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“It didn’t set the world on fire, but I don’t think we were expecting it to,”
- Dorian Bloch, ChartTrack.
With many an eager Nintendo fan sprinting towards their local games emporium Friday June 23rd, just how well did the Ds Lite do at launch?
Expectations for the system to sell out due to stock shortages at the [...]

Nintendo of America’s president Reggie Fils-Aime has stated that publishers will have the option to give gamers ‘downloadable premium content’ on the company’s forthcoming Wii console.
This means that it’s entirely possible that gamers will be able to purchase extra items and content in the games they play, which as we’ve already partially seen with the [...]

Nintendo as expected has come out in defence of its original, and innovative dual screen device the “DS large”.
The company has stated to the media that “as long as there is demand for the system” Nintendo will continue to support it. With the recent launch of the slim, redesigned lite version of the console, many [...]

According to the latest edition of Nintendo Power, six Wii titles are slated to launch alongside the Wii this year. The titles are:

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors
Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz
Red Steel
Rayman Raving Rabbits.

I remember a few other titles slated to [...]

During a Q&A session at the Nintendo Corporation Management Briefing, Shinji Hatano revealed that the Wii development kit would be relatively inexpensive.
Question: I recall GameCube received a warm welcome by the software developers before the launch. Comparing with the pre-launch period of GameCube, how differently are the third parties evaluating Wii now, and does Nintendo [...]

Game Informer just showed off its new July cover which is about the newest entry in the Need for Speed series…Need for Speed: Carbon. Even better is the news that it is coming to the Wii! The issue also wiil feature the E3 wrap-up so look for more Wii coverage there. However, [...]

The Wii’s controller is perhaps the most intriguing aspect of Nintendo’s new console. It’s provocative design attempts to break the barriers that separate gamers from non-gamers. At this years E3, Nintendo showed it off and the overall response for it was good. But in an interview with Famitsu, Shigeru Miyamoto hinted that the Wii controller [...]

It seems that Nintendo’s showing at E3 generated a lot of buzz about the direction of the company and the Wii. Looks like Take-Two Interactive, the folks who brought you Grand Theft Auto, are interested in developing titles for the Wii.
Looks like Take-Two wants to bring the 2K Sports franchise to the Wii. [...]

Looks like Nintendo was showing something secret behind closed doors at E3. They showed certain journalists the above case containing retro controllers, but they didn’t fully explain what it means or why they are doing it.
This case could mean a few things; It could all just be a big metaphor… play all these retro [...]

It looks like the post-E3 drought has finally ended. Over the last day or so we have seen three new Wii games announced, though mainly in teaser form. We here at WiiSpot figured that you would be interested in these announcements, info slim as they may be.
Animal Crossing Wii was finally talked about during [...]

Satoru Iwata announced today that the Nintendo Wii and the Nintendo DS will be able to connect with each other wirelessly via wi-fi. Although not surprising, its nice to hear the official word. Nintendo’s first attempt at connectivity didn’t really go anywhere as it required a special cable to connect the GameBoy Advanced to the [...]

During a marketing press-conference today in Japan, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata talked on the Vitrual Console and the pricing. Iwata stated that new games downloaded and playable on the virtual console would be priced between ¥500 and ¥1,000 yen, which converts to roughly $4.50 and $8.99 USD.
Of course this is the just the pricing for [...]

The WiiSpot.com staff chat about the Wii’s price point.

John Swinimer, Senior Public Relations Manager of Consumer Products for ATI has gone on record to state that the Wii will be able to produce far better visuals than those on show at E3!
I think what you saw [on Wii, at E3] was just the tip of the iceberg of what the Hollywood chip can [...]

In an interview with Scott Hedrick, Executive Vice President of Opera for Devices, Cubed3 managed to extract some details about the Opera web browser being built for the Wii. I’m not a big fan of using any computer program on a TV display let alone a browser, but some of the ideas presented in the [...]