Tag archive: nintendo ds

Nintendo has overcome some early troubles with its handheld gaming console to sell over four million Nintendo 3DS units in the US and beat the nine-month mark set by the Nintendo Wii. The company announced the sales milestone this week, and paired it with an announcement that multiple 3DS titles — including Super Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart 7 — broke sales records for their respective franchises. The two games are the first 3DS… Read More

Nintendo didn't exactly hit the ground running with the release of its 3DS back in March. The dual-screen gaming handheld and its boasts of “glasses-free 3D” didn't amount to much thanks to a relatively light library of launch software for gamers to choose from. Things didn't get better from there, either, with Nintendo chopping the price on the 3DS down from $250 to $170 less than six months after its release.… Read More

In March 2009, Nintendo sold its 100 millionth DS system on a worldwide basis, but today the handheld game system set an impressive record in the United States: it crossed the 50 million marker, making it the best-selling video game system in U.S. history. This means that it has outsold systems like the PlayStation, PlayStation 2, and Nintendo's own Game Boy line. “The Nintendo DS forever changed the gaming landscape, and the fact… Read More

At a special event a couple of days ahead of the Tokyo Games Show, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata unveiled a number of new games for the 3DS game machine in an attempt to boost sales of the struggling handheld gadget. There was no mention of any accessories, such as the cradle device we reported on last week. According to a Reuters report, Iwata said at the event that the company was introducing an unprecedented range of games for the 3DS.… Read More

All of Nintendo's attention seems to be focused on the 3DS these days, but that doesn't mean the company's forgotten about the system's 2-D predecessor. In fact, one of Nintendo's fan-favorite icons has a new game arriving on the system next month, and he's bringing along a few friends. We previewed Kirby Mass Attack back in June during E3, when we found it hidden amongst all of Nintendo's Wii U and 3DS… Read More

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is coming to the Nintendo DS, continuing an annual trend that's been going on the DS since the first Modern Warfare. The news was confirmed by Dan Amrich, social media manager for Activision, on his website One of Swords. Word came along with the confirmation that n-Space is developing the DS port for release this fall. The news came on the heels of last week's revelation that Black Ops dev Treyarch is… Read More

Nintendo has the 3DS. Sony has the PlayStation Portable and, soon enough, the PS Vita. Microsoft, on the other hand, continues to have no horse in the portable gaming race despite having what is arguably the most popular video game console on the market. This is apparently by design, MS Chief Operating Officer Dennis Durkin revealed in an interview with IndustryGamers. “I’m not sure I would want to be launching a dedicated portable device… Read More

(This article comes courtesy of N-Sider, a site for well-adjusted Nintendo fans. N-Sider has served the Nintendo community for more than a decade.) While there's been a decent amount of good software this year, there really hasn't been much in the line of that particular joy you get when you're playing software that is totally new. Wii U isn't yet mature, and Nintendo has said they're currently more interested in… Read More

After many disappointing months, NPD reports that total U.S. sales of video game products reached $961.2 million in April, up 20 percent from $802.4 million a year ago. Software performed stronger still, with sales climbing 26 percent thanks to strong showings by Mortal Kombat and Portal 2. This is the first month since November, says NPD analyst Anita Frazier, that video game software saw increases in both dollars and number of units sold. Top… Read More

Nintendo launched its 3DS handheld gaming device on March 27. While it resembles the company's Nintendo DS on the outside, the guts of the 3DS represent an evolutionary step forward, particularly in the glasses-free 3D technology used to power the uppermost of its dual screens. Nintendo of America boss Reggie Fils-Aime sat down recently to chat with USA Today about the new product launch, which he said saw just shy of 400,000 units sold… Read More

Michael Jackson may be dead, but his career is booming. Ubisoft revealed today that since its release last November, Michael Jackson: The Experience has sold 3 million copies around the world on the Nintendo DS, Wii, and PSP alone. The game is scheduled to be released for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 next week. “We’re delighted with the sales success of Michael Jackson The Experience to date,” said Ubisoft's UK marketing… Read More

Nintendo says it will not be joining the smartphone rat race like its gaming competitors, Sony and Microsoft. The news comes straight from the top, with Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime telling CNN during an interview on Friday that the company has no plans to release a device with phone functionality. “We have no desire to get into telephony,” Fils-Aime told CNN Friday. “We believe that we will earn our way into… Read More

It is no secret that the Nintendo DS portable gaming platform was a major victim of piracy. The availability of specially designed cartridges such as the R4, which allows content stored on an SD card to be accessed by the device, made it easy to download and play stolen games. They also improve the flexibility of the DS via homebrew community-developed applications, but the associated business risks have made the existence of such flash carts,… Read More

For those still drooling over the screen real estate of a tablet, but unwilling to sacrifice the pocket-friendly size of a smartphone, Sprint’s new Kyocera Echo looks like a folding slice of heaven. Like a Galaxy Tab mated with a Nintendo DS, the Echo flips open to reveal dual 3.5-inch displays, with area equivalent to a single 4.7-inch screen. Compact size? Check. Room to play? Check. You can flip through e-mail in one screen and browse in… Read More

With two 4-6 year old products on the market, Nintendo's iron grip on gaming hardware sales began to show its age in 2010. Today, the game maker posted its financial results for the nine months ending Dec. 31, 2010. They aren't stellar. Profit during the period fell 74.3 percent from a year ago to about 49.6 billion yen ($599 million). Profits for the last three months were down 46 percent from a year ago. Nintendo blamed its… Read More