Nintendo's third place victory
[Freyburg.com] But while the two electronics giants duke it out amongst the hardcore gamers, Nintendo has been cleverly marketing itself as the alternative system for casual gamers, culminating in the innovative Nintendo DS and the Wii. And they've done so at a profit, while Sony (and until a short time ago, Microsoft) spent billions to push their consoles at a loss.
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April 29, 2006
Nintendo.....Wii?!?!
[Freyburg.com] Nintendo....Wii?!?! In a move clearly meant to satiate their bread-and-butter Japanese market, Nintendo has dubbed their next console "the Wii." In my opinion, that's a pretty stupid name, but then I thought the Nintendo DS wasn't such a hot idea, and I was proven wrong.
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Posted at 12:55 AM
March 25, 2006
Console wars heating up
[Freyburg.com] Sony may have dropped the ball with their "oops, not until November, tee hee" admission, but Nintendo ain't about to pull the same move. In fact, the mighty N, which has been doing the right thing by concentrating more on games and less on streaming family photos to the bathroom, has just announced their next console will not only play all of the old school Nintendo classics, but will also emulate the Sega Genesis and TurboGrafx.
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Posted at 02:25 AM
September 07, 2005
Game Boy Micro Misses the Mark
[Lockergnome's Mobile Lifestyle] Nintendo Co.'s new Game Boy Micro handheld could have been so much more than a tiny hunk of plastic that plays video games. Less than a year after the innovative Nintendo DS arrived with dual screens, a microphone and wireless multiplayer capability, the company is set to release the diminutive Micro on Sept.
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Posted at 02:43 PM
May 23, 2005
Nintendo DS VoIP Phone concept
[GadgetSpy] On my screen was Mario, on the other guy, Wario. Mario moved his mouth to the sound coming through on the other guy’s end, though the model couldn’t differentiate standard voice and surrounding noise…so Mario kept moving his mouth since there was ambient noise in the Nintendo booth. The delay between the two systems was extremely minimal, similar to what you’d get when two people on cellphones are trying to converse with each other. I could see the guy speak to me, and the delay was only a couple of milliseconds due to the compression and data transmission.
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