Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aimé to retire, hand leadership reins to Doug Bowser Nintendo of America’s longtime president and COO Reggie Fils-Aimé is retiring and will be replaced by Doug Bowser. Fils-Aimé, who… Read More
Nintendo wins patent dispute over Wii Balance Board technology Nintendo recently won a patent case over their Wii Balance Board technology. Ithica Ventures and Ithica Development sued Nintendo in 2013,… Read More
Watch: Hackers use the Wii U GamePad to stream PC games This week at the 30th Chaos Communication Congress, a small group of hackers figured out a way to reverse engineer a… Read More
Nintendo brings Wii Mini to the U.S. for $99 A more basic and cheaper version of Nintendo’s original Wii is making its way to the United States. The Wii… Read More
Goodbye, Wii: Nintendo stops production of original motion-controlled console The Wii’s days are over. NIntendo’s original motion-controlled console that debuted in 2006 will no longer be produced. As first… Read More
Mobile game spending crushing Wii U, Vita titles With more than half of us now sporting smartphones, more and more people can purchase and play mobile games. That… Read More
Nintendo stock hits 2-year high thanks to great games, 3DS console Nintendo may appear to be lost in the midst of the excitement surrounding the Xbox One and Playstation 4, but… Read More
Nintendo wins patent lawsuit again, this time over Wii MotionPlus Nintendo has some good lawyers. For the second time in as many months, the video game giant escaped another patent… Read More
Nintendo wins court appeal over Wii motion-tracking patents The United States Federal Circuit Court of Appeals today ruled in favor of Nintendo, upholding a previous decision that video game… Read More
Nintendo wants WiiU.com domain, files cybersquatting complaint The latest sales numbers of Nintendo’s Wii U are not good, so maybe a new website at WiiU.com can help the… Read More
A gamer’s dream: ‘The Art of Video Games’ exhibit debuts Friday at the EMP (PHOTOS) If you’ve ever wanted to jump in a time machine and relive the 40-year history of video games, well, Seattle’s… Read More
Wii U posts big first week, but Xbox 360 is still champ for now Xbox 360 was the top-selling game console in the U.S. for November, kicking off the critical holiday shopping season with… Read More
So far, so good: More than 400,000 Wii U consoles sold after first week It’s not easy for consumers to find a Wii U in stores and that’s good news for Nintendo. Nintendo of… Read More
‘Nintendo TVii’ aims to leapfrog Xbox 360, PS3 in living room Nintendo this morning unveiled its television and media integration plans for the Wii U, announcing a new feature called Nintendo… Read More
Sony hides PlayStation 3 sales data as profits fall Maybe I’m a nerd, but one of the things I look forward to each quarter is the release of Sony’s… Read More
Xbox 360 marks 18 months atop U.S. console market Microsoft’s Xbox 360 sold 257,000 units in the U.S. in June, topping Sony’s PlayStation 3 and Nintendo’s Wii for the… Read More
Ask Andru: Is Wii U really a next-generation console? Today we received a question about Nintendo’s upcoming console release, Wii U, with GeekWire reader Alex wondering why the company… Read More
PS3 sucks less than Xbox and Wii in tough Q1 for consoles Sony reported its latest financial results overnight, and the numbers put the PlayStation 3 back atop the worldwide console market… Read More
PS2 still tops PS3 in U.S. homes, and other surprising stats from the game world Fifty-six percent of U.S. households own at least one current-generation video-game console, up from 50 percent a year ago. Thirty-nine… Read More
Xbox 360 leads the pack, again, in a down month for games Microsoft’s Xbox 360 remained atop the U.S. video-game console market to start the year, leading Sony’s PlayStation 3 and Nintendo’s… Read More
Xbox 360 tops Wii and PS3 for 1st time in yearly global sales Microsoft’s Xbox 360 has been dominating its home turf for the past couple of years, sitting atop the monthly sales… Read More
Chart: Kinect surpasses 25% of Xbox 360 installed base One piece of news disclosed by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer here at the Consumer Electronics Show last night was that… Read More
Nintendo: 3DS outpaces Wii launch in first 9 months in U.S. It was a tough year for Nintendo, including a rocky start for the Nintendo 3DS handheld gaming machine, but the big… Read More
Chart: How we’re spending time on our game consoles Millions of people are waking up to new video-game consoles under the tree this morning. But how they end up… Read More
Microsoft sells record 1.7M Xbox 360s in U.S. in November Microsoft’s Xbox 360 registered another month atop the U.S. console market in November, posting record sales as the peak holiday… Read More
Look out, Mario: Nintendo projects first-ever annual loss Here’s a reminder of just how fickle the video-game business can be. Nintendo this morning released a revised financial forecast… Read More
The price of early adoption: Nintendo cutting 3DS to $170 Apart from the dizzy spells, the biggest criticism of Nintendo’s 3DS has been the price. At $250, the handheld game… Read More
Microsoft’s Xbox 360 rules the U.S. console market, again In a down month for video games, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 continued to buck the trend in May, according to new… Read More
Platform or not, Microsoft’s Xbox business is booming Next week is the big E3 video-game convention, and Microsoft’s Xbox team this morning kicked off the competitive jockeying by… Read More
Redbox getting into video games, like for reals this time Coming soon to the front stoop of your local 7-Eleven: Master Chief and Mario. Redbox, the movie-rental subsidiary of Bellevue-based… Read More
