Is this a fair price for a Nintendo console, or is the company charging too much?
It appears that Gearbox is taking a wait-and-see approach to the new Nintendo console, and will be releasing Aliens: Colonial Marines on the Wii U as something of a test-case.
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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.
LOVEFiLM, an Amazon company, launches on Nintendo's Wii home console today with a launch on Nintendo's new HD home console Wii U to follow shortly, transforming the movie viewing experience for up to eight million UK Wii users who will now be able to select and instantly stream movies and TV shows with a wave of their Wii Remote.
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Console-based games giants Nintendo and Sony have steered clear of China, though privately imported boxes are available and Nintendo recently unveiled a games console designed especially to protect against the country's rampant software piracy.
One driver for 2013, he contends, will be the debut of the Nintendo Wii U console.
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Lots of people have complained about the "silly" name of Nintendo 's Nintendo new videogame console, the Wii.
With the Wii console Nintendo is hoping to win fans among people who rarely or never play games.
The Revolution will be the last home console Nintendo will make.
One reason some people waited in long lines to be the first to get the new Nintendo Wii U console has nothing to do with the games.
Victoria Richardson, 42, from Hove, East Sussex, was burgled last week, losing an iPhone, a Nintendo DS games console, a handbag containing a purse, cash and debit cards and a black Toshiba laptop.
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Nintendo wants its upcoming console to succeed, and to do that it needs great games.
Wii U is the revolutionary new console from Nintendo that launched on Nov. 18.
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Nintendo's Satoru Iwata just announced via Nintendo Direct that Virtual Console will be available on the Wii U this spring.
In early September Nintendo revealed that the console would go on sale in the US on 19 November about two weeks before its Japanese launch.
Nintendo's Wii console alone surpassed 20 million units last year.
Previously, the service was only accessible via the Wii emulator on Nintendo's new console, but will now arrive on the eShop at some unspecified time in Q2 and feature GameBoy Advance titles for the first time.
For a start, the new Xbox 360 is launching several months before its main rival, Sony's PlayStation 3, which is expected to appear in Japan next spring and in America only later in the year. (Nintendo's next console, the Revolution, is also due in 2006.) One of the reasons the PlayStation 2 did so well was that it got to market before its rivals, which never caught up.
Of the three console makers ( Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony), only two will survive this console generation and still they will be forced to make a strategic shift away from gaming to become an entertainment hub in the home.
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Thus, Nintendo has upset the conventional console hardware upgrade cycle (a refresh of every 4-5 years).
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Tech pundits weren't surprised when Nintendo 's Wii videogame console became an instant hit with kids last year.
Many new devices, such as Nintendo's Wii game console, lack an off switch.
The third big console company, Nintendo, has by contrast pursued an entirely different - and so far very successful - strategy.
Other companies have also prospered by providing easy-to-use products: think of the Nintendo Wii video-games console or the Flip video camera.
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.
This game and others can be played on computers, wireless devices and Sony consoles--but not on rival console systems from Nintendo or Microsoft.
Readers with children or teenagers will recognize them from the Nintendo DS or the Wii console and the hours their children spend on these things.
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