Nintendo DSi LITE – NDSi

Link is a man — or, depending on the game, a very, very young boy — with his finger in a lot of metaphorical pies. He’s the Hero of Time. Sometimes, he’s the Hero of Two Times. He’s the savior of Termina from impending lunar destruction, and perhaps most inexplicably, he’s also a train conductor-in-training. His latest role, however, is Hero of the Nintendo 3DS: For the first time since April …

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Japanese hardware sales, June 13 – June 19: Working it OoT edition

The Nintendo 3DS Hard Pouch is available at Amazon for $12.99. The highly anticipated release of the new Nintendo 3DS is almost here. For the first time you will be able to play games in 3D on a…

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Nintendo 3DS Hard Pouch Gives Great Protection for Your 3DS

Nintendo finished up 2010 with a pair of significant milestones. First, the company says that it’s sold more than 47 million units of the Nintendo DS, making the platform–which includes the DS, DS Lite, DSi, and DSi XL–the best-selling system in U.S. history. In addition to that, the Wii is now the first system to sell more than 7 million units in three consecutive calendar years. That one’s a …

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Nintendo’s DS Claims Best-Selling System In U.S. Of All Time Title

[Following his analysis of 2010's first-quarter U.S. retail game sales, Gamasutra analyst Matt Matthews looks at hardware -- from normalizing Wii volume to the effect of price cuts and beyond.] We recently looked back at the best-selling videogame software at U.S. retail for the first quarter of 2010, according to the estimates reported by the NPD Group. While Nintendo’s software continues to …

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Exclusive: Q1 Sales Analysis Illuminates Hardware

Handheld gaming has come a long way since I bought my first Game Boy in 1989, and was amazed by Tetris and Super Mario Bros. on a tiny black and white screen.

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WITH VIDEO: Nintendo DSi XL is a step up for handheld gaming

Sure, it’s been available in Japan for quite some time, but this is the first chance we’ve gotten to really sit down and play with Nintendo’s “more communal” (as we overheard one PR rep describe it, given it’s propensity for more eyes comfortably viewing the screens) portable gaming experience, the DSi XL . So let’s get the comparisons out of the way: obvious volumetric differences aside, the …

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Nintendo DSi XL hands-on (Engadget)

Nintendo announced its lineup for the first half of 2010 at a press event in San Francisco today, finally sharing release dates for new products revealed over the last year.

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Nintendo reveals 2010 plans: Big DS March 28, new Mario and a mini Kindle (Seattle Times)

It’s big. It’s badass. It’s, uh, bodacious

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Nintendo DSi XL gets first western release date (The Inquisitr)