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Nintendo 3DS confirmed: 3D gaming with no glasses

Chris Davies, Mar 23rd 2010 Discuss [1]

Nintendo Japan have quietly pushed out a press release that confirms the company will launch a 3D version of the Nintendo DS. The Nintendo 3DS - a name which could be changed before it makes its official debut - is set to launch at E3 2010 and go on sale sometime thereafter; most interestingly, it will require no special 3D glasses. Read The Full Story

Nintendo DS2 details leak: bigger, higher-res screens, accelerometer, late-2010 launch?

Chris Davies, Mar 15th 2010 Discuss [0]

Nintendo's DSi XL isn't even on US shelves yet, and already gamers are prodding developers to find out details about the next-gen handheld. News on the Nintendo DS2 was top of the list for RPad.TV when they hit up GDC 2010, and they've managed to extract a few choice nuggets in the process. The DS2 - the official name of which nobody would, or could, spill - will apparently keep its dual-displays, but the panels will be larger, higher-resolution and have so minimal a gap between them that titles will be able to in effect use them as a single, big screen. Read The Full Story

Nintendo touchscreen steering wheel patent application surfaces

Chris Davies, Feb 26th 2010 Discuss [1]

Nintendo have filed a patent for a new touchscreen steering wheel system, which could be used on their DSi handheld for improved racing game control. The patent describes an interface whereby "at least a portion" of the wheel would be displayed on-screen at all times, and rather than use the DSi's hardware buttons the gamer could drag the virtual wheel left and right.

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Nintendo’s Iwata: iPad just “a bigger iPod touch”

Chris Davies, Jan 29th 2010 Discuss [0]

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata doesn't mince his words; asked about Apple's iPad launch this week, the outspoken executive has told reporters that the tablet "was a bigger iPod touch", and that "there were no surprises for me". Meanwhile Iwata has also confirmed that while Nintendo's engineers are currently developing new gaming machines, it's unlikely that we'll see a motion-sensor enabled DS or a high-definition version of the Wii. Read The Full Story

Next-Gen Nintendo DS to boost graphics, get motion sensors

Chris Davies, Jan 6th 2010 Discuss [0]

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has dropped a few details as to the hardware capabilities of the next-gen Nintendo DS, though the executive wouldn't go so far as to pinpoint when we might expect the handheld to be released. Speaking to Japanese paper Asahi Shimbun, Iwata confirmed that both graphical capabilities and alternative control methods were on the cards. Read The Full Story

Nintendo DS sold 10M units in UK since launch

Shane McGlaun, Dec 10th 2009 Discuss [0]

Nintendo may finally be feeling the pinch of the poor economy with Wii sales plummeting and production cut backs, but the gaming company has sold lots of consoles. Nintendo has one of the most popular mobile game consoles around with its DS line. Read The Full Story

Tegra 2 confirmed for next-gen Nintendo DS say sources

Chris Davies, Nov 16th 2009 Discuss [1]

It's almost as much fun speculating about new gaming hardware as it is playing on current-gen consoles, so color us intrigued at DigitalFoundry's "credible sources" who are saying that the next-gen Nintendo DS will run NVIDIA's Tegra 2 and that it's "not unrealistic" that the handheld will out-grunt the current Nintendo Wii. Problem is, Sony's next-gen PSP2 has also seen a few spilled details, and that's looking even more impressive: think along the lines of potential GPU power in-between the original Xbox and the Xbox 360. Read The Full Story

DS and PSP Go fired through walls (just for the fun of it)

Chris Davies, Nov 4th 2009 Discuss [2]

Remember how Sony launched a PS3 at a BRAVIA flat-panel TV pretty much just for the fun of it? Well, they seem to have triggered a new trend of firing gaming hardware at solid objects, as French gaming magazine Amusement have included a photo-shoot involving Nintendo's DS and Sony's PSP Go being fired through walls. Read The Full Story

Nintendo next-gen DS could have free integrated 3G

Chris Davies, Nov 2nd 2009 Discuss [0]

Nintendo may be facing a surprise dip in profits but they're not resting on their laurels. The larger-screen Nintendo DSi LL (aka the DSi XL when it lands in the US and Europe in Q1 2010) is one such attack, but according to the Financial Times the gaming company are also considering adding integrated, contract-free 3G to their next-gen DS. Read The Full Story

Nintendo profits down amid dreary Wii, DS sales

Chris Davies, Oct 29th 2009 Discuss [0]

We've obviously gone through the rabbit hole: Motorola's income reaches positive figures while Nintendo turn around and report slashed profits [pdf link]. After a healthy last quarter, the Japanese gaming giant has announced a drop in interim net profits from 144.83 billion yen this time last year to just 69.49 billion yen this past six months, with a 43-percent drop in Wii sales. Read The Full Story

Band Hero DS “Drum Grip” for Nintendo DS revealed

Chris Davies, Jul 23rd 2009 Discuss [0]

Activision have been showing off their latest peripheral, and this time they've set their sights on your pocket. Set to be included with every purchase of Band Hero DS, the upcoming musical game for Nintendo's clamshell console, the Band Hero DS Drum Grip is a rubberized silicon sleeve that fits over the DS Lite. Read The Full Story

Nintendo Personal Trainer: Walking headed for U.S.

Brenda Stokes, May 20th 2009 Discuss [0]

Video game companies continue to delve into the fitness-oriented aspect of games these days and now Nintendo will be launching their Personal Trainer: Walking game in the U.S. soon for both the DS and the DSi. Read The Full Story