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One of Nintendo’s more controversial moves for the Wii in 2009 — the resurgence and re-purposing of GameCube games for Nintendo’s current console — has long been on Iwata’s mind, as I was reminded when I listened to these comments Nintendo president Satoru Iwata made to me in an interview...
A few years ago, that kind of sales misery on a Nintendo console would be okay. For a long time, sports games on Nintendo consoles just didn’t sell. But given that “Wii Sports” sparked Nintendo’s GameCube-to-Wii console resurrection, it seems like sports games can sell on the Wii.
Multiplayer: It strikes me that, when I look at “Wii Music” or I look at “Wii Sports,” these games are very radical for their genres. “Wii Music” is very different from other music games. Take “Wii Sports,” for example: I remember when I first heard that you didn’t control the guy on the tennis...
According to Nintendo, the upcoming “Mario Kart Wii” should allow us to have another. In a press release late yesterday touting sales of “Super Smash Bros. Brawl,” Nintendo classified “Wii Sports” and the next “Mario Kart” as a new type ...