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Microsoft May Reduce Xbox One Shipments (MSFT)
Tuesday, August 27, 2013 - 1:01pm | 823Read More...Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has reportedly lowered the number of Xbox One units that it expects to ship to retailers in 2013. According to a DigiTimes translation of a report by the Chinese-language publication Economic Daily News, only 6.2 million Xbox One units will arrive before the end of the...
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Nintendo to Announce Second Straight Annual Loss as Delays Plague Wii U
Tuesday, April 23, 2013 - 12:48pm | 648Read More...The famed Mario creator is on the cusp of reporting another major loss. According to Bloomberg, Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY) will report a loss of 18.7 billion yen in the 12 months ended March 31. This is the second consecutive loss that the company has endured. Bloomberg quoted a number of Japanese...
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New Video Game Consoles for 2013
Wednesday, March 27, 2013 - 9:22am | 1847Read More...The gaming world is changing: tablets are being used more and more for gaming, consoles are developing more functions than just gaming, Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY) is trying to combine the home console and travel console, and more games are becoming available for download. The next generation gaming...
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Nintendo Thinks You Want This
Wednesday, June 20, 2012 - 1:42pm | 680Read More...Nintendo (NTDOY) is justifying the release of another side-scrolling, two-dimensional Mario game by claiming that it is what consumers want. But is that actually the case? Takashi Tezuka, a veteran producer at Nintendo, told GameSpot that all of the similarities within New Super Mario Bros. U are...
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Review: Super Mario 3D Land
Wednesday, November 9, 2011 - 2:07pm | 1252Read More...Mario's first 3D outing is his best handheld adventure yet. Have you ever wondered what Mario would be like if his 2D and 3D worlds collided into one massive adventure? Super Paper Mario gave us a few hints by providing the player with the option to switch between 2D side-scrolling and pseudo-3D...
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Reality Check for Nintendo Investors: iPhone Development is Never Going to Happen, Would Kill the Stock
Thursday, August 11, 2011 - 1:12pm | 524Read More...Small short-term gains, massive long-term losses. Bloomberg is reporting that Nintendo investors are increasingly unhappy with Nintendo, a company that is determined to stick to its tried-and-true business model of making games exclusively for its own devices. This strategy is nothing new;...
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Nintendo Admits Defeat, Lowers Nintendo 3DS Price to $169.99 as Apple Enthusiasts Proclaim Victory
Thursday, July 28, 2011 - 1:31pm | 1148Read More...Nintendo truly is its own worst enemy. At around three in the morning, Nintendo (NTDOY) announced what may be the fastest price drop in video game history: starting August 12, the company will shed $80 off the MSRP of the embattled Nintendo 3DS, bringing the new price to a respectable $169.99....
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Four Ways Apple Could Spend $80 Billion
Wednesday, July 20, 2011 - 5:17pm | 1540Read More...With nearly $80 billion in cash, the Mac maker has plenty of spending money. But how should it be used? Around the offices at Benzinga, some have said (perhaps jokingly) that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) should attempt to cure cancer to keep Steve Jobs alive. Obviously that's not going to happen. I don't...
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Citi Bearish on Nintendo, Revises Yen/Euro
Wednesday, July 13, 2011 - 8:00am | 89Read More...“We cannot see any real improvement in 3DS demand until the hardware price is cut and two new Super Mario Brothers titles are released, and we do not believe the Wii U has the same level of appeal as the Wii,” Citi wrote in a report focusing on Nintendo (NTDOY). “Also, we revise our yen/euro...
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Is Nintendo Smart to Ditch Smartphones?
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 - 2:46pm | 932Read More...Contrary to popular belief, Super Mario and Angry Birds are not the same. Last week, Nintendo made it crystal clear that it does not have any plans to develop for the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone or Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android platforms. This news came as a shock to some. “If Nintendo was...
