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Nintendo announced that Mario Kart Wii will use a "Mario Kart Channel" that, like the Wii Fit Channel, stays accessible from the Wii Menu even when the disc is not in the drive. You can use this Channel to view and download ghost data of other players and race against them (presumably you'll need the disc for the racing parts). Nintendo has released additional information about this Channel which reveals just how useful and smart their detached Channels can be.
The Channel lets you register friends and check their online status (awesome),...
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Motu 1 year 1 month ago
Here you have some screenshots and trailer from the Nintendo press conference at E3!
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Valmort 1 year 1 month ago
The final, and perhaps biggest surprise that concluded Nintendo’s E3 2007 press conference continues in the vain of several of the company’s “self-improvement” philosophy games. WiiFit will combine four major forms of exercise and fitness development solutions, including aerobic, muscular, yoga, and balancing exercises.
Several of the different minigames were shown off at the event, revealing a myriad of exercises, including push-ups, hula-hooping, step aerobics and more.
All of this wouldn’t have been possible without the...
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Nintendo has announced WiiWare, online distribution of new Wii games for developers.
“Independent developers armed with small budgets and big ideas will be able to get their original games into the marketplace to see if we can find the next smash hit,” says Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime. “WiiWare brings new levels of creativity and value to the ever-growing population of Wii owners.”
Nintendo's market value in Japan has passed Sony's for the first time. After a 1.9% rise for Nintendo on Monday and 0.9% drop for Sony, the maker of the Wii has a market cap 6.56 trillion yen ($53 billion). Sony is now valued at 6.51 trillion yen ($52.5 billion).
What's particularly amazing is that while Nintendo is involved almost exclusively in video games, Sony has five business segments, and is involved in pretty much every area of consumer electronics. The market is placing a much, much higher value on Nintendo's game business than it...
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All those Wii and DS profits must have been burning a hole in Nintendo's pocket, because they went developer shopping and picked up Monolith Soft, effective May 1st, 80% of Monolith — creator of Xenosaga & Baten Kaitos — will be transfered from Namco Bandai to the Big N.
As reason for the move, the firm cited considerations involving the future growth of the Monolith studio and the desire to strengthen its relationship with Nintendo in the console software business.
I first posted about this auction when I saw it on another forum, it started at $24 and had 24 NES games including a rare GOLD cart of Nintendo World Championship 1990. I thought some lucky dog was going to pick this cart up for only a few thousand but it ended up selling for a record sum. I think it was mostly due to the fact that the auction was for the persons son who died in the Iraq war.
None of the console manufacturers is particularly enamored of mod chips, but it seems rare for one of them to talk about them directly. Nintendo is bucking that trend with a recent notice on their European site. It's pretty straightforward:
Perhaps you are not familiar with mod chips, but nevertheless we would like to draw your attention to some important information.
Modification microchips (mod chips) circumvent the security embedded into Nintendo's products. To install a mod chip into a Nintendo hardware system, it is necessary to...
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Didn't feel like standing in line for a Wii? No worries. Nintendo says they're ramping up production...
Nintendo's PR team send out an email announcing increased production:
"While shipments of Wii hardware are expected to grow this month due to increased production, demand for the system remains at unprecedented levels."
Nintendo VP of marketing and corporate affairs Perrin Kaplan warned that shortages are not something that will necessarily disappear in the next couple of weeks.
"There is a lot going on behind the scenes in terms of working on what we are producing and the numbers continue to rise but the product is so very popular that we may see a supply / demand situation last for some time ... We are at absolute maximum production and doing everything we can."
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