American gamers will soon be able to get their hands on both the white and pink iterations of the Nintendo DSi.
It’s been confirmed that both the pink and white versions of the immensely popular Nintendo DSi will launch in the United States by September 12th 2009.
The Wii’s movie download service could become available worldwide according to Lionsgate’s president of digital media.
“I imagine the Wii’s movie store will launch worldwide soon,” he said. “The essential point is that the game machine is already connected into the TV, and we see it as a major conduit inside the home to bring movies via the internet into the television.
- Curt Marvis, Lionsgate’s president of digital media
With the evolutionary Nintendo DSi soon within our grasps, Nintendo shares its plan on one of its biggest marketing campaigns to date.
DSi will be our biggest handheld hardware launch to date and will easily be our biggest campaign this year. We have already planned out activity throughout the whole year as we plan to drive awareness and communication right through to Christmas.
During the initial launch phase we will be mainly focused on TV aimed at a mass market audience, but we will support this with a large online campaign designed to drive pre-order and awareness in the gaming community. On top of all this activity we will be offering extensive in-store promotion and also running national experiential events to ensure that consumers can get their hands on the hardware before they buy.
DSi senior product manager James Honeywell
Amidst a flurry of hype and anticipation Nintendo’s much cavorted Wii Ware service launched in Japan on Tuesday. Thankfully Wired has a thoroughly detailed round up of the shenanigans that happened on the day of release, and as expected a meticulous hands on with all those juicy launch titles.
Inundated with dissatisfied Wii owners, Nintendo offers to repair ‘faulty’ Wii consoles.
After numerous sites reported that gamers were having trouble playing the almighty Super Smash Brothers due to disc read errors, Nintendo steps in and offers to repair consoles free of charge.
“Super Smash Bros Brawl utilises a double-layer disc which has a large memory capacity. A very small percentage of Wii consoles may have trouble consistently reading data off this large capacity disc if there is some contamination on the lens of the drive.”
Smash Brothers Brawl US launch didn’t go without an unfortunate hitch.
After legions of Japanese gamers reported disc reading problems with their Wii consoles which were rejecting the dual layer Super Smash Brothers Brawl disc in January it now appears exactly the same problem has surfaced for American gamers.
