Aiming at a cheaper market

Nintendo Switch price details have seemingly been revealed by retailers and it is more or less what we were expecting.

Japan first to go

Nintendo is flushing sales in Japan of its Wii U home console “soon”,   and similar announcements are expected in other regions.

Teaser disappointing

Nintendo showed off its Switch yesterday, which was supposed to be a hybrid between a home console and a portable gaming system.

Hybrid portable, at-home console with detachable controllers

Over the past few months, Nintendo has shared limited information regarding its next-generation video game console, which company president Tatsumi Kimishima said would have “a larger impact than the Wii U” that launched in November 2006.

New video out today teasing NX

Nintendo is expected to show off a teaser video for the new NX console which it plans to launch globally in March.

Sensitive subject apparently

Next year Nintendo is supposed to be releasing its Nintendo NX and yet nothing official has come out from the former maker of playing cards.

The problem of fan games

Developers of the parody game No Mario’s Sky were somewhat miffed when they received a takedown notice from Nintendo.

Poisoned chalice

After AMD appeared to have sewn up the console market, it had been widely tipped to have its GPUs under the bonnet of the Nintendo NX, however the former maker of playing cards has given the contract to Nvidia.

Wii is no shaft of gold

Nintendo has just posted its latest financial earnings report and the former playing card maker posted an operating loss of $49 million for the first quarter of its 2016 financial year.

Opinion Intel must be worried

Last week’s AMD results show that the company is set to make more headway this year and next, with its upcoming Zen processors definitely giving Intel the heebie jeebies.