Now Amazon is pulling ahead of Nintendo in handheld gaming in the U.S.
It’s no news that both iOS and Android portable devices have eclipsed Nintendo’s 3DS and DS platforms over the past couple of years. But it’s …
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The Wii U’s day of reckoning has arrived
Nintendo’s Wii U had a one-year head start over its rival consoles and it now appears that all of that time has now been squandered. …
The worst news yet for Wii U
All year long the bad news about Wii U sales has been offset to some extent by the hope that the next big Mario title would …
The Wii U looks like a dead console walking [updated]
A few months before the PlayStation 4 storms into Japan, Nintendo has staged a last-ditch attempt to revive the fortunes of its Wii U consoles just …
Nintendo seems to be toying around with making an Android tablet
Could Nintendo finally be breaking down and branching out to other platforms? Nintendo Everything has picked out a series of tweets by a Nintendo software engineer …
Review: Super Mario 3D World for the Wii U
If you had asked me a month ago which consoles I’d be spending the most time with over the holidays, the Wii U and the …
The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds (3DS) review
The top-down Zelda games started as console releases on the NES and SNES, but as 3D graphics took precedence, the flatter rendition of Hyrule was …
Nintendo bringing feature-stripped Wii Mini stateside later this month
Nintendo might be taking a page from Samsung’s gadget spam approach with its holiday hardware lineup. Polygon reported on Monday that the Wii Mini console, …
Despite higher Wii U sales, Nintendo posts operating loss in Q2
Price cuts have helped Nintendo sell a lot more Wii U consoles but they haven’t helped the company’s operating bottom line. Per Engadget, Nintendo posted …
‘Need for Speed: Rivals,’ another high profile release, skipping Wii U
It has already been a very busy month for Nintendo, between the incredibly positive sales figures of the Wii U and the retirement of the …
End of the line for Nintendo’s Wii
Nintendo’s best-selling home console to date, which moved over 100 million units, has finally been retired. Kotaku noticed on Monday that Nintendo has updated its …
Wii U sales see 200% increase after $50 price cut
Nintendo has been struggling to move the Wii U from store shelves into living rooms around the world since the day the console launched. Several …
Mario, Yoshi, other Nintendo characters now flooding Windows app store
The Windows 8 app market has struggled to gain any real traction, dwarfed by the gigantic iOS and Android app stores. But it does seem …
Atari founder: Nintendo may be on a ‘path to irrelevance’
Nintendo’s Wii U has had a rocky start, to say the least. Sales of the new console have been hugely disappointing thus far, forcing Nintendo …
Nintendo to launch the world’s ugliest portable console this fall
Nintendo’s newest portable gaming console may be ugly but at least it’s cheap. The Japanese gaming company announced on Wednesday that it will start selling …
Nintendo has a change of heart: Wii U drops to $299.99 next month
Nintendo on Wednesday announced that the Deluxe edition of the Wii U will be getting a price drop of $50 to a new MSRP of …
Mobile game apps now leaving portable console games in the dust
The long-term challenge that mobile apps present Nintendo keeps getting more formidable. The new joint study from IDC and App Annie shows how consumer spending …
Nintendo is still losing money on every Wii U it sells
It’s safe to say that Nintendo has made some mistakes with the Wii U over the last year. GamesIndustry reports that Nintendo is still selling …
Wii U sales plummet to just 160,000 units in Q2
Nintendo shares fell 5% in Tokyo on Wednesday as the company posted June-quarter results that don’t paint a pretty picture. The company managed to swing …
Giant retailer pulls Nintendo’s Wii U from store shelves
Nintendo got a huge jump on the competition when it launched its next-generation Wii U video game console ahead of the holidays last year. Unfortunately, …
Ubisoft CEO backs away from Nintendo exclusives after Wii U game flops
Things are still not looking very good for Nintendo’s Wii U video game console. Recent numbers show that even Sony’s PS Vita is now crushing …
PS Vita is now crushing Nintendo’s Wii U
A fascinating drama is playing out in Sony and Nintendo’s home market — the PS Vita has found a new lease on life, while the Wii …
Nintendo’s deep, deep denial
New Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata is not exactly a breath of new air. As a matter of fact, he sounds eerily like Nokia executives circa 2007, swimming …
Despite dismal sales, Nintendo won’t cut the Wii U’s price
Gamers hoping that Nintendo would try to boost poor Wii U sales by slashing the console’s price are in for a disappointment. In an interview …
Nintendo CEO blames poor Wii U sales on company’s own subpar games
Sales of Nintendo’s Wii U console have been calamitously bad so far but the company’s CEO isn’t about to start blaming the rise of mobile games. …
The Wii U is more doomed than ever
The Wii U will be one year old by Christmas 2013. How is it possible that Nintendo was unable to produce an entirely new iteration …
The horrifying Wii U sales collapse
There are rumors about Wii U sales in North America slipping below 40,000 units in April. But it’s a fact that Wii U sales in …
Xbox 360 dominates console sales for 28th consecutive month
The Xbox 360 topped the charts again in April, marking the 28th consecutive month Microsoft’s gaming console has outsold Sony’s PlayStation 3 and Nintendo’s Wii consoles. …
Another blow for Nintendo: Next-gen EA games will skip the Wii U
Things keep getting darker for video game giant Nintendo. The news that the company’s previous-generation Wii console outsold the new Wii U during the first …
Nintendo Wii U sales in dire straits, being outsold by original Wii
Nintendo is running out of time to sell the Wii U before it gets heavy competition from both the PlayStation 4 and the next Xbox. …
