Wii Photo Service Announced

Nintendo has partnered with Fujifilm Holdings Corp to launch a new photo service on the Wii video game console. The announcement was made on Wednesday. Users will be able to upload and print photos via the Internet from compiling photo albums to business cards. Meanwhile, the Nintendo Wii is still short of demand. Finding one is still a challenge for consumers in North America. However, the hunt m... Wii Photo Service Announced

Wii Ranks First Beating Xbox 360 and Sony PS3

Nintendo Co Ltd said it sold nearly 666,000 units of its Wii video game console in the United States last month, citing figures from market research firm NPD. The Nintendo Wii has become the best-selling game console in the United States.Nintendo overall has sold 783,000 units of its DS handheld gaming device in June and was the top-selling U.S. video game system of the month.Wii, which competes w... Wii Ranks First Beating Xbox 360 and Sony PS3

Wii Gets Free Games While Sony Unveils PS3 TV

Speaking at a news conference on Tuesday at the E3 video game industry trade show in Los Angeles, Nintendo and Sony unveiled different road maps to the market.Nintendo struck a confident note and stayed with its winning formula -- easy-to-play games for the mainstream audience. Sony, the once dominant market force, showed how the PlayStation 3 could do more by introducing a new video service to pl... Wii Gets Free Games While Sony Unveils PS3 TV

Wii Outsells PS3 and Xbox 360 in June Sales

The Nintendo Wii has become the number 1 game console for the seventh consecutive month after outselling rival Sony PS3 console by 1.7-to-1. However, the June figures fall short of the 6-to-1 lead it had in May of this year.With the successful June launch of Metal Gear Solid 4 for the PS3, Sony increased demand for its PlayStation 3 video game console.Nintendo held the lead with 235,990 units sold... Wii Outsells PS3 and Xbox 360 in June Sales

Wii Fit Boosts Rehabilitation Exercises

Injured athletes may find themselves playing Nintendo's Wii Fit as part of their rehabilitation, said Sue Stanley-Green, a professor of athletic training at Florida Southern College in Lakeland.Wii Fit video games that have the user perform lower-body balance and weight-shifting activities could gradually help patients with weight-bearing rehabilitation after an injury or surgery.We are lookin... Wii Fit Boosts Rehabilitation Exercises

Nintendo Wii Fit Offers 40 Physical Activities

The Nintendo Wii Fit is already facing shortages of its electronic balancing board, known as the Wii Fit Tracker, which monitors a user's body mass index, weight and center-of-balance to make sure exercises are done correctly. However, the Wii console itself is still in short supply,and that comes a year and a half after the release of the world’s most popular games console. While stock shou... Nintendo Wii Fit Offers 40 Physical Activities

Wii Channel Debuts in May

Nintendo of America, Inc. will launch a Wii channel that offers downloadable DS titles and information about the company's games when WiiWare rolls out in the United States in May.Some features of the Nintendo Channel, which was released in Japan last year will be integrated with the games-on-demand service, WiiWare.For example, if a Wii user has played a WiiWare game for at least an hour, the... Wii Channel Debuts in May

Wii Console Production Ramping Up

During an analyst meeting to discuss the company's financial results, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata said the company has no plans to cut prices on its Wii and Nintendo DS video game systems during the coming fiscal year. The strategy comes in the face of conventional wisdom, which holds that cutting prices on video game systems during their main life cycle is the best long-term revenue strat... Wii Console Production Ramping Up

Wii Gives Nintendo Record High Profits

With Mario Kart Wii reaching the top of the UK sales charts in its first week of release, the Wii and DS continuing to rule the hardware sales charts, and a multimillion-selling US debut for Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Nintendo has had plenty of good financial news lately. Further evidence of that arrived today, as the company reported record results in both net sales and income for its most recent f... Wii Gives Nintendo Record High Profits

Mario Kart Wii Drives 600000 Copies

The release for Mario Kart Wii has seen Nintendo's racing title take the top spot in both the UK and Japanese charts this week, with the game’s Japanese debut totaling sales of 594,000 units.Mario Kart outsold its Super Smash Bros. Brawl for Wii, after just three weeks on sale, at 1,590,000 units to 1,563,000.The rest of the top ten remains largely static, although Wii Fit has moved up three... Mario Kart Wii Drives 600000 Copies

Wii, PS3 Tops Xbox 360 In March

According to Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter, Microsoft's Xbox 360 came in last place during the month of March against rivals Nintendo Wii and Sony PS3. Patcher says that the PlayStation 3 sold 365,000 units, while the Xbox 360 ended the race with only 310,000 sold video game consoles. In the mean time, the Wii is credited to have sold around 700,000 units.Patcher also noted that Ninte... Wii, PS3 Tops Xbox 360 In March

Wii Fit With Balance Retails For $90

Nintendo of America Inc. has unveiled its pricing details for Wii Fit which will launch on May 19. Wii Fit with Wii Balance Board will retail for $89.99.Wii Fit, which has sold more than 1.4 million copies in Japan, is Nintendo's latest attempt to appeal to all gamers and features over 40 activities such as yoga and aerobic exercises which are designed to improve strength, balance, and complet... Wii Fit With Balance Retails For $90

Wii Gets TellTale Games Sam & Max

Telltale Games has announced that the first season of its episodic adventure series Sam & Max will arrive on Wii in North America and Europe this fall. Following the wacky exploits of dog detective Sam and the bunny-thing Max, both of whom are freelance police officers, Telltale's series is based on the popular work of Steve Purcell, which also inspired LucasArts' adventure Sam & Max Hit t... Wii Gets TellTale Games Sam & Max

Nintendo Wii E3 Announcement

According to Nintendo's chief operations officer, Reggie Fils-Aime, the Wii maker will attempt to steal this year's E3 show in July.We're going to have great new content maximizing all of our key franchises, it's going to be a good second half, said Fils-Aime. The Wii console maker is laying out its lineup for the rest of the year at the show.However, exact details on what products... Nintendo Wii E3 Announcement

Nintendo Wii Gets Super Smash Bros Brawl

The Nintendo Wii got its biggest game to date on Sunday with the launch of Super Smash Bros Brawl. However, The Wii company has stated that there are customers running into disk read errors with the game. The problem seems to be the console itself unable to read some of the game discs.While only a small percentage of Wii consoles have the problem, Super Smash Bros Brawl utilizes a double-layer dis... Nintendo Wii Gets Super Smash Bros Brawl

Wii Gets Firmware 3.2 Update

Nintendo has released firmware version 3.2 for the Wii video game console. While the update does not affect any prominently-used features or menus, it does provide some behind the scenes updates that will improve system performance.Wii owners discovered the update when checking out the Mii Out channel. The update doesn't offer much, but the behind the scenes coverage hints at system performanc... Wii Gets Firmware 3.2 Update

Nintendo Wii, DS Sales Dominate

Nintendo today said that it has to date sold more products in the first week of the 2007 Christmas season than at any other time in its history. US consumers purchased more than 653,000 Nintendo DS portable video game systems, more than 350,000 Wii consoles and millions of games and accessories between November 18 and 24. Nintendo DS has set a new all-time sales record for the Thanksgiving week, e... Nintendo Wii, DS Sales Dominate

Nintendo Wii Edition for Super Mario Galaxy is hot

Nintendo Wii is one year old and the company is celebrating it by launching a mega gaming title Super Mario Galaxy. The game is retailing for $49.99 and is the first game for Nintendo's Super Mario franchise in five years.The game features Mario on a mission to rescue Princess Peach. She has been abducted into outer space and Mario is required to search for her in faraway galaxies jumping from... Nintendo Wii Edition for Super Mario Galaxy is hot

Wii Gets Super Mario Galaxy

Nintendo Wii brings back the Super Mario Galaxy cravings where Mario travels to that final frontier. His trip encounters a multitude of crazy creatures living on a string of never-before-heard-of planets.Bowser, Mario's longtime nemesis, crashes the star festival, and catapults Princess Peach's castle into Space. Mario travels from Galaxy to Galaxy in order to retrieve Power Stars, and und... Wii Gets Super Mario Galaxy

Nintendo DS Bundles Gold Zelda Announced

Starting November 23, Nintendo gives the planned holiday season a fresh blast of color with the unexpected launch of two special-edition Nintendo DS bundles. Each pairs a custom-color Nintendo DS system with one of the platform's hottest titles. The new Gold edition comes with The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, while the Metallic Rose Nintendo DS comes with the Best Friends version of Nin... Nintendo DS Bundles Gold Zelda Announced