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Nintendo has sold 9.02m consoles globally, says Nikkei

Nintendo’s Wii Zapper – the gun-shaped holster for the console’s motion-sensing Remote and Nunchuck – will be sold with a new Zelda title when it is released in Novermber. The platform holder has revealed that the Zapper will be released on November 19th in the US, where it will retail …

The Japanese video games market was up 22.5 per cent year on year in August, as Nintendo leads the charge with huge sales figures for Mario Party 8, DS and Wii – the latter of which outsold the PS3 by a margin of three to one. The majority if the …

Nintendo UK has hired The Red Consultancy as its new exclusive third-party PR agency. As predicted by MCV last week, Red will replace nine-year partner Cake Media, which handled the hugely successful launches of Wii, DS and DS Lite. Red takes up the reins of the Nintendo account with immediate …

Speaking of the firm’s recent successes, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has said it was vital that the firm did not become arrogant or lose momentum. I believe my most important role right now is to prevent Nintendo from being in a company where people say, ‘oh, Nintendo is arrogant, Nintendo …

The UK’s leading PR agencies are scrabbling for one of the most lucrative accounts in consumer entertainment, as Nintendo reviews its exclusive relationship with Cake Media. MCV can reveal that the platform holder is considering switching its outsourced PR contract with Cake – which it has shared for the past …

Nintendo’s Wii has hit one million sales in the UK after just nine months on sale, according to ChartTrack statistics released this week. The console becomes the fastest selling home format in UK history to reach the figure – 11 weeks earlier than the PS2 and 22 weeks before the …

Nintendo has refuted rumours that the hardware production capacity of Wii has been hindered following a shortage of components. The claims, which recently emerged across internet news channels, appeared to come from the component manufacturers themselves, and asserted that a shortage of internal hardware such as IC chips and PCBs …

Nintendo has told MCV that it has no plans to follow the lead of Sony and Microsoft by introducing a budget label on first-party Wii software. Sony’s PlayStation Platinum and Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Classics ranges have both significantly boosted revenues for Nintendo’s rival format holders – but the Japanese firm …

An expected boost in the number of Nintendo Wiis, initially slated for June, has been held up, according to Digitimes . A shortage of internal components such as IC chips and PCBs has been blamed for the delay. The component makers said that due to this it is unlikely that …