The second volume of the Nintendo DSi Iwata Asks interview is available for your reading pleasure at http://nintendodsi.com/iwataasks/vol2_page1.html. The people interviewed are: Shigeru Miyamoto, Yusuke Akifusa, Masahiro Imaizumi, Yoshihiro Matsushima and Tomoaki Kuroume.
Archive for February, 2009
26 Feb
New Play Control! Pikmin Boxart & Logo
The enhanced New Play Control! Pikmin game lets players point the Wii Remote controller at the screen and use it as a cursor, making it easy to select either a single Pikmin or an entire army. When a player tosses Pikmin, they fly wherever the cursor is pointing.
Additional information and artwork coming soon.
26 Feb
New Play Control! Mario Power Tennis Boxart & Logo
New Play Control! Mario Power Tennis lets players enjoy an afternoon on the court as their favorite characters from the Mushroom Kingdom, complete with motion-controlled serves and swings. With Wii controls, players can swing the Wii Remote controller to hit forehands and backhands and to apply spin. Experienced gamers can also attach a Nunchuk™ controller for [...]
26 Feb
Punch-Out!! Boxart
Punch-Out!!™ launches May 18 and brings back all of the fun of the beloved, classic NES® game that thrilled players in the early 1990s. Boxers battle as iconic hero Little Mac as they fight their way through a cast of new and familiar boxing opponents on their quest to win the coveted WVBA (World Video Boxing [...]
26 Feb
Starfy Coming to North America and New Excite Game
Read all about it on Nintendo’s press website: http://press.nintendo.com/articles.jsp?id=17588. They just announced some new DS and Wii titles, some we have already heard about and others are new. The most interesting new announcements include another game to the Excite series which already includes Excitebike, Excitebike 64, and Excite Truck – Excitebots: Trick Racing.
Excitebots™: Trick Racing [...]
25 Feb
More DSi Colors Coming, But Only In Japan
Cubed3 has reported that Japan is getting 3 new colors for the DSi: hot pink, lime green and navy/metallic blue. They will be going on sale starting March 20 and will cost the same as the other DSi color variations. If you are wishing to import one, they’ll run you about $194.
[via Cubed3]
25 Feb
Nintendo Combats Piracy and Win Personal Trainer: Mah For Your School
Two press releases in one day, Nintendo? Wow, you guys are working hard! Since I really don’t feel like copy and pasting the press releases today, I’ll just give you the links to the full articles and share with you some highlights.
First up, “Nintendo and MATHCOUNTS Give Math a Makeover”. Basically, from now until March [...]
24 Feb
Some More Nintendo DSi Photos
Nintendo is pulling out all the tricks in promoting the DSi, and so they’ve added even more images of the new system on their press website. Instead of seeing a system that is turned off, you can now get a look at things like the Super Mario Bros. visualization for the DSi Sound application and the [...]
24 Feb
New Club Nintendo Reward: Silver Game Case
For just 700 Coins, the “Silver Nintendo DS Game Card Case” from Club Nintendo can be yours. It’s only 100 Coins cheaper than the coveted Game & Watch Collection, and you would need to register at least 23 DS games according to Joystiq to even afford this reward, so it’s a bit on the expensive [...]
23 Feb
GDC ‘09 Lecture for “Inspiration Behind DSi”
Masato Kuwahara, the project leader of the Nintendo DSi Hardware group (the people responsible for the DSi) will be giving a 60-minute lecture called “The Inspiration Behind Nintendo DSi Development” at GDC ‘09. At this point in time, when exactly he’ll give it is unknown. Check back at https://www.cmpevents.com/GD09/a.asp?option=G&V=3&id=643608 for updates.
From the GDC website:
In this session [...]
