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Wednesday, Mar 11
The Nintendo DS Has Seven 10 Million Sellers
Sales chart followers probably won't be surprised by the titles that have gone "platinum" ten times over. The elite DS sellers include chart mainstays New Super Mario Bros., Nintendogs, Pokemon Diamond & Pearl, Brain Age, Mario Kart DS, Brain Age 2, and Animal Crossing: Wild World, a...
Thursday, Jan 29
Let's Break Down Nintendo's Biggest Selling DS Games (Let's!)
Nintendo has released the financial findings for its Nintendo DS games sold last year. Animal Crossing: Wild World Apr. - Dec. 2008 Total: 1,040,000 units of which Japan: 320,000 units Overseas: 710,000 units Life-to-date Total: 10,570,000 units
Thursday, Nov 27
The Great Black Friday 2008 Round-Up
Sam's Club Opens 5:00 AM - Store Locator Wii with Mario Super Sluggers and King of Clubs, two extra Wii Remotes - $425 Nintendo DS Metallic Rose with Nintendogs and Purr Pals, a Princess Peach "Bling Kit" and a Princess Peach case - $200
Tuesday, Nov 25
Sam's Club Wii, DS Bundles To Brighten Up Your (Daughter's) Black Friday [Black Friday]
Sam's Club are offering two Nintendo hardware bundles for Black Friday. One you've seen (twice), and offers a Wii plus the kitchen sink, the other, you haven't, and offers you a DS and a bunch of girly crap. Here's the DS deal. As you can see, it's for the ladies. The small ladies. It's got a a Metall...
Friday, Oct 31
Which DS And Wii Games Have Been Selling? Let Us Tell You
Mario Kart DS Total: 1.67 million 4/2008 ~ 9/2008 Japan: 200,000 4/2008 ~ 9/2008 Overseas: 1.46 million Life-to-date Total: 12.12 million Nintendogs Total: 1.36 million 4/2008 ~ 9/2008 Japan: 40,000 4/2008 ~ 9/2008 Overseas: 1.32 million Life-to-date Total: 20.03 million Wii
Thursday, Oct 30
DS Shipments Surpass Game Boy Advance's [Nintendo Financials]
Since hitting the market handheld Nintendo DS hit shipments of 84.33 million units worldwide, surpassing the 81.36 shipped Game Boy Advance units. Software shipments for the Nintendo DS hit 454.63 million units with Nintendogs shipments coming in at 20 million worldwide.
Wednesday, Sep 17
Nintendo Captures Lucrative Handbag Rental Market [Catering To Bag Ladies]
“Almost half the Nintendo DS systems sold in the United States last year belong to women,” said Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America’s executive vice president of Sales & Marketing. “With From Bags to Riches, we can help the growing population of female gamers test drive some great Ni...
Wednesday, Sep 3
Finally, Dog Whispering Coming To DS
In another case of "Only Ubisoft", the Nintendo DS is about to get another dog interaction "game", this time in the form of Cesar Millan's Dog Whisperer. The video game adaptation of the National Geographic Channel television show was rated by the ESRB not too long ago, but we need box art to...
Sunday, Aug 31
PAX Panel: How To Get Your Girlfriend Into Gaming [PAX 2008 Panel]
Cori: Played Nintendogs at a Laundromat and a crowd of non-gamer women gathered around her to watch. The next week, they had each bought a DS for themselves. Christa: Get her a DS and Animal Crossing. So she can put it in her purse and play it on the go and there’s no guilt because you don’t have to d...
Friday, May 30
Wii Fit Review: An Identity Crisis
Wii Fit was developed by Nintendo Entertainment, Analysis and Development and published by Nintendo. Retails for $90. Available on Wii. Played single player for a week, daily for 30 minutes to an hour. Watched son, wife, mother and step-father all play it over a week.
Thursday, May 22
Nintendogs-Type Game with Human Babies!
Nintendogs was a great pet sim. If you didn't have a pet, you could play with your virtual pet! Because, really, let's face it, real pets are a hassle. You have to feed them, wash them and play with them. Worst part? You can't switch off real pets when you get sick of them and then switch them back on...
Thursday, Nov 22
Zelda, Nintendogs DS Bundles Not For UK, Australia [Nintendo DS]
and Australia will be forced to import them, with both Nintendo branches stating they have no plans to introduce the consoles. Yeah, there's always the chance those plans may come later, but PAL gaming breeds nothing if not pessimism.
Tuesday, Nov 20
Nintendo Announces Two New DS Lite Bundles
A while back, crummy Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass DS Lite retailer scans did the internet rounds. The quality was bad, and it was hard to decipher if the hardware was real or not. It is. It's just one of the new DS Lite bundles Nintendo is releasing on November 23rd, Black Friday. The other i...
Monday, Oct 29
New DS Colors, Bundles Coming This Holiday [Shopping]
Two Nintendo DS colors will be coming to North America later this year according to information creeping out of retailers gearing up for the post-Thanksgiving holiday spend frenzy. The two will be bundled with copies of the system's best-selling games, with a rose DS paired with Nintend...
Tuesday, Oct 9
Nintendo's E For All Line Up Revealed [Smash Bros. For The People]
Nintendo DS Pokemon(R) Diamond and Pokemon(R) Pearl Mario Party(R) DS The Legend of Zelda(R): Phantom Hourglass Nintendogs(TM) Mario Kart(R) DS New Super Mario Bros. (R) Animal Crossing(R): Wild World Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword Final Fantasy XII
Saturday, Sep 1
Kotaku Originals: Return Of The Revenge Of The Cons [Originals]
Call of Duty 4: DS Hands-On A Wii Bar to Drink and Play Nerd Magazine Hands On Orcs & Elves DS Hands-On Impressions Killzone 2 Hands On Leipzig Uber Round-Up Play TV On PS3 Explained IGN Brings Hammer Down On BioShock Queue Jumpers Sega's Nintendogs-Like Card Game Ride THING
Monday, Jul 2
Virtual Assistant: Hammer Bros, Nintendogs Coming To Super Smash Bros. Brawl
The Super Smash Bros. Brawl official web site updated today with a number of new characters, from the Hammer Bros. to Nintendogs puppies to F-Zero racer Samurai Goro. Normally, that would be huge news. Three confirmed characters in one day? Surely worthy of a non-Dojo Dump update. The only pro...
Thursday, May 10
Expect Software Delays: Aussie Sales Charts, Week Ending May 6
2) TMNT (DS) 3) Spiderman 3 (360) 5) Nintendogs Dalmation 6) Nintendogs Labrador 7) TMNT (PS2) 8) FFIII (DS) 9) Oblivion (PS3) 10) MotorStorm OK, one surprise. Would have thought Labrador would outsell Dalmation, since it has the finer selection of breeds. Luke Plunkett
Wednesday, Feb 7
Purr Pals For Nintencats Cravers
Based in Newport Beach, California, Crave Entertainment is a subsidiary of Handleman Company. Crave, a publisher of videogame entertainment products creates games for the major console platforms including PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) system, Nintendo DSTM, Game Boy® Advance, Ni...
Tuesday, Jan 9
Nintendo: We Will Sell 21 Million Wii Games [Iwata]
Nintendo's two-year-old touch-screen DS player and titles such as Nintendogs, an interactive pet game, are helping the company fend off competition from Sony Corp.'s PlayStation Portable device. Nintendo is also making inroads in the home console market after it sold twice as many Wii...
Saturday, Dec 16
Instant Console Collection
Includes the following games: Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!, StarFox Command, Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow, Super Mario 64 DS, BIg Brain Academy, New Super Mario Bros., Nintendogs: Chihuahua and Friends, Tetris DS, MarioKart DS, WarioWare Touched!, Metroid Prime Pinba...
Friday, Oct 27
Golden Joystick Winners Announced
Game of the Year: Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter Family Game Award: Nintendogs Girls Choice Award : Nintendogs All-Nighter Award: Pro Evolution Soccer 5 PlayStation 2 Game of the Year: Resident Evil 4 Nintendo Game of the Year: New Super Mario Brothers
Tuesday, Jul 25
Nintendo's DS Fall Line-Up Hits [Ds]
With the exception of late November, Nintendo is pumping out a DS title a week starting on Oct. 9. Many of them sound like fun, though there's still the odd Pokemon and Nintendogs release stuffed in there. And, for Nintendo GameCube owners, The Legend of Zelda : Twilight Princess will be avail...
Tuesday, Mar 28
Iwata's GDC Keynote Uncut [Satoru Iwata]
Meanwhile, back at Nintendo, we also benefited from some good timing. It will launch later this year. It's a product of Mr. Aonuma and the team that has created most of the Zelda hits in the past. You will be seeing and playing Zelda both on DS and Nintendo Gamecube at E3.
Thursday, Mar 23
Iwata's GDC Keynote Transcribed
Today, Nintendo bossman Satoru Iwata gave his keynote speech, which Kotaku editor/blogging machine Brian Crecente covered in real-time. Our Alice has posted the entire speech, which is after the jump. It's just like being there. Well, sorta. Zelda clip for DS]: to rapturous applause
Saturday, Feb 11
New Rev Games To Debut In Official Nintendo Mag?
The first issue of Official Nintendo Magazine comes with an exclusive set of high-quality vinyl decals, featuring top games; Animal Crossing, Mario Kart DS and Nintendogs, allowing gamers to personalise their DS. Dawn Paine, Marketing Director, Nintendo UK, said:
Thursday, Dec 1
Animal Crossing DS Smashes Sales Records in Japan
It looks like the Nintendo DS has its second official smash hit on its hands. In the first week of sales in Japan, Animal Crossing: Wild Word sold 325,466 copies. Keep in mind that the unbelievably successful Nintendogs only sold 168,000 copies in its first week in Japan. The game isn't just th...
Friday, Oct 21
Nintendo Van Brings Viewtiful DS, WiFi Gaming
Nintendo GameCube Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix Mario Superstar Baseball Super Mario Strikers Mario Party 7 King Kong NHL 2006 Nintendo DS Nintendogs Animal Crossing DS Mario Kart DS Trace Memory Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time Castlevania Sonic Rush Mario Tennis Power Tour
Friday, Sep 16
The Debate Rages On: PSP vs. DS
My take? The PSP is quickly squandering its opportunity in the hand held industry. Too many titles are ports of existing franchises. The recent success of Nintendogs has finally given the DS some much-needed momentum. Nintendogs has boosted sales, we'll see if the PSP has an answer when GTA...
Monday, Aug 29
Unlocking a Dalmation and other Nintendogs Tricks
Nintendogs: Dachshund and Friends Dog's Theme Mario Kart Namima Red Plastic bone Sandal Shampoo Hat Smart Cap Smart Clock Tiara Nintendogs: Chihuahua and Friends Blue Plastic Bone Bowser Kart Broken Clock Crown Cube Clock Mario's Theme Party Hat Pizza Disk Pumps
Thursday, Mar 10
GDC: Revolution Wi-Fi and Backwards Compatible [Game Developers Conference]
Nintendo DS Iwata announced that the Wi-Fi protocol for Nintendo DS will let users link with each other across the country or around the world. In Nintendogs players have to nurture and interact with a variety of breeds of digital puppies. Players can issue voice commands, play games and tr...
