The Nintendo Daily News
The Nintendo Daily News brings you the biggest Wii stories of the day in a single post.
Miyamoto comments on digital distribution
“Personally, I’m one of those guys who, even if I have all the songs from iTunes, I want the CD as well. I feel more reassured with that physical media. Entertainment is something that will not just become digital. If I look at Wii MotionPlus, this is something that you’re not doing via digital distribution. The thing for us is we really don’t see the future of video games being merely confined to digital distribution or moving solely or even to a majority of our products being distributed that way.”
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Monster Hunter Tri release date for NA and Europe revealed
Today Capcom sent out a PR email announcing the release date of their Monster Hunter Tri in other regions other than Japan:
“Capcom® Entertainment, a leading worldwide developer and publisher of video games, today announced that Monster Hunter™ Tri will be released in both North America and Europe for Nintendo’s Wii™ system in early 2010. More information on Monster Hunter Tri will be revealed in the upcoming months. In the meantime, please visit the official Capcom press site at http://press.capcom.com.”
Nintendo Download for this week
The onset of August means summer is winding down, but the downloadable action at the Wii Shop Channel and Nintendo DSi Shop just keeps on heating up. Two new WiiWare offerings deliver futuristic robot foes and sultry poker opponents, respectively. On the Virtual Console, there’s great news for football fans as the arcade classic TECMO BOWL makes its way to the Wii system. And on Nintendo DSiWare, you’ll find a fresh addition to the eye-pleasing, mind-bending Art Style game series.
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Iwata Q&A Transcript
Lots of info here:
-Wii Sports Resort was due to ship earlier, but was held back in order to create enough MotionPlus units
-Wii Fit Plus/New Super Mario Bros. Wii are moving on schedule “We have absolutely no worry that they will not be released as scheduled.”
-Iwata believes that Wii Sports Resort/Wii Fit Plus/New Super Mario Bros. Wii could all sell 10 million units before March 2010
-”We’d like to work so that people say ‘This was the best Christmas in Nintendo history.’”
-Iwata disappointed with Wii Music and Animal Crossing: City Folk sales. “Last year, Wii Music and Animal Crossing City Folk did not reach our expectations. If we had made them into long sellers, the effects of the lack of software in the first half of the year would have been lowered. However, their sales slowed in a relatively short term.”
-No price cut “At present, we’re not thinking of doing anything with the price.”
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Netflix coming to Wii?
“According to a report from MultiChannel.com, Netflix could be preparing to bring their streaming movie service to the iPhone and the Nintendo Wii. A source, identified as an “industry executive familiar with Netflix’s plans,” told MultiChannel that the Watch Instantly feature of the existing Netflix service would be coming to iPhones, Wiis, and the iPod touch series, however, no further details were given.”
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IBM working with Nintendo again
IBM East Fishkill workers were called to an all-hands-on staff meeting Thursday evening where they were told more work is coming their way.
Employees were told work will come to the Systems and Technology Group from Nintendo, Freescale and Sony
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That is it for The Nintendo Daily News for today, but catch us tomorrow as we bring you the biggest Nintendo Wii stories of the day in one single post.
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