moment, no Wii U game uses it for anything, not even Skylanders, which ships with its own NFC reader. Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata discussed potential plans for the NFC to a […]
Nintendo won’t cut the price of the Wii U to boost sagging sales.President Satoru Iwata said the company can’t afford to lower prices on the new console, so it will focus on better games and creating more buzz. He said Nintendo is planning to release a large number of titles from the second half of […]
Nintendo’s digital distribution scheme for retail games has had a relatively slow start in Japan. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata told the Wall Street Journal that digital sales of New Super Mario Bros. 2, which was released in the region on July 28, have made up 5% of the total. Iwata seemed all right with this […]
Nintendo President Satoru Iwata doesn’t believe there should be a fee for connecting consoles to the Nintendo Network. According to a translation of Nintendo’s annual shareholder meeting via Andriasang, Iwata said that having all users able to freely access the network will help spread the service’s offerings through word of mouth. This tactic, his translated […]
Nintendo Releases a new promotional video for its upcoming tactical roleplaying game Fire Emblem: Kakusei (Awakening). Developed by Intelligent Systems, the latest title in the Fire Emblem fantasy series will incorporate two-player co-op gameplay. Fire Emblem: Kakusei will introduce new features while retaining gameplay elements from the series’ previous installments. For the first time, Nintendo […]
Nintendo feels that the Wii was never treated with respect by the core gamers because they weren’t prepared to give gimmicks such as Wii motion a chance. Speaking at the company’s shareholder meeting, Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata said: “Wii was not accepted by core gamers because they did not want to abandon their preferred control […]
While Nintendo is being careful not to rule out the possibility down the line, the Wii U will one support one controller. I guess that why there is a big U in the name. add this to no no Blu-ray or DVD playback. It’s a confusing move for Nintendo, considering the Wii leans so heavily […]
Nintendo chief Satoru Iwata during his Game Developers Conference talk later on Thursday attacked the iPhone, and to a lesser extent Android, over their effect on gaming. He consciously avoided mentioning Apple or Google by name but was critical of them since gaming was strictly incidental and they had “no motivation” to keep the value […]
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