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There comes a time in every consoles life when it must either accept defeat, or embrace victory. Today, the DS must shed its happy-go-lucky, fun-loving attitude and embrace the fact that it has kicked the bully’s butt; that it has taken on the Ferrari supercar with its Honda Civic shell and has won the day. But first, this chart for reference: 1- New Super Mario Bros. (NIntendo, DS) 3.09 mil...

Here’s my current backlog of Nintendo link goodness, in case you missed any of the below: Triforce Spotting (via comments) Recent BitFlicks animation Awesome cardboard Game Boy with “penny roll” batteries Coolest retro Nintendo shirt in a long time (pictured) Super Mario multiplayer PC game Quiz: What video game should you be in? Have at it, my fellow Nintendo nerds.

If you’ve read a Nintendo Power magazine in the last year, two, or maybe even three, chances are you’ve seen the above Ocarina flute in ads with a purple-painted face lady. I finally checked out the manufacturer’s website, and these little puppies are pretty cool. The classic Ave Maria (MP3) has never sounded so Zelda soothe-ish in a midi sorta way. I smell a contest prize…...

When an electronic device has sales as dominant as the Playstation 2, it becomes an industry model. Launching a year before the Xbox and Gamecube, the Playstation 2 built up large sales lead and never let go. Nintendo fans took note: they long debated that the Gamecube’s successor should launch first. Microsoft apparently took note also: they have launched the Xbox 360 a year ahead of the Wi...

For those Infendo readers camping out on November 18/19 for a Wii, look to the skies while you wait as the Leonid Meteor Shower streaks by overhead. Is it an omen? A clue that Mario Galaxy might launch with the system after all? A sign from above that the Wii launch is just that much cooler than the PS3’s? Who cares, because depending on the strength of the Wii launch, it may be the last tim...

A close friend of mine who is not into gaming (though interested in Nintendo’s Wii) had this to say in a recent IM conversation regarding Wii Experience videos: “That Wii site was cool with all those videos of people using it. It made me think, however, ‘or you could go outside and actually play tennis.'” I thought it was funny, and yes, he was only kidding.

If a terrible game stopped working at level 30, thereby stranding players in a level limbo, barring them from reaching the remaining 70 levels no matter what they tried, would anybody care? You tell me. In what is surely one of the biggest gaming gaffs ever by a developer, the boss from level 30 of Taito’s Bubble Bobble Revolution calls it in instead of showing up to do battle with the playe...

I love the look on this dude’s face while playing Clubhouse darts. Fantastically British, and one of the many reasons we like our British friends. Big shout out to all Infendo readers from across the pond. Yeah, baby!

My alarm clock broke this morning, so I’m buying this one. [Thanks, fitz}

Lest anyone still be concerned about the Wii and its imminent epic struggle against the forces of Sony and Microsoft, remember the Game Gear and the fact that history — eventually — repeats itself in some form or another. The Game Gear was ahead of its time. It boasted (and boasted rather loudly thanks to an arrogant marketing scheme from parent Sega) a large color screen, more power a...

Gizmodo got their hands on the DS-Xtreme media modder for the DS to positive reviews. From the hands on: “The DS-Xtreme has lived up to the hype it has been receiving over the past few months. It plays game backups and audio files perfectly, and I can’t wait to begin experimenting with other homebrew applications that the DS-Xtreme supports. The DS-Xtreme will be available within the n...

Much like its region-free siblings in Japan and North America, the European version of the DS is enjoying the spoils of great hardware and software, but do you know by how much? Try 3:1. As in, a 3:1 sales margin over the glossy, more-at-home-on-a-coffee-table-than-in-your-hands brick that the PSP has become. The same PSP that was going to reinvent portable gaming and rescue the genre “from ...