Nintendo President Says Nintendo Products Top American Wish Lits [The Greatest Depression] Recessions smession! Nintendo is having a great holiday shopping season so far. In the US, the company sold 800,000 Wii units during the Thanksgiving holiday week. For those keeping count, that's 350,000 more than it sold during the same period last year. DS sales were also u [..]
Doc Louis' Punch-Out!! Knocked Out To Club Nintendo Members [Club Nintendo] Heed Punch-Out!! trainer Doc Louis' sage advice, "Check your e-mail, Mac!" Because if you're a member of Club Nintendo U.S. and opted for a digital copy of Doc Louis' Punch-Out!!, you may already have it. The same is true for the other goods Club Nintendo gave [..]
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Nintendo Sends Thank Yous To My Nintendo Überfans [Reggie Fils-aime] You might think that Nintendo doesn't care about you, long-time Nintendo customer, but it does. That's what reader (and Nintendo überfan) Chris discovered, when a thank you note from president Reggie Fils-Aime arrived this week. Why w [..]
Nintendo President: Stalling Wii Sales Made Nintendo Mood "Cold" [Satoru Iwata] At yesterday's Nintendo Tokyo conference, company president Satoru Iwata was frank, saying this about sluggish Wii sales: "The Wii stalled." Wii sales dropped by 10 million units during the six month period ending September 2009, and Nintendo has recorded its first decline i [..]
Nintendo's Geeks and Otaku Statement Pisses Off Jaffe [Jaffe: Don't Shit On Our House Nintendo] David Jaffe is pissed. Nothing new, I know. But this time he's pissed about the same thing a lot of other people are pissed about: Nintendo's Geek and Otaku statement. At a Euro press event earlier this week a Nintendo PR person, flustered by a question about storage space on the Wii, starting [..]
Nintendo Third Parties Don't Need Your Pity, Publisher Says [Being A Nintendo Third Party] There are so many Wii games and DS games on store shelves — so many bad ones — that you'd think Majesco CEO Jesse Sutton would like to complain about them. His company focuses on Wii and DS, after all. And you'd think he might take the opening to talk about the stress of Nintendo first-party sales dom [..]
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Nintendo Gives Japan's Club Nintendo Members An Ultrahand [Wiiware] Club Nintendo of Japan is offering a new present to its Nintendo-loving fan base, announcing Wii de Ultrahand for WiiWare. The two-player Wii game is based on the Ultrahand toy released by Nintendo in 1966. The Club Nintendo present, currently announced only for Japane [..]
Nintendo reveals American Club Nintendo bonuses [Update]
Nintendo loyalists that have been diligently registering their games can now pick up a reward through the Club Nintendo loyalty program. Those who have earned 300 or more Coins (equivalent to 6 Wii game purchases) are granted Gold status, w [..]