Spotted by Cheesemeister3k on Twitter, Nintendo has discontinued production the Wii. On the company’s Japanese site, it shows that no more Wii consoles will be made.
Originally released back in November 2006, the Wii introduced motion control to a commercial audience and featured full backward compatibility with the GameCube. As at June 2013, the console has sold over 100million units worldwide.
Source: Twitter
Earlier this weekend fans spotted a brief tease of what could be a Pokemon game for the Wii U.
A trailer aired during the Pokemon Game Show event showed glimpses of all the games in the series, and at the close a distorted video of two Pokemon facing off in battle faded in and out. Fans on the Neogaf forums have already been wondering what the footage could mean.
Pokemon Rumble U is set to release on the console on August 29th, with Pokemon X and Y available for the 3DS in October.
There hasn’t yet been any official announcement from Gamefreak or Nintendo but a new Pokemon game sounds exciting to us.
Source: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=76798159&postcount=355
Nintendo president Satoru Iwata revealed during the E3 analyst briefing that the company acknowledges that Nintendo Land has failed to attract consumers to Wii U. Iwata said that Nintendo Land hasn’t fulfilled the same role as Wii Sports – which consumers flocked to play and subsequently purchased a Wii back in 2006. Iwata did say that Nintendo is going to release a variety of Wii U software which shows off how convenient and delightful it is to have the Wii U GamePad controller, and how it changes the gaming experience.
“Asymmetric gameplay” is one of the important elements which differentiate Wii U from other products. Thus, we have released “Nintendo Land” as the software to make consumers understand the value of asymmetric gameplay. In the United States, we bundled it with the Wii U “Deluxe Set” which is a higher-end model equipped with 32GB of memory. We have received a lot of…
View original post 200 more words
+3 Intelligence 