In an unfortunate case of terribly poor timing, Nintendo has revealed it’s had a rather significant dip in earnings over the past year. The Japanese console manufacturer and gaming giant has seen net profits dip 74% to just 49.6 billion yen ($599 million) for the nine months ended December 31, 2010. Poor timing, purely because their announcement pretty much coincided …

There’s no denying that Nintendo’s DS ( and its subsequent revision) got pretty hammered by software piracy. Thanks to the R4 and its successors, the DS was probably the single system this generation that’s been most hacked. Sure, those cards also allow for some pretty sweet homebrew applications and added features the DS was sorely missing –  but mostly they’re …

One of my most anticipated titles on the 3DS, besides Dead or Alive Dimensions, is the revival of the Kid Icarus franchise but todays news isn’t making me happy. According to Reggie Fils-Aimewe shouldn’t be expecting Kid Icarus or even Zelda to land on the 3DS at launch or even until after E3. Last Updated: January 27, 2011

Team Ninja has come out in support of the 3DS’s poor battery life by simultaneously trash talking the entire 3D genre and worrying every parent on the block. The head of Team Ninja, Yosuke Hayashi, while being asked about the battery life stated basically, 3D viewing for a long time would be kind of tiring for your eyes, that’s why …

Your favouwite wavishing pwognosticator fwom Wedbush Morgan, has in the wake of the Nintendo’s awesome 3DS announcement, think that the Japanese company has “blown it” with regards to a successor to their runaway success, the Wii. “With as much respect for Nintendo management as I can muster,” he said to IndustryGamers “I think Nintendo’s completely blown it with their second …

Today’s news is pretty much all about one thing; Nintendo’s 3DS. Yesterday we got a release date and some pricing, though local retail cost is to be confirmed. It’s a pricy handheld, launching at the same price the PSP did back in 2005, and almost twice what the original DS cost when it went on sale. Still, it’s less than …

Nintendo are hosting a major 3DS press conference in the very near future where we expect to be told when the device will land in Western regions along with the price. Not to mention what the actual specs will be… however that last question has now pretty much been answered by them being leaked and posted up on a Nintendo …

When the 3DS launches in Japan next month, the single Nintendo game available will be Nintendogs + Cats which, you guessed correctly is much like Nintendogs on the DS, only with an additional feline element. As it turns out, according to Nintendo president Satoru Iwata and prducer Hideki Konno, during development idea were toyed about with that included the possibility …