There are whispers circulating that Nintendo is working with Apple to develop licensed games exclusively for the iPhone. The games would be available a few months after the iPhone launches and retail for about $29.
Do you like your Wii? James Rivington appreciates his, but he hasn’t blinded himself to its faults. In fact, in an article for Tech.co.uk, Rivington points out seven areas in which there’s room for improvement. You can decide for yourself if you agree – here’s his list (minus the explanatory paragraphs): 1. The graphics 2. [...]
The Financial Times did an interview yesterday with Howard Stringer of Sony. During the interview he commented on Wii, saying it “”has been a successful enterprise, and a very good business model compared with ours.” He would not say that the Wii is more fun than the PS3 but said they were considering a price [...]
Nintendo is being sued because of their Wii. The suit is from Lonestar Inventions, which says that the Wii infringes on its patent for “high capacitance structure in a semiconductor device†which the company received in 1993.
According to the chief executive of Square Enix, handheld game devices are where it’s at. And “it,†in this case, may be a proper amount of accessibility. Yoichi Wada, the chief exec in question, explained to the Financial Times’s Mariko Sanchanta that consoles like the PS3 and Xbox 360 have “too many specs – and [...]
Billions of man-hours and dollars have been consumed by the hardware wars, but the deciding factor, according to one man, will be the Pokemon franchise. Never mind classics like Mario, and don’t worry about whatever stuff is still in development. Nintendo will win the hardware wars because of Pokemon, said Tsunekazu Ishihara, CEO the Pokemon [...]