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Rumor: Operation Rainfall already a success, Xenoblade NTSC localization complete
According to sources who wish to remain anonymous (don’t they all) localization of Xenoblade for the US was completed just before this year’s E3. The folks over at Operation Rainfall have stated on their blog that Xenoblade is ready for NTSC territories, while the Last Story localization is well underway. This news would be a huge boon for Wii owners looking to milk their little white...
Satoru Iwata has been listening, is not pleased with lack of games on Wii
It?s funny how much Nintendo has changed in the last decade. For the first time in its history, Nintendo was no longer the market leader as the Sony Playstation had broken onto the scene and easily ran away with the lion?s share of the console market. The Playstation 2 was beginning to pick up where its predecessor left off, and Nintendo was itself readying its own answer in the Gamecube.
Super Mario 3DS to include more than just the Tanooki Suit
This months issue of Official Nintendo Magaize  UK (ONM) has an interview with Yoshiaki Koizumi that should excite long time fans of the Mario franchise. “I can’t reveal the actual number of power-ups in the game right now,” says Koizumi, “but suffice to say that we do try to include enough so that people can enjoy a variety of different kinds of play experiences in the title.”...
Death of the fanman: How Nintendo lost one of its most avid evangelists
Jack Loftus was one of the first contributors to Infendo. He began writing for the blog in 2006, a year after I founded it. Known for his wit, provocative writing, and unabashed subjectivity, Jack lovingly referred to himself as the “fanman.” When gamers prematurely wrote off the DS, and later Wii, Jack was quick to champion each platform and its maker. Over the last half decade, i...
eShop Treasures: Five years later, Electroplankton still amazes
If you headed Nintendo of America, how would you release a brilliant first- party title you knew wouldn’t sell? Back in 2006, the company found the perfect solution: If you didn’t pre-order the $19.95 Electroplankton, you probably couldn’t get the game. Arriving in beautiful, shiny-foil packaging, the quirky music generator marked the most limited cartridge launch in NintendoR...
Infendo PSA: June 30th is the deadline to reach elite status on Club Nintendo
Since its inception, Club Nintendo has provided Nintendo fans an opportunity to get more from their product purchases. The program is a wonderful way for Nintendo to reward its customers for purchasing their products, thereby giving consumers a reason for buying new. If you want to qualify for elite status, however, your time is almost up! June 30 is the last day to fill out those post play survey...
Nintendo, get Gabe Newell a Wii U dev kit, STAT!
Gabe Newell, co-founder of Valve spoke to Joystiq today at New York’s Games for Change Festival and had good things to say about Wii U. Seeing as how Valve has never released a game on a Nintendo console, this should be welcome news to Nintendo fans. “Wii U seems to be a lot more powerful than the previous generation. It sort of fits better into the scalability in terms of graphics pe...
Looking at old Nintendo hardware makes me smile
We play for the games, that’s for sure. But it’s hard not to hold a soft spot for the last thing you see before escaping.Â
Wii U has been in development since 2007
In an interview with Gamasutra, Satoru  Iwata discusses how development for the Nintendo Wii U started mere months after Wii released. By 2007 there where already working prototypes of a dual screened console experience, but not exactly the way we know Wii U today. “Considering how expensive screens were then, it did not make sense to have this big-sized LCD. We would not have been able to ...
The other $50 Nintendo took from my wallet this weekend
Call me crazy, but these days the main purpose of my Wii has been to entertain while friends are over. No console is better equipped for this as just about anybody can pick up a Wii remote and figure out how to play, Nintendo designed it this way. So as I slowly cycle out my four Wii Remote + Wii Motion Plus Voltron-like contraption for Wii Remote Plus controllers, Wii Play: Motion seemed right up...
If you need another reason to get Zelda tomorrow…
Epona doesn’t know how to handle a collector’s item, but if you’d like a free copy of the new OoT 3D soundtrack, act fast. Beginning tomorrow, a free copy of the CD will be shipped to Club Nintendo members who register the game while the limited supply lasts. No guarantees, and no word on exactly how many copies are in stock. The new CD contains 50 tracks from the game, including...
For some reason Wii U not having Blu-ray/DVD playback is a big deal
The interwebs are abuzz today as word spreads that Nintendo does not plan on including DVD or Blu-ray playback on Wii U. Lots of negativity directed towards Nintendo about this decision has popped up on forums message boards, and even here on Infendo. Quite frankly, I fail to see why this is a big deal when I can head over to Amazon and find a Blu-ray player on the cheap. Sub $80 cheap. Mark my ...