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Nintendo has announced that theyll begin testing WiiWare demos for possible implementation in the future In what seems like a, well, ‘we told you to do that’ moment, Satoru Iwata has revealed in an Q&A session at a recent earnings briefing that Nintendo will begin a test program for W...

By DarkWish Yes, you heard right… Nintendo is going to offer demos of WiiWare games! But before you get too excited, let me give you the full details. In the recent Financial Results Briefing in Japan, Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata said that they would begin releasing demos of WiiWare games sometime this m...

By The News Team Satoru Iwata - Nintendo - Perfect Dark - Sin and Punishment: Hoshi no Keishōsha - Video game A portion of an Iwata Asks featuring… Satoru Iwata – President of Nintendo Shingo Matsushita – Software Planning & Development Team Yurie Hattori – Software Planning & Development Team...

By The News Team Wii - Nintendo - Japan - Video game console - Satoru Iwata “As you probably know, the current situation of Wii cannot be defined as healthy. The price cut seems to have the least impact here than other parts of the world. It is our urgent mission to recover the momentum of Wii during the holidays...

By The News Team Nintendo - Satoru Iwata - Video game - Games - Console Platforms Holy crap…Nintendo might actually be getting with the times! In their investor question and answer session, Satoru Iwata announced that Nintendo will run a test WiiWare demo service that will offer demos for select games. T...

By James Hyde In a rather surprising move, Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata said in an interview that the Wii “has stalled”, after selling 40% less units in 2009 compared to 2008. Iwata contributes the slow sales due to the fact that there weren’t many great games released on the Wii this year, “Games of high de...

Satoru Iwata likes the idea of a system where the consumer doesnt have to pay for the bandwidth cost Sick of only being able to access the net with your DS from a wireless network? Well, Nintendo might have a different system for their next device. In a recent interview, Nintendo president Sa...

By Softpedia News (Andrei Dumitrescu) The Nintendo Wii is not the same successful videogaming console that it was during 2008. Sales of the platform have slowed down a lot this year, falling by no less than 34% in Japan, the home territory of the company. The reasons are complex, ranging from market saturation to the impact of the...

By Softpedia News (Andrei Dumitrescu) In chat with Satoru Iwata, one of the bosses of Nintendo, Miyamoto has stated that “We began developing Wii Fit Plus with a kind of typical game developer's way of thinking: since the first one has sold well, we should come up with a sequel,” adding that “As we'd managed to come up with such a s...

Turns out that weight isnt the only thing Miyamoto likes to measure With the release of Wii Fit Plus here today, the latest Iwata Asks interview on the game is quite fitting. As always, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata talks with a developer, and this time it is Miyamoto! You can find the full...

Nintendo unveiled an exciting new DS at a press conference in Tokyo today. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata revealed Nintendo DSi, the third model of the handheld which features a built-in camera, an SD Card slot and will play AAC music and other sound files. It will be available in Japan fro...

Source Satoru Iwata has revealed to the Wall Street Journal that the Wii MotionPlus attachment will be extremely affordable. Iwata claimed that the manufacturing costs for the external device were “not that much” meaning Nintendo can make the device “very affordable” for avid gamers. S...

In a quickie comment, Nintendo's President Satoru Iwata has finally come out and said that the Nintendo Revolution will have a below-$299 pricetag when it debuts next year—obviously making sure it can compete with Xbox 360 and PS3. It's in Japanese, so you can read into it about as well as I...