photo: SOPA images (Getty Images) Today in his annual profit statement, Nintendo cited the ongoing chip shortage as the reason for a steep annual decline in Switch hardware sales… while saying in the same breath that the company’s goals were being met. Well, technically. During Nintendo’s fiscal 2022, which began last April and ran through ...
queen of gold Nintendo Wii It’s on sale again, so if you want to spend about three Grand Plus, it’s all yours. Back in 2009, video game publishers THQ Pulling a bit of a silly publicity stunt, it personally delivered a 24-karat gold Nintendo Wii to Queen Elizabeth for the second time.Absolutely just to advertise ...
The famous golden Wii, once intended for the British Queen, is up for auction. How much will this precious piece of video game history go for? You’ve probably heard of the golden Wii that was supposed to be in Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s apartments. The 24k gold plated console is a 2009 PR stunt ...
In 2009, THQ pulled off a publicity stunt plating a Nintendo Wii in 24k gold and attempting to deliver it to Queen Elizabeth II. Her Majesty never really got his hands on the console, but now, after over a year of auction hijinx, maybe you can. I actually wrote about this last yearwhen the console ...
Update: Added in the full quote provided in comments due to misinterpretation. WiI Sports did an amazing job back in 2006 to help sell Nintendo’s new console at the time, the revolutionary Wii system. However, former Nintendo of America president, Reggie Fils-Aime, has stated in his new book which is titled, Disrupting the Game, that ...
Nintendo Switch Sports brings back the motion-controlled, sporty fun of Nintendo’s turning point video game, Wii sports, for a new generation of gamers. But with the return of tennis and bowling in the living room comes a bane: the ominous specter of smashed TV screens. Released in 2006, Wii Sports was famous for his ability ...
screenshot: Nintendo / Kotaku REST IN PEACE Wii sports. There are only ten pins in bowling. Boxing is gone. The most awaited mode – Golf – isn’t even available yet. But perhaps the most egregious crime committed by Nintendo Switch Sports So it completely marginalizes Miis, the lovable avatars created by weird players that have ...
screenshot: Nintendo That’s how I know Nintendo Switch Sports is a good party game: I hate my friends now. It’s one thing to lose a typical local multiplayer game, a smashed or Soul Calibur or what do you have. It’s quite another thing to keep getting beat the lights out of your body with a ...
Here’s a fun little exercise: When you think of Wii Sports, which sport do you think of first? For me, it’s Bowling. I got really good at lining up the ball just right to always get a strike, which is a far cry from my real-life bowling ability (which usually includes a lot of gutterballs). ...
The team at IGN have tasked themselves with listing their favourite games from Nintendo’s previous console, the Wii U. The team decided not to include any Wii U games which have subsequently been ported to the current system, the Nintendo Switch, and they also decided not to include any original Wii games or Virtual Consoles ...
