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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 16 Comments

Nintendo was set to kick off its third quarter results briefing with analysts and investors in just a short while. However, president Satoru Iwata has posted a message on the company’s Japanese Twitter account confirming that the meeting has been delayed. That means we’ll have to wait at least a few more days to find out about the latest juicy tidbits from Nintendo.

Unfortunately, Iwata explained that he is currently has a fever, and influenza is suspected. A new date for the briefing will be announced sometime in the future.

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 11 Comments

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata is remaining steadfast in his stance against bringing the company’s titles to mobile platforms.

As reported by Bloomberg, Iwata recently reiterated that Nintendo won’t consider releasing its games on smart devices. “If we follow current games on smartphones and we just bring our current games into smart devices, it won’t lead to the future,” he said.

Although Nintendo is opposed to making smartphone versions of its games, the company isn’t against such devices entirely. Nintendo hopes to leverage hardware like phones to attract consumers to its own systems.

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Nintendo has shared data for amiibo in the past, but most of the numbers have been specific to the U.S. Company president Satoru Iwata offered something a bit clearer today as part of Nintendo’s financial results today. According to Iwata, roughly 5.7 million amiibo have been sold worldwide.

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Well, this is certainly something! A NicoNico user going by the name “Wakou” has used the program Audio Pad to control Mario with sound. That makes him able to play Super Mario World with just his noise and a recorder.

Wakou uses the following commands to control Mario:

“Do” – up
“Mi” – down
“Re” – left
“Fa” – right
“Sol” – b utton
“Ti” – y button

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 25 Comments

Nintendo has gone live with its third quarter financial results.

Here’s the full rundown of information you should know:

Nintendo Q3 Results:

Net Sales: 271.521¥ billion yen
Operating Income: 31.40¥ billion yen
Net Income: 45.215¥ billion yen

Nintendo Full-Year Guidance:

Net Sales: 550¥ billion yen (?)
Operating Income: 20¥ billion yen (?)
Net Income: 30¥ billion yen (?)

Additional Information Q3 (Software/Hardware Shipments, Digital Sales, Cash & Equivalents):

Pokemon ORAS: 9.35 million
Super Smash Bros 3DS LTD: 6.19 million
Super Smash Bros Wii U LTD: 3.39 million
Mario Kart 8 LTD: 4.77 million
Wii U HW: 1.91 million
3DS HW: 4.99 million
Digital Sales: ¥10.4 billion yen
Cash & Equivalents: ¥920.531 billion yen (?)

We also have these official statements from Nintendo:

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 0 comments

The Bowser amiibo is available for order once more at GameStop. If you’d like to get your hands on the figure, place an order here. We’ll try to keep this post updated if Bowser goes out of stock again.

Thanks to Ryan R for the tip.

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, Rumors | 8 Comments

We’ve been hearing a lot about how difficult it’s been to track down a physical copy of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D. Amazon, for instance, is no longer selling copies directly, and third-parties are asking for ridiculous prices ($74 and higher).

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D’s rarity may come down to the fact that retail copies are no longer being produced. If retailer Play-Asia is to be believed, the game’s physical version has been discontinued. If true, the only way to pick up Ocarina of Time 3D at a fair price is through the digital version on the eShop.

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Metacritic posted its fifth annual game publisher rankings today, and it contains some great news for Nintendo.

Nintendo took the top spot in 2014 as the publisher with the best average Metascore (76.5 percent). In 2013, the company was ranked fourth.

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U was Nintendo’s best overall release with a 91 percent score. Bravely Default was the best new original title with an 85 percent score. Finally, in terms of the worst, that honor goes to Chibi-Robo: Photo Finder with a 49 percent score.

You can check out Metacritic’s full report here.

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, Images | 14 Comments

I’ve been meaning to get around to this for some time now, and I’ve finally had the opportunity to do so. What’s included in the gallery above are several New Year’s greeting cards from Nintendo developers (via Nintendo Dream’s February issue). The images feature Mario, Zelda, Splatoon, and much more. We also threw in some cards that aren’t Nintendo-based like Youkai Watch and Sonic. All of the artwork is quite nice!

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