Whilst video gaming sales have boomed dramatically through 2008 and are set to continue doing so during 2009, Nintendo are scrupulously observing the market and public buying trends.
In a recent interview with the popular Japanese newspaper, The Yomiuri Shimbun, Nintendo’s President Satoru Iwata further backed up claims that a large majority of young consumers are delegating money for video gaming, instead of other causal past-times such as eating out and watching films.
Nintendo’s ultimately surprising decision to leave out the GBA slot on the forthcoming Nintendo DSi left many concerned; after all there’s a bountiful amount of triple A titles on the ageing system.
Thankfully GameDaily.biz stepped up to question Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime regarding this frankly frustrating decision. Sadly as per-usual Reggie Fils-Aime’s answers regarding this situation weren’t exactly satisfactory:
Consumers always adapt pretty easily to new technology, and I have no doubt they will do the same with Nintendo DSi. Game Boy Advance fans can always fall back on their GBA or older Nintendo DS systems when they want to dip back into their GBA libraries.
Reggie Fils-Aime
Team Twiizers who’re part of the Wii homebrew team have allegedly discovered that Nintendo purposely disabled the Wii’s DVD functionality presumably on purpose. Whilst Nintendo’s intent remains unknown, the purported hackers decided to contact Nintendo regarding the issue but unfortunately received an unsatisfactory reply.
A recent survey conducted by Video Game Price Charts concluded that titles by Nintendo and Bethesda have significantly higher resale value than titles by any other developer.
According to the New York Times President-elect Barack Obama has finally succumb to the pleasuring pastime of bowling, courtesy of the Nintendo Wii. Whilst divulging his attempts at rescuing the American economy, the President-elect enjoys nothing more than spending some quality family time with his daughters on the Wii.
If you’re looking for some simplistic yet intuitive game design then you certainly can’t go wrong testing out some of the Wii Ware games available now on the Nintendo Wii. To give you a glimpse of what’s on offer here’s a list compiled of the top ten Wii Ware titles available for download at the Wii Store right this minute.
Online gaming publication, Gameplayer, have feverishly speculated that they expect the successor to the Wii to arrive at some point during 2010. Whilst Nintendo have been rather quiet over the issue, it does genuinely make sense to see the next iteration of the console arrive around that allotted time frame
Yes, you did indeed read that title correctly. The immensely fun game that comes pre-bundled with the Wii has claimed the ‘best selling game of all time‘ accolade according to VGChartz. Whether or not its successor Wii Sports: Resort can accomplish the same feat is completely debatable.
Market Share, a company whose sole purpose is to track online browsing figures have noted that consumers prefere to browse the web on their Playstation 3 consoles rather than the Wii.
