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Nintendo’s profit rose 6.4% to 145 billion yen ($1.47 billion) in the six months ending Sept. 30 on strong sales of its Wii and DS gaming consoles slowed only by the surging value of the yen, which kept exports in check.
The half-year results reported Thursday come a day after gaming rival Sony announced a 72% [...]

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Nintendo held a major press conference in Tokyo last night, with the aim being secifically to show their longtime fans, “Hey, we think about you, too.” They announced quite a bit, but the big time number one announcement is that of the new Nintendo DSi.
The “i” in this case is likely a shortened version of [...]

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What the legendary game maker does in his spare time is their business.
By Ben Silverman
 When he isn’t designing groundbreaking video games, Shigeru Miyamoto partakes in a variety of interesting hobbies. And Nintendo doesn’t want you to know what they are.
Citing anonymous Nintendo sources, the Times Online reports that the man responsible for smash franchises like [...]

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TOKYO — Nintendo’s profits rose by almost a third in the second quarter of 2008 thanks to the continued strong performance of its Wii console, the company said Wednesday.
The gaming giant’s profit for April through June rose to 119.19 billion yen ($1.1 billion), up 31.5% from 90.63 billion yen a year earlier. Net income for [...]

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While their E3 2008 Press Conference may have seemed a bit lackluster, not providing announcements on any of their major franchises, Nintendo certainly has reason to celebrate this week. The Nintendo Wii gaming console is now the number one selling console in the United States.
Nintendo actually overtook Microsoft’s Xbox 360 last September in worldwide sales. [...]

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Thanks to its innovative design and wealth of fantastic games, the Nintendo DS has scrambled to the top of the handheld gaming war, making the hardware wizards at Nintendo the darlings of the games industry.
But what if they don’t hold the patent on the touchy tech?
As reported by video game blog Gamepolitics, John R. Martin [...]

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Online community for buyers of Nintendo DS games
By David Ward
SAN DIEGO — Disney is bridging the gap between gaming and virtual worlds.
Disney Interactive Studios on Thursday formally launched DGamer, a free avatar-based community for U.S. buyers of games the company developed for the Nintendo DS.
Beginning with Friday’s release of “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian,” [...]

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 Success of Wii drives net worth to $7.8 bil
(Sorry Ladies he is taken!)
May 8, 2008, 12:14 PM

 
 

TOKYO — Soaring sales of Nintendo’s Wii game machine have made former Nintendo chairman Hiroshi Yamauchi Japan’s richest man, worth $7.8 billion, Forbes magazine said in its annual rankings.
The net worth of Hiroshi, 80, jumped $3 billion in the [...]

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