If you haven’t noticed, Nintendo and Amazon don’t play well together. When Nintendo’s newest console, the Wii U, could first be pre-ordered last fall, stores like GameStop and Best Buy jumped at the opportunity to make a quick buck from gamers eager for the first new console in years. But Amazon didn’t, and to this ...
Amazon X-Ray Feature Expands to TV Shows on Kindle Fire and Wii U
on 3.27.13
Amazon just announced that it is adding its X-Ray feature to TV shows. The feature already worked with movies thanks to data from IMDb, but the company will now use this very same data for other video content. The entire Kindle Fire family will receive the feature and the Amazon Instant Video app on Wii U will get is as ...
Nintendo in Peril: January Wii U Sales Spell Trouble
on 2.15.13
Nintendo now faces the very real prospect of having an absolute flop on its hands. As Microsoft moved an estimated 281,000 Xbox 360 consoles in the U.S. in January to take the top spot for the 25th consecutive month, Gamasutra reports that Nintendo sold “well under” 100,000 Wii U consoles last month. The site estimates ...
How to Get Gamers to Be Okay With No Used Games on Consoles
on 2.13.13
Look—taking away the ability to play used games will always generate some outcry. And so far, consumers have treated the idea of a video game console blocking pre-owned discs as shots fired. For many gamers, it's a consumer-hostile idea forced on the industry by greedy publishers and console makers. Even the faintest ...
After Rocky Start, Nintendo Cuts Wii U Sales Projections
on 1.30.13
While the Wii U won't be an instant flop like the Virtual Boy, sales projections released by Nintendo show it probably won't match the runaway sales success of the original Wii, either. Nintendo sold 3.06 million Wii U units worldwide from its November launch through the end of 2012. That's nearly as much as the 3.19 ...
Nintendo Breathes New Life Into Wii U With Game Announcements
on 1.23.13
Well! That was a surprise. It started slow, but today's Nintendo Direct broadcast brought absolutely massive news from the Japanese giant, with no fewer than seven new games announced (and one remake). We now know what Nintendo is going to be showing at E3, and what to expect from Wii U this year. Here's everything that ...
Shelly Palmer Radio Report – December 20, 2012
on 12.20.12
Just over a month after the Wii U launched in North America, Nintendo is finally adding one of the console’s most unique features in an update later today: TVii. TVii lets you look up your favorite shows or movies, add them to your list of favorites and discover new content – all through the GamePad controller. Once you ...
Nintendo Wii U’s TVii Launches Thursday, Lacks Some Features
on 12.19.12
We've been waiting for the Wii U's cable box/television-controlling TVii features to make it since the system launched late last month. As of Wednesday, it'll finally be here. But without a few key components. The big omission is DVR capabilities through TiVo. That's the only way to use the Wii U as a DVR, so it's still not ...
Nintendo’s Wii Fit U Coming in Early 2013
on 12.6.12
Buried amongst Nintendo America's amusing (and often silly) Direct presentation from today comes news of the next iteration of its popular lifestyle experience: Wii Fit U. Outside of a few brief screens and a very vague first half of 2013 release window, not much is known about the updated title save for one bit -- an ...
Nintendo’s Iwata ‘very sorry’ for Wii U’s launch omissions
on 11.29.12
Nintendo President Satoru Iwata has apologized for the Wii U's missing features at launch. "Personally I think that users should be able to use all the functions of a console video game machine as soon as they open the box," Iwata told IGN in an interview published yesterday. "So I feel very sorry for the fact that ...
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