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Nintendo’s Hiroshi Yamauchi has died at age 85
A sad, yet perpetual state of mourning for Nintendo today, as the company announced that their longtime former president, Hiroshi Yamauchi, has died. He was 85. Yamauchi first became president of Nintendo in 1949, when the company was just a simple card-playing game manufacture. By 1963, Yamauchi had renamed Nintendo Card Playing Co. to just Nintendo. With the boom of video games quickly taking sh...
Nintendo, E3, and The Competition
Although today is the official start of E3, yesterday was pretty revealing. By now, you surely know that the Xbox One will retail for a whopping $499 and will launch on November 21st in various markets. They blasted us with game after game after game during their presentation, however it was fairly predictable in nature. The always on requirement was confirmed (Must connect once every 24 hour pe...
Reggie: Nintendo is and always will be an entertainment company
Reggie Fils-Aime spoke to the Seattle Times recently and stated that he does not view Nintendo as a “gaming” company, but rather as an entertaining company. “We’ve always been an entertainment company,” he said. Maybe that is why the Nintendo experience always feels so different from that of the competitors. Their focus on the experience to provide us with, not only a great game, but a...
Nintendos roadmap for Wii U success
Nintendo has been making a killing, especially in their home country, with the 3DS. Not only has the launch of the 3DS XL (or LL as it is known in Japan) sold like gang busters in its first week, the original 3DS saw a huge surge with the launch of New Super Mario Bros. 2. While there are still a couple of solid titles ahead for the Nintendo Wii, the same sales trend cannot be said for the console...
Wayward Nintendo fan buys Wii for first time, falls head over heels again
The following letter comes Infendo reader Verno, who until last week, hadn’t owned a Nintendo console since the Nintendo Entertainment System in the ’80s. He never left games’opting instead to play Xbox, PlayStation, and Sega hardware in that time. But man does he like Nintendo again. Not only that, his letter is a nice reminder of why most of us like Nintendo as much as we do. We just...
The 10 most gameplay enabling Nintendo systems
Nintendo has a rich history of innovative and gameplay contributing hardware. You know: new hardware twists that improve the way we interactive with games. Having played all of the company’s systems since 1986, here’s how I’d rank ’em in terms of most gameplay enabling to least gameplay enabling: Nintendo DS. Whose to blame for the ongoing touch gaming revolution? This litt...
Nintendo reports $323 million in losses, decides to charge a fair price for the 3DS
Who would have know that things could change this swiftly for the house that Mario built? Perhaps because of poor sales and the impending arrival of the Playstation Vita, effective August 12th the new MSRP for a shinny new 3DS will be $169.99. Aren’t you glad that you’re an early adopter? For the previous quarter, Nintendo has reported revenue of 93.93b Yen ($1.1b) with losses of...
Nintendo 3DS to receive Nintendo Video, Netflix
One of the most interesting features of the 3DS is its ability to play 3D video content. In the US, the only 3D video content to be found was a trailer for Green Lantern and a video feature jumping dogs. That is all about to change.
New York Times on Wii U: “Nintendo has another hit on its hands”
Early praise from a respected newspaper: Two days earlier, under extreme secrecy and security precautions, I got to try Wii U for myself. My initial verdict: Nintendo has another hit on its hands, an innovative new system that has a chance to shake up electronic entertainment… As is true with the Wii, words don’t really convey the visceral reality of the new system. You can’t rea...
Nintendo + Best Buy = 3DS download service
Next time you walk into your local Best Buy make sure you bring your 3DS with you. Nintendo has just announced a partnership with Best Buy in which the retailer will provide access to “exclusive offers as well as additional entertainment content such as gaming extras and movie trailers.” The part about gaming extras has got me listening. Could the service perhaps bring additional wo...
New hiring at Nintendo of America
Remember Cammie Dunaway, former executive vice president of sales & marketing for Nintendo of America? Well she no longer works for Nintendo, she left October 1st of last year. Who is going to take her place?
Nintendo discounts Wii to $150, launches “Nintendo Select” games for $20
REDMOND, Wash.– Nintendo is dropping the suggested retail price of its Wiiâ„¢ system to $149.99 and including a Marioâ„¢ game with the Wii hardware. Starting May 15, the newly priced Wii system will come in either black or white with the Mario Kartâ„¢ Wii game and a matching colored Wii Wheelâ„¢ accessory, replacing the previously included Wii Sportsâ„¢ and Wii Sports Resortâ„¢ games. Also o...