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March 17, 2015

Nintendo developing smartphone games and new console in the works

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Nintendo has announced today that it has entered into a business partnership with Japanese firm DeNA to create mobile games and apps for smartphone devices. While Nintendo has largely stayed clear of the smartphone market, which has seen exponential growth over the past five years, this new arrangement will see the company develop games specifically for such devices. Nintendo did however make it clear that the new games will not be ports of previous games but rather titles that have been specially developed and optimized for smartphones. DeNA will have access to all of Nintendo’s intellectual property though, meaning that players could soon see games from some of their biggest franchises, such as Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Pikmin, Donkey Kong and Pokemon arrive on their mobile devices. The announcement also revealed that both Nintendo and DeNA are also working on a cross-platform service that will operate across Nintendo’s various consoles as well as smartphones, PCs and tablets, and let users access their accounts and manage their memberships. DeNA is a Japanese

February 18, 2015

Five New Facts About Majora’s Mask

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A brand-new Iwata Asks has been published on Nintendo’s website. For those who don’t follow them, Iwata Asks is a series of roundtable interviews discussing the development of a recently-released Nintendo title, moderated by Nintendo’s president himself, Satoru Iwata. The new Iwata Asks is all about Majora’s Mask 3D, and here are five revelations discovered in the interview that no one knew before: ORIGINALLY ONE WEEK When development on Majora’s Mask began in 1999, the original plan was for the events to take place over one week. But as they worked toward that goal, they found that keeping track of every detail and event that happened over seven days was too much, even with the Bomber’s Notebook, so it was condensed into three days. None of the planned events were lost, and this is why the game’s timeline is so packed. AONUMA’S DREAM While deep in development of the original game, an exhausted Eiji Aonuma (the director) had a dream one night where he was being attacked by hundreds of

May 15, 2014

Iwata says Wii U Needs a Pokemon Moment

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President of Nintendo Satoru Iwata addressed the issue of Nintendo‘s, and particularly the Wii U’s, poor financial performance as part of an analyst Q&A session which can be read in full here. As part of the discussion on Nintendo Japans website, Iwata compared the highly publicized slow sales performance of the Wii U to those of the original Game Boy. More interestingly though, Iwata drew specific attention to the moment the Game Boy really took off – the release of the original Pokemon games and suggesting a similar success could turn the Wii U‘s poor performance around. Iwata said during the Q&A – “The fate of a video game system is often influenced greatly by the introduction of a single title. As many of you probably remember, before the release of the Pokémon game, Game Boy had been showing slow growth, and many people wondered whether it was the end of Game Boy.” “But the Pokémon game singlehandedly changed the landscape of the system, which then started to show the strongest

November 5, 2011

Iwata Asks: Super Mario 3D Land Details

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The second part of the Super Mario 3D Land Iwata Asks article has revealed some interesting new details…

October 28, 2011

Nintendo Investors Briefing Info

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Nintendo today held an investor’s briefing following yesterdays financial reports, they covered evething from Wii U release date, software to 3DS DLC and demos….

September 14, 2011