During the Q&A session of Nintendo’s latest financial results briefing, one investor asked about third-parties when it comes to Wii U and the thought that the console contains “low power”.

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata addressed this in three different “steps”:

Smaller devs and Nintendo Web Framework

– Nintendo wants to “expand the range of software developers”
– After their Nintendo Web Framework presentation at E3, Nintendo received inquiries from several hundred new developers
– Iwata feels that captivating titles will be born from this initiative and help to achieve their goal
– Teams working on this sort of software (such as Wii Street U and video-on-demand software that uses Nintendo Web Framework) are quite small, which allows for quick updates in a short time-span

Unity

– This has just recently started to be offered by Nintendo
– Iwata says that hundreds of thousands of developers for Unity exist, including developers in emerging nations
– Iwata believes that Nintendo has made it really easy to get them on board to release software on Wii U

Third-parties and Wii U power

– Iwata acknowledged that many people believe that Wii U is underpowered
– Iwata knows that Nintendo must work on remedying these misunderstandings
– He also knows that there are some third parties that are actively supporting Wii U, while others aren’t even giving it a second glance
– He wants to fix this by creating a situation in which third parties not currently actively supporting Wii U will regret that decision once third parties that did support it start to produce hits on the system
– This won’t happen right away, and it’s hard for them at the moment to persuade third parties to get on board given Wii U’s current state
– Nintendo is working on producing such results following Wii U’s “re-vitalization” on and after this summer

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A new Pokemon-themed 3DS XL system will be announced for Japan in a few weeks. When the news first hit, rumors circulated that the design would be based on Eevee.

It looks like this will indeed be the case. A poster located at the Pokemon Center close to Minato-ku today states that the 3DS XL Eevee model will be revealed next month.

We’ll know for sure on May 15, when the new 3DS XL system will be officially announced.

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2K Games won’t have a booth or any sort of presence at this year’s E3. However, parent company Take-Two Interactive is planning to have meeting rooms at the expo.

E3 organizer Entertainment Software Association clarified to Joystiq: “We can confirm that Take-Two Interactive Software is participating in E3 2013.”

A Take-Two representative added:

“We are going to have a meeting room in the upper concourse level and we’ll be doing some business meetings as we usually do. 2K is not participating.”

Take-Two Interactive is also the parent company of Rockstar Games. The company typically hasn’t attended E3, so you can probably count them out for the show as well.

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Nintendo’s online web store has been same for many years now. It has maintained the same old design that we’ve grown accustomed to.

Perhaps inspired by the recent release of the 3DS XL Circle Pad Pro available exclusively through the store, Nintendo has now revamped the site entirely. You can get a look at the new layout here.

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Armageddon Operation Dragon is a new title in the works for DSiWare. You can expect the following features from the downloadable game:

32 levels (4 planets with 8 levels each).
Runner playability.
Touch control and easy handling.
Amazing, innovative graphics.
Local ranking.

Via NintendoLife