You'll even be able to post 'notes' within games for your Nintendo-networked friends to see.
In 2013, we'll assuredly see the big incumbents -- Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo -- push back.
The real world equivalent might be going to a Nintendo-enthusiasts club rather than just a generic bar.
Dubbed as the Pro Controller, the wireless peripheral has a remarkably similar shape and button layout to what comes standard with the Xbox 360 -- albeit with a duo a of evenly-placed joysticks and Nintendo-focused function buttons.
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In the short term, Miyamoto said "Pikmin 3" and "The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker" will be released for the Wii U and other games that bring a Nintendo-esque style of play will also be released later this year.
You play with the Nintendo portable when you're a younger kid, but after a while, most guys -- and we know guys in the industry, and really hardcore gamers, may play some with the Nintendo IP -- but by and large, we don't see a lot of older guys in airports playing, as you do with younger kids.
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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.
That won't work with all software, of course, such as featured launch title Nintendo Land -- a carnival-themed collection of 12 games spotlighting major Nintendo franchises, from Animal Crossing to Zelda.
In 1985 Nintendo jump-started a moribund home videogame market with the Nintendo Entertainment System.
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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With lessons learned from the standout success of its portable Nintendo DS--the company garnered 82% of portable software sales and sold 13 million DS units last year--the company has never had a clearer opportunity to differentiate itself to American audiences.
Yamauchi had transformed Kyoto-headquartered Nintendo from the obscure playing-card company he inherited from his grandfather into a leading global maker of game consoles.
Other companies have also prospered by providing easy-to-use products: think of the Nintendo Wii video-games console or the Flip video camera.
You might be thinking the second screen makes the Wii U a Wii-plus-DS, and it clearly shares second-screen DNA with Nintendo's dual-screen handheld.
Microsoft was late in officially releasing the Xbox 360 in the Middle East markets and is still playing catch-up, whereas Nintendo is completely non-existent and all hardware sales in the Middle East are grey market imports.
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Why else would it emphasize that the Revolution will play GameCube games and downloadable games from Christmases past: Nintendo 64, Super Nintendo Entertainment System and even the two-decade-old Nintendo Entertainment System.
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Rivals like PlayStation, which was partially born out of a failed partnership between Sony and Nintendo to create a CD-ROM accessory for Super Nintendo.
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Purchases from the Nintendo eShop via Nintendo 3DS hand-held and Wii U Basic Set systems are also ineligible.
Heavyweights Microsoft and Nintendo released next-generation consoles in November (Xbox and GameCube, respectively) to compete with Sony's PlayStation 2.
Speaking to Forbes last October, Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime identified Apple as a bigger near-term threat to Nintendo than Microsoft.
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Nintendo wants game-play and 3-D images to be a shared experience, so the 3DS also supports WiFi and can connect to the internet.
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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The Nintendo 3DS hand-held system continues its momentum going into 2013.
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That kind of content is where Nintendo dominates: fourteen of the 20 best selling games for the current generation of gaming devices are from Nintendo, Fils-Aime points out.
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Visitors are handed a customized Nintendo DS mobile-game unit and led to a screen in the floor made up of 70 large display panels showing a detailed, animated map of Kyoto.
Partly as a result, the PlayStation 3 has lagged behind the Nintendo (other-otc: NTDOY - news - people ) Wii and Microsoft Xbox 360 in sales--even as analysts credit the PlayStation 3 with giving Blu-Ray an edge over HD-DVD.
By concentrating on innovating through game play, and ignoring its competitors' most high-tech features--super-powered processors, support for high-definition televisions and DVD formats--Nintendo has not only been able to keep its costs down, but it's hit upon the single thing that sets apart an entertainment device most: It's fun.
This delay comes at a time when Sony faces stiff competition from a lower-priced Nintendo 3DS and a plethora of tablets that claim to perform just as well as game-dedicated devices.
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