Other companies have also prospered by providing easy-to-use products: think of the Nintendo Wii video-games console or the Flip video camera.
As video game blog Kotaku reported back in November, Microsoft and Nintendo have rolled out new ecologically friendly cases for games found on their Nintendo Wii and X-Box 360 consoles.
It's well past midnight, you're home with your brand new Nintendo Wii U -- now what?
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Purchases from the Nintendo eShop via Nintendo 3DS hand-held and Wii U Basic Set systems are also ineligible.
Nintendo offers the family-friendly Wii.
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The first thing we noticed about Nintendo's next console when we last got our hands on it was the length -- the Wii U is Nintendo's longest console yet.
It's being reported that Wal-Mart will not have its usual demo station for the Nintendo Wii for simple safety concerns over the fling-fests that could inevitably ensue.
There was an obvious tie-in as Zelda was named after the Nintendo role-playing game, which has a new Wii title shipping November 20, Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword.
Plenty of gadgets now incorporate wi-fi, including televisions and printers, game consoles like Nintendo's Wii and Sony's PlayStation 3, dual-mode cellphones and digital media receivers like the Slingbox (now a part of Dish Network).
Amazon said it sold 17 Nintendo Wii gaming systems a second--when it had them in stock.
"You can have games like these on the Nintendo Wii, " says nine-year-old Samuel, from north London.
On December 7th, Nintendo is ready to re-introduce the Wii, with a twist.
In 2006, it created a market for motion-sensitive gaming with the Nintendo Wii.
Whereas Nintendo uses motion-sensing controllers for the Wii, and Kinect uses only a camera and no controllers, PlayStation Move uses both camera and controller.
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Take gesture-controlled technology, think Nintendo Wii, iPhone and iPad, etc.
WildCharge and the licensees of its technology have developed replacement back covers for a number of popular devices, including Motorola's RAZR phones and video-game controllers for the Nintendo Wii and the Sony PlayStation 3.
Crafted from double-sided tape and two Wii remotes, the prototype brought forth ideas for Nintendo Land -- and if we're honest, is a fairly decent outline of what the final product resembled, with buttons and controls (including triggers) distributed across both sides of the screen.
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Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime says Wii U sales crested 400K units in its first week, according to internal sales data.
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Nintendo made a last-minute announcement that the Wii U's on-demand and interactive TV and movie facilities would not be ready for its US launch.
Nintendo's Wii controller already has motion-sensors and it seems it won't be long before more interactive gear, including clothing, become part of a video-game player's wardrobe.
What would have been really neat is if Nintendo had launched the Wii U with two-touchscreen support so that players could play in co-op on different screens, tackling levels at the same time but also separately, rather than sharing a screen.
Earlier today Nintendo announced that in addition to its gaming features, Wii U will also come with a brand-new service called Nintendo TVii.
Nintendo has announced, alongside the many other games coming to its next-gen Wii U system, that it will be bringing Bayonetta 2 to the console as a Nintendo exclusive.
That said, unless Microsoft or Sony have more than burlier hardware up their sleeves, and assuming third-party developers can match Nintendo's skill utilizing the second screen, the Wii U already has a lock on the future of big-idea gaming.
"It was a sea of people, " said Rathburn, who hoped to buy a Nintendo Wii game system but went home empty-handed.
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It s a simple idea but one with major repercussions: Nintendo s Wii U game console features a touch-sensitive controller rather like a tablet computer.
Both the Nintendo DS and the Wii have finally become highly-appraised platforms.
Partly as a result, the PlayStation 3 has lagged behind the Nintendo Wii and Microsoft Xbox 360 in sales--even as analysts credit the PlayStation 3 with giving Blu-Ray an edge over HD-DVD.
It was also the biggest month on record for Microsoft, whose new motion-based Kinect systems helped it sell 1.37 million Xbox 360 consoles in the US (68% year-over-year increase), beating out Nintendo Wii sales at 1.2 million units.
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Yes, we tried bringing the Wii U GamePad everywhere, but Nintendo's (admittedly conservative) estimation is pretty spot-on -- the streamed video that the Wii U pushes to its GamePad wouldn't go very far at all without running into hiccups or cutting out altogether.
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