It seems Nintendo are considering a new name for Wii U. A source close to Nintendo has supposedly revealed that the Big N is worried about confusing the consumer with two home consoles which share similar branding.Do you think Wii U should get a new name? If so do you have any ideas ...

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata told investors early this morning that gamers are now ready for new video games consoles. Iwata pointed to declining sales of all the major home consoles as the reason that consumers are looking towards brand new formats.“However, not just the Wii, but the overall performance of home consoles in December was ...

Super Mario 3D Land is the very first Nintendo 3DS title to sell over five million units according to Nintendo. The company announced that Super Mario 3D Land has sold 5.03 million copies globally since the title launched in November of last year. Mario Kart 7 has also sold a fair number of units with ...

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has clarified that Nintendo has no intention of publishing unfinished games just to make some extra money from paid downloadable content. We already know however that the Nintendo Network will support paid DLC...“Nintendo, as a software maker, does not plan to [run a business] where our consumers cannot know in advance ...

Nintendo has announced that the Wii U controller will feature Near Field Communication, or NFC for short, which according to Nintendo president Satoru Iwata will allow the Wii U to do the following:“By installing this functionality, it will become possible to create cards and figurines that can electronically read and write data via noncontact NFC ...

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has discussed the possibility of Nintendo bringing full downloadable retail games to both Wii U and Nintendo 3DS via the Nintendo Network. Iwata wouldn’t say when the company would start doing this, but claims that the company now has the full ability to do so. Iwata told investors that Nintendo would ...

Mr Iwata has told investors that the company is hard at work developing a brand new side-scrolling Mario title for the Nintendo 3DS. Iwata claims that the game is a “key title” for the Nintendo 3DS and will be released in the next fiscal year – at some point after March 2012 and before April ...

2011 was the first time in 30 years that Nintendo posted an overall loss. According to today's news, Nintendo has made a yearly operating loss of £367m.One analyst took this viewpoint:"Their time of growth (from consoles) is over, and, while I don't think the company will cease to exist, if they ...

Hey All, Nintendo have confirmed that the upcoming enigmatic Wii U will release globally this year though sometime after E3. Satoru Iwata confirmed this himself so let's hope that the Wii U will launch with a powerful line-up and in style 8)

New details for AC 3DS popped up on GoNintendo this evening and so I thought I would share them with you here. GoNintendo admin Rawmeat Cowboy made a nice summary of the new details and so I've pasted them directly for you to read.- playing as mayor allows you to decorate the village - add ...

Michael Pachter is the most noticed and quoted video game industry analyst on the planet. In recent times he's been quite critical of Nintendo and his latest comments continue to have negative tones."Nintendo doesn’t even know there’s an Internet yet so trust me, they’re going to be making consoles until someone explains it to ...

Don't you just love internet rumours. I don't know why but there's some anonymous statement and the net goes nuts.Well here's the latest anonymous statement from a developer that supposedly working on Wii U. Apparently, Wii U boasts specs which are twice as powerful than that of the 360. If this proves ...

So the 3DS continues to excel in Japan and Sony's Vita continues to struggle. Here are the latest weekly sales figures for both hardware and software.3DS: 80,960 (100,668) PS3: 21,155 (30,332) PSP: 17,181 (22,538) PSV: 15,219 (18,361) Wii: ...