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Nintendo Drops Wii U Price, Unveils 2DS Handheld Game System
Wednesday, August 28, 2013 - 1:38pm | 625Read More...Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY) made two sizable announcements today. The first -- a price cut for Wii U -- has been anticipated for months. Effective September 20, the deluxe version will retail for $299. Nintendo's second announcement was a bit more surprising. The company unveiled a new handheld game...
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Will Samsung Inspire Apple To Build A Dual-Screen iPhone? (AAPL, SSNLF)
Tuesday, August 6, 2013 - 10:59am | 606Read More...Over the last two years, Samsung (OTC: SSNLF) has popularized the large smartphone concept with the Galaxy Note series. Now the South Korean tech giant is attempting to popularize another (somewhat familiar) idea: the flip phone. Instead of building a razor-thin device like Motorola's (NASDAQ: GOOG...
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Target Drops Wii U Price Ahead of Xbox Unveiling
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 - 11:17am | 603Read More...Is the timing coincidental or a sign of things to come? Target.com (NYSE: TGT) has lowered the price of Nintendo's (OTC: NTDOY) latest console, Wii U, from $299.99 to $239.99. According to GameSpot, Target has only chosen to reduce the price of the basic 8GB version. That is not the only Wii U-...
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Can Pokemon X and Y Save the Nintendo 3DS?
Thursday, January 10, 2013 - 11:37am | 1422Read More...During the late '90s, when Nintendo's console was failing and its handheld was thriving, Hiroshi Yamauchi (the company's president) reportedly told the Japanese press that the only game Nintendo needed was Pokemon. While his comments -- which suspiciously cannot be found on Google (NASDAQ: GOOG...
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GameStop Denies Rumor It Will End Midnight Launches
Monday, November 19, 2012 - 3:20pm | 771Read More...Midnight launches might be a thing of the past for GameStop (NYSE: GME). A person familiar with the video game retailer told Benzinga that it might cut back or end its midnight game and console launches in 2013. A company spokesperson adamantly denied the claim. GameStop recently promoted the...
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Nintendo Wii U Sales to Exceed Predecessor
Monday, November 12, 2012 - 12:18pm | 668Read More...Nintendo's (OTC: NTDOY) latest console, Wii U, is expected to outperform its predecessor when it is released on November 18. IHS (NYSE: IHS) researchers estimate that global sales of the new console will reach 3.5 million units by the end of December 2012. The original Wii sold 3.1 million units...
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More Losses Expected for Nintendo as Company Lowers Guidance
Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - 10:53am | 467Read More...After failing to acquire a larger share of the market, Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY) has lowered its full-year profit and sales forecasts. According to Bloomberg, the Japanese game developer had previously expected to post a profit of 20 billion yen (roughly $250 million according to xe.com's currency...
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Exclusive: New Android-Based Handheld Gaming Device Unveiled to Take on Apple, Sony and Nintendo
Tuesday, August 28, 2012 - 3:57pm | 1305Read More...PlayMG, a new startup formed less than 60 days ago, has unveiled a brand-new, Android-powered handheld gaming device that is scheduled for release this November. Retailing for $169.00, the MG (which stands for "More Games") will launch with a lower MSRP than Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPod Touch, Sony...
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Can a $99 Game Console Destroy Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo?
Friday, July 13, 2012 - 1:50pm | 1515Read More...Ouya, the $99 game console concept on Kickstarter, has raised more than $4.4 million from more than 34,000 backers. Should Sony (NYSE: SNE), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) or Nintendo (NTDOY) be worried? Depending on the source, Ouya (pronounced "Oooh-ya") is either a disaster in the making or the best...
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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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Nintendo Shares Continually Decline After Lackluster Wii U Presentation
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 - 11:29am | 710Read More...One week ago, the world couldn't wait to see what Nintendo had in store for the game industry. Today, the world wishes it had never found out. While a select number of consumers (read: a very small number of consumers) will tell you that the "games r great, u stupid Call of Duty lover!" and that...
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Five Things Nintendo Doesn't Want You to Know About its E3 2012 Press Conference
Wednesday, June 6, 2012 - 12:33pm | 1496Read More...Consumers expected big things from the Mario maker this week, including fresh franchises and new chapters in the Zelda, Pokemon, and Wii Sports series. But instead of wowing the masses with a massive lineup of must-buy games, Nintendo's (NTDOY) E3 press conference was unusually quiet. There were...
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Nintendo's Disappointing Wii U Showing Will Lead to the Demise of Console Gaming
Tuesday, June 5, 2012 - 2:09pm | 1113Read More...It's 2001 all over again. Only this time, Nintendo doesn't have anything to fall back on. In the late '90s and early 2000s, Nintendo (NTDOY) attempted to run its console business into the ground by releasing a lackluster follow-up, GameCube, to a lackluster system, Nintendo 64. At that time,...
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Will PlayStation 4 be the Last Game Console?
Thursday, May 10, 2012 - 12:11pm | 1104Read More...What will become of the game industry after PlayStation 4, Xbox 720 and Wii U arrive? Many think that this is the end of the line for consoles. With the rise of Android and iOS gaming, some argue that we no longer need a game-specific device. Never mind the fact that mobile gaming is nowhere near...
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Who Killed Zynga, Facebook Gaming?
Friday, February 24, 2012 - 5:17pm | 1011Read More...As Zynga loses players, Facebook is losing gamers. Who's responsible for their decline? IHS (NYSE: IHS) has released a new Screen Digest Media Research Insight report (via Forbes) regarding Facebook's gaming platform. The results are anything but positive; IHS said that after two years of growth...
