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

Treyarch studio head Mark Lamia has teased Call of Duty: Black Ops II for Nintendo platforms and specifically Wii U.

Lamia spoke with Norwegian site PressFire about the upcoming first-person shooter and was quizzed about the Wii U toward the end of an interview. He indicated that he wasn’t in a position to talk about other platforms currently, but went on to mention how Treyarch has been very supportive of Nintendo platforms in the past. It was additionally stated that Treyarch has made the Call of Duty titles for Wii.

You can find the entire exchange between Lamia/PressFire below.

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

Beamdog founder Trent Oster is surprised by the reaction to his comments regarding the company’s experience with Nintendo and the WiiWare service.

Oster noted how his beliefs are apparently widespread across the development community. Additionally, his initial message on Twitter wasn’t in-depth due to the site’s character limit. Even though “feedback has mostly been agreement and support about how Nintendo can improve”, Oster has received some backlash.

“I was surprised by the reaction to my comments. What I stated has been said a great deal within the industry, I guess I didn’t get the memo about not posting it publicly. Given the 140 character limit of Twitter and my cranky 3am mindset, my comment was also a pretty choppy sound bite. The feedback has mostly been agreement and support about how Nintendo can improve. But, I now have a few people who randomly appear on the various social networks and troll me.”

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

Nintendo achieved its goal with the Wii by bringing gaming to the masses. There were, however, some consumers who felt left out – specifically hardcore gamers.

This is something that Nintendo president Satoru Iwata admitted to during the company’s latest financial results briefing Q&A. Iwata also pointed out how they were unable to convince casual players to experience titles “frequently or for long, consistent periods”, leading to a poor level of profit.

With the 3DS and Wii U, Nintendo would like to promote both hardcore and casual experiences (described by Iwata as “deeper” and “wider”, something he mentioned at last year’s E3). According to Iwata, the “depth” component “was not satisfactory for some consumers”, and so they are working on this first.

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

There is some concern out there that publishers and developers will lose interest in making projects for dedicated gaming devices due to the rise of social games. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata believes this is true in some ways, but also feels “not all the internal developers have lost their passion to create consumer game software.” He explained that the company’s “new hardware offers new proposals and potentially new play experiences so that developers will be interested in this hardware and be motivated to make attractive software.”

Last week, Iwata told investors at Nintendo’s financial results briefing Q&A that third-parties are preparing to show software at E3 which will show support for dedicated gaming hardware. Moreover, he teased overseas 3DS announcements for the expo. Western studios haven’t provided a ton of support for the handheld.

Read on for Iwata’s full rundown of quotes. It includes an explanation as to why U.S./European publishers haven’t revealed as much 3DS content compared to Japanese companies.

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

Nintendo has a lot on its plate right now. The company is gearing up for the launch of the Wii U. Nintendo is making software for the new console. And let’s not forget the 3DS, which also needs its own fair of support.

Because Nintendo’s resources are limited, president Satoru Iwata isn’t able to promise “overwhelmingly rich” launch titles for the Wii U. But during the company’s latest financial results briefing Q&A, he told investors that Nintendo is “making efforts so that we will be able to make several proposals even from the launch period that can eventually become evergreen titles for the Wii U.”

Iwata said:

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

One point made by an attendee at Nintendo’s financial results briefing last week is that downloading retail games digitally could take a long time. After all, these games consist of several gigabytes.

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata responded by noting how consumers could download these titles at “convenient times”, like “when they are sleeping at night.” He also mentioned that it’s beneficial to give consumers an option to download these games since they find it more convenient to have their software accessible on the console itself without having to swap out storage media.

The investor had also asked about social aspects for Wii U, but Nintendo was not able to discuss these elements during their meeting.

Iwata’s full response:

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

During the Q&A portion of Nintendo’s financial results briefing last week, one investor asked president Satoru Iwata if the 3DS and Wii U are improved versions of the DS and Wii. While this person believes the situation surrounding the 3DS will improve thanks to strong sales in Japan, he wondered if the system will “evolve to become something revolutionary and completely different from the Nintendo DS”. He asked a similar question about Wii U.

Iwata responded by saying that Nintendo can’t just throw away what they’ve done with their previous systems and start from scratch. He understood where the investor was coming from, but said “the Nintendo 3DS and the Wii U so that each of them is able to realize what has been impossible with the existing systems”. Moreover, he stated that these systems have been made “so that they can realize what has been impossible.”

You can find Iwata’s entire, lengthy response below.

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

Spanish video game site Blogocio was recently given an opportunity to speak with Jose M. Iñiguez, Akaoni Studio’s director. The company is currently working on Zombie Panic in Wonderland for the 3DS eShop and have started a new project.

The folks over at Blogocio provided Nintendo Everything with a short summary of their interview. Iñiguez discussed Zombie Panic in Wonderland 3DS, their new project, and Wii U.

The translation is slightly wonky, but it makes sense… for the most part!

Zombie Panic in Wonderland 3DS
– The port of Zombie Panic in Wonderland is going well.
– Nintendo Europe has been encouraging.
– They are very excited.
– Focusing on the project 100% now.
– Possibly arriving at Christmas.

New Project
– Now beginning a new project.
– They want it to be very striking visually.
– Platform not yet announced.
– It’s for PC at the conceptual level, but the developer is interested in the 3DS as a possible platform.

Wii U
– Don’t have a development kit.
– All Japanese developers who have spoken with them say it is full of surprises that will surprise people much more than what at first seems.

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

The Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing Transformed announcement isn’t even a day old, yet we’re getting quite a few hints that there will be a Wii U version of the game. After hearing that more platform confirmations could be on the way, producer Joe Neate continued to tease the possibility of bringing the project to Nintendo’s upcoming console.

I’ll let this interview excerpt from Metro do the rest of the talking…

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