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Gaming Preservation Challenge: Nintendo Discontinues 3DS, Wii U Online Play
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 7:30pm | 385Read More...Nintendo ADR (OTC: NTDOY) will officially shut down on April 8 at 7 p.m. ET the online play for both the Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo Wii U, leaving these devices isolated from the online gaming world. "As of 4/8, online play and other functionality that uses online communication will end service...
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How Nintendo's Last 4 Gaming Consoles Performed In Their First Year
Friday, January 13, 2017 - 3:47pm | 571Read More...Japanese video game console maker Nintendo Co., Ltd (ADR) (OTC: NTDOY) has just announced more details of its newest console on the block, the Nintendo Switch. Switch will go on sale March 2017. As the company, analysts and avid Nintendo fans keep their fingers crossed over, looking forward to...
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More Losses Expected for Nintendo as Company Lowers Guidance
Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - 10:53am | 467Read More...After failing to acquire a larger share of the market, Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY) has lowered its full-year profit and sales forecasts. According to Bloomberg, the Japanese game developer had previously expected to post a profit of 20 billion yen (roughly $250 million according to xe.com's currency...
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Can a $99 Game Console Destroy Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo?
Friday, July 13, 2012 - 1:50pm | 1515Read More...Ouya, the $99 game console concept on Kickstarter, has raised more than $4.4 million from more than 34,000 backers. Should Sony (NYSE: SNE), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) or Nintendo (NTDOY) be worried? Depending on the source, Ouya (pronounced "Oooh-ya") is either a disaster in the making or the best...
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Zynga Drops 10%, Proving Lousy Games Suck (The Life Out of Investors)
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 - 12:13pm | 248Read More...Is Zynga taking Nintendo lessons? Or is Nintendo taking Zynga lessons? Whatever the case, both companies are taking a dive as investors abandon these game companies in favor of corporations with a brighter future. Nintendo (NTDOY) has seen continual declines since last Tuesday, at which point the...
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Nintendo Shares Continually Decline After Lackluster Wii U Presentation
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 - 11:29am | 710Read More...One week ago, the world couldn't wait to see what Nintendo had in store for the game industry. Today, the world wishes it had never found out. While a select number of consumers (read: a very small number of consumers) will tell you that the "games r great, u stupid Call of Duty lover!" and that...
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Five Things Nintendo Doesn't Want You to Know About its E3 2012 Press Conference
Wednesday, June 6, 2012 - 12:33pm | 1496Read More...Consumers expected big things from the Mario maker this week, including fresh franchises and new chapters in the Zelda, Pokemon, and Wii Sports series. But instead of wowing the masses with a massive lineup of must-buy games, Nintendo's (NTDOY) E3 press conference was unusually quiet. There were...
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Nintendo's Disappointing Wii U Showing Will Lead to the Demise of Console Gaming
Tuesday, June 5, 2012 - 2:09pm | 1113Read More...It's 2001 all over again. Only this time, Nintendo doesn't have anything to fall back on. In the late '90s and early 2000s, Nintendo (NTDOY) attempted to run its console business into the ground by releasing a lackluster follow-up, GameCube, to a lackluster system, Nintendo 64. At that time,...
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Will PlayStation 4 be the Last Game Console?
Thursday, May 10, 2012 - 12:11pm | 1104Read More...What will become of the game industry after PlayStation 4, Xbox 720 and Wii U arrive? Many think that this is the end of the line for consoles. With the rise of Android and iOS gaming, some argue that we no longer need a game-specific device. Never mind the fact that mobile gaming is nowhere near...
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This Week in Tech Stupidity: Nintendo Drops Backwards Compatibility in Wii after PSP Drops Wi-Fi
Wednesday, August 17, 2011 - 8:28am | 404Read More...Has every publisher in the game industry lost their minds? Yesterday Benzinga learned that Sony (NYSE: SNE) will release a new version of the old PSP in Europe for 99 euro. It has since come to our attention that the device may lack Wi-Fi support, which is about the dumbest move Sony could have...
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Image Gallery: The Six Sides of Wii U
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 - 3:10pm | 9Read More...Take a deeper look at Nintendo's next game console.
