Is Nintendo Over?

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People are shocked that Nintendo is not going to have a press conference at the biggest video gaming show of the year, E3, in June.

"Wow. no nintendo press conference at this year's e3. that's ... ceding a lot of oxygen to the competition," Arthur Gies, a video game reviewer, tweeted yesterday.

It's surprising because Nintendo's sales figures for the Wii U were pretty disappointing.

"Now this is a bad earnings report," influential tech blogger John Gruber recently wrote. "Really hope Nintendo figures a way to pull itself out of this spiral."

The gaming company sold 3.45 million Wii U consoles by the end of March, missing its target of 4 million units. But it expects new games to increase the sales of the Wii U to 9 million this fiscal year...

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Amazon Launches Instant Video For Nintendo Wii

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If you own a Wii, you were probably a little bummed out to hear that Amazon would be serving up Instant Video to the Wii U and not to your older console.

But fret no longer, as Amazon has just announced that its library of streaming video content is now available to Wii owners.

Amazon’s Instant Video library is home to over 145,000 titles, and if you’re a Prime member you have automatic access to over 33,000 titles right off the bat.

Other features you may have grown accustomed to on Amazon’s media streaming platform are also present, including Whispersync, which lets users pick up right where they left off on another device. Like, say, a Kindle Fire.

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Nintendo's Wii U Outperforming the Original Wii Because it Costs More

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Nintendo’s Wii U has managed to outperform the launch of its original Wii, at least in terms of revenue, but only because it costs more.

In the U.S., Nintendo sold 460,000 Wii U devices in December and more than 890,000 since it launched in mid-November, according to NPD, which tracks monthly sales figures for the videogame industry.

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Awesome Collection of Super Mario Fan Art

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I think I never heard of someone born between the 80's and 90's that never played one of Mario's video game, maybe because pretty much everybody loves Mario. He's undeniably the most famous video game character, so here a little tribute from us to this icon.

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An Animated History of Nintendo Devices and Games

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Paris designers Anthony Veloso and Quentin Dron of Retro Game Addict created great animated Nintendo History timeline that takes us on an artistic journey from the Game & Watch handheld (1980) to the Wii U (2012).

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Behind Nintendo's Development of the Wii U Videogame Console

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Nintendo Co.'s Wii U, the company’s first new home videogame machine in six years, will finally reach the hands of consumers on Sunday when the new console goes on sale in the U.S.

The three-year development process of the Wii U offers a glimpse into how the Japanese videogame manufacturer comes up with its new consoles.

Around 2009, the company’s top brass started looking into the idea of creating a game machine that offered a “second screen” controller. The managers saw it as a smart solution to overcome some of what it felt were the shortcomings of the Wii — mainly that the Wii was a secondary accessory to the television and not a primary device on its own.

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1991 News Report on Video Games Shows Not Much Has Changed

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A 1991 news report about parents angry over Super Nintendo shows little has changed in 20 years.

For one thing, the video, recently unearthed by Reddit, shows that many parents have always been confused and upset by the popular electronic medium. They're still worried about their kids playing too much today.

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Here Are The 23 Nintendo Wii U Launch Titles

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The Nintendo Wii U launches on November 18 with the support of 23 games. Nintendo stated previously that there would be 50 available before March 31, so, relatively so, the Wii U is launching with a strong amount of games including New Super Mario Bros U, Call of Duty: Black Ops II and, yes, Nintendo Land, the game Nintendo hopes will be the Wii Sports of its new console (it won’t).

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21 Nerdalicious Nintendo Tributes

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If you can craft, why not nerd craft? And let me tell you, nerds make some pretty amazing things.

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Nintendo’s Wii U Hits U.S. Stores November 18, Starts At $299.99

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Nintendo will finally make its Wii U available to customers this November, after having previewed the next-gen console for over a year now, the company announced at a press event today. The Wii U will come in a $299.99 Basic version in white with 8GB of onboard storage, and a 32GB Deluxe model in black for $349.99. It’ll hit the U.S. on November 18 and Europe on November 30.

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Nintendo Wii U Pro Controller hands-on (video)

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Although we managed to get our mitts on the Wii U and updated GamePad here at E3 following Nintendo's keynote, the recently unveiled Pro Controller turned out to be harder to find. We were thankfully able to visit the company's amusement park massive booth on the show floor where we discovered the wireless peripheral, along with a GamePad, tethered to a demo of the upcoming title, Rayman Legends. Join us past the break for our initial impressions in text and on camera.

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Nintendo Announces The Wii U At E3

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It was just yesterday that Nintendo unveiled the Wii U Gamepad, but today is the big announcement. Everybody welcome the Wii U.

The new console, coupled with the Gamepad, will change gaming entirely, according to Nintendo: “at its core, Wii U changes gaming, how you interact with your gaming friends, and it changes the way you enjoy your TV.”

That means Netflix and Hulu and Amazon Video and YouTube, along with the brand new form of gaming brought about by the marriage of the Wii U and the Gamepad.

The Gamepad sports a pressure-sensitive touchscreen along with traditional buttons and directional pad. Nintendo also packed an NFC reader/writer and a gyroscope/accelerometer.

The Wii U will support two different Gamepads.

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Classic Nintendo Cushions Keep Gamers Comfy and Cozy

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If you’re a fan of classic Nintendo video game systems, then you’ll definitely want to check out these comfy looking plush cushions done up to look like these bits of gaming nostalgia.

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New Nintendo console in June? It’s about time

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Kotaku is reporting that Nintendo might be dialing up the awesome (finally) in preparation to debut a new console this year at E3 – a console that will apparently leapfrog both the Xbox 360 and PS3 in performance. And that wouldn’t be half bad – while the Wii was a smash hit upon its debut, who cares about motion controlled gaming now? You? If it’s you, I’m sorry.

The Wii is sadly on its last legs; third party development is weak, motion control is dead(ish)… hell, the Wii doesn’t even have a hard drive or HD Out. These things do not a viable console make, and if the rumours are true, Nintendo’s about to get serious. If they can revolutionize gaming as they’ve done so many times before (Gamecube notwithstanding), it should be a very exciting June.

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With aging hardware, Nintendo posts first yearly loss of $460 million

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The next console needs to get here quickly for Nintendo. The game hardware company announced its first annual operating loss of 37.3 billion yen ($459.54 million) from 2011 to 2012. They anticipate a turnaround in numbers at the same level in the positive this year as a next generation console is expected.

Price cuts to their systems weren’t enough to keep sales from dropping 36.2%.

Nintendo intends to sell the 3DS “below cost” soon, following strong sales after a substantial price cut last year. Still, they weren’t anywhere near the numbers of the original DS, selling 13.53 million 3DS devices versus 80.2 million of the original DS. The original DS still managed to sell 5.1 million units in the last year.

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Nintendo expects first annual loss in at least three decades

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Spurned by consumers who now favor tablets, smartphones and higher-definition consoles,Nintendo Co.said it will probably post a loss in its current fiscal year — its first in at least three decades.

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Nintendo confirms Wii U to launch by year end

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Nintendo will launch its Wii U video game console — the successor to the wildly successful but aging Nintendo Wii — in the U.S. and other key markets in time for the holiday shopping season later this year.

Nintendo chief executive Satoru Iwata told reporters in Japan that the Wii U would be launched by the end of the year in the U.S., Europe, Australia and Japan, according to Reuters.

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Old school meets new in Super Mario 3D Land

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The latest platformer to star Nintendo’s moustachioed icon combines the clever, three-dimensional level design and graphical polish of the Super Mario Galaxy games with the bite-sized sweetness of entries in the Super Mario Bros. series.

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The World's Most Famous Game Maker And Mastermind Behind Zelda And Mario Just Stepped Down

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Shigeru Miyamoto, the man behind some of the most popular game franchises in the world like The Legend of Zelda and Mario, just announced he is retiring as head game designer of Nintendo.

Miyamoto said he's going to work on smaller projects in an interview with Wired Magazine. Here's what he told Wired:

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The Top 25 N64 Games of All Time

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Last week, Dorkly users voted to elect the greatest N64 game of all time. The competition was tough. Palms were decimated by frantic joystick spinning, countless Capri-Suns were consumed, and Glover was left with only three fingers. Alas, the time has come to announce the games you picked as the console’s best. Out of a pool of 118 titles, here are the top 25.

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