Since day one, the name “Wii-U” has been ridiculed. If you weren’t groaning over the fact that Nintendo just lazily slapped a “U” at the end of an already criticized console name, you were one of the people making references to Ling from Kung Pow! Enter …
The 3DS launch was nearly an abysmal failure and it was most due to the poor pricing that Nintendo set for it, expecting people would see it as a premium device. President Reggie Fils-Aime has told Reuters that the company doesn’t want to repeat this scenario with the Wii U …
The Wii U made a big splash when Nintendo unveiled the upcoming console at this year’s E3, but while the thought of finally being able to get a Zelda or a Mario game in HD was enough to whet the appetites of most gamers who felt …
Square Enix finally unveiled the oft-delayed next entry into their mega popular Dragon Quest series today, Dragon Quest X. The series has been famous for being fiercely traditional and slow to implement any changes to it’s simple but successful formula; that changed with 2010’s Dragon Quest …
Nintendo is thinking about their customers, but not in the way we have been hoping for–their wallets. In an interview with Diamond Online, Nintendo’s President mentioned that “there’s a cost” to making multiple controllers available for consumers, as they would be expensive for them to purchase, …
Adrian Blunt, Ubisoft Producer, talked to MTV Multiplayer while showing off a demo of Ghost Recon Online saying that Wii U would not use friend codes for the online service and would have a unified user profile, much like gamertags or PSN ID. “Rather than using …
Even after the Nintendo press conference many questions were left unanswered regarding the Wii U. The hottest one being the price, though no firm number has been announced, Iwata did confirm it will cost more than $250, which is the selling price for the 3DS right …
Shigeru Miyamoto, himself, mentioned that a new Pikmin game may be in the works for the Wii U, at a Nintendo round-table discussion. Though he didn’t right out confirm it, he did say that there was indeed a Pikmin game being developed for the Wii, but …
Though it was confirmed that the Wii U would indeed play the original Wii game disks, it will not be so friendly to the previous generation.It is pretty common practice for the this generations of game consoles to be only backwards compatible one generation(certain model PS3s …
As expected, today Nintendo unveiled their successor to the Wii, the stupidly named Wii U, and proved all the rumors correct: the system’s controller uses an iPad like touchscreen with traditional controller elements integrated to the right and left of the screen: standard button layout(including shoulder …
Today, at their E3 press conference Nintendo has shown off their HD successor to the top selling Wii. The “Wii U” will be packed full of new features such as HD gaming, a 2 handed 6.2″ tablet like controller on which the screen can be used to …