Posted on 10 years ago by Jarop(@gamrah) in General Nintendo, News, Wii U | 92 Comments

According to Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot the pressure is on Nintendo this financial year with the Wii U, as another failed year for the system could cost the company third party support. In an interview with CVG, he had this to say:

“With Mario Kart, Wii U made one step and we expect with Smash Bros. it will also do more. If Nintendo put the right price on the machine then they will probably have a chance to do further,”

“We are coming with Watch Dogs and Just Dance this year. We also have another game on the shelves that we expect to come at some point when there will be more machines,”

“That game is waiting for more machines to be available,”

“We are also waiting for them to achieve more sales so that we can invest more. Because the problem we have with next-gen now here, is that we are seeing less games that are on next-gen and last-gen consoles.”

“Nintendo has to perform this year, otherwise they will have less games. Justifying investing in the machine needs a larger install base,”

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Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 21 Comments

In closing out an interview with Takashi Tezuka, NZGamer asked the legendary game designer if there’s any hope for a Mario Sunshine sequel or a Majora’s Mask remake for 3DS.

Tezuka responded by saying – off the record – that he wishes Nintendo could explore these kinds of ideas. “I personally would like to enjoy those again,” he noted “but I don’t have any information.”

Check out the full exchange between NZGamer and Takashi Tezuka below:

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Being a left-handed gamer isn’t so easy. A lot of titles don’t accommodate such users too well, making it difficult to play.

This is something that Shigeru Miyamoto seems to understand. And he told Kotaku that he’ll talk to his teams about seeing what can be done.

Miyamoto stated:

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Super Mario Bros. has been around for nearly thirty years. At this point, most would have expected that the game’s major glitches and infinite lives tricks would have been discovered. But apparently not!

As shown in the video above, one player has seemingly managed to uncover a new glitch leading to a constant stream of 1-ups.

Here’s how the technique is described:

First, you must first take player one’s Mario to the second level of the game and throw away your first life. With Luigi taking over, player two must traverse all the way to World 5-2 and find the hidden beanstalk block halfway through the stage. Once there, Luigi must start climbing the vines, however, he must await – and take on the chin – an incoming projectile from one of the Hammer Bros. Upon being hit, once player one resumes control of Mario, the beanstalk from World 5-2 will start growing in World 1-2, providing all you need to infinitely kick shells for unlimited bonuses.

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Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, Random, Videos | 6 Comments

This is definitely bizarre, but in a good way!

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According to social media intelligence analytics provider Crimson Hexagon, Nintendo experienced the highest level of Twitter success during E3 2014.

Crimson Hexagon reports that 47 percent of all tweets mentioned Nintendo. Two of the most popular tweets included a message made by Nintendo of America teasing Shigeru Miyamoto’s appearance on a live broadcast and another from @Dropkickpikachu, who said: “Nintendo has just shown more playable female character’s in one game preview than the other companies have all E3 so far.”

As a whole, the #Nintendo hashtag was tweeted 30,000 times. The #e32014 hashtag was tweeted another 55,000 times.

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

GamesBeat caught up with Nintendo of America communications boss Charlie Scibetta at E3 2014 last week. Among other topics, Scibetta was asked to share a message for those unsure if they want to pick up a Wii U.

Check out Scibetta’s comments about that very subject (and more) below:

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Capcom has announced a couple of changes to its Japanese headquarters management structure.

Nariyuki Nobuyama, Head of Consumer Games R&D Human Resources Division and General Manager of R&D Promotion Department, is now also a Corporate Officer as well.

Another corporate officer is Monster Hunter 4 series producer Ryozo Tsujimoto. Tsujimoto also fulfills the role of Head of Consumer Games Development Division 3 and General Manager of Department 3.

Last but not least, Internal Audit and IT head Hirokazu Nakabachi is Capcom’s new exeuctive corporate officer.

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Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News, Random | 2 Comments

The Mario Happy Meal toys at McDonalds appear to be a hot commodity in South Korea. With the second wave of toys out today, photos have been snapped of huge lines forming – some of which even stretched outside or up to the second floor.

As for why people are so interested in the toys, people are apparently trying to make money by selling them online. This has led some Korean websites to ban members for thirty days should they attempt to resell the Mario Happy Meal toys.

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