“It’s a priority for us bringing a range of entertainment. It’s a priority for us to have a range of third party licensees see success on the platform. It’s a priority for us to make sure that every consumer has content that they’re going to enjoy.

“Now, the challenge for us is that we, ourselves, Nintendo, don’t create that type of content. We’re not experts at it. Our developers don’t particularly enjoy making that content. They probably could make stellar content, if they chose to. We choose to do something else. So it really is up to the third party developer to create that great content and bring it to life on the platform.” – Reggie Fils-Aime

Nintendo has never been known for creating mature games. Their in-house development studios aren’t big on that genre. However, Nintendo has published some M-rated titles, such as Perfect Dark, Geist, and most recently, Zangeki no Reginleiv.

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Japanese trademark updates

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Nintendo
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??2010-007578 ??????????? (Pokemon Kuru Kuru Get)

NBGI
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Konami
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SEGA
??2010-004395 ?????? (Televillage)
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Koei
??2010-005835 ???????????

Atlus
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Kadokawa games
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Level 5
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Rumor: Level-5’s announcement next month is Sengoku Baseball Team

Posted on 15 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, Rumors | 0 comments

Just a quick refresher: Last week, Level-5 CEO Akihiro Hino stated on his Twitter account that his company will be revealing a new game next month. The announcement seems like it’ll be pretty important since Hino said that “it will become an extremely anticipated title.”

We still don’t know for sure what the game is, but we might be one step closer to finding out. The Japanese trademarks for the month of March have been released and one of the trademarks registered is Level-5’s Sengoku Baseball Team. The company might be interested in generating the same type of success that they had with the Inazuma Eleven soccer games. Still, though, we’ll have to wait until next month to know for sure if Level-5’s next big title is Sengoku Baseball Team.

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Level-5 to announce new title next month

Posted on 15 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 1 Comment

This information comes from Akihiro Hino’s official Twitter (Level-5 CEO)…

“Once this [game] is announced, it will become an extremely anticipated title.”

Hmm…Sounds like Hino is hyping up this title quite a bit! We won’t know what this title is and what platform(s) it’s for until the game is officially announced, though. Hopefully it’ll end up on the Wii and/or DS.

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Fester’s Quest NES in 5:43 (tool assisted)

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Thanks to Ross M for the news tip!

Reggie confident about Nintendo’s second-half of 2010

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Nintendo’s first-half line-up of games is practically a dream come true for fans. Two huge games – Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Metroid: Other M – will be released in just a few months, as well as Sin and Punishment: Star Successor. With such an impressive first-half line-up, though, most Nintendo fans can’t help but wonder what Nintendo has up their sleeves for the remainder of the year. While Nintendo’s Reggie Fils-Aime wouldn’t reveal anything on the latest GameTrailers TV, he did say that he is confident about the second-half of the year because of the long tails of their titles that will have already been released and because of the new games that will launch later in 2010.

“I am confident. And I say that because we are very fortunate that we have titles with long tails. And so in this first-half of the year, we not only have the benefit of Galaxy 2 and Other M, as well as Sin and Punishment and Monster Hunter Tri and Red Steel 2, great line-up, but we also have still contributing strong sales of Wii Fit Plus and New Super Mario Bros. Wii. My expectation for the second half is we’ll have not-only Fit Plus and Super Mario Bros. for Wii, but we’ll also have the ongoing tail of Galaxy 2 and Other M as well, plus all of the new titles. So yeah, I’m feeling pretty good for the second-half.

TheSpeedGamer’s Metroid Marathon starts today

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TheSpeedGamer’s Metroid Marathon event starts today, Friday March 12 and will last 72 hours. We would appreciate any promotion that we can get!
We, TheSpeedGamers, are based in the DFW Texas area and play video games to raise money for different causes. We will have been together for two years this coming Saturday and have raised approximately $125,000 for various causes.
Our events typically last 72 hours continuously in which we broadcast ourselves over the internet playing video game franchise’s to their completion while also providing video commentary. There is a chat room that accompanies the video game feed so that the viewers can interact with the players and other viewers. Everything can be viewed on TheSpeedGamers.com.