Wii U

Posted on 12 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Rumors, Wii U | 0 comments

CVG, which claims to have been in contact with a host of different sources, is writing that Nintendo may not have enough stock of Wii U units in the UK to meet demand from pre-orders.

The company will allegedly have only 25,000 units available at launch. One retail source said that the figure was “in line with our estimates”.

But not so fast. A third source at a separate UK retail chain said that shipment expectations were at “anything between 75,000 and 100,000 units during the launch period”.

“What we don’t know is whether this allocation will arrive on day one or be distributed across a number of weeks.”

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Posted on 12 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Videos, Wii U | 0 comments

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Posted on 12 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 0 comments

The image above comes from Nintendo’s latest financial results materials. We posted it a few hours ago. One thing did slip over our heads, however: Need for Speed: Most Wanted in the Wii U’s third-party launch lineup list.

Oddly enough, the game is only listed for Europe. We’re also unsure when the game will be launching.

But at least this pretty much confirms things!

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Posted on 12 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News, Wii U | 0 comments

Nintendo will indeed be publishing Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate in Europe, and probably Australia as well. The news was first hinted at through a rating from the OFLC.

Nintendo UK tweeted earlier today:

“Prepare to hunt! We’ll be distributing Capcom’s #MonsterHunter 3 Ultimate for Nintendo #3DS and #WiiU by March 2013”

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Posted on 12 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, Videos, Wii U | 0 comments

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Posted on 12 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Videos, Wii, Wii U | 0 comments

Wii U footage begins at around 4:25…

Posted on 12 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, Videos, Wii U | 0 comments

Should begin in around 5 minutes.

Posted on 12 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News, Wii U | 0 comments

Last week, Nintendo provided a statement regarding Foxconn’s admission of child employment. The electronics maker, which is producing Wii U units, had some interns working at one of its plants who were less than 16 years-old.

Nintendo’s new statement reads:

“Nintendo was concerned to learn that underage individuals had been working at a Foxconn facility in China where components for some Nintendo products are produced. Nintendo investigated the incident and determined that this was a violation of the Nintendo Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Procurement Guidelines that all Nintendo production partners are required to follow, based on relevant laws, international standards and guidelines.

Foxconn has taken full responsibility for this incident and has moved quickly to ensure that all affected individuals no longer work at Foxconn. In fact, Foxconn’s own policies prohibit the employment of underage individuals and the company has pledged to Nintendo via direct communications to improve its process of enforcing this policy to avoid any similar issues in the future.

As one of many companies that work with Foxconn to enhance CSR along the whole supply chain, we take this issue very seriously. As part of our ongoing procurement process, Nintendo staff will continue to carry out on-site inspections of our production partners in order to understand the actual on-site conditions and to promote socially responsible procurement.

For more information about Nintendo’s Corporate Social Responsibility report, please visit http://www.nintendo.co.jp/csr/en/index.html.”

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