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Chinese man chooses Wii over democracy
A quick hit for the lunchtime crowd from Seeking Alpha: In this week’s Time magazine story about China’s Me Generation (teens to thirties), a rising middle class twentysomething declared he would rather have a Nintendo Wii than democracy. Need I say more? Um, wow. I don’t know if that’s bad news for China or great news for Nintendo or what. An accompanying article, also at ...
Nintendo profits more than double
Reports that Nintendo is now stuffing the soft seating couches in its Kyoto headquarters with piles of extra yen are greatly exaggerated, I’m sorry to say.What’s not exaggerated is the fact that Nintendo reported its profits have more than doubled over the past six months to crazy happy fun time levels. Like $1.16 billion, or 132.42 billion yen, which is up from 54.35 billion this time...
Nintendo hires Reggie’s replacement
Early last year, Reggie Fils-Aime was promoted to President and Chief Operating Officer of Nintendo of America. His old position, Executive Vice President of Sales & Marketing, has finally been filled. Effective November 5th, Cammie Dunaway (pictured) will be responsible for all sales and marketing activities for Nintendo in the United States, Canada and Latin America. Dunaway has more tha...
Nintendo wins Ad Age’s Marketer of the Year award
First, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime won BrandWeek’s Marketeer of the Year award. Today, the rest of Nintendo caught up to him by winning Ad Age’s Marketer of the Year award with nary a specialized gamer soda or crying doll in sight. Question: Can a new product not only radically revive a company but also reinvigorate an entire industry? Answer: Wii. […] “T...
Nintendo releases for the week ending October 20th
New releases for all Nintendo systems this week: DS Flash Focus: Vision Training in Minutes a Day Fullmetal Alchemist: Trading Card Game Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure The Bee Game Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground Disney Princess: Magical Jewels Fish Tycoon Hannah Montana: Music Jam Power Rangers: Super Legends Word Jong Prism: Light the Way Wii Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure Tony Ha...
Nintendo’s perfect week
I think this week is a great opportunity to reflect on Nintendo’s future. There was the megaton press events in Japan and San Francisco that showed more new content than I think even the big media rags were prepared to see. There was the exhaustive list of third party titles that Nintendo fired off on Thursday to showcase the fact that yes, third parties had signed onto this Wii thing, and t...
Monster Hunter 3 is Wii-exclusive, PS3 version canned
It’s a sign of the times: a big name publisher/developer moves an incredibly successful game from a failing environment to one with both proven promise and latent potential, all because of spiraling out of control production costs. Today, it’s CAPCOM and a signature franchise in Monster Hunter (4.5 million sold to date). The game will be a Wii exclusive when it launches sometime next y...
Nintendo releases for the week ending October 13th
Here are all new releases for the week ending October 13th, 2007: DS Kurupoto Cool Cool Stars Arctic Tale Holly Hobbie & Friends Master Jin Jin’s IQ Challenge Bleach: The Blade of Fate FIFA Soccer 08 Flipper Critters Looney Tunes: Duck Amuck The Cheetah Girls: Pop Star Sensations Thrillville: Off the Rails Touch Detective 2 1/2 Wii Disney Princess: Enchanted Journey Donkey Kong Barrel Bl...
Goldman Sachs sees more money in Nintendo’s future
Goldman Sachs wants Nintendo something fierce today. Like, seriously, get a ridiculously expensive Ritz-Carlton penthouse room already. GameDaily BIZ has the deets: Goldman Sachs believes the Wii and DS maker can approach Apple-like levels of success because of its “innovative business model.” Nintendo may also raise its earnings forecast again. According to Reuters, Nintendo shares hi...
The Wii Virtual Console import tax
I’ve seen a few people post about this at blogs like 4cr and Aeropause, so I thought it would be worth a post here to see what you guy and gals think. The query is about first party imports on the VC and their “modest” price increase. Or, their import aficionado player’s tax, as I like to call it. The two import games are 600 points for the Famicom title Super Mario Bros 2 ...
Nintendo mall tour – Infendo represent!
Nintendo is launching a mall tour this fall. Infendo Nation, we need you to represent! Show your love for Infendo at these upcoming events, take some pictures, and we’ll share them for the world to see in an upcoming post. Is the mall tour coming to a town near you?
Nintendo: Wii shortages will last until 2008
For all of the success the Wii has wrought for Nintendo, there is one area where the machine (and Nintendo’s strategy) has been woefully inadequate: production. And it’s going to stay that way. Today, I found an interview at GameIndusty.biz with Nintendo president Reggie Fils-Aime that all but confirms there will be massive Wii shortages this holiday season. Lest there be any remaining...