The Pokemon Company and Nintendo have today released a whole new trailer for Pokemon Sun and Moon. The video debuts four new Pokemon from this generation and new information about it has also been shared.
Nintendo has announced Nintendo Entertainment System: NES Classic Edition gaming console. It will cost $59.99 and will ship this coming fall.
Nintendo has announced the development of two new games for the iPhone and Android platforms. Here's everything you need to know.
Nintendo's first game for iOS and Android is finally here! Download Nintendo Miitomo for iPhone, iPad and Android from here.
Pre-registration for Miitomo - Nintendo's first mobile game - is now live. The Japanese gaming giant is billing Miitomo as being a "smart-device app that sparks one-of-a-kind conversations between you and your friends". The company is also playing on the fact that it's a game "from Nintendo", using the brand to gain traction, as well as outlining that it's "free to start", presumably suggesting that gamers will ultimately have to part with real money at some point through in-app purchases to progress in the Miitomo world.
Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima says that smartphone games featuring some of Nintendo's biggest characters will be making their way to the smartphone by the end of 2016, although there were, predictably, no further claims as to who those characters would be.
Nintendo may be one of the most immediately recognizable names in the world of video gaming, but the Japan-based company has so far managed to evade the allure of entering into the world of mobile gaming; that is, until now. As part of an internal strategy meeting with investors of the company, Nintendo unveiled its plans to finally release a game intended for mobile devices as early as March 2016. The game, which will be called Miitomo, will be the first of five titles launched before March 2017 under the Nintendo brand.
When you're sitting in front of your high-definition TV playing Battlefield or Call of Duty on your PS4, take a second to think about the roots of the device and what it has actually taken to get that console in your living room. Its predecessors, the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2 and the original PlayStation, all acted as stepping stones for the behemoth gaming console we have today, but things could have been so very much different if a partnership between Nintendo and Sony hadn't gone sour in the early 1990s leading to this "Sony SNES" amalgamation being scrapped.
Nintendo is looking to patent an invention that would allow the company to emulate its own games - found specifically on the Game Boy lineup of hand-held video game devices - onto other platforms such as mobile, seat-back displays on trains and airplanes, and possibly more.
While other large corporations involved in the gaming world have openly embraced the world of mobile, Nintendo has used all of its internal grit and determination to stay away from the small screen. The Japanese based company has internally opposed building games and software for smartphones and tablets, choosing instead to focus on its own console hardware like the Wii U. An acknowledgement toward the end of last year seemed to indicate that things could be about to change with the company today announcing that it will launch its first mobile smartphone service alongside the release of Mario Kart 8 later this month.
