The company that gave the world Mario, Link, and Samus is the undisputed champ of the modern console war, with nearly 150 million Switches sold since 2017. But now, speculation is rampant about the company’s next console, rumored to launch in 2025.
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The Nintendo Wii, a hugely successful console, is experiencing a sales slowdown. Wii sales are down 21 percent — the biggest decline since the console launched in 2006. But why? It is important to keep in mind that the Wii has been a juggernaut, running rings around the competition. So even when Wii sales drop…
You? Yes? No? Maybe? Nintendo has released the lifetime global hardware sales numbers for the Nintendo DS and the Nintendo Wii. As Kotaku previously posted, Wii hardware sales were down this past year; however, the company still posted its third best year ever In the financial year from April 2009 to March 2010, there were…
Could the huff finally be running out of Nintendo’s recent puff? As far as the current generation of hardware is concerned, it certainly looks that way. Nintendo released its annual fiscal report today, and perhaps the most interesting finding is that hardware sales for both the Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS are down, in the…
The European box art for Wii shooter Sin & Punishment: Star Successor contains an unexpected surprise: a reversible cover, letting you forgo PEGI ratings in favour of something a little more Japanese. The “alternate”, printed on the reverse of the standard art, is above, the game’s title displayed in Japanese across a gatefold cover. Note…
Ready the hype engines. Set your expectations to their loftiest, for Nintendo Power is tormenting early subscribers of the mag with a forthcoming reveal of a “huge new title” to debut right around E3 2010. “Next issue’s going to be a big one,” teases the Nintendo focused mag. “In addition to an exclusive cover story…
It may not be due out until May 9, but the black Wii arrived on the doorstep of Kotaku Tower this morning. Check out all of that black! If you’re looking to pick one up it will set you back $200, but includes Wii Sports and Wii Sports Resort as well as the MotionPlus controller.…
Everyone’s favorite second-rate princess saver, Luigi, will be playable in Super Mario Galaxy 2, a major selling point for the Wii owner who detests blue overalls worn with red. Luigi, it appears, can do everything his brother Mario can do, whether that involves strapping on the Bee Suit again, riding Yoshi or wearing that new…
A faithful companion. A star in the making. Adoration, rejection, and finally, a triumphant return. This is Yoshi’s story… the real story. The year: 1990. With the release of the SNES, the limitations of the NES no longer forced Mario to be mountless. In stepped Yoshi, an inexperienced green dinosaur with a passion for licking…
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Is it that time of year already? Time flies when you’re waiting for the latest instalment of Famicase (fake-Famicom-cartridges-as-art), an annual treat hosted by Japanese game store Meteor. Here are the pick of 2010’s crop. The deal with Famicase is that artists come up with a cartridge for a game that doesn’t exist. That’s basically…
Handicaps are not a very hot topic in the gaming industry. We hear a lot about single player games/campaigns. Though reviewers typically don’t have enough time to sufficiently cover multiplayer games such modes and features get decent mention. Still, hardly anyone talks about well designed handicap features in multiplayer games. This is completely understandable. When…
But he has an awesome beard. And a big heart. And the song is touching. Depressing as hell, but touching. I’ll see all of you on Rainbow Road. Morning music videos: “Rainbow Road”, the most off-key Mario Kart tribute ever/a> [I Heart Chaos]
A state minister from Victoria, Australia has been publicly rebuked after personally campaigning – in parliament – for one of his constituents to be given a Wii. Gordon Rich-Phillips, a member of the Liberal Party and Victoria’s Assistant Opposition Treasurer, got up in parliament and asked that Victoria’s WorkCover Authority (ie the worker’s comp guys)…
Proving that owners of Nintendo’s current home console are perfectly happy with “Wii Definition” visuals, it’s been disclosed today that “almost” one million Wii users have “participated” in the Wii’s Netflix streaming service since its launch last month. That figure comes directly from Nintendo of America boss Reggie Fils-Aime, and while “participated” is a vague,…
The follow-up to the incredibly addictive puzzle game Picross DS, Picross 3D moves the picture finding gameplay into the next dimension, a game of block breaking and brain teasing that’s also one of the best Nintendo DS games of the year. Instead of presenting the player with a blank canvas and numbered clues with which…
Game design doesn’t have to be a multi-million, multi-year ordeal. Just ask the people who made games for our WarioWare D.I.Y. Warioware contest. We gave you a week to design and submit your own mini games for a chance to win some pretty amazing prizes. The grand prize winner receives a Nintendo DSi XL system,…
The black Wii console, which we already knew was coming, has today been officially revealed by Nintendo of America. It’ll still be $200, and include not one game, but two. Along with the Wii console, controller and nunchuk, the new Wii pack will include a Wii MotionPlus accessory and a copy both of Wii Sports…
In the 80’s, Bandai tormented the world with the “Gobots“, their take on the “transforming robot” craze that never captured the imagination like Transformers did. Maybe they would have had better luck pimping these transformable NES cartridges instead. Released in the 80’s by the Japanese toy company, these “Kasetto Sentai” (Cartridge Corps) figures were small…
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Film critic Roger Ebert sometimes uses his powers for evil. But this time he is not. In an editorial in Newsweek, Ebert explains why he hates 3D. Ebert being Ebert, his argument is directed at films, but with the PS3 getting 3D and Nintendo rolling out its own 3D portable game device, the Nintendo 3DS,…
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