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The Red Wii helped Nintendo hardware sales boom during the Christmas period, despite a year-on-year drop in profit. At an investors conference Nintendo president Satoru Iwata defended the platform holder’s Q3 profit slump with a roundup of impressive Wii sales data for Japan, Europe and the US. In Europe the …

Nintendo plans 'drastic redesign' of DSiWare layout

Early registration discounts end soon

The big hardware launch of the moment may be Microsoft’s Kinect – but plans are moving quickly for Nintendo’s 3DS. Speaking during a recently investors Q&A, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata shrugged off a suggestion that initial shipment figures of 4m hardware and 15m software units were too high. He said …

Company president explains the need for secrecy in building the next Nintendo console

Nintendo interested in the tech, but unlikely to replicate the OnLive model

As our retail panel predicted, it’s looking increasingly likely that Europe and now US won’t get the Nintendo 3DS until 2011. Earlier this week we detailed UK retailer expectations that the device will most likely arrive around February 2011priced just shy of 200. Last night, Nintendo of America’s president Reggie …

Nintendo president Iwata says new handheld game production is comparable to Wii

Nintendo president outlines functions to defend device from accusations of negative health effects

Images reveal the moment compasses, boomerangs and dungeons went from thought to design