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Nintendo’s Wii successor to use 3D

Published on: 21st June, 2010

Satoru Iwata, Nintendo’s President, said to Japanese daily Nikkei that like the recent 3DS console, the next Wii model might have 3D capabilities too. The company is carefully watching the buying rate of 3D TV sets. The next Wii version would be released at the moment when the adoption rate for 3D TVs would reach [...]

Nintendo 3DS expected to ship in October

Published on: 24th April, 2010

Nintendo 3DS could each the stores earlier than planned, i.e. in October this year instead of 2011, as it was promised. Sources from the British games field reveal that the new Nintendo console would gain at least three months in stores, as a probable release would be rather closer to Christmas than next year.
It seems [...]

PS3 believed to win the console challenge by 2013

Published on: 18th March, 2010

The PlayStation 3 of Sony is believed to sell more devices than any other competitor during the lifetime of the current product generation, says a report released by Strategy Analytics. Analysts have made predictions regarding overall shipments during the lifetime of the product instead of comparing sales figures immediately after the products are launched.
The current [...]

Would Nintendo Wii face shortages through this month?

Published on: 2nd March, 2010

Nintendo Wii is facing supply shortages again, according to Reggie Fils-Aimé, chief of Nintendo of America. After the record December sales of 3.8 million, the game console maker is again low on stock and does not expect to end it before the end of March. There is also very low supply for the Balance Board [...]

New plug-and-play UIM device from Infinitec

Published on: 23rd February, 2010

A new upcoming Infinite USB Memory (IUM) device has been recently showed by Infinitec. This makes content and stream media sharing possible from any other connected device. It seems that all file formats are compatible, no matter their extension or type and users can also stream files from their PCs to Blu-ray players, gaming consoles [...]

Nintendo’s chief downplays the impact of the iPad on game console business

Published on: 9th February, 2010

Satoru Iwata, the chief of Nintendo, has declared the iPad would not affect his company’s business related to game consoles. He did not admit the iPad would be a bigger iPod touch and also did not find the new device surprising at all. Iwata did not comment the impact of the new platform regardless of [...]

Project Natal possibly dismissed by Nintendo

Published on: 31st January, 2010

The console maker Nintendo may have turned down the technology that was named Project Natal three years ago. 3DV Systems created this technology and sold it to Microsoft for its Xbox 360 seems to have pitched an early version of it to Nintendo in 2007. Satoru Iwata, the latter chief of Nintendo turned it down [...]

WiiRelax trademark from Nintendo

Published on: 24th December, 2009

Nintendo has created a trademark for what is probably going to be named the Vitality Sensor. The name they want to use is WiiRelax and is going to be either the name of the game or of the gadget. This device along, with a special program will read the pulse rate of the user and [...]

Blue and Pink Wii remotes

Published on: 19th December, 2009

Nintendo has recently announced the release of its Wii Remote in blue and pink. The two new color versions of the controller will be sold alongside with the black and white versions, giving users the possibility to have four different colored controllers, one for each player.
The new color versions of the controller will benefit from [...]

Nintendo Wii Motion Plus – contact-free Eneloop battery and charging system

Published on: 20th November, 2009

Sanyo has recently presented the new version of the contact-free Eneloop charging system. It is dedicated to Nintendo Wii Motion Plus video game controllers and is an improvement of a similar device released last year. It involves a second controller and the new peripherals and also includes two battery packs and a USB cable that [...]

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