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Nintendo news round-up: Wii console and game price drops, Humble Bundle, Wii Play: Motion and more

– Within the past week, major retailers such as Amazon, Target, GameStop, and Wal-Mart quietly dropped the price of the latest Wii bundle (which includes Wii Sports, Wii Sports Resort, a MotionPlus remote, and Nunchuk) from $199.99 to $169.99. If you’re reading this site yet somehow still don’t own a Wii, it looks like there couldn’t be a better time to finally get your han...

Breaking – Nintendo reveals 18 launch titles for 3DS

Nintendo has revealed the list of 18 games set to launch with the 3DS system on March 27th: ”¢ Pilotwings Resortâ„¢ ”¢ Steel Diverâ„¢ ”¢ nintendogsâ„¢ + cats ”¢ Super Street Fighter® IV 3D Edition ”¢ The Simsâ„¢ 3 ”¢ Madden NFL Football ”¢ Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 3D ”¢ LEGO® Star Wars® III: The Clone Warsâ„¢ ”¢ RIDGE RACER® 3D ”¢ Super Monkey Ballâ„¢ 3D ”¢ BUST-A-MOVE UNIVERSEâ„¢ ”¢ SAMURAI ...

Five reasons I still love Nintendogs…and can’t wait for the 3DS sequel

I’m not ashamed to admit I bought my DS to play Nintendogs. When a friend showed me his polygon-pup spinning to the spoken command, “Hurricane Kick,” I realized that, yes, I did want a virtual canine after all. In fact, I bought the Lab and Friends cartridge a week before I got the system, because (remember this?) the pet-sim was selling out everywhere in its first weeks. I final...

Press Release: Nintendo 3DS Brings a Dimensional Shift to the World of Entertainment on March 27

Check out the full scoop about the 3DS in Nintendo’s press release. It’s got the answers to your burning questions, such as: – Can you download DSiWare games on 3DS? How about transfer of previous DSiWare purchases? -What accessories will be included in the system? – What colors will be available at launch? – What do the StreetPass and SpotPass features entail? –...

A lot of people bought Nintendo schtuff this weekend

PRESS RELEASE’When confronted with a wide range of Black Friday retail options, U.S. holiday shoppers again turned to Nintendo. Nintendo sold 900,000 combined units in the Nintendo DSâ„¢ family of systems and 600,000 Wiiâ„¢ consoles between Sunday, Nov. 21, and Saturday, Nov. 27, according to the company’s internal sales estimates. “U.S. shoppers bought about 9,000 Nintendo hardware systems ...

Breaking: Nintendo has sold a lot of controllers alongside all those Wiis

PRESS RELEASE ’ Every day since the Wiiâ„¢ system launched in November 2006, Nintendo has sold an average of 46,000 Wii Remoteâ„¢ controllers in the United States. That’s a lot of people playing ”“ and a lot of people playing together. Nintendo’s motion-controlled video games continue to create new players every day. People play Wii to try new experiences not available on other systems...

Nintendo unveils limited red Wii, DSi XL for the Mario anniversary

PRESS RELEASE’Nintendo has everyone’s holiday shopping list covered with an array of great new products. These include Marioâ„¢-red, limited-edition Wiiâ„¢ and Nintendo DSi XLâ„¢ system bundles that celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Super Mario Bros.â„¢ game on the NESâ„¢ and a new Wii Remoteâ„¢ Plus controller that has Wii MotionPlusâ„¢ motion technology built right in. Nintendo already...

Nintendo cutting price of DSi, DSi XL on September 12

Is Nintendo dropping the price of the DSi to maximize holiday sales, or are they preparing their product lines for a $189 3DS? Time will tell, but for now here’s the official press release for your perusal:

At 30M sold, Wii sets U.S. record for fastest selling console, says Nintendo

Nintendo’s internal sales figures show that the Wiiâ„¢ video game system has now sold 30 million units in the United States alone. This significant milestone was reached in just 45 months. This further establishes Wii as the fastest-selling console in the history of the industry, reaching this milestone 15 months faster than the next best-selling console. Wii launched in November 2006 and us...

This week in Nintendo downloads

In the world of downloadable video games, this week’s forecast calls for nonstop showers of awesomeness. A flood watch is in effect as heavy levels of high-quality digital entertainment threaten to disrupt boredom and bad moods across the country. Gale-force fun is expected as games like Ferrari GT: Evolution, System Flaw Recruit and Scrabbleâ„¢ Slam! arrive via the Nintendo DSiWareâ„¢ servi...

Press release: Nintendo reveals hardware, software lineup for first half of 2010

REDMOND, Wash.– Nintendo of America issued a surge of new information today about what consumers can expect from the company in the coming months. Let’s get right to it:

What if Nintendo had pulled a Microsoft on “red ringing” NES consoles?

Six months after the NES launched in Japan in 1983, Nintendo engineers learned that “certain games caused the system to freeze,” according to Game Over, the best biography of Nintendo you’ll ever read. As for the malfunction, think of it as the “red ring” of 1983, only it didn’t kill your system. Nevertheless, “the circuitry on the chip had to be corrected...