Monthly Archives: March 2011

Nintendo Wii: Big Nintendo Wii Surprises At This Years E3 Say Nintendo

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Nintendo UK marketing manager James Honeywell has told online gaming publication CVG that Nintendo Wii owners should expect plenty of Wii related surprises at this years E3 event in June. Any guesses on what we will see?

“I guess we haven’t made any announcements recently because we’ve been concentrating on the 3DS launch, but there are still lots of games to come. I’m sure you’ll see at this year’s E3. For anybody who has a Wii, they can rest assured that we’ll be bringing some fantastic new experiences to them.”

- James Honeywell, Nintendo UK

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Nintendo Wii: Critically Acclaimed Xenoblade Is Making Its Way To Europe

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Nintendo Europe have officially announced that the critically acclaimed JRPG Xenoblade is finally making its way to Europe.

Sadly there’s no news as of yet regarding an American release but seeing as the game is going to have to be translated into English for the European release it makes a lot of sense for Nintendo of America to release it in the US later this year.

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Nintendo 3DS: Mario Kart 3DS Reconfirmed For Release This Year

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Nintendo UK marketing manager James Honeywell has reconfirmed that Mario Kart 3DS is still scheduled to be released this year though of course things could always change. Let’s hope Nintendo can get this out in time for Christmas!

“That’s certainly what we’re kind of planning on at the moment. But you know, things can always change, and until we actually make a firm announcement about the release dates, obviously it’s good to wait and see what those dates might be.”

- James Honeywell, Nintendo UK

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Nintendo 3DS: Zelda Ocarina Of Time 3D Official Release Date Announcement Coming Soon

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Nintendo UK marketing manager James Honeywell has told online gaming publication CVG that an announcement regarding the highly anticipated Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D is coming soon.

“I know from personal experience of being on the sampling tours that the game everyone ran to was Zelda, to get their first experience of it in 3D, so we know it’s hotly anticipated, and hopefully we’ll be making an announcement fairly soon so people will be able to find out when they’ll be able to go and get it.”

Yesterday I revealed that a host of high profile release dates including the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D had been leaked by a Nintendo distributor in Spain. The distributor has listed Ocarina of Time 3D with a June 17th release date.

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Nintendo 3DS: Angry Birds Developer Calls Nintendo Games “$49 Pieces of Plastic”

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Ouch! Rovio the developers behind the smash hit mobile game Angry Birds seem to have taken issue with Nintendo president Satoru Iwata’s choice words on cheap mobile games effectively destroying the video games industry.

“It’s interesting to see people like Nintendo saying smartphones are destroying the games industry. Of course, if I was trying to sell $49 pieces of plastic to people then yes, I’d be worried too.”

- Peter Vesterbacka, Rovio

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Nintendo 3DS: Zelda: Ocarina Of Time 3D For Nintendo 3DS Out June 17th

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Oh dear! It appears as though a host of high profile games have had their release dates leaked by a Nintendo distributor in Spain.

The game that everyone is looking forward to; The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D is currently scheduled to be released on June 17th. Whilst May 6th will apparently see the release of several high profile games such as Kid Icarus: Uprising, Star Fox 64 3D and Resident Evil: Mercenaries.

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Nintendo 3DS: Nintendo Of America President Discusses Nintendo 3DS Redesign

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Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime recently had the chance to sit down with MTV to field a direct question about whether or not we’re going to see a redesign of the Nintendo 3DS any time soon.

“It’s interesting. We haven’t even sold the first one and consumers are asking about what’s next,” chuckled Fils-Aime.

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Nintendo 3DS: Nintendo Say ‘There Are No Widespread Issues’ With The Nintendo 3DS

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Nintendo have told online gaming publication Joystiq that ‘there are no widespread issues’ with the Nintendo 3DS despite online reports of users experiencing the so-called black screen of death and loose hinges.

“The number of calls and emails received by our customer support center is well below the rate experienced during past hardware launches.”

“There are no widespread issues.”

- Nintendo

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Nintendo 3DS: Nintendo Set All-Time Sales Record With The Nintendo 3DS In The US

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Nintendo of America have announced via a press release that day-one sales figures for the Nintendo 3DS were the highest of any Nintendo hand-held system in the company’s history.

Nintendo of America have declined to offer exact sales figures stating that those will be reveal once the NPD Group releases its report on the first-week sales early next month.

U.S. day-one sales numbers for Nintendo 3DS were the highest of any Nintendo hand-held system in our history. More details about U.S. sales numbers will be made public on April 14, when first-week U.S. sales figures will be tallied by the independent NPD Group. Nintendo worked hard to get as much product as possible to retailers on day one to meet demand, and we will continue with these efforts moving forward.

- Nintendo of America, press release

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Nintendo 3DS: Nintendo Say ‘Seeing Really Is Believing’ With The Nintendo 3DS

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Nintendo UK marketing manager James Honeywell has reiterated that ‘seeing really is believing’ with the Nintendo 3DS. Honeywell also admitted that the Nintendo 3DS is one of the more trickier products that he has had to promote.

“It’s been one of the trickier products that I’ve personally had to work on. “We can’t show the product benefit in 3D to consumers through TV and so forth, so it did stretch our imaginations a bit.

“I think what we’ve found is that when people play it their initial reactions are amazing, so that’s why we embarked on our programme of sampling and recorded the TV commercials at the sample events.

“There’s a lot of debate about whether or not those people you see are actors and they genuinely aren’t,” he added. “These are people we took directly from our sampling events before they experienced it as part of the sampling.

“We sat them in a separate room, gave them a 3DS and recorded it. What you see in those ads is exactly that. I hope that seeing lots and lots of peoples’ reactions is compelling, and even if it’s intriguing as well, it drives people down to experience it for themselves because then they’ll see it first-hand.”

- James Honeywell, Nintendo UK

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