Infendo

Japanese DS shortages have caused the Nintendo handheld to experience a price hike. Gaming Age writes: “In the Land of the Rising Sun, Nintendo DS systems are seeing a supply and demand flux resemblant of the Xbox 360 situation in the United States. Although the stock of Nintendo DS systems was reported to be low due to a large demand at the end of 2005, a rush after New Years’ Day onl...

Like the now defunct Apple/HP iPods before it, maybe the Macintosh maker will get into the games business someday. Would Nintendo and Apple be a good pair, or is it best that Mario & Co. always fly solo? [Image courtesy of Flickr]

Apparently, the Game Boy Advance can now play feature-length movies without the additional movie player. Where have I been? From the article: “[The GBA] has been capable of playing movies with the GBA Movie Player for some time. However, it often requires a lot of technical knowledge, and extra hardware. But Majesco now also provides full-length movies on the GBA, and it doesn’t requir...

I’ve never spent more than five minutes of my entire life watching American football on TV, and everytime anyone tries to explain the rules to me I just get frustrated and confused. But this Japanese webpage may be the thing to get me started. I just finished watching nine mini-instructional videos on how each kind of football play is executed in the up-coming anime/action/RPG/sports game &#...

Kotaku has been covering the New Generation World Hobby fair like crazy, and apparently Nintendo is drawing an incredible crowd. All though it doesn’t look like there will actually be any announcements from the company or any new information, this kind of press event is still of big import to keep the Japanese public aware that Nintendo does indeed make products besides the out-of-stock DS. ...

Nintendo’s “3-pillar” strategy is looking more genius everyday. 2005 was a record year in sales for the gaming industry hitting the $10.5 billion mark. A majority of this growth was on the backs of handheld systems, 2/3 which are manufactured by Nintendo. From the article: “Software for the GameBoy Advance, Nintendo DS and Sony PSP reached $1.4 billion, a 42 percent increas...

[Source: DS Fanboy]

In March, Nintendo is supposed to release “Pokémon Trozei” (worst title translation ever) in America, a stylus dragging puzzle game. Overseas, Japan has been playing Pokémon Mysterious Dungeon, a GBA and DS adventure game double-release, for a couple months now. Does anyone but me feel that these and other Pokémin DS releases, are being somewhat under-promoted? Unlike the Game Cube ...

You get slick anime that is turned into a “sports action RPG.” From the article: “Nintendo’s Eyeshield 21… hits the DS in Japan on February 2. Based on a popular manga about fictional big-eyed football playing youth, this is no Madden. Too wacky for our football fans? Perhaps. But it might be just the right sort of game for the DS. (And there’s no arguing with t...

Taken from a Joystiq comment regarding the PSP outselling the shortaged DS this past week in Japan: “DS is outselling the PSP 2 to 1, nintendo are rumoured to be releasing a new version of the DS on the 17th, hence no stock of the old version.” Never thought of that. Everybody’s got inventory problems, especially when phasing in a new product, i.e. redesigned DS.

I’ve always wondered who was designing and developing Nintendo of America’s slick, usable, and creative game websites. Well today I stumbled upon the web firm in question called POP, based out of Seattle which is very close to Redmond. Although I’m not a big proponent of Flash (opting for AJAX instead) which the company uses on a majority if not all of their Nintendo sites, the d...

Vlad over at Joystiq has put together a very clever critique of Nintendo. One of the reasons Infendo was started was to create a haven for Nintendo enthusiast, while at the same time challenging the company to become a better games and hardware manufacturer. From the article: “And yet, falling in love with a company is dangerous. By definition, falling in love with anything–or with any...