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Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 3 at 8:27 am PT
Nintendo released sales figures for 2011 today, reporting that its hot seller continued to be the Wii. The Wii sold 4.5 million units, and in close second was the new portable game unit, the Nintendo 3DS, which sold four million units. In last place was the older Nintendo DS family, which sold more than 3.4 million units. Hardware sales were fueled by Nintendo’s own first-party software titles, like Super Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart 7 for the 3DS and The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword for the Wii, which have all sold more than one million titles.
Lauren Goode in Media on December 1, 2011 at 1:00 pm PT
Nintendo is hoping more Mario — and pretty colors — will help the gaming giant’s 3-D device.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on May 12, 2011 at 5:10 pm PT
The original Nintendo DS family continued to outsell the Nintendo 3DS during the first full month the glasses-free 3-D handheld gaming unit was for sale.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on March 25, 2011 at 9:12 am PT
The Nintendo 3DS, which allows players to see 3-D images without special glasses, will go on sale in the U.S. on Sunday for $250. Early signs indicate that the game units will fly off the shelves.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on March 21, 2011 at 6:00 am PT
With less than a week to go before Nintendo launches the 3DS in the U.S., safety concerns about whether children should view the three-dimensional images have largely disappeared–right before our eyes.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on March 2, 2011 at 10:06 pm PT
Leaders in the gaming industry reacted negatively to controversial comments made by Nintendo’s President Satoru Iwata at the Game Developers Conference this morning. Critics said his statements only prove his ignorance and point to the company’s own weaknesses.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 27, 2011 at 10:08 am PT
Nintendo is surrounded. On the home console side of the business, there’s Microsoft and Sony. On the handheld side, there are dozens of smartphone makers. All of that added up to fewer sales of Nintendo’s Wii and DS platforms in the third quarter, and there’s not much relief in sight.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 4, 2011 at 8:13 am PT
Now that the year has wrapped up, Nintendo is claiming to have broken two industry-wide records in 2010 to make its portable DS franchise and the Wii two of the best-selling game systems of all time.
But is past prologue?
John Paczkowski in Mobile on October 28, 2010 at 9:51 am PT
Nintendo warned last month that its first-half results would be lousy, and this morning the company delivered on that promise, posting its first half-year loss in seven years.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on October 26, 2010 at 7:32 am PT
Which company is the greater threat to Nintendo’s gaming business–Apple or Microsoft? According to Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime, it’s Apple–at least in the short term. “Do I think that in the near term [Apple] can hurt us more than Microsoft?” Fils-Aime said to Forbes. “Absolutely.”
