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GameStop – Wii Play no longer available for online pre-order
A friend of Infendo tipster Jermy tried to pre-order a copy of Wii Play the other day, but was told some questionable info by a GameStop employee: “Nintendo is no longer allowed to sell Wii-motes because they are being sued. He claimed that Wii Play had been removed from his POS system and they have removed it from their website. I saw Wii Play available to be pre-ordered on their site just ...
Nintendo Spotting: Icy Link edition
Looks like someone touched one of those spiky hockey puck things again… [Thanks, Matthew]
Reading RSS feeds on Wii
Posted on TheFurryOne.net are instructions to provide RSS feed aggregation on your Wii’s Message Board. The instructions are a bit involved; they require a user to have a computer/server running a Python script as well as SMTP access to an email address that sends new stories to your Wii. From what I can discern, following these instructions would send any new message posted on, say, Infendo...
New Wii colors to be red and black?
Cubed is reporting that the first new colors for the Wii console will be … RED and BLACK! Thanks for playing lime green, but today was not your day. This is almost a rumor of a rumor at this point, but it’s fun to speculate. What color does Nintendo need to introduce this year to really get things going?
Wii eats PS3 marketshare
The power of the Playstation brand? A myth*. Nintendo and it’s “GameCube 2.0” have eaten the monolithic heat sink for breakfast, and then some, said a bunch of analysts contacted by Bloomberg. Losses from games probably drove net income down to 84.1 billion yen ($691 million) in the three months ended Dec. 31, from a record 168.9 billion yen a year earlier, according to the media...
Nintendo’s Long Tail
If you’ve ever heard of the Long Tail by Wired magazine’s Chris Anderson, then you recognize why the Virtual Console is one of the biggest reasons Nintendo will probably go gangbusters in 2007-2008 with the Wii console. Today, Anderson himself discussed the Wii on his Long Tail blog: Nearly 1.4 million Wii hardware systems have connected to the Internet worldwide (as of 1/24/07) Approx...
Infendo Radio… Beam me up Scott and Blake!
We’re loud and live, folks. Listen in as we discuss all the cool haps in the world of Nintendo over the last week namely new Wii colors, 2007 predictions for both the DS and Wii, and a little background on how Infendo came to be. Enjoy it! Radio Feed iTunes Feed MP3
Sonic Wii coming early, drops Febuary 20th
According to Kotaku, Sonic and the Super Rings for Wii got bumped up to February 20. Let’s hope this thing ain’t a stinker…
Make believe news – Your take
GameDrift claims that Nintendo has confirmed to them that new Wii colors will be available by the end of the year. While new colors before Holiday Season 2007 might seem likely, I highly doubt that Nintendo has chosen GameDrift to announce this. Especially suspicious is the “anonymous Nintendo rep” part of their story. I doubt that any of Nintendo’s reps are ever of the anonymous...
Virtual Console Monday – Mario Kart 64, Contra III, and more
After a beautiful weekend, I’m so happy to be back to work today that I forgot that it’s Virtual Console Monday here in the Americas! Today we’ll see the release of four games: Mario Kart 64â„¢ (Nintendo® 64, 1-4 players, 1,000 Wii Points): Put the pedal to the metal in this worthy successor to the Super NES® classic, Super Mario Kart®. Mario Kart 64 boasts great graphics, ton...
Homestar Runner games – now on Wii
The guys who run bring you Homestar Runner and his pals have provided a variety of retro-style games for many years. Now those games, published by “Videlectrix”, are available in an easy-to-access Wii interface through the Internet Channel. Point your Wii to http://www.videlectrix.com/vii/ and enjoy StrongBadZone, Secret Collect, Kid Speedy, and Population: Tire from the comfort of you...
Wii straps — 3rd generation
How did this one slip past the Infendo radar? Still on my original straps, BTW…