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Nintendo: five smartphone titles by March 2017; Mario Kart producer heading up mobile – report
Nintendo published its financial results for the fiscal year ending March 31 yesterday, and during a presentation to investors, company president Satoru Iwata touched upon the firm’s mobile games plan with DeNA.
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Mario Kart 8 balanced "thousands of times" during development, two Rainbow Roads added
Mario Kart 8 producer Hideki Konno has said the latest entry in the series will reward players for their mad karting skills, not luck.
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StreetPass Relay idea came from NYC business trip, users in North America report issues with service
The idea for the Relay feature in StreetPass on 3DS came about due to a Nintendo engineer got when he visited New York City, according to the latest Iwata Asks.
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Mario Kart 8 dev cites F-Zero as influence, is hopeful for series' return
Mario Kart 8 developers Hideki Konno and Kosuke Yabuki have shed light on how the game was influenced by F-Zero in a new interview, and have stressed that they’d like to see the anti-grav racing series return one day.
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Metal Mario and Lakitu added to Mario Kart 7 Roster
New gameplay footage has revealed that Mario Kart 7 will add Metal Mario and Lakitu to the starting grid for the very first time.
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Third-parties interested in AR 3DS titles, says Nintendo
Nintendo chief Hideki Konno has said that third-parties are interested in making AR-based titles for 3DS.
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Next Nintendo console unlikely to support 3D
So 3D, huh? Nintendo love a bit of that. But not for home consoles, according to Reggie Fils-Aime.
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3DS "not going to be competing" on mobile game prices, says Nintendo
Nintendo’s Hideki Konno has said that it will not “be competing” with standard mobile game prices with 3DS.
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Konno talks about Nintendo's 3DS plans outside of gaming, NGP
Nintendo’s Hideki Konno has said that when it comes to comparing 3DS with Sony’s upcoming NGP handheld, it’s something that’s a bit hard to do at this point.
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Saturday Shorts: GDC nuggets, game sales, Yakuza 4, Angry Birds
It’s Saturday. There’s loads of tiny stuff to fill the empty spaces inside your brain below.
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Nintendo: 3DS originally lacked 3D, gyroscope
Good thing they added that stuff, huh? Otherwise, the name would’ve been pretty misleading.
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Nintendo wheels out 3DS prototypes
Nintendo’s shown off in a new Iwata Asks earlier prototypes of what 3DS used to look like before its E3 reveal last June.
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3DS developers say it was hard to sell 3D to co-workers after Virtual Boy failure
In the latest version of Iwata Asks, Nintendo’s president chats with 3DS’s Kenichi Sugino and Hideki Konno about some of the hurdles they experienced trying to convince co-workers the new handheld was not another failed attempt at 3D like Virtual Boy.
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Marketing 3DS will be "very tricky", says Nintendo
Hideki Konno, head of Nintendo’s EAD Software Development Group No. 1, has said marketing 3DS will be “very tricky” for the firm.
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Nintendo: five smartphone titles by March 2017; Mario Kart producer heading up mobile – report
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Mario Kart 8 balanced “thousands of times” during development, two Rainbow Roads added
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StreetPass Relay idea came from NYC business trip, users in North America report issues with service
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Mario Kart 8 dev cites F-Zero as influence, is hopeful for series’ return
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3DS “not going to be competing” on mobile game prices, says Nintendo
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Konno talks about Nintendo’s 3DS plans outside of gaming, NGP
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Saturday Shorts: GDC nuggets, game sales, Yakuza 4, Angry Birds
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3DS developers say it was hard to sell 3D to co-workers after Virtual Boy failure