Monthly Archives: April 2011

Nintendo Wii: Nintendo Hasn’t Given Up On Wii Says Nintendo President

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Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has reiterated that Nintendo haven’t given up on the Wii and that the company still has a few surprises in store for consumers.

Despite the lack of quality first party titles announced for Wii Satoru Iwata has promised that there’s more unannounced games on the horizon for the Nintendo Wii which will presumably be shown off at this years E3 event in June.

“We have not released any new Nintendo software titles for Wii, except for The Last Story (Japanese Title) in January, partly because we have focused on the launch of Nintendo 3DS since the beginning of this year,” Iwata said during an earnings briefing yesterday.

“Therefore, some in Japan seem to have the misunderstanding that Nintendo has given up making efforts on Wii. We are actually ready to release new Wii software titles every month from May to the end of this year.”

“Other new titles currently unannounced will be ready to be launched within this year,” he said. “Before the launch of the Wii successor, we will be aiming at creating other excitement for Wii in Japan, which has a large installed base of Wii hardware.”

- Nintendo president, Satoru Iwata

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Nintendo 3DS: New Banjo Kazooie Game Coming To The Nintendo 3DS?

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The latest rumour doing the rounds on the Internet is that Rare are currently in talks with Nintendo to bring across some of their beloved franchises to the Nintendo 3DS. Rare previously developed a couple of titles for the Nintendo DS but stopped once they were informed that they should solely focus their attention on Microsoft’s Kinect device.

Supposedly, the company is in talks with Nintendo to develop games for the 3DS platform, including a 3D continuation of the Banjo-Kazooie franchise. Pleased with the success of their previous handheld outings and seeing no conflict between the XBox market and the handheld gaming market, Microsoft supposedly sees this as a positive as it could boost sales of their titles developed for XBox 360. Sources also say that Nintendo and Rare discussed a 3DS continuation of the Star Fox Adventures series, but that nothing is currently in development on that front.

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Nintendo 3DS: Nintendo President Says The Nintendo 3DS Isn’t Selling As Well As Expected

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Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has informed analysts and investors that its recently released Nintendo 3DS hasn’t sold as well as the company had initially expected.

Satoru Iwata has blamed less than stellar sales for the Nintendo 3DS on the public not understanding the value of the 3DS or how to use the consoles inbuilt applications.

“Nintendo 3DS was launched in late March. The sales were high in the initial week, but sales fell below our expectations after the second week. Nintendo 3DS has not been selling as expected since the second week, and this is not just in the Japanese market but also in the United States and Europe, where no direct impact from the great earthquake has occurred.”

“Therefore, we recognize that we are in a situation where we need to step up our efforts to further promote the spread of Nintendo 3DS.”

“The value of 3D images without the need for special glasses is hard to be understood through the existing media. However, we have found that people cannot feel it just by trying out a device, rather, some might even misestimate it when experiencing the images in an improper fashion,” he said.

“People need to be taught to adjust the slider to suit them. We need to enhance the contents which can be enjoyed passively by non-active users, like a 3D video distribution service. We will promptly work on this after the currently planned hardware update.”

“Also, people aren’t properly clued up on all of the console’s features, such as StreetPass, SpotPass, Augmented Reality and Mii Maker. This needs fixing.”

“It is now clear that the combination of these new features is not necessarily easy-to-understand by just saying one word to those without experience,” said Iwata. “We have found that not all Nintendo 3DS users enjoy this software. There seems to be more than a few consumers who have Nintendo 3DS hardware but don’t know about this software and possibly haven’t had a chance to get interested in it.”

- Nintendo president, Satoru Iwata

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Nintendo Wii: Nintendo President Regrets How The Company Marketed The Nintendo Wii

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Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has told investors and analysts that Nintendo regrets how it marketed the Wii.

Speaking to investors Iwata explained that the company now regrets not reaching out more to third party developers, citing that this is one incremental factor that has pushed Nintendo to bring out a new home console which is due 2012.

“I now regret that we didn’t tie up with someone outside the company to market the Wii. If we had done that, the fate of the Wii might have been different.”

“Now I am aware that we should not rely too much on ourselves. You will see what I mean by this when we market the 3DS and the Wii in the future.”

- Nintendo president, Satoru Iwata

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Nintendo 3DS: Nintendo Announce Free Excitebike 3D Classics With May 3DS Firmware Update

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Nintendo have told investors that they will be distributing a 3D Classics version of the fantastic Excitebike absolutely free in Japan with the firmware update that’s due to hit in May.

The May firmware update will see a number of new features for the Nintendo 3DS such as the long awaited 3DS eShop which will include numerous downloadable titles as well as the Nintendo 3DS web browser.

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Nintendo Wii: Wii Vitality Sensor Is Still Under Development Say Nintendo

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Whilst Nintendo have officially announced that they’re hard at work on the successor to the Nintendo Wii which is set to launch in 2012 the company have told investors that they’re still working on the Wii Vitality Sensor.

“Everyone under pressure in our stressful society could use this to help us relax in a videogame. Videogames could be made for people to unwind or even fall asleep.”

- Satoru Iwata, speaking about the Wii Vitality Sensor

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Nintendo 3DS: Animal Crossing 3DS And Paper Mario 3DS On Track For 2011 Release

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Nintendo have revealed that the long awaited Animal Crossing 3DS and Paper Mario 3DS are scheduled to release within the 2011 fiscal year.

Paper Mario, Animal Crossing, Mario Kart, Kid Icarus: Uprising, and Star Fox 64 3D are all set to be released during the 2011 fiscal year according to Nintendo’s recent financial report. Expect to see plenty more of these titles at this years E3 event in June.

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Nintendo Wii 2: The Wii 2 Will Offer A Brand New Way Of Playing Games Says Nintendo President

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Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has told investors that the recently announced successor to the immensely popular Nintendo Wii will “offer a new way of playing games within the home.”

Satoru Iwata wouldn’t go into detail regarding how Nintendo’s next generation home console will change the way that gamers experience video games, but instead he stated that people should be patient and all will be revealed at E3 in June.

“As for the details of exactly what it will be, we have decided that it is best to let people experience it for themselves at E3. So I won’t talk about specific details today, but it will offer a new way of playing games within the home.”

- Nintendo president, Satoru Iwata

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Nintendo Wii 2: Nintendo Confirms Wii 2 (Project Cafe) Will Launch 2012 Playable At E3

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Nintendo have officially confirmed that its successor to the immensely popular Nintendo Wii will launch during 2012.

The console which is currently referred to as Project Cafe will be playable at this years E3 event in June. Nintendo have also announced that the specifications for the console will also be revealed at the event. No more information has been announced.

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