Category Archives: Nintendo

Link: The 3DS Turnaround →

Nintendo reports Q1 loss overall, but the sales of 3DS consoles is telling: Sales of its 3DS, launched in February last year, more than doubled to 1.86 million from 710,000. Weak demand for its latest console forced Nintendo to slash … Continue reading

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Link: The Obese 3DS →

Kyle’s Orland’s paragraph here pretty much sums up the bet: Nintendo is counting on rapidly increasing 3DS sales to turn around historic losses for the last fiscal year, but the market for larger Nintendo portables isn’t exactly proven. While the … Continue reading

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Link: Different Strokes, or Living in the Past? →

Nintendo has suffered through poor quarter, and Zynga has had another booming one. This article from AllThingsD quotes Michael Pachter, an analyst, speaking on the current state of the gaming industry and consoles: Nintendo is living in the past, repeating … Continue reading

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Weekly Download #24: Flipboard, iPad Design, Miyamoto, Gaming, WebOS, Wikipedia, SOPA

This week, Tarun and Chris discuss Flipboard on the iPhone; the claim that the iPad’s design is a natural evolution for tablets; Miyamoto stepping down, Gaming on mobile devices; WebOS going open source; the potential for Wikipedia to blackout to … Continue reading

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Link: Nintendo’s Miyamoto Stepping Down, Working on Smaller Games →

Chris Kohler covering for Wired, who will be publishing an exclusive interview with Miyamoto next week: In an exclusive interview with Wired.com on Wednesday, the 59-year-old head of Nintendo’s game design department said that he will move away from supervising … Continue reading

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Weekly Download #20: Apple Self-Checkout, Kindle Lending Library, Nook Tablet, Success in the App Store, Virtual Goods, Gaming

Tarun and Chris talk about Apple’s self checkout model; the new Kindle Lending Library; the Nook Tablet; How to be successful in the App Store; The value of virtual goods & Zynga; the continued influence of Apple on the gaming … Continue reading

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Link: The Biggest Influence on the Video Gaming Industry →

It isn’t Miyamoto.

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Weekly Download #16: Steve Jobs, Google+, Netflix, iPhone 4S, Digital Traffic, Facebook, Nuance and Swype, 3D Mario

We begin with a celebration of Steve Jobs and try to remind ourselves and listeners of what “he may have wanted.” Then, we discuss various topics including: Google+’s managements curious absence from their own social network; Netflix reneging on Qwikster; … Continue reading

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Link: 3D to Augment Gaming Experience →

Chris Kohler from Wired previews Super Mario 3D Land. Nintendo has a great idea to make the 3D functionality a game-changer. What better than to implement it in their flagship game?: For example: everybody loves 1up mushrooms, those green fungal … Continue reading

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Link: GameStop to Possibly Carry iOS Devices →

Via 9to5 Mac. This is just further validation that the console age is dying. Hey Nintendo and Microsoft, are you reading this?

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Weekly Download #8: Patent Bonanza, TouchPad, Nintendo, Ultrabooks, Wal-Mart, E-Books

Chris and Tarun discuss the recent wave of opinions about patents; The TouchPad’s continued slashing of prices (and desirability); Nintendo’s inane refusal to develop for the App Store; Apple’s slam on Intel to produce low-powered chips for Ultrabooks; Wal-Mart closing … Continue reading

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Link: Nintendo Investors want Apps →

In our podcasts we’ve discussed the fact that Nintendo needs to focus on software and not hardware. It appears that the investors of Nintendo are agreeing with us! “They just don’t get it,” MF Global FXA Securities Ltd. said in … Continue reading

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Link: Filed Under “Saw This Coming” →

For reference, iSuppli noted the manufacturing cost of a 3DS: $103.25.

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