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Nintendo has once again revised its expected loss for the fiscal year ending in March, widening its forecasted financial misfortune from ¥20 billion ($ 258M) to ¥65 billion ($ 839M). The increased loss comes a quarter after Nintendo switched its forecast from a ¥20 billion profit to loss.

For the first nine months of the fiscal year ending December 31, Nintendo had sales of ¥556 billion ($ 7.2B), a 31 percent decrease from the same period last year. Overall, it posted a loss of ¥48.4 billion ($ 620M).

“Nintendo 3DS hardware during the nine months ended December 31, 2011, were 11.43 million units, and the total worldwide sales since its launch exceeded 15 million units,” the company stated. Both Super Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart 7 have gone on to become million-selling titles.

The company also mentioned that The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword for Wii recorded “strong sales, especially in the United States.” Worldwide Wii sales over the nine-month period hit 8.96 million units, with software selling 89 million units.

Nintendo’s financial woes, coupled with mobile gaming’s increased portion of the handheld market, is not sitting well with investors. The House of Mario continues to see its stock sitting at a five-year low.

JoystiqNintendo enhances expected loss; 15 million 3DS units sold since launch originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Four new games  were released today in America, two new games  for DSiWare, one for the Nintendo eShop and one for WiiWare, you can check the full details below:

Nintendo 3DS Download Software

Zen Pinball 3D

Zen Pinball 3D (Zen Studios, $ 6.99) 

Game Overview

Zen Pinball for Nintendo 3DS brings an incredible stereoscopic 3D experience to the acclaimed video game pinball series for the first time ever.

Featuring four beautifully crafted, original tables, Zen Pinball features the most advanced ball physics in a video pinball game to date, online leader boards ranking you against other players, in-game friend challenges, interactive 3D models, and more!

Features

• Earth Defense pits the player against hordes of hostile aliens as they try to take the planet by storm!
• Players will experience life as a novice sorcerer who must master the trade of summoning spectacular natural phenomena in Shaman.
• Travel back to the middle ages to the Kingdom of Camelot and become a Knight of the Round Table in Excalibur.
• Experience the unexplored jungles of Eldorado as you hunt for hidden treasures and uncover the mysteries of ancient civilization.

Zen Pinball for Nintendo 3DS is the definitive pinball experience on portable game consoles.

DSiWare

Hip Hop King Rytmik Edition

Hip Hop King: Rytmik Edition (Cinemax, 800pts) 

Game Overview

Hip Hop King is an application for creating rhythmical and melodic themes and for composing whole songs.

Its user interface blends the fast and well-arranged interface of classic drum machines with flexible pattern interface of popular trackers and with modern sound library. It contains more than 170 carefully selected sound samples of drums, percussions, bass, melodic instruments and gramophone scratches.

 

With Hip Hop King you can quickly and easily create the basic building stone – an audio clip. It consists of musical notations for up to four instruments that you may transpose, select their location in the stereo field, and modify their volume, reverse, shuffle (rhythm twist) and polyphony (with extended polyphony handling), chorus/widening stereo effect and echo. You may arbitrarily combine up to 128 such clips in four tracks and create complex pieces of music.

 

Hip Hop King is not only for playing with sounds; in the hands of a skilful musician it can become a serious musical instrument – surprisingly powerful pocket music station. For the best musical experience we recommend connecting headphones or quality speaker system. You’ll become the Hip Hop King of the party in no time…

Features

• Pocket music station

 

101 Pinball World

101 Pinball World (Selectsoft, 500pts)

Game Overview

Get ready for fast-paced pinball action with a twist!

Complete special objectives to earn fun bonuses as you shoot your ball through pipes, up ramps and around mind-blowing obstacles. Choose from 2 game modes, Quick Play and Random, and blast through over 100 fun tables on 4 exciting worlds filled with eye-popping details. Be a pinball wiz in Wizard World, go on a galactic adventure in Alien Spaceship, enjoy a spooky trip through Halloween and become a buccaneer in Pirate’s Bay. Rack up enough points to top the High Scores and you’ll be the pinball champ.

Features

• 101 amazing tables in 4 unique worlds
• 3 player profiles and High Scores list
• Classic pinball gameplay enhanced with beautiful graphics
• Multiple special objectives earn extra points and power-ups
• Fun bonuses include table tilt, slow ball and immunity

WiiWare

Carmen Sandiego Adventures in Math: The Case of the Crumbling Cathedral

Carmen Sandiego Adventures in Math: The Case of the Crumbling Cathedral (The Learning Company, 600pts)

Game Overview

Bad news, detective! There’s trouble in Moscow, Russia. St Basil’s Cathedral has disintegrated! All that’s left is a giant pile of sand.

The Chief wants ACME’s best agent on this case, and that means you, detective. Get to Moscow fast and find out what’s going on before any more monuments turn into giant sand castles.

Carmen Sandiego is back and only you can foil her V.I.L.E plans. Travel the globe, solve brain-twisting math puzzles, and catch the villain behind the Crumbling Cathedral.

Crack the case of the Crumbling Cathedral in single-player Story Mode. Perfect your math skills in single-player Practice Mode. Challenge your friends and family to solve math puzzles against the clock in Multiplayer Mode.

In Carmen Sandiego Adventures in Math, you practice your math skills and use them to fight crime. Ideal for grades 4–5, math topics include arithmetic, logic puzzles, fractions and much more!

Features

• Travel the world, solve math puzzles and fight crime!
• Challenge friends to math duels against the clock
• Aligned to grade 4 and 5 Math Common Core Standards
• Math topics include geometry, fractions, and many more!

Nintendo Video

Kirby: Right Back At Ya! Volume 1

Available on Nintendo Video on: Jan 14, 2012 Genre: Animation Studio: Nintendo

Kirby’s ready for action in part one of this special, two-part 3D episode of Kirby: Right Back At Ya!

 

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What better way for the Nintendo of America staff to show its love for Zelda’s 25th anniversary than to make art on the DS itself? Here’s a quick roundup of some cute NoA creations for Flipnote Studio, posted to YouTube by a fan from the Nintendo Channel.

JoystiqZelda Flipnote animations, made by the Nintendo of America staff originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 03 Jan 2012 02:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Three new games for DSiWare, a new 3DS application and a WiiWare demo  were released today in Europe, you can check the full details below:

Nintendo eShop

EUROSPORT

EUROSPORT

  • Category: Utility, Other
  • Players: 1
  • Age rating: Exempt
  • Publisher: Eurosport SA
  • Developer:
  • Release date: 15/12/2011
  • Nintendo eShop: £0.00 / €0.00
  • Game Language:

Have 3D sports video content delivered straight to your Nintendo 3DS system via SpotPass with this dedicated EUROSPORT application, available absolutely free of charge from Nintendo eShop.

Every week over the next year, two-to-three minute video clips from the popular WATTS series – which features a mix of sporting action and funny sporting outtakes from around the world – will become available to view in 3D on your Nintendo 3DS system.

The built in SpotPass functionality of Nintendo 3DS allows you to receive content wherever you have access to a wireless Internet connection: so you could receive video clips on the move, at home or from public hotspots.

Download the application for free today from Nintendo eShop and get ready for some great sporting clips in 3D!

Nintendo DSiWare

Elite Forces: Unit 77

  • Category: Action, Strategy, Shooter
  • Multiplayer mode: Simultaneous
  • Players: 1-4
  • Age rating: 16
  • Publisher: Gammick Entertainment
  • Release date: 15/12/2011
  • Nintendo DSi Points: 800
  • Nintendo eShop: £7.20 / €8.00
  • Game language: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian

A new and improved version, now with Multiplayer mode. Elite Forces: Unit 77 is an action game with basic tactical elements. Your Unit 77 comprises 4 specialists with different combat skills:

  • Bill Matic, the Hacker.
  • Kendra Chase, the sniper.
  • T. K. Richter, the explosives expert.
  • Dag Hammer, the green beret.

Drive armoured trucks and tanks, defuse mines, locate explosives and rescue hostages. Gather your forces into a crack squad when your enemies are threatening to overwhelm you or control a single game character based on the strategic requirements.


Cake Ninja


  • Category: Action
  • Multiplayer mode: Simultaneous
  • Players: 2
  • Age rating: 3
  • Publisher: Cypronia
  • Developer: Cypronia
  • Release date: 15/12/2011
  • Nintendo DSi Points: 500
  • Nintendo eShop: £4.50 / €5.00
  • Game language: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian

A simple casual game where you slide the stylus across the screen to slice cakes into small pieces, like a true Ninja warrior. It’s very easy to play. The more cakes you slice, the longer you stay around, and the longer you survive, the higher your score. How long can you last? You can also challenge your friends to a multiplayer game to show everyone who the best player is!

Key features:

  • Simple, addictive gameplay
  • Colourful 3D graphics
  • Precise slice recognition
  • Challenging multiplayer mode
GO Series: Escape Trick - Ninja Castle
GO Series: Escape Trick – Ninja Castle
  • Category: Puzzle, Adventure, Action
  • Players: 1
  • Age rating: 12
  • Publisher: Gamebridge Ltd.
  • Release date: 15/12/2011
  • Nintendo DSi Points: 500
  • Nintendo eShop: £4.50 / €5.00
  • Game language: English, French, Spanish

GO Series presents Escape Trick – Ninja Castle from Intense. You are trapped inside Ninja Castle, which is riddled with deadly traps, and death is only ever one wrong step away. Explore surfaces for hidden items and secrets that can help you overcome the many obstacles and dangers that lie in your path. Utilise items in unique ways and solve the many puzzles on your way out of Ninja Castle.


WiiWare

Paint Splash
Paint Splash – Demo Version
  • Category: Education, Board Game, Other
  • Multiplayer mode: Simultaneous
  • Players: 1-4
  • Age rating: 3
  • Publisher: KnapNok Games
  • Release date: 15/12/2011
  • Wii Points: Full Version: 500, Demo: 0
  • Game language: English

Paint Splash turns your TV into an interactive canvas where kids of all ages can enjoy painting using the Wii Remote. Up to four people can paint at the same time so the entire family can participate in creating fantastic paintings using just your Wii Remote controllers.

Choose between several brushes and tools and paint in all the colours of the rainbow or activate Splash Mode where shaking the Wii Remote simply splashes paint on the screen, ideal for the youngest members of the family.

You can save your paintings on an SD Card and transfer your creations to other devices such as a computer for printing and emailing.

 

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Admit it: Your flair for fashion, design and symmetry has prevented you from fully appreciating the gold-colored Wii Remote Plus that came bundled with special edition versions of Zelda: Skyward Sword. Hey, we’re not judging! Take one look at our wardrobe and you’ll know our meticulous approach to color coordination. We’re here to tell you there’s a solution to your dilemma — Japanese Club Nintendo members can now spend their hard-earned credits on an equally golden Wii Nunchuck.

The faux-metallic peripheral will run you 600 Points, while the other new addition to the rewards catalog — a 3DS game case which holds up to 18 titles — will cost you 150 Points. You can check out the new Nunchuck in the image posted above; just try not to let the shameful color mismatching get to you. We’ve contacted Nintendo to see if these new products are coming stateside.

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Nintendo has appointed Jo Bartlett as the new head of its UK communications, filling the gap left by Rob Saunders when he moved on to Apple.

Bartlett joins Lewis Digby and Emily Wooliscroft on the UK team, overseeing press and PR for the terrritory, bringing experience from previous roles providing PR assistance for Sony, Paramount, Warner Bros. and Play.

“I am thrilled to be joining Nintendo; it is a unique opportunity to work for a market leading company with such heritage, amazing games and one of the most exceptional innovators in the entertainment industry,” said Bartlett.


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After a long wait, it has been determined that Nintendo of America will get the chance to distribute the Wii RPG Xenoblade Chronicles in North America. It looks like all that petitioning and whining on the internet has paid off. Hooray!

Unfortunately, the game will be a GameStop exclusive, and it will retail for $ 49.99 when it’s releaed in April. Still, I guess that’s better than nothing, right? Like, it’s a thing you want; you just have to go to GameStop to get it, goddamn it. Just be happy that it’s coming.

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Nintendo senior vice president and general counsel Richard Flamm, who made headlines fighting against bootleg Pokemon merchandise and Wii patent trolls, will retire after a storied 19-year tenure. Flamm originally joined Nintendo’s litigation team in 1992, and later moved on to manage its anti-piracy department, eventually making general counsel in 1999 and becoming a senior vice president of the company in 2003. To put his tenure in perspective, Flamm began working for Nintendo during the …


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