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Nintendo has made two major hires to its UK team, following the departures of senior marketing and PR executives last year. Matthias Hempfling has joined as marketing and PR director, and Kalpesh Tailorhas come on-board as head of communications. Both join from Nintendo’s European head office in Frankfurt. In 2015, …
Read More »UPDATED: Are these leaked images of the NX controller?
ORIGINAL STORY 18/03/16: A snapshot has appeared online that claims to give us our first glimpse of the Nintendo NX controller. The picture comes from Reddit, although Dual Pixels appears to be also claiming some of the credit. The controller that’s shown seems to closely mirror a design first seen …
Read More »Next console Zelda will be ‘something new’
Nintendo’s in-development console Zelda title will reinvent the series in much the same way Ocarina of Time did. That’s according to series producer Eiji Aonuma, who has told Famitsu – as reported by Kotaku – that development is ticking along nicely. The game has really taken shape, and things have …
Read More »Beyond Good and Evil 2 is an NX exclusive, rumour claims
Ubisoft might be on the verge of forgetting the recent sales flops that were its Wii U exclusives by making one of its most anticipated titles a Nintendo NX only release. Destructoid reports that Nintendo has apparently agreed to fund the game’s development in exchange for exclusivity, in much the …
Read More »Next Zelda coming to NX rumour gains weight
The in-development Zelda title for Wii U will also be released on NX, according to rumours online. So what, you may think? It’s easy to post anything you like on the internet. However, this particular rumour suddenly has a lot more weight behind it. Earlier this week a Neogaf poster …
Read More »Nintendo working to make EA a ‘key ally’ for NX, report claims
EA’s near abandonment of Nintendo hardware could be about to change. NintendoLife reports not only that EA is already in possession of NX dev kits, which would be in line with previous reports, but also that meetings are planned in the coming weeks that the platform holder hopes will get …
Read More »Ori dev warns of lack of launch games for Nintendo NX
The platform holders’ obsession over keeping their new consoles a surprise is damaging their relationships with devs, the head of Moon Studios has argued. Thomas Mahler, CEO of the Ori and the Blind Forest creator, took to aNeoGAFdiscussion about the mystery of Nintendo’s upcoming NX console to air his complaints. …
Read More »Ori dev: ‘Nintendo NX will have no software support at launch’
Secrecy over new console hardware is the ‘single most annoying thing for every dev’ says Moon Studios CEO Thomas Mahler
Read More »2016 launch for Nintendo NX ‘a mistake under any scenario’
Analyst DFC has warned Nintendo about what it perceives as the danger of launching the NX console in 2016. The platform holder has announced nothing beyond the name of its next machine. The specs, price and release date remain a mystery. What we do know is that Nintendo will reveal …
Read More »NX and smartphones to return ‘Nintendo-like profits’
Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima says the twin release of the NX and smartphone titles will restore balance at Nintendo. It has been our priority to take a close look at areas of our existing business where the revenue and expenses had become unbalanced, and to make sure that we corrected …
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