Nintendo’s Wii U has not been a success story at the retailer as worldwide sales have been less than flattering despite the interest that the console has generated. Ubisoft’s executive director for EMEA territories Alain Corre, believes that the Wii U could still find traction should it receive a drop in price. Speaking with Edge [via MCV], Corre confirmed that he would…
Inventor Seijiro Tomita is suing Nintendo for allegedly infringing on his patent which produces 3-D images without the use of 3-D glasses. According to a report by Reuters [via GIBiz] Tomita is a former Sony Corp employee who claims that he showed a prototype of his 3-D display technology to seven Nintendo officials in 2003. He says at the time his patent was…
Cliff Bleszinski believes now would not be a great time for him to make a return to the industry as he says now would be “the absolute worst time” for him to come back, reports GamesIndustryInternational. Bleszinski wants to rather wait for the dust to settle a bit before making his next move as he believes the videogame business “has not been…
Nintendo has recently come under the spotlight after revealing that the Wii U sales expectations have not performed as expected. In a corporate briefing [as cited by GIBiz] Nintendo president Satoru Iwata confirmed that the Wii U missed sales expectations so far. When asked about any steps Nintendo will adopt to facilitate the situation, Mr Iwata promised a busier release schedule for…
Nintendo’s Wii U is is not on target to achieve the previously expected forecast and has resulted in Nintendo cutting forecasts for Wii U and 3DS. GamesIndustryBiz report that Nintendo has now dropped the Wii U’s sales forecast to 4 million Wii U units by the end of March, down from the company’s original prediction of 5.5 million units. The 3DS projected…
Yes! It’s the 29th day of the year 2013… Can it just be the end of the year already please? Or maybe just the weekend even? Please? We promise to stop eating human braaaaaiiiiiiinnnnssss for a week if we get our wish. No? Fine. News then. China is apparently considering lifting a 12-year game console ban that prevents the manufacture, sale and import…
CVG are citing a Famitsu conducted report in Japan which states that 64% of gamers in the region will be looking at buying the PS Vita this year, making it the most wanted gaming system there. Nintendo’s 3DS, which has sold extremely well in Japan, came in second in the poll with 48% and proving that the Japanese favour handheld…
Nintendo has told GamesIndustryBiz that its console and handheld hardware divisions are merging in a brand-new Kyoto facility. Nintendo is making the move in an effort for the two divisions to work more closely together and share technology more efficiently, as well as for the two divisions to work on further integrating the Nintendo 3DS with the Wii GIBiz note that Nintendo’s…
MCV are reporting on Baird Equity Research analyst, Colin Sebastian claiming that he believes that the Playstation 4 will launch this October and will be followed by an Xbox 720 in November. Sebastian claims that he has however heard word of “early production issues with Sony’s PS4” that could delay Sony’s plans. MCV note that it was also insinuated last year…
Wake up sleepy head. Shake those cobwebs from your head and fill it with braaaaaaiiiiiiiinnnnnssssss – of course – and this little round up of mildly entertaining news from the world of gaming. Everyone’s favourite episodic zombie game (… only one maybe), The Walking Dead by TellTale Games has sold a whopping 8.5 million episodes across its five episodes. That’s…