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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 [...]

Are iPhone and DS rivals? Nintendo’s president denies it

Published on: 18th November, 2009

Satoru Iawata, the president of Nintendo denied any competition between the DSi LL and the iPhone or iPod and said he uses an iPhone himself. The comparison between the two categories of products has no sense, according to Iawata, as they address different audiences. He added that the DS offer a unique experience and games [...]

Is there a Wii HD Shipping in 2010?

Published on: 11th November, 2009

Rumors of Wii HD shipping in 2010 have been denied by the president of Nintendo of America, Reggie Fils-Aime, who did not say whether the console would be updated in the future or not, but emphatically said such a replacement will not come soon. He did not, however, completely deny the future existence of Wii [...]

Nintendo Planning to Release a Free 3G Portable Game Machine

Published on: 3rd November, 2009

The next generation of Nintendo’s portable game machines could have free 3G built-in access, according to the company’s president Satoru Iwata. Keeping an eye on the competitors, Nintendo’s president observed that Amazon Kindle’s business model charges extra in return for lifetime 3G access, which is not productive for Nintendo’s younger users the new handheld is [...]

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