Nintendo Co

I certainly do. It is a story I’ve told various times over the years, and it always helps establish my geek cred. I was relating the experience to someone this past weekend, and thought to myself “hey Mark, you write for a Nintendo blog these days. Why don’t you share this with Wii Centre’s audience?” [...]

For the last several years, anyone entering a video game store would have to pull out a magnifying glass to find the Nintendo console video game section. Okay, so maybe that is a bit of an overstatement, but you know what I mean. The GBA and the DS always represent, of course, but the section [...]

Well just about! According to sales figures just out the Wii only has about 1.5  million more units before is surpasses the units of the GameCube sold over its lifespan. The lovely little cube sold around 21.7 million units in its six year  lifespan (give or take). The Wii has already sold around 20.2 million.
Nintendo [...]

So if I told you the Nintendo Wii has sold 5 million units in Japan really quickly, you wouldn’t be surprised, right? After all, the thing is selling as quickly as they can manufacture it. And I bet you wouldn’t be surprised either if I told you it managed to sell 5 million units quicker [...]

Yay Nintendo! For the second year in a row, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has honored Nintendo with an Emmy Award for excellence in engineering creativity. Our beloved Wii was recognized for its innovative motion-sensing controls, which have attracted a broad range of nontraditional gamers (even the Queen!) and veteran players alike. [...]

Seriously, you have to love spin. Because without spin, we couldn’t have headlines such as “Wii Shortages to Cost Nintendo 1.3 Billion this Christmas.” Really, Mr. Market Analyst? Really? Raving success and insane market demand is costing Nintendo money? You know, the last time I looked, Nintendo was like Scrooge McDuck, swimming [...]

Clearly, the Nintendo Wii is mopping the floor with … well, just about everything, in terms of hardware sales. Which is fantastic for Nintendo, because their last several efforts had left many industry people and fans doubting the company’s abilities to compete in the modern console world (handhelds are, of course, a completely different [...]

Nintendo have eventually decided to stop teasing all those poor people out hunting down Wii’s this Christmas. They’ve decided to stop advertising the Wii in the UK in the run up to Christmas because they simply can’t meet the demand for it.
Over the last few months, the Wii fervor has continued to escalate and most [...]

We all know the whole environmentally friendly issue is a popular debate these days (how big is your carbon footprint?) for many and varied reasons. I’m not here to get anywhere near that debate — this is a video game blog, and we embrace gamers of all viewpoints — beyond saying I like this earth [...]

Obviously, the Wii’s launch package title Wii Sports is a tremendously popular and critically acclaimed video game. Sure, it is mostly a teaser/sampler of the Wii’s actual potential, but it sure is fantastic none the less. Everyone from toddlers to the nursing home community love to pick up a Wii remote and throw down on [...]