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I’ll take one, please. And do you really think Nintendo believes they’ll sell out of units as Kaplan suggests, or is the company trying to create false scarcity to increase initial sales?

Let’s call Nintendo advertising what it has traditionally been (with the exception to some stellar DS ads): Corny. This advertorial, or paid advertisement pretending to be an article, is no different and is even misleading. Don’t get me wrong, advertorials are trash to begin with, but that makes the decision by Nintendo to use them all the more lame. Hit the source for the full comedic...

Infendo reader Nerdswerth goes beyond the headlines today with his dissection of Wii’s recent pick up of one of the coveted Best of What’s New (BOWN) awards from Popular Science Magazine. Nintendo’s great white hype the Wii came away with the win in the Home Entertainment category. That’s news in its own right, but Nerdswerth goes deeper. “To put this feat in historic...

I like Nintendo President Reggie File-Aimes. He reminds me of a wealthier, more popular version of myself. And we’ve both killed things with our bare hands, so there’s that too. Today, at the Montreal International Game Summit, Reggie — ironically enough after yesterday’s posts — talked about the narrow path the game industry now walks, and how he’d like to see ...

It’s the final countdown.

Hop onto Nintendo Wi-Fi around Wii launch time for a free gift in Animal Crossing: Wild World. From 1UP.com: “Animal Crossing faithful, Nintendo has not forsaken you. To help celebrate the launch of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, the company will be distributing an exclusive item in Animal Crossing: Wild World starting on November 17th and running through November 24th. In order to ...

Just a bit of tidying up in the Virtual Console space. Today we have some info on new VC classic games. From Gamespot: Pro Wrestling Kirby’s Adventure Kid Icarus Hogan’s Alley Wild Gunman Duck Hunt PilotWings Note that a few of those are light gun games. Certainly not poopsky by any stretch of the imagination. Oh, and there’s Punch Out too, non-Iron Mike edition. All games are ra...

Infendo forum pirate Master Nintendo posted several new promotional images sent out by Nintendo to agitate geeks like you and I. Hit the source link to see all the goods.

Jack’s controversial op-ed piece that complimented Xbox 360’s Gears of War while simultaneously criticizing its high review scores caused a little nerd drama yesterday that will soon be forgotten in the blogosphere’s short memory. Snarky J let a little “unbridled enthusiasm” get the best of him, but in the end, you can’t fault the man for sharing what he is exci...

Wii’s already lacking launch has taken a big hit. The newest, freshest, quirkiest game set to accompany Wii to its debut has declined the invitation — Konami has delayed Elebits until mid-December. Something about the approval process is holding it back, even though the game itself is relatively finished. Damn that Treehouse. Well, there goes my November 19th. Now i have to choose betw...

Here’s an interesting article over at El Otro Lado regarding the “Wii shape”. The site shows us the painstaking brand continuity Nintendo is trying to create with Wii. When Nintendo originally showed us what Wii would look like I thought it was half-reminiscent of the original NES. Heck, I guess it kinda looks like that folded piece of paper icon on printers, too. What do you mak...

Kotaku has the goods on Wii Sports screenshots as compared to E3 back in May. Mmmm… Much more refined. Blake likes. Also notice the removal of the Nintendo logo. Click for the full image.