General Nintendo

Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo | 4 Comments

Nintendo isn’t against bringing some of its franchises into Animal Crossing.

Longtime developer of the series, Aya Kyogoku, told GameRant in an interview that this is something that could be considered. However, it sounds like IPs and characters won’t be thrown in just for the sake of doing so.

Kyogoku’s full comments are as follows:

“Obviously we don’t know what the next Animal Crossing is going to look like, but if the addition of other IPs in the next Animal Crossing is going to really excite both fans of Animal Crossing and fans of those other IPs even more then that’s something we’d really like to consider and take into account. But at the same time, we really wanted to make sure that the gameplay we put into the next Animal Crossing is fun and new. I wouldn’t want to add a feature where people thought it was about time or expected the next iteration would have. So instead of that, I’d like to have fun and good surprises in the gameplay.”

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Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, General Nintendo, News, Wii U | 6 Comments

Game Critics has announced its nominees for the “Best of E3 2015” awards. There are a few Nintendo nominees, such as Super Mario Maker as “Best Console Game” and Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam as “Best Handheld Game”.

Take a look at the Nintendo-related nominees below. Winners will be shared on July 7.

Best Console Game
– Fallout 4 (Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda)
– Horizon Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games/SCE)
– Star Wars Battlefront (DICE/EA)
– Super Mario Maker (Nintendo)
– Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End (Naughty Dog/SCE)

Best Handheld Game
– Fallout Shelter (Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda)
– Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam (AlphaDream/Nintendo)
– Persona 4 Dancing All Night (Atlus)
– The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes (Nintendo)

Best RPG
– Dark Souls 3 (From Software/Bandai-Namco Games)
– Fallout 4 (Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda)
– Fire Emblem Fates (Intelligent Systems/Nintendo)
– Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam (AlphaDream/Nintendo)
– Sword Coast Legends (n-Space/Digital Extremes/Wizards of the Coast)

Best Family/Social Game
– Disney Infinity 3.0 (Avalanche Software/Disney Interactive)
– Guitar Hero Live (FreeStyleGames/Activision)
– LEGO Dimensions (TT Games/WBIE)
– Rock Band 4 (Harmonix)
– Super Mario Maker (Nintendo)

You can find the full lineup of categories and nominees here.

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Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 5 Comments

Alright, this is pretty neat. Instructable put together a 15-step guide that shows fans how to create a bartop arcade cabinet for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, which you can find right here.

Plywood is used for the actual cabinet while the game is emulated with Rasberry Pi 2. There are a total of 11 buttons to mimic the N64 controller button layout.

Okay. Who’s going to build one of these things?

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Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 11 Comments

Warren Spector, creator of Epic Mickey, shared high praise for Nintendo in a recent interview.

Spector mentioned how Nintendo tends to make unique and different games. While he’s unsure what the company’s future looks like from a hardware perspective, he feels that having games on mobile devices will allow Nintendo to be just fine.

I’m kind of a Nintendo geek. I don’t want to get myself in trouble….you know, I’m looking around the show floor here. And let’s say there are 2500 games being shown. 2400 of them all look exactly alike. You can’t even tell which one you’re looking at, you know? And it drives me crazy.

And then you go to IndieCade, and you go to Nintendo, and all of a sudden it’s like, “Oooh, games can be different. Cool!” So I think from a creative standpoint, from a design standpoint, from an IP standpoint, from a graphics standpoint, I think Nintendo rocks.

The thing is, I mean, from a hardware standpoint it’s hard to say what Nintendo’s future looks like, let’s be honest about that. But the fact that they’re finally gonna put their IP on mobile…they’re fine. There are a billion smartphones on the planet. They’re gonna do just fine when Mario hits that.

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Posted on 10 years ago by Matt(@OnePunchMaz) in General Nintendo, News | 6 Comments

Last week Nintendo held their 75th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders. No major news came out of it and the election of the company’s 10 Directors was no surprise either as all 10 current Directors were re-elected. Today, Nintendo released some supplementary info about the meeting, including the exact numbers of said vote. Compared to last year’s vote, approval ratings are higher across the board, especially for Genyo Takeda and Shigeru Miyamoto. Looks like shareholders were pleased with Nintendo’s performance this past year, which isn’t a huge surprise given that the company had a profitable fiscal year. Check out the approval ratings below (last year’s numbers in parentheses):

– Satoru Iwata: 83.45% (80.64%)
– Genyo Takeda: 92.07% (86.80%)
– Shigeru Miyamoto: 92.08% (86.81%)
– Tatsumi Kimishima: 92.60% (89.11%)
– Shigeyuki Takahashi: 94.46% (93.32%)
– Satoshi Yamato: 94.46% (93.33%)
– Susumu Tanaka: 94.46% (93.33%)
– Shinya Takahashi: 94.46% (93.33%)
– Hirokazu Shinshi: 94.46% (93.33%)
– Naoki Mizutani: 94.52% (94.03%)

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Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, Videos | 3 Comments

Shigeru Miyamoto, Takashi Tezuka, a few other representatives from Nintendo recently took a trip to Jim Henson Studios to see where the Nintendo puppets were created. Check out the journey in the video below.

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Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, General Nintendo, Mobile, News, Switch, Wii U | 11 Comments

A new interview with Reggie Fils-Aime was added to Forbes’ website today. Reggie discussed several topics, including Nintendo’s E3 showing, hardware, Wii U sales, Skylanders, amiibo, and mobile.

Those who are interested in reading up on what Reggie had to say can head past the break for the Q&A breakdown. You’ll find Forbes’ original piece with a few additional comments here as well.

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Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 0 comments

Disney is combining two of its groups into one. Disney Interactive, the team behind Disney Infinity, will be joined together with Playmation creator Disney Consumer Products under the new name Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media (DCPI).

With the move, Disney hopes to better align the separate technology development ongoing in the divisions. The company is also looking to leverage the retail and licensing relationships already in place.

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moldclay has updated his fan-made amiibo compatibility chart once again. In this latest version, it’s been brought up to version 5.0. Check it out above.

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Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 9 Comments

Nintendo published an updated listing of its subsidiaries and affiliated companies as part of a new securities report. There are 27 consolidated subsidiaries (down slightly from last year’s count of 29) and six affiliated companies.

First, some notes:

– SiRAS.com Inc is no longer a subsidiary
– Capital of Nintendo RU LLC. increased from RUB104 to RUB336
– Nintendo European Research and Development SAS is now a wholly owned subsidiary
– Nintendo’s ownership of Nd Cube Company, Ltd. increased from 96% to 97%
– Another subsidiary/affiliated company no longer with Nintendo is Silicon Knights

All of Nintendo’s subsidiaries and affiliated companies are listed below.

Subsidiaries

Name: Nintendo of America Inc
Region: United States of America
Capital (in thousands): $110,000
Corporate role: Sales/marketing
Ownership percentage: 100

Name: Nintendo of Canada Ltd.
Region: Canada
Capital (in thousands): $110,000
Corporate role: Sales/marketing
Ownership percentage: 100

Name: Nintendo of Europe GmbH
Region: Germany
Capital (in thousands): €30,000
Corporate role: Sales/marketing
Ownership percentage: 100

Name: Nintendo France S.A.R.L.
Region: France
Capital (in thousands): €10,000
Corporate role: Sales/marketing
Ownership percentage: 100

Name: Nintendo Benelux B.V
Region: Netherlands
Capital (in thousands): €6,800
Corporate role: Sales/marketing
Ownership percentage: 100

Name: Nintendo Iberica, S.A.
Region: Spain
Capital (in thousands): €3,000
Corporate role: Sales/marketing
Ownership percentage: 100

Name: Nintendo RU LLC.
Region: Russia
Capital (in millions): RUB336 (was RUB104 in 2014)
Corporate role: Sales/marketing
Ownership percentage: 100

Name: Nintendo Australia Pty. Ltd.
Region: Australia
Capital (in thousands): AUD8,500
Corporate role: Sales/marketing
Ownership percentage: 100

Name: Nintendo Taiwan Co. Ltd.
Region: Taiwan
Capital (in thousands): NT$5,000
Corporate role: Sales/marketing
Ownership percentage: 100

Name: Nintendo of Korea Co. Ltd.
Region: South Korea
Capital (in thousands): ?25,000
Corporate role: Sales/marketing
Ownership percentage: 100

Name: iQue, Ltd
Region: China
Capital (in thousands): $28,000
Corporate role: Sales/marketing
Ownership percentage: 100

Name: Nintendo Technology Development Inc.
Region: United States of America
Capital: The list states 1 US$, I assume they mean a million US$
Corporate role: Development
Ownership percentage: 100

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