Monthly Archives: September 2010

Nintendo Wii: Epic Mickey Pushes The Nintendo Wii To Its ‘Ultimate Limit’

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Disney’s Epic Mickey producer Raul Ramirez has told online gaming publication CVG that the critically acclaimed title pushes the Nintendo Wii to its ‘ultimate limit’.

“We do have such a great experienced staff at Junction Point that we were able to, as we feel, push the Wii to it’s capability and ultimate limit and provide a beautiful story for the player to jump into.”

“We are fortunate enough to have such great staff and we have a lot of years experience in the gaming community that they’ve just pushed the Wii to its capability, to its absolute max, in order to provide what you’re seeing in front of you.”

- Raul Ramirez, Disney

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Nintendo Wii: Metroid Creator May ‘Make Significant Changes To Next Metroid’

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Yoshio Sakamoto, the co-creator behind the popular Metroid franchise has stated that he may make some significant changes to the next entry in the well received series if the fans demand it.

“I’m afraid that as of now it’s difficult for me to tell if future games will go in the same direction of Other M. What I’m really looking forward to is listening to the feedback of the players because we have challenged ourselves with something completely new.

“We really want to hear the reaction of the players and I’m not necessarily saying that we’ll try to incorporate any or all of the opinions of fans but we do want to hear their feedback and depending on them we might want to make some significant change to the future direction of the Metroid franchise or we might want to go ahead with the direction set forth by Other M., but unfortunately we have just launched the project and I have no idea what kind of reactions people will have.”

- Yoshio Sakamoto, Nintendo

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Nintendo Wii: Developer Cryptically Says “Nintendo Could Release A Higher End Console”

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Tomonobu Itagaki, former head of Team Ninja announced that Devils Third a game for Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 could be scalable. He was then asked if he meant that it would be possible to port it across to the Nintendo 3DS but instead Itagaki said:

“More than that, although I can’t say this easily because I don’t have any information, it’s possible that Nintendo could release a higher end console. Something like that.”

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Nintendo DS: Pokémon Black & White US and UK Release Dates Revealed

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Nintendo have finally announced the American and European release date of the eagerly anticipated Pokémon Black & White.

Nintendo of America and Nintendo Europe have revealed that the game will be launching in both territories during Spring next year.

“It’s rare to find a franchise with such worldwide appeal and dedicated fans as Pokémon.”

“We’re excited to inform our fans that this eagerly anticipated adventure, featuring an all-new generation of Pokémon, will be available in Europe in spring 2011.”

-  Laurent Fischer, Managing Director Marketing and PR, Nintendo of Europe.

North America – March 6th

United Kingdom – March 4th

Nintendo 3DS: GameStop Apparently Listing 18 3DS Games For November 22nd?

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An individual from GameStop has stated that the company currently has the Nintendo 3DS along with eighteen 3DS titles and fourteen accessories on their internal system.

The eighteen games and fourteen accessories along with the 3DS console have a shipping date of November 22nd with pre-orders starting September 29th.

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Nintendo DS: Pokémon Black & White Is Region Locked For Nintendo DSi

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Popular online retailer PlayAsia has informed prospective customers that the highly anticipated Pokemon Black & White is actually region locked on the Nintendo DSi and the Nintendo DSi XL

“We got the first units of Pokemon Black / White in and confirmed, that the games are indeed region-locked on Nintendo DSi and Nintendo DSi XL consoles.

Please understand that we are not able to accept returns due to region lock issues. We are sending you this email to keep you informed and to ask you to make a decision based on this information.

First off, if you have a Nintendo DS or DS Lite Console from any region then there is no problem.

However, if you have a Non-Japanese DSi / DSi XL console then the title doesn’t not work at all on your console. The console simply will say: ‘no game cartridge’.”

- Play Asia

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