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Wii is fine despite hardcore cabin fever
The gaming industry is having a difficult time comprehending Nintendo’s recent success. Many gamers who have since moved on exclusively to more “mature” Xbox and PlayStation offerings even suggest that the “Wii bubble will burst any day.” That is people will grow tired of Wii’s novelty and inferior graphics in the long-run despite the similar and ongoing success...
Playing Game Boy helps you lose weight
My posse in the Infendo Forums already know this, but I’ve been losing weight on WeightWatchers for about a year now. Yesterday I was reading an article about curbing the munchies when I spotted this tip: Pick up a Game Boy: Playing a handheld video game can squash a food craving, says Cynthia Sass, RD, a Tampa nutritionist and spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association. “When ...
Where Mario goes when he dies
He’s got to go some where after falling off all those jumps… right?
Behold! The Wii Slippers (flip-flops, thongs, sandals, or whatever you call them)
Wii is just everywhere. It’s sooooo hot right now.
Nintendo media day: The gaming press gets left behind
Did anyone else get the impression that Nintendo’s big media day was kind of like one of those meaningless photo ops that politicians do these days just because they “have to?” (bear with me, I’ve been sunning it in the Outer Banks for the past week and I’m playing Infendo catch up today). From Game|Life: One longtime mainstream journalist who I spoke to was really di...
Reggie tells NY Times it’s good to be on top
Reggie talks Nintendo dominance in speaking with the New York Times during the company’s media summit this past week… “Only twice has one company simultaneously had the No. 1 new hardware console, the No. 1 portable console, the No. 1-selling game and been the No. 1 overall software publisher. The first time was Nintendo in the ’80s. The second time is Nintendo now.” Ever b...
Nintendo to “license” Nintendo Power to second-party publisher
The good news — given Nintendo Power’s venerable history and recent editorial improvements — is that the mag will live on despite recent rumors suggesting otherwise. Nintendo spin queen Perrin Kaplan coughed up some details in speaking with Game Informer saying that NP will “remain a magazine” only it will be licensed to another publisher under Nintendo’s owners...
Nintendo through the Ages (and Colors)
Color Lovers examine Nintendo colors through the ages. It’s a pretty cool little piece contrasting the differences from the NES to Wii. Excerpt: “While controllers have seemingly become just more complicated and the games just the same, what’s been interesting to watch is the evolution of graphics over gameplay, specifically with Nintendo, the longest running console manufacturer...
High Scores
What game have you posted your best score on? I’ve never been much of a “play for high score” kind of guy except while playing Dr. Mario. Even then I’m sure it was only in the low 100,000s or something. You?
Where has all the good video game music gone?
It’s not often one comes across good original video game music. The last memorable (and new) score I think I heard was Shadow of the Colossus from 2005… until today. Enter my new favorite (what I think is) orignal game music; the Dinner Dash: Sizzle & Serve theme for DS. While I can’t speak for the game (out tomorrow, preview here, and it sounds cool), the music is just bangi...
See a slew of Nintendo Power covers
Just days after rumors that Nintendo Power may get the axe, a kind gentlemen on Flickr has uploaded about 50 Nintendo Power covers from years past. Click on through to take a trip down memory lane. My favorite from the batch is at your right.
Old-gen consoles easily outselling next-gen
Due to my love for oversimplified graphs, I give to you old-gen hardware sales compared to next-gen hardware sales in delicious pie graph form. Nintendo should be sending me checks for all this market research I’m doing in support of their strategy. Data was taken from the NPD, North America’s hardware bean counter. Definitions are as follows: Old-gen category includes all reported sys...