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Business 2.0: How the Wii is creaming the competition

Business 2.0 (my favorite biz magazine) has published the “untold story of how the Wii beat the Xbox, PlayStation.” Behold my copy and paste skills! “Nintendo’s turnaround began five years ago, when the company’s top strategists, including CEO Satoru Iwata and legendary game designer Shigeru Miyamoto, zeroed in on two troubling trends: As young consumers started caree...

Vote Shiggy into the TIME 100 if you must

TIME is accepting votes for the “100 most influential people in the world today… spanning politics, business, the arts, science and more,” for their TIME 100 list. Nintendo’s Miyamoto is a candidate and you can vote for him here if you dig what he does. Note: the blogger in me must curb your enthusiasm by reminding you that this is a list for the most important 100 people. ...

Do Nintendo execs say stupid things?

I was reading a BusinessWeek interview with Shigeru Miymoto this morning, and it was your standard fare. They didn’t say anything I hadn’t heard before, which was ok, because I probably read over more Nintendo and video gaming news than the average joe reading BW. However, as I read the Q&A, I started to think about other company execs from other video game powerhouses, and how for...

Confirmed: TP works with Rev

The British Gaming Blog has come to save us from the constant back-and-forth between ambiguous, official Nintendo word and fan speculation– Twilight Princess will work with the Revolution’s controller. After kinda dismissing NGC’s old Twilight Princess/Rev story a few months back, it seemed as if Nintendo and magazines were at odds. Now, Shigeru ‘Don’t-call-me-SirR...