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August 27th, 2005, 14:27 Posted By: wraggster
Success HK have posted this news:
GameBoy Micro, the smallest Ninty handheld to date, is coming to Success-HK!!! The GameBoy Micro will be 4 inches wide, 2 inches long, seven-tenths of an inch thin and weigh 2.8 ounces ?thinner, shorter and lighter than the identically priced Game Boy Advance SP. This is something that you can just slip into the pocket of your jeans. Although, Nintendo had to reduce the screen size to 2 inches in order to fit into the smaller form factor, the picture look sharper due to a tighter dot pitch and brightness is excellent--much better than the GBA and GBA SP displays. As for the 'hood' itself, like a cell phone, the Gameboy Micro features removable and customizable face plates. Beyond the many available with the consoles launch, more choices will continue to flood in for ever after, ensuring your console always looks unique. Upon powering on the system too, the start and select buttons glow a cool blue, and all buttons along with the d-pad have been re-designed with a much softer feel than that of the GBA SP. So not only does the Gameboy Micro look good, but it feels good too.
Pre-order will be opened soon. Stay tune!!!
Success HK
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August 27th, 2005, 14:23 Posted By: wraggster
I want to say, first and foremost, that you know you have are a celebrity in this business when a major company makes an announcement at your convention – nice work, Penny Arcade, you guys deserve it. With that said, at Penny Arcade Expo today, Nintendo made an announcement regarding Samus’ DS game. In fact, it is so nice that it might help people accept and understand the game’s delay to early 2006. The good news is that Metroid Prime: Hunters will now feature online multiplayer via Nintendo DS’ Wi-Fi services.
To me, this is a Nintendo game that has actively evolved in response to the reactions from the community. First it completely changed its look after a somewhat disappointing premiere at E3 2004, and now they have given the fans what they want with online play. Even if this feature was planned to happen anyways and not brought about by fan response, it is still good news.
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August 26th, 2005, 19:27 Posted By: wraggster
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Iwata this year in EuropeSPOnG can finally confirm the date by which the world will be relieved of the constant burden of wondering about what Nintendo’s Revolution controller actually is.
You’ll be pleased to know that a full explanation of Revolution will be made by Nintendo president Satoru Iwata during his Tokyo Game Show keynote address. This news represents completely finalised Nintendo plans – Iwata will fully outline The Secret on 16th September 2005.
Nintendo is assembling key media to attend this year’s show, due to take place between 16th – 18th September 2005. Iwata will make his presentation of current activities at Nintendo. He will outline current projects and will then - unveil the Revolution in all its glory.
The Revolution presentation will include an explicit outline of the hardware and its controller and input mechanic, as well as illustrate exactly how it will work. It will go on to show games running on the system and how they make use of the technology.
Mario 128, or ‘New Mario’ as it is dubbed internally at Nintendo, is expected to be the star of the show.
SPOnG has a record of perfectly outlining what Iwata’s keynote addresses will entail. And we can tell you with 100% certainty that in the next three and a bit weeks, we’ll all be looking at Nintendo Revolution controller hardware and accompanying games. Exciting times indeed.
We’ll bring you updates as they break, as well as Tokyo Game Show coverage direct from the show floor.
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August 26th, 2005, 19:16 Posted By: wraggster
Nintendo Europe expects to see 50 per cent growth in its handheld business in Europe this year, according to European president Satoru Shibata, who says that the company hopes to sell over three million Nintendo DS consoles in 2005.
Speaking at a special event held last night to showcase Nintendo's line-up for Christmas, Shibata boasted of the huge success of the DS in Japan to date and its strong uptake in Europe - and made healthy forecasts for the European market for the rest of the year.
"We would like to sell over three million units of Nintendo DS across Europe by the end of 2005, and one million units in the UK alone," he told the audience in central London.
"Coupled with our forecasts on Game Boy Advance SP and Game Boy Micro, we are looking at a massive 50 per cent growth in the Nintendo handheld business in the UK."
The company is well on track to meet that target, according to Nintendo's UK boss David Yarnton, who revealed that "year to date - January to July - like for like sales of Nintendo handheld consoles are up 91 per cent, and that's in an environment of retail doom and gloom."
"That's almost double the market of the previous year," he continued. "38 per cent of all hardware sold this year in the UK is now attributable to Nintendo handheld consoles. In retail sales terms, by the end of 2005, Nintendo handheld hardware and first- and third-party software sales will account for a massive GBP 250,000,000 in sales in the UK alone."
Regardless of the imminent arrival of the PlayStation Portable in Europe - with Sony's system set to launch next Thursday - Nintendo is bullish about its prospects in this market for the rest of the year.
"Despite over 15 years of ownership of the portable games space, we're not planning to sit back and rest on our laurels," Yarnton told the audience. "We created portable gaming, and we're not moving out."
Both speakers highlighted Nintendogs as one of the key titles for the holiday season, with the game being presented as an example of a title which reaches far beyond the traditional gaming audience and appeals to a demographic previously untapped by the medium.
"The launch of Nintendogs was responsible for making Nintendo DS into the best selling game system in Japan, in fact selling two to three times the rate of the PSP - both hardware and software," Shibata pointed out.
"We have also seen in Japan that a massive 40 per cent of purchasers of Nintendogs are females - clear testament that we are expanding the market, and people's very perception of what a videogame is."
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August 26th, 2005, 03:01 Posted By: wraggster
Anyone who visits here will be in no doubt that the DS scene with the worldwide support from talented coders is now as good if not better than the PSP and because of the Firmware issues the DS scene will no doubt continue to grow.
Whats your favorite Homebrew/Emulation release so far ?
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August 26th, 2005, 02:25 Posted By: wraggster
Looks like an online magazine site seems to think they have the inside scoop on the Nintendo Revolution controller. Sounds interesting, and I sure hadn’t thought of this, yet somehow if this is all the controller is, I would feel a bit let down. Quote from Computer Games Magazine:
“It's revolutionary in the same two senses that controller rumble is/was revolutionary: first, it's kind of actually not a huge deal, but controllers will eventually all have it because it is pretty neat; and second, it involves revolving. Simply, the Revolution controller will provide resistance to being tilted. No doubt this is done by some application of a tilt sensor such as the one in WarioWare: Twisted combined with rumble technology.
After all, rumble is just done by some off-balance widgets inside the controller spinning really fast. If they were balanced, they could provide enough rotational inertia— the same thing that makes bikes and motorcycles harder to tilt the faster they're going— to perform this trick.
The "could" is why Nintendo hasn't come out with it yet. Yeah, they say they don't want it to be copied, which is valid because I'm sure it will be, just not anytime soon. What's really happening is Nintendo is trying to make this work with wireless controllers, finding the optimal tradeoff between spinning the widgets fast enough to produce a good, strong effect and keeping the controller from eating batteries too quickly. Oh, and it has to be cheap and reliable, too.”
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August 26th, 2005, 02:23 Posted By: wraggster
Kaplan, Nintendo of America's VP, has said to IGN that currently, "very few people are aware of or anticipating Xbox 2" in Japan. She said the Xbox currently enjoys "no recognition at all" in the company, a statement largely based on fact, as can be seen in the weekly hardware figures from the country.
"Microsoft has had no success in the Japanese market and they were required to attract such developers in order to have a chance in the market," she said, arguing that Xbox's low sales can be put in part down to a lack of popular franchises from third-parites. "Further, those developers won't be making software for that system that are currently known and loved on other systems, such as Kirby."
This generation, however, Microsoft has agreed deals with several high-profile Japanese developers to create Xbox 360 titles, though Kaplan believes these deals are less important than seem, since they don't involve any major established franchises.
Meanwhile for Nintendo, Kaplan expects Japan to be remain a very profitable market. It remains "a very successful ... market for Nintendo," she said, "and we anticipate this to be true for the indefinite future. What might make more sense is to say that it's changing. All companies in Japan are experiencing these changes. Portable play is one additional arena that remains vibrant."
And it's in the portable market Nintendo has recently faced the PSP, which is now being comfortably outsold by the DS week in, week out. But Sony deserves respect, Kaplan believes, for getting to the market first with the PS2, and also for the quality of the offering which it has created with the PS2.
"Launching early in the Japanese market has been the key to success for Sony's PlayStation 2," stated Kaplan. "Their early launch date and marketing push along with a solid library of games gave them momentum that they still enjoy today."
So what about Revolution? Surely that will suffer allowing it's competitors to launch first? Kaplan disagrees, and says that Nintendo's next offering will be extremely attractive: "It is too early for Nintendo to discuss our strategy for Revolution, but I can tell you that we have much experience running a successful global video game company, and Nintendo will come to the dance extremely well dressed."
Let's just hope she's right.
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August 26th, 2005, 01:58 Posted By: wraggster
Capcom's popular franchise, Resident Evil, will be arriving on Nintendo's DS handheld, with a reworking of the series' first game being developed, according to fresh reports from Japanese gaming publication, Famitsu.
Resident Evil: Deadly Silence will be a remake of the PlayStation original, Resident Evil, (known as Biohazard, in Japan) in celebration of the franchise's 2006 tenth anniversary. The graphics will be reworked fully into 3D, instead of using the pre-rendered backdrops from the PS One template, with new character models and animations. There will also be a number of new gameplay elements, with original traps utilised and an additional ability given to zombies, allowing them to chase players through doors.
The DS' stylus control system is said to be used to provide a new interface with some of the game's mechanics, such as pressing numbers on a keypad using the touch-screen or attacking enemies with the stylus which represents a knife. Wireless networking is also apparently being employed, although there are no current details as to what exactly this will entail.
There's no current release date set for Resident Evil: Deadly Silence.
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August 26th, 2005, 01:50 Posted By: wraggster
Ever had a strange guest enter your Pictochat session? We dug up a DS owner’s post on LiveJournal about his encounter in a movie theatre. He and a friend were picto-chatting before the movie when a stranger suddenly entered the session. The two friends turned and saw someone waving from a few rows back. They ended up doing a Super Mario 64 DS three-way, go figure. So how about it? Do you have any kinky encounters with a stranger you’d like to share?
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August 26th, 2005, 01:04 Posted By: wraggster
The most popular game in the Nintendo GameCube(TM) library is about to become part of an amazing deal. Starting the last week of August, Nintendo will release a special Super Smash Bros.(R) Melee Nintendo GameCube bundle, at an MSRP of only $99.99. Saving $29.99, consumers nationwide get a great game and the system to play it on - all for one low price.
Since its debut in late 2001, Super Smash Bros. Melee, Rated T for Teen, has sold more than 2.9 million copies in the United States alone, spawning competitive tournaments and clubs, from game shops to college campuses across the country.
More than 20 characters, pulled from virtually every hit Nintendo game, meet up to battle in 30 arenas and nine different game modes. Control Donkey Kong(R) in a face-off with Princess Zelda(TM), or select Mario(TM) in a four- player showdown against three of your friends. The array of game-play options will make your head spin.
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August 25th, 2005, 08:48 Posted By: wraggster
News from <a href="http://www.lik-sang.com/news.php?artc=3676&lsaid=219793" target="_blank" >Lik Sang</a>
sexy, no-nonsense gadget: Nintendo's latest addition to the GameBoy family, the GameBoy Micro will be the smallest Ninty handheld to date. After announcing the retail price and release date recently, Nintendo has now made public that they will introduce a new version of the popular Play-Yan peripheral, which lets you play MPEG4 movies and MP3 songs on GBASP, Nintendo DS and GameBoy Micro, now called "Play-Yan Micro". It will replace the current one being sold and will be available on September 13th, simultaneously alongside the system. Nintendo has all the specs on their dedicated Japanese site here. Enjoy your favorite videos and music on the go, pocketsize! On the train or bus, waiting for a friend to arrive or sweetly killing time on those long oversea flights, the GameBoy Micro is perfect for instant entertainment, wherever your travels may take you. Even more so with the beautifully retro Famicom Color version; celebrate Nintendo's glorious history with this cool edition, honoring Mario's 20th birthday! You can view two official TV commercials for the Famicom Color GB Micro here:
Because of the dramatically smaller size of the Micro, the unit comes with a new port included. Due to this, all previous link cables and charger units from the GameBoy Advance era will not work with the GB Micro without a special adapter. To remedy this, Nintendo offers the GB Micro Conversion Connector, which allows for standard GBA link cables to be used with the Micro. Another way to link up is the GameBoy Micro Communication Cable. Said cable comes exclusively for the GB Micro line, which basically is a custom link cable that works just like the regular GBA cables, but supports linking up to four GameBoy Micro handhelds without the need of an extra connector.
Wireless is the way to go in 2005, so Nintendo has another official peripheral in store for its fresh GameBoy incarnation. A special wireless adapter has been created just for the GB Micro. The device can communicate with other GB Micro or GBA systems that also have the wireless doohickey and a wireless-compatible game, such as Pokémon Fire Red or Leaf Green. Why use cables, when you can obtain the freedom this wireless solution offers? We are welcoming preorders for all mentioned accessories already, which are all scheduled to be available on the GameBoy Micro's release date, September 13th.
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August 25th, 2005, 08:47 Posted By: wraggster
The PSP and Nintendo DS have yet another rival to worry about and this time its none other than the newest version of the GBA in Micro Form, heres the news article from <a href="http://www.lik-sang.com/news.php?artc=3676&lsaid=219793" target="_blank" >Lik Sang</a>
sexy, no-nonsense gadget: Nintendo's latest addition to the GameBoy family, the GameBoy Micro will be the smallest Ninty handheld to date. After announcing the retail price and release date recently, Nintendo has now made public that they will introduce a new version of the popular Play-Yan peripheral, which lets you play MPEG4 movies and MP3 songs on GBASP, Nintendo DS and GameBoy Micro, now called "Play-Yan Micro". It will replace the current one being sold and will be available on September 13th, simultaneously alongside the system. Nintendo has all the specs on their dedicated Japanese site here. Enjoy your favorite videos and music on the go, pocketsize! On the train or bus, waiting for a friend to arrive or sweetly killing time on those long oversea flights, the GameBoy Micro is perfect for instant entertainment, wherever your travels may take you. Even more so with the beautifully retro Famicom Color version; celebrate Nintendo's glorious history with this cool edition, honoring Mario's 20th birthday! You can view two official TV commercials for the Famicom Color GB Micro here:
Because of the dramatically smaller size of the Micro, the unit comes with a new port included. Due to this, all previous link cables and charger units from the GameBoy Advance era will not work with the GB Micro without a special adapter. To remedy this, Nintendo offers the GB Micro Conversion Connector, which allows for standard GBA link cables to be used with the Micro. Another way to link up is the GameBoy Micro Communication Cable. Said cable comes exclusively for the GB Micro line, which basically is a custom link cable that works just like the regular GBA cables, but supports linking up to four GameBoy Micro handhelds without the need of an extra connector.
Wireless is the way to go in 2005, so Nintendo has another official peripheral in store for its fresh GameBoy incarnation. A special wireless adapter has been created just for the GB Micro. The device can communicate with other GB Micro or GBA systems that also have the wireless doohickey and a wireless-compatible game, such as Pokémon Fire Red or Leaf Green. Why use cables, when you can obtain the freedom this wireless solution offers? We are welcoming preorders for all mentioned accessories already, which are all scheduled to be available on the GameBoy Micro's release date, September 13th.
Sounds like both the DS and PSP Should watch out, check out our GBA Emulation site for all the emulators released for the GBA --> http://gbaemu.dcemu.co.uk
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August 25th, 2005, 08:36 Posted By: wraggster
News from <a href="http://www.lik-sang.com/news.php?artc=3675&lsaid=219793" target="_blank" >Lik Sang</a>
They won't wake you up in the morning, demanding to be led outside, totally oblivious to weather status or how much sleep you got the night before. No bite marks on furniture, shoes or your favorite videogame system. Nintendo's fresh flea bag sim, developed by Shigeru Miyamoto, barked up a storm in dog-crazy Japan, and this week takes its innovative twist on the virtual pet concept to the US market. Again there's three different versions available: Chihuahua, Dachshund and Lab. All include their canine friends, and while the later replaces the 'Shiba' title, it does include that breed. In fact in addition to more items to collect than the Japanese originals, which pushes the total over 100, the US releases feature three new breeds, Boxer, Golden Retriever and Husky.
Using the voice recognition feature, you can teach your new puppy its name, then a wide variety of tricks such as sit, shaking its tail, "shake paws", or so many more. You can also take a walk to the park and buy a Frisbee on the way, or meet and play with other dogs. When another Nintendogs owner is close by, the NDS will “bark” an alert, inviting owners to connect with one another and allow their pets some interactive playtime together. Don't forget to give your canine buddy a bath every now and then though, nor forget to take a 'doggy bag' with you on those walks. Each version of Nintendogs is in stock and shipping within 24 hours, at just US$ 39.90.
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