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October 3rd, 2008, 16:02 Posted By: Shrygue
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By the looks of it Nintendo stockholders weren't too impressed by Nintendo's redesigned Nintendo DS, as shares in the Japanese giant dropped 3.7 percent following the DSi announcement yesterday.
"Nintendo's announcement on the DS didn't exceed investors' expectations," Yoku Ihara, head of equity research at Retela Crea Securities Co. told Bloomberg. "The stock market was so bearish that the news didn't help the shares gain."
Overall Nintendo's stock has dropped a huge 41 percent in 2008 - and Sony dropped an even more massive 51 percent - as that damn dirty credit crunch scares off everyone's confidence in money being spent on consumer electronics. That's what the London Paper told us, anyway.
The new DS features wider screens, a built-in camera and MP3 support plus an SD Card slot for downloading games... apparently not enough to impress the men in black.
To be fair, unless it unveiled a time-bending box that went back to 2006 and moved all our mortgages out of Northern Rock, stockholders would've thrown a wobbly whatever it showed.
The only thing we're not impressed about is the removal of the sexy DS logo from the top of the console. Why Nintendo? Why?
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October 3rd, 2008, 15:49 Posted By: Shrygue
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It was the surprise of Nintendo's show this morning and here are the high-quality screens for Treasure's Sin and Punishment 2.
Yep, it looks fricking ace. The first game, in case you don't know, was a Treasure-developed masterpiece on N64, and one of the import favourites for the platform because, sadly, it was never released over here.
Not until it hit the UK virtual console, however. That was great, but with the Wii Remote pointer functionality - surely used to aim and shoot - this is guaranteed to be better.
Screenshots here
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October 3rd, 2008, 15:35 Posted By: Shrygue
via Kotaku
Here's a few new screens for Animal Crossing Wii. I like Animal Crossing as much as the next guy who likes Animal Crossing, but really, Nintendo, you could have tried a little harder.
Screenshots
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October 2nd, 2008, 22:51 Posted By: Shrygue
via Eurogamer
Nintendo has said it is "aiming" to launch the new DSi handheld in Europe next year.
As announced earlier today, the DSi - which features bigger screens and a built-in camera - will be released in Japan on November 1st.
"We are aiming to launch DSi in Europe in Spring 2009," a spokesperson told Eurogamer.
"As it's too early to confirm specifics on the European or UK launch, we will not be offering further comment at this time," he added.
The representative did not give any indication of a European price point for the DSi. In Japan, the handheld will cost JPY 18,900 (GBP 100 / EUR 130).
You can view the first photos of the DSi over in our gallery.
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October 2nd, 2008, 22:30 Posted By: wraggster
Bad news, folks. We totally missed it in the wake of poor battery life specs, but Nintendo's new DSi will completely ditch support for GBA titles. That not only means no more playing GBA backups (they only loaded from the now extinct GBA slot), but even if you were to load some sort of GBA emulation through the DS slot, chances are that the DS's processor wouldn't be fast enough to handle it (integrated GBA hardware processed these games before). Also, no GBA slot means that the lightly supported but excellent DS rumble pack and similar accessories are dead too. I can't speak for everyone here, but the DSi is becoming a bigger disappointment by the second.
http://gizmodo.com/5058052/dsi-drops...-ds-cool-again
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October 2nd, 2008, 22:13 Posted By: wraggster
Yeah, the solution seemed pretty obvious to us, and now it looks like Nintendo's willing to admit it. Nintendo will be solving its little Wii Shop game storage overflow problem by opening up the SD card slot for storing and playing games from (with DRM galore, we're sure). The update will hit in the Spring of next year, and don't forget that 2GB maximum when stocking up on the little buggers. It's not exactly as exciting as a new DS, but we're really glad Nintendo's going to do the right thing here, instead of building yet another peripheral to clutter our lives with.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/n...tion-sd-cards/
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October 2nd, 2008, 22:10 Posted By: wraggster
We heard last night that we wouldn't be seeing the DSi in the States until next year, and now Reggie has confirmed the damage: no DSi until "well into calendar year 2009," which sounds disturbingly like the holidays to us, but hopefully he's just implying a few months in. We would hope Nintendo would be following the pattern of the DS Lite, which hit Japan in March of 2006, and made it Stateside in June, but Reggie says DS Lite sales are still strong in the US -- which means it's basically our fault that we don't get a shiny new toy for Christmas.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/n...ell-into-2009/
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October 2nd, 2008, 21:48 Posted By: Shrygue
via IGN
Nintendo announced at the Media Summit in San Francisco that Club Nintendo, the popular reward point system in Japan, is coming to America by the end of the year.
Club Nintendo has been a feature in Japan that gives people points when they register their Nintendo games online. The points can be redeemed for exclusive merchandise.
The announcement was short and did not go into whether the registered Nintendo games users have already entered in on the Nintendo official site would earn points, or whether it's only titles released after the Club opens.
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October 2nd, 2008, 20:55 Posted By: Shrygue
via Joystiq
As one of the last two announcements for their fall media summit, Nintendo has announced the Wii Speak Channel for use with the Wii microphone (pictured, from E3 2008). According to Cammy Dunaway, up to four people can chat together, and the microphones will come with a coupon to download the channel.
Of course, this leads to a plethora of other questions, such as: release date, price (if not buying with the microphone), can a USB mic be substituted, what else can we do with the channel besides speak? We're not holding our breath waiting for answers anytime soon.
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October 2nd, 2008, 18:15 Posted By: Shrygue
via Computer and Video Games
As expected, Nintendo has announced three new Wii games that'll have you hardcore gamers teeming with excitement.
Top of the list, we reckon, is Sin and Punishment 2 - a sequel to the incredible Treasure-developed, Star Fox-style shooter on N64, which was recently released in UK for the first time via the Virtual Console.
Punch Out was also confirmed - the first sequel of Nintendo's classic boxing series since the Super NES game. And last but not least, Another Code - a brilliant investigative story adventure on DS - will get a Wii sequel too.
Expect more info and screens for all three soon.
Update: Nintendo has released a software showreel video which features the first ever footage of the new Punch Out and Another Code, plus Street Fighter and some other bits and bobs on its official site. Just hit the Wii link over there.
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October 2nd, 2008, 18:13 Posted By: Shrygue
via IGN
Pikmin is coming to the Wii! Hoo-ray!
But wait, fans of Miyamoto-style gardening. The Pikmin Wii whose first screenshot you'll find in our media gallery below is actually just the GameCube version upped a bit to Wii spec.
Pikmin is just one game in Nintendo's new Wii De Asobu Selection lineup, which translates to "Play on the Wii Selection." This series will consist of GameCube games updated with Wiimote controls.
Seven titles are currently on the way for the lineup. Donkey Kong Jungle Beat kicks things off on December 11, and will be followed by Pikmin on December 25. In 2009, Nintendo plans on releasing Chibi Robo!, Pikmin 2, Mario Tennis GC, Metroid Prime, and Metroid Prime 2 Dark Echoes.
These titles will be offered at budget pricing. While we're not sure just yet of the prices for all the games, Pikmin will sell for 3,800 yen, making it 2,000 yen less than your typical first part Wii title.
So it's not quite Pikmin Wii to be sure, but at least it's Pikmin running on the Wii! Get your first look in our media gallery.
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October 2nd, 2008, 18:04 Posted By: Shrygue
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Nintendo showed off a pretty good games showreel at its all-revealing conference in Japan this morning. Trouble is, there were so many games in it you may have had a job keeping up. Here's a helping hand.
Crazy internet people have sifted through the footage, listing every single title that cropped up, including the crazy long-winded Japanese one's that no-one's heard of.
It included the first ever peek at the new Punch Out and Another Code Wii games, among others.
The list is below (thanks to NeoGAF), and the Wii showreel can be seen right here.
2008- Wii Music (Nintendo) 10/16
- Animal Crossing: City Folk (Nintendo) 11/20
- The Melancholy of Haruhi (Kadokawa Shoten) 11/27
- Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Cross Generation of Heroes (Capcom) 12/11
- 428 (Sega) 12/4
- Samba de Amigo (Sega) 12/11
- Let's Tap (Sega) Dec. 2008
- Cooking Mama 2 (Taito) 12/4
- Rygar: Muscle Impact (Tecmo) Dec. 2008
- Guitar Hero: Aerosmith (Activision) 10/16
- Karaoke Joysound Wii (Hudson) 12/18
- Sky Crawlers (Bandai-Namco) 10/16
- Happy Dance Collection (Bandai-Namco) 10/23
- Family Ski: World Ski & Snowboard (Bandai-Namco) 11/13
- Klonoa: Door to Phantomile (Bandai-Namco) 12/4
- Taiko Drum Master Wii (Bandai-Namco) 12/11
- Tenchu 4 (From Software) 10/23
- Harvest Moon: Exciting Animal March (Marvelous) 10/30
- Rune Factory Frontier (Marvelous) 11/27
- Shape Boxing (Rocket Co.) 10/30
2009- Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo) Spring
- Start w/ 100 Conversations! English Conversation (Nintendo) 2009
- Punch-Out!! (Nintendo) 2009
- Trace Memory: R, Gateway of Memory (Nintendo) 2009
- Kensax (Nintendo) 2009
- Cosmic Walker (Nintendo) 2009
- Spawn Smasher (Nintendo) 2009
- Dynamic [illegible] (Nintendo) 2009
- Takt of Magic (Nintendo) 2009
- Sin & Punishment 2 (Nintendo) 2009
- Forever Blue 2: Beautiful Ocean (Nintendo) 2009
- Everyone's the Star on the NHK Red-and-White Quiz Battle (Nintendo) 2009
- Line Attack Heroes (Nintendo) 2009
- Castlevania: Judgment (Konami) Winter 2008-2009
- Dead Rising: Zombies' Sacrifice (Capcom) Winter 2008-2009
- FFCC: Echoes of Time (Square-Enix) 1/29
- Sonic and the Black Knight (Sega) Spring
- Fragile (Bandai-Namco) Winter 2008-2009
- Arcrise Fantasia (Marvelous) Winter 2008-2009
- Oboro Muramasa (Marvelous) Spring
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October 2nd, 2008, 17:53 Posted By: Shrygue
via Games Industry
Although acknowledging the improved evolution of Nintendo's DS series, Team 17 studio director Martyn Brown has told GamesIndustry.biz that he's cautious of the new features of the DSi model.
Nintendo unveiled the new console today, with new features that include a camera, built-in web browser and an SD card slot to enable users to purchase content and download directly to the hardware.
However, it's exactly these additions that have worried the veteran developer of DS hit Worms: Open Warfare.
"Adding an SD slot makes a bunch of sense for downloadable content given the way things are going," offered Brown. "I just hope they've done something to counter the mass piracy that exists via the R4 on the Lite. It scares me that with an SD card input, that might leave it even wider open that it was on the original device," added.
Brown would also like to see online shopping for DSiWare improved over Nintendo's current WiiWare interface, and a more sensible approach to storage on the handheld - as Nintendo has now promised to do with the Wii console.
"I think the SD storage and downloadable content will help tremendously although I hope it's a better experience that the Wii's online store and system," he said.
"I have a lot of affection for the DS Lite as a device and given it's an iterative improvement, bigger screen, lighter, it would appear to make sense - even if it's not got me chomping at the bit to rush out and grab one."
Admitting that some of his reservations can only be put to the test once the device is in the hands of users and developers, Brown was still cautious of adding so many features to a console, and that it could come up short when compared to other electronic gadgets.
"I'm sure that the photo option will be good fun for kids, but I think that's straying into phone territory and since it's 0.3 megapixels, it's hardly setting the world on fire.
"I'm sure the device will have a wider appeal, but most people I know who have a DS Lite tend to already have a phone and MP3 player with similar functions. Many manufacturers tend to be chasing the nirvana of having 'one device to rule them all' and I'm not sure that the DS's screen resolution - and camera resolution - puts it into an area where it can compete, say, for web-browsing."
Although Nintendo has been widely credited with opening gaming up to new audiences, the DSi may not entice new consumers, noted Brown.
"This is pretty hypothetical until I've seen the device for myself. I'm not sure if it will reach new gamers since all the new features have been present in other devices, if not a gaming device, for a while now," he added.
"Still, looking back at the launch device, the original DS, it's come a long, long way."
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October 2nd, 2008, 12:38 Posted By: Darksaviour69
Full story and pics at Kotaku
Nintendo's announced the DSi, the third iteration of its DS platform. But how does it stack up to the Nintendo DS Lite? We've crunched the numbers and got the data for comparison's sake.
• Size of Liquid Crystal Display
Nintendo DSi: 3.25 inches
Nintendo DS Lite: 3 inches
• Liquid Crystal Screen
Nintendo DSi: Possible to display 260,000 colors
Nintendo DS Lite: Possible to display 260,000 colors
• Portable Size
Nintendo DSi: Width 137mm, Length 74.9mm, Thickness 18.9mm (touch pen is approx. 92mm in length)
Nintendo DS Lite: Width 133mm, Length 73.9mm, Thickness 21.5mm (touch pen is approx. 87.5mm in length)
• Power Supply
Nintendo DSi: AC adaptor for Nintendo DSi
Nintendo DS Lite: AC adaptor for DS Lite
• Weight
Nintendo DSi: Approx. 214g (with touch pen)
Nintendo DS Lite: Approx. 218g (with touch pen, Game Boy Advance cover)
• Charging Time
Nintendo DSi: Approx. 2 hours and 30 minutes
Nintendo DS Lite: Approx. 3 hours
• Battery Life
Nintendo DSi: The lowest brightness (9-14 hrs), low brightness (8-12 hours), medium brightness (6-9 hours), high brightness (4-6 hours), highest brightness(3-4 hours)
Nintendo DS Lite: The lowest brightness (15-19 hrs), low brightness (10-15 hours), high brightness (7-11 hours), highest brightness(5-8 hours)
• Software
Nintendo DSi: Software for Nintendo DS, Software for Nintendo DSi.
Nintendo DS Lite: Software for Nintendo DS, Software for Game Boy Advance
• Input-Output
Nintendo DSi: DS card slot, SD memory card slot, AC adaptor connection, stereo headphone/mic jack
Nintendo DS Lite: DS card slot, Game Boy Advance cartridge slot, AC adaptor connection, stereo headphone/mic jack
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October 2nd, 2008, 12:34 Posted By: Darksaviour69
Story posted at Eurogamer
Nintendo has unveiled the next iteration of the DS at a press conference in Tokyo.
The DSi, as it's called, will have 3.25-inch screens - that's 17 per cent bigger than the current model. It will also feature a 3-megapixel camera.
You'll be able to take pictures with the DSi, save them to SD card and view them on your TV via the Wii. The GBA cartridge slot is being done away with.
The DSi will have a built-in browser, and you'll be able to download games - known as DSiWare - and store them on the SD. Some titles will be free, while others will cost either 200, 500 or 800 Nintendo points (GBP 1.70 / 4.25 / 6.80). There will be a special deal offering customers 1000 points which must be spent before March 2010 - but it's not clear yet what the terms are, or whether the deal will be available in Europe.
A separate DSi Shop selling downloadable software is also being launched. Customers will receive 1000 free points to spend at the shop
The handheld's audio capabilities have been improved - you can now adjust the pitch and playback of sound. This is designed to help with language study and improve the experience of listening to music, apparently.
So what do you think?
update: (thanks to flaminfox)
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October 2nd, 2008, 00:58 Posted By: wraggster
News via nintendomax
A new puzzle game made its appearance on DS, "Cogito DS" by Rom1. It is a variant of the Rubik's cube in which you must replicate the schema of the screen by sliding the top rows and columns of the bottom screen.
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October 2nd, 2008, 00:56 Posted By: wraggster
News via nintendomax
SpixSh @ dow out a new version of its application to learning Spanish "VocabularioDS v1.1 with still more courses.
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1/10/08 Version 1.1:
_ New Party "Course" ...
_ Courses / Present
_ Course / Date
_ Courses / Numbers
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October 2nd, 2008, 00:41 Posted By: wraggster
With Nintendo's press conference kicking off later tonight the rumors have been at full speed about what the profitable console maker may announce.
We've heard about a new media-friendly DS with MP3 playback and a camera, we've heard about possible new peripherals, we've heard about some big much-anticipated game remake, we've even heard about a new Wii iteration, this one in high-def.
But unlike with Microsoft, not all Nintendo rumors are true. So what do you think will be happening tonight when Nintendo kicks off their presser in Japan?
http://kotaku.com/5057468/new-wii-ne...nounce-tonight
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October 2nd, 2008, 00:41 Posted By: wraggster
With Nintendo's press conference kicking off later tonight the rumors have been at full speed about what the profitable console maker may announce.
We've heard about a new media-friendly DS with MP3 playback and a camera, we've heard about possible new peripherals, we've heard about some big much-anticipated game remake, we've even heard about a new Wii iteration, this one in high-def.
But unlike with Microsoft, not all Nintendo rumors are true. So what do you think will be happening tonight when Nintendo kicks off their presser in Japan?
http://kotaku.com/5057468/new-wii-ne...nounce-tonight
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October 2nd, 2008, 00:32 Posted By: wraggster
You know how it goes -- first comes the far-out rumor, then comes something a touch more believable, and then the company itself issues an all-too-familiar non-denial denial. According to MCV sources, the next step in the process will happen tomorrow, as a revamped DS storms into action at 5:00AM GMT on the 2nd of October. As for specifics, we'll have to wait for Iwata's supposed announcement to find out more, but we'd be utterly shocked to see this ship after Christmas. That is, if this isn't just some elaborate scheme from the Big N to distract us all from realizing that Wiis will still be impossible to find this holiday season two full years after launch.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/01/n...-for-tomorrow/
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