8 posts and columns on Super Mario Bros.

Early Price Cut Comes for Nintendo’s New 3DS

in Commerce on July 28, 2011 at 9:40 am PT

Nintendo has dropped the price of its glasses-free 3-D handheld game device by $80 after only four months on sale.
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Nintendo’s Pop Fizzles After It Squashes Multiplatform Talk

in Commerce on July 6, 2011 at 12:23 pm PT

Nintendo’s shares rose as much as 4.9 percent today after investors got their hopes up that the game company had changed its policy regarding developing games for mobile phones. Turns out it wasn’t so, and most of the gains melted away.
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Three Key Takeaways From Nintendo’s Wii U (Plus Photos!)

in Commerce on June 7, 2011 at 1:34 pm PT

Nintendo unveiled its next-generation console this morning at E3, shocking the industry with the first tablet-sized controller for gaming in the home. Here are the three major takeaways from today’s announcement.
The Wii U's touchscreen also has high-definition graphics.

Pac-Man Celebrates 30th Anniversary

in News on May 24, 2010 at 12:00 am PT

It’s been 30 years since the introduction of the arcade classic Pac-Man–a game that became an icon of the 1980s and succeeded in bringing videogames to new segments of players.

Strong Christmas Not Enough to Save 2009 for Videogame Industry

in News on January 15, 2010 at 8:24 am PT

The videogame industry eked out strong December sales, with higher prices of portable devices overcoming a decline in sales for all other categories, according to a new report from The NDP Group. Overall, sales for the year were down eight percent, with revenues of close to $19.66 billion compared with $21.4 billion in 2008. Nintendo held gaming court as it took three of the top ten best-selling game spots.

Reading the Tea Leaves at Nintendo

in News on October 30, 2009 at 1:55 pm PT

When Nintendo’s top brass gathered in Tokyo to speak to analysts Friday, they admitted they had been caught off-guard by the slowdown in Wii demand. To the dismay of analysts and fans, they did not announce a new Wii console, as some had hoped, or a revolutionary new game.