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Confession: Scott wasn’t really sick this week. He and I were at a Wal-Mart, armed with some contraband Wiimotes, where we proceeded to swing them wildly about like some kind of wickedly stylish weapon at shoppers in the electronics department. It was a massacre. The ESRB gave us both an AO rating and Wal-Mart thus banned both us and Wii demo kiosks from their stores forever. Ok, so Scott wa...

There are less than two months until Wii is unleashed upon the Americas. Nintendo confirmed that their first party titles in the US will retail for no more than $50. If recent updates at EBgames and Best Buy are any indication, it looks like the third party publishers won’t be slapping on the $10 ‘next gen tax’ as seen on PS3 and Xbox 360 titles. Now that we’re getting a be...

Before the controversy of Twilight Princess being designed for GameCube only to be ported over to the Wii and released for Wii first, the GameCube endured perhaps the biggest controversy in Zelda history: Celda Link. At SpaceWorld 2000, while showing off GameCube tech demos (then known as Dolphin), Nintendo revealed a video of a fight sequence between a realistic, older Link and a dark and evil Ga...

I may reside in the U.S.A., but I’ll dish out plenty of good Nintendo related news to our cousins oversees if and when it comes along. Today, my Old World friends, is one of those days filled with European love from the Big N. Via GameIndustry.biz, that business-y pub based in the U.K., we hear that Nintendo UK general manager David Yarnton has promised Europe more stock for Wii this holiday...

Three things Nintendo must do to make Wii a success at launch and beyond: i.) Don’t rely too much on the usual Nintendo mascot characters. This might sound insane. After all, who doesn’t want new versions of Mario, Zelda, and Metroid? But considering the main idea behind Wii is innovation and new ways to play, why not keep the games fresh and invent some brand new franchise characters?...

Very misleading. I can’t invite you to the Leipzig conference anymore so that I can push out eggs, Yoshi-style, that contain shiny brand new Wii consoles. But what I can do is produce the translated Wii event press invitation that IGN got for being a big and powerful corporate web site: 8/23/06 Games Convention / Messe Leipzig 10:15, Nintendo Booth, Hall 5, F01 Be there when a new chapter is...

There’s an interesting column at Next Generation about console design and its effect on a system’?s popularity. Since I think Sony’s system looks exactly like the bloated joke that it is, I thought I’?d share my thoughts. After walking us through a history lesson of consoles past (wood-paneled Atari 2600’s anyone?) columnist Eric-Jon Rossel Waugh says console design i...

This year, E3 belonged to the Wii. The 360 had a strong presence, and the PS3 was, um… there, but it’s hard to deny that it was Nintendo who captured the spotlight. Though with all eyes on the next generation of consoles, it’s easy for the current batch to get lost in all the excitement. Enter (or more appropriately, exit) the Gamecube, one such neglected console. Without a singl...

In the weeks leading up to E3, nobody in the industry earnestly expected Nintendo to divulge the Wii’s final price point and launch date. The fact of the matter is that leaving these details deliberately ambiguous keeps potential customers buzzing and forces the competition to stay on their toes. This is the same sort of leverage that Sony recently employed against Microsoft for months on en...

Amidst the cacophonous din of E3, accolade for the Nintendo Wii was hardly just relegated to eager attendees and gaming press. However, some of the most unexpected acclaim for the Wii came from the mouths of two of gaming’s biggest rivals ’ namely, Microsoft’s Peter Moore and Sony’s Phil Harrison. Whilst verbally lambasting each other, both managed to heap praise upon Nintendo...