General Nintendo

Posted on 13 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, General Nintendo | 0 comments

Princess Peach will send you letters as you progress in Super Mario 3D Land. This is something that was briefly mentioned during the Super Mario 3D Land Iwata Asks discussion. The letters contain illustrations updating you about the status of the princess, with a hint of nostalgia.

If you’d like to see the set of illustration/letter screenshots, head past the break.

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Bionic Games, the developer behind Capcom’s Spyborgs, has shut down. Co-founder Mike Stout was actually involved with Activision’s Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure, so I guess that’s a pretty good confirmation that the studio is gone. Their website has disappeared, too.

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Nintendo has published a translated version of the company’s financial results briefing Q&A session from Friday. We covered a great deal of the information in numerous posts over the weekend.

Other than what we previously shared, there was nothing from the full transcript that truly jumped out at me. So rather than filling the homepage with walls of text, I’ll let you guys read up on the translated (here) if you’re interested.

Posted on 13 years ago by Austin(@NE_Austin) in Features, General Nintendo | 0 comments

Oh man, it was quite a long road to get this totally edited and done, but it’s completed and uploaded and everything is good. Woofta.

Still a lot of technical things to be worked out with using all of the crazy new nonsense, but I’d say we did okay for a first episode!

~Austin

Posted on 13 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, General Nintendo, Videos, Wii | 0 comments

On this week’s episode: Kirby’s Return to Dreamland, Pokemon Rumble Blast, James Noir’s Hollywood Crimes and Pokemon Rumble Blast at NYCC.

Posted on 13 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 0 comments

Next year, Mega Man and Street Fighter turn 25. Fans of these franchises will be pleased to hear that Capcom has anniversary plans for both IPs.

Capcom’s Christian Svensson provided the following information on the Capcom-Unity boards…

“25th for MM and 25th for Street Fighter next year. Both will have ‘things’ to commemorate the occasion. Exactly what is in planning stages but the are solid ideas already being batted around I hope you guys will like. …But please bear in mind, they won’t happen until some time in our next fiscal year begins mostly (so still a good ways away).”

Hmmm… I wonder what Capcom has in store. Something tells me that there plans don’t involve Mega Man Legends-related, though…

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Missed GTTV’s Nintendo episode last night? If so, you can watch the whole show online. I don’t believe embed code is available, so you’ll have to head on over to GameTrailers to view it.

Posted on 13 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 0 comments

The first couple of Zelda Symphony concerts kicked off very recently, will a full tour set to take place in 2012. This is just one of the ways Nintendo is celebrating the franchise’s 25th anniversary.

Unfortunately, Mario never received the same treatment for his birthday last year. That doesn’t mean, however, that Mario concerts are out of the question. Koji Kondo responded excitedly when asked about the possibility of Mario concerts in an interview with GameTrailers TV, and expressed great interest in making that happen sometime in the future.

Get to it, Nintendo!

Posted on 13 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, General Nintendo, News, Wii, Wii U | 0 comments

More information has emerged from Nintendo’s latest financial results briefing. Some points are unclear – such as a new Pokemon title that isn’t listed internally – but there are some interesting details nonetheless.

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata shared the following information during the briefing:

– Once again, Kid Icarus coming to Japan between January-March
– Possible Pokemon game coming, could be in the spring
– First 10 months in Japan have 8 of top 20 Nintendo titles vs. 13 last year
– USA: first 3 weeks in October has Wii hardware sales up year-over-year
– USA: 3DS/DS sales trending in-line with DS last year
– Nintendo wants to obtain bigger sales year-over-year by the end of 2011
– Satoru Iwata elieves Christmas sales will be up year-over-year for Nintendo
– USA/Japan: 3DS purchase rate is higher than the DS last year
– USA: Active users in October vs. March hasn’t changed for Wii/DS/3DS
– Improved profits driven by lower cost and continued momentum in 2012
– Nintendo hopes to accelerate digital offerings
– Iwata implied a launch date for Wii U later than June 2012 (makes sense since Nintendo will show the console at the show)
– USA: StreetPass opportunities are small; need to get a group together and they’ll have positive views of the feature
– Nintendo’s priority in 2011 is 3DS hardware sales, profitability sacrificed, want to grow 3DS into a core platform
– Big improvement in 3DS profitability next year; targeting 16 million units; conservative goal, not aggressive
– Lack of 3DS software won’t happen again
– Nintendo will collaborate more with external developers since they can’t do everything internally; external companies better at network service
– Nintendo still interested in expanding the gaming population
– Iwata: Industry will shrink is audience doesn’t expand
– Children are asking for the 3DS more for Christmas
– This is why Nintendo is more confident about 3DS sales
– There is a plan in place to enhance the 3DS line-up internationally, aand this will be one of the drivers for improved profits in 2012

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Posted on 13 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, DS, General Nintendo, News, Wii | 0 comments

Nintendo today reported financial results for the first six months of its current fiscal year (through Sept. 30, 2011), and revised downward full-year financial and unit sales forecasts.

In total, the company shipped 9 million hardware units and more than 73 million software units during the half year. In addition, Nintendo revised its full-year unit global shipment forecasts as follows, compared with projections at the end of the previous fiscal quarter:
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