Nintendo have issued a statement in response to the score of zero it received from Greenpeace’s “Guide to Greener Electronics.” Nintendo believe the low score is completely unwarranted, citing its “Green Procurement Standards” and compliance with worldwide regulations. Surprisingly they do not mention their Recycling program or the Wii’s low power consumption in their rebuttal. Check after the jump for Nintendo’s statement.
Wii shortages in the UK have led Nintendo to consider pulling the advertising for the console. Nintendo have said that they may “act responsibly” and pull advertising until 2008, when the buying frenzy has calmed down. The current ads are said not to be particularly festive in nature, and hence should be able to be played after the holiday season.
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Nintendo hate Europe and other PAL territories. Don’t believe me? Maybe the next bit of news I’m about to tell you will change that. While those in North America will be cuddling up to Super Smash Bros. Brawl come February 10th, the folks in Europe will be waiting until <em>at least</em> July.
Videogamer.com contacted Nintendo sure that there was some mistake and received this curt reply:
“If the game is not listed on the schedule up until the end of Q2 it is currently not due out until after that time.”
Come on Nintendo, your mascot is Italian, show some respect.
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The Age recently spoke to head of Nintendo Australia, Rose Lappin who had some great news for Nintendo fans in Australia - eventually, games will be released no more than two weeks after launching in Japan. And it looks good for Europeans, too:
“Our fans are very passionate and want games straight away. We are working on that as a priority and trying to get [the release schedule] to be more global.”
Smashing! I’ll put the kettle on, Rose.
The GlucoBoy is a glucose monitor that plugs into a GameBoy Advance or Nintendo DS, rewarding kids whenever they take a glucose test, and an extra bonus awarded when glucose levels within a target range. The idea was conceived by Paul Wessel, who noticed that his son always lost his glucose monitor - but never lost his GameBoy. It took him 3 years to get Nintendo’s approval which finally resulted in the launch on World Diabetes Day in Australia.
Currently the product is only available in Australia and retails for AU$299.
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Lucky Japanese Wii owners will today get to use Everybody’s Nintendo Wii channel. The channel offers release date information, promotional videos, and DS demo downloads.
Due the DS’s lack of storage space, content has to be streamed from the Wii to the DS. Currently the DS content on the channel features some demos of training games and patches for both Pokémon Diamond and Pearl.
The channel also features trailers for many game, on of them being the highly anticipated Wii Fit game.
via Wii Fanboy
Greenpeace has announced Nintendo as the worst offender in their Guide to Greener Electronics report. Nintendo received a straight 0 from the rating system, and Microsoft weren’t that much better at 2.7 - however Sony did very well, coming equal third with a score of 7.3.
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The Japanese have gone crazy over the new DS TV tuner. At the mere opportunity to pre-order the tuner, enough people rushed to Nintendo’s site to crash the server. After restarting the server, pre-orders sold out in seconds.
If I worked at Nintendo of Japan, I’d fear for my life if the rumors of a updated DS turn out to be true. I wonder what it would feel like to drown in money?
via Kotaku
Boy do Nintendo like their special editions. Fitting really, because we do too. The big N are offering up not one but two special edition Nintendo DS bundles for the holidays. The first is the gold edition that will be bundled with Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. The second is the metallic pink edition and that will be bundled with the Best Friends version of Nintendogs. Best of all these aren’t just your regular color variations, but also will feature the Zelda and Nintendogs logo on the cover. They will be available on November 23rd for an expected price of US$150.
via Engadget
If you’re getting frustrated about how hard it is to find a Wii in stock, rest assured that Nintendo aren’t slacking off. George Harrison, the company’s marketing head, has talked about what’s going on with Wii production:
“It takes about five months for us to increase the actual monthly rate of production. We’re at a rate now worldwide of about 1.8 million Wiis produced every month, and that’s going to sustain itself until we get on top of this.”
He also states that regional demand is reviewed every few weeks so that units can be shipped to the needed location.
Another point he raises is that a lot of developers are lining up to publish games for the Wii, but Nintendo are keen to only let unique games make it to the system.
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