Nintendo DSi LITE – NDSi

You know, we've been thinking about it, and now that fighting games are big business again, maybe it's time to revive some of the franchises that debuted near the end of the last era? Games that, for all intents and purposes, were never given the attention they deserved by the fighting game community or the gaming media. Games like JoJo's Bizarre Adventure , or Rival Schools . So, Capcom (we …

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Japanese hardware sales, January 2 – 8: A personal appeal edition

Nintendo drops DS Lite price to $99, re-launches classic titles and makes the last-gen machine a hard-to-beat bargain.

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Lest We Forget: The Noble Nintendo DS Lite

Face it, Nintendo has gotten a really bad rap lately (more like for the last 10 years).  First the GameCube largely flopped because of the tiny disks with high prices, lumbering cube shape and relatively few games for the hardcore gamer (also cel-shaded Zelda didn’t go over all that well).  Then the code-named “Revolution” got re-named the “Wii” (reminiscent of certain bodily functions) and …

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Why The DS-Lite is the Best Handheld Nintendo Has Ever Made (yet).

The Nintendo DS, much like the PlayStation Portable, is a system vexed by piracy. The DSi XL has some protection against copied games, but it’s still a problem for Nintendo. It seems, however, that the 3DS has some nifty new technologies to make sure that gamers come by their software legally. “The problem with the DS market in the last few years, particularly with the DS Lite, is that it’s just …

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Nintendo 3DS packs extra weapons against piracy

It’s been well documented that rampant piracy is a huge wound to the handheld gaming market — in fact, a report just last month revealed handheld piracy cost the industry over $41 billion in the last five years. But according to THQ, Nintendo is confident the new anti-piracy technology they’re introducing into the 3DS will make a significant impact in this significant problem. “What excites me …

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THQ Confident in Nintendo’s Anti-Piracy Tech for 3DS

[Gamasutra looks at the evolving handheld space as part of its NPD analysis, revealing that Nintendo DS software outsold PSP software by an 8-to-1 ratio in the U.S. in March 2010 -- and muses on Nintendo's motivations for launching a fourth simultaneously sold handheld.] Since our last report, Nintendo has announced that it will launch a successor to the Nintendo DS, currently called the …

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Analysis: DS Games Outselling PSP 8 To 1 In U.S.

Since our last report, Nintendo has announced that it will launch a successor to the Nintendo DS, currently called the Nintendo 3DS, before the end of its current fiscal year (ending March 2011). The new device will incorporate a screen technology that allows 3D effects with the naked eye and will be backward compatible with the existing Nintendo DS and Nintendo DSi. Should that device come to …

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Analysis: The Great Handheld Battle Of 2010

Since Nintendo first asserted sole domination over the handheld gaming market with the release of the paperback-sized Game Boy in 1989, the company has striven time and again to make its pocket systems smaller, meeting fantastic financial success along the way. Nintendo did it with the Game Boy Pocket , the Advance SP , the Micro , the DS Lite and again ever so slightly with the DSi — the last …

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Nintendo DSi XL review

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)