No "Revolution" launch date announcement - that's the news from Nintendo at GDC. President Satoru Iwata avoided to mention any specifics about the upcoming game console in his GDC speech, but at least promised to expand the Revolution's download service with more classic games - including Sega titles.. san Jose (CA) - No "Revolution" launch date announcement - that’s the news from Nintendo at GDC. If you have expected ground breaking news about Nintendo’s at GDC, this was not the event to visit. If there was any noteworthy news in Iwata’s speech, then were just two items - if we leave business facts such as six million sold Nintendo DS devices out of the picture. First, the Nintendo DS will receive a new game title, namely "Legend of Zelda : Phantom Hourglass."...

Wii, DS drive Nintendo year-end profits above $1 billion. nintendo wii 2006. Nintendo posted its results for the first nine months of its current fiscal year, from April through December. In terms of actual profit, for the previous 9-month period in 2006, Nintendo broke the $1 billion mark. Blockbuster first-party titles like Brain Age, Nintendogs, and New Super Mario Bros also helped bolster Nintendo’s DS sales. It was mostly all good news for Nintendo as it rounded out the end of 2006....

London pub announces Nintendo DS virtual snooker hall. The landlord of The Metropolitan, Gordon McIntyre, said that the idea is inspired by the newNintendo DS title ’World Snooker Championship Season 2007-08’....

Report: NewNintendo DS to Feature Camera and Music Playback. According to unverified reports, the next version of the Nintendo DS will feature music playback and a camera.. According to unverified reports, the next version of the Nintendo DS will feature music playback and a camera. While it is said that with the release of the Wii and the DS, Nintendo has an almost monopoly on the casual gaming market, the fact remains : not everyone is a gamer. Those who don’t game won’t want to buy a DS for the camera and music player, those who do, more than likely at least have a cellphone that does both of those already (if not a far superior digital camera and MP3 player) and will stick with their old DS. Nintendo media events are scheduled for Tokyo and San Francisco this Thursday so it’s likely all will be revealed by the end of the week....

According to What They Play, Nintendo is currently showing to developers early presentations of the next-generation Wii. The new system is supposedly set to arrive sometime in 2011, making it 5 years after the release of the current Wii. Clearly, Nintendo snatched the lead away from the more technologically advanced competition with its easy-to-use controller scheme, and the company would be crazy to mess with its winning formula. Some of this can easily be attributed to Nintendo simply having more resources to pour into future projects, but it also shows that the company is keen in maintaining the lead that it has established. Perhaps a more interesting question is whether or not the Wii’s comparatively simplistic hardware will be able to carry the momentum for another three years until the next Nintendo console arrives....

E3: Super Mario Galaxy leaves us skeptical. mario nintendo e3. Mario helped sell the NES, Super NES, and Nintendo 64, and some might say it’s becaus. In other words, Mario is essential for a newNintendo platform. Nintendo wants that game to be Super Mario Galaxy. We’re also not clear on how the game progression will be handled, and we didn’t get any answers from the handful of Nintendo people we asked....

Super Mario Galaxy sold more than 500,000 copies in its first seven days on store shelves, according to internal sales figures reported by Nintendo. Nintendo also noted that these numbers give Galaxy the distinction of having the highest first-week sales of any Mario game. This is good news for Nintendo, as it had seriously banked on the title as its big holiday title. Although Galaxy was Nintendo’s most impressive game launch to date, it failed to come close to Microsoft’s cash cow for the Xbox 360, Halo 3....