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  Nintendo Japan has already announced of the impending price cut of DSi and now the UK outfit of Ninty has confirmed it too, albeit to a site. Official Nintendo Magazine got word from Nintendo UK that the DSi price cut will be in effect from June 18. However, Nintendo didn’t divulge the exact price [...]

  Nintendo loaded their pockets with lots of green paper with their Wii gaming console. However, with the annual fiscal report out today it looks like the Wii juggernaut is slowing down. Of course, there’s aggressive competition from other consoles but Wii’s slowing down of sales can be contributed to its lack of exciting game [...]

  Yesterday’s 3DS announcement of Nintendo was filled with both surprise and mystery. Now Nikkei’s here to fill some void by sharing few more details surrounding the 3D-enabled DS. I would like to point that this report is unconfirmed but Nikkei’s perfect track record predicting Nintendo’s future products wants us to believe them. Anyways, Nikkei’s [...]

  Off all the Nintendo DS rumors we’ve heard so far, this one looks more plausible provided the developers Rpad talked to weren’t fooling around. Rpad.tv was on a quest at the GDC show for details on upcoming DS successor and here is what they found. Expectedly, the new DS will sport a bigger screen [...]

  Nintendo’s recent upgrade to the DS was just a bump in the screen size but it seems they’re already working hard to deliver the next-gen DS that will be more powerful and faster than the current DS range. In an interview with Asahi, Satoru Iwata confirmed that they’re indeed working on a new powerful [...]

  You’re not wrong if you think that the DSi LL (or DSi XL) and PSPgo were introduced just to buy some more time for a worthy successor. A report has emerged on Eurogamer that details on what could power the successor of these handheld consoles. The next-gen DS is expected sometime in late 2010 [...]

  So shooting a gadget at a stationary object just for the heck of it seems to be the new rage. We’ve seen Sony attempting their PS3 crash into a Bravia and now a French gaming mag has attempted to shoot Nintendo DS through a wall. Agreed a video of DS crashing into the wall [...]

  In a recent interview with Financial Times, Nintendo’s president Satoru Iwata confirms that they’re looking into a service like Amazon Kindle, giving an always-on connectivity to the DS users. Iwata states this kind of business model is appealing because the end consumer doesn’t have to bear the communications cost but only pay for the [...]

  Nintendo announced the half yearly earnings ending September and it’s not what the Kyoto-based company is used to see. They reported a 69.49 billion yen ($772 million), 52 percent down from what they’d reported a year earlier. Nintendo also for the first time in six years, lowered its forecast annual earnings from 1.8 trillion [...]

  We have heard some snarky comments from Sony when asked about the rumored next gen PSP, but this statement titled “Statement from Sony PlayStation on PSP and Competitive Landscape” was totally uncalled for. Nintendo DSi hit the US retail market yesterday and instead of acknowledging the competition Sony comes out lashing the console by [...]

  Sony was happily flaunting off the 50 million PSP figure but its Japanese counterpart has doubled the total sales in excess of 100 million and making DS, the fastest console to reach such a milestone. On March 6, Nintendo shipped out the 100 millionth unit from the DS franchise which comprises of the original [...]

  We were eyeing the announcement of an updated DS by the end of the year. But Nintendo dropped the bomb early by revealing the camera equipped DSi today in Japan. The new DSi has two 0.3 megapixel cameras – one on the back and the other one on the hinge. It also sports a [...]

  The biggest rumor to hit this weekend was Nikkei’s claim that Nintendo will reveal the latest avatar of the DS by the end of this year. The new DS is a result of the stiff competition faced by its compatriot PSP which is managing to sell more than DS in the last five months. [...]

  UPDATE: It turns out to be fake. The distributor’s website has gone kaput. You may question the authenticity of a website with a domain name like this and bearing semi-professional design but it is indeed true that these guys are the official distributors of Wii and DS in India. Samurai Games India has cracked [...]

  The thing you’re looking at standing besides the Wii console is not the much awaited HDD but in fact a wireless network adapter for Wii and DS. Nothing’s extraordinary over here except you get a router with Nintendo badge on it and three easy to switch modes – Router, Bridge and Auto. Japanese will [...]