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Happy 20th Birthday To The PlayStation 2
Wednesday, March 4, 2020 - 1:58pm | 376Read More...A congratulations is in order. Sony’s (NYSE: SNE) PlayStation 2, the best-selling game system ever, turned 20 on March 4. During its prime, the PS2 competed with Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Xbox 360 and Nintendo’s (OTC: NTDOF) GameCube. A New Era Sony ushered in a new era of gaming...
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How Nintendo's Last 4 Gaming Consoles Performed In Their First Year
Friday, January 13, 2017 - 3:47pm | 571Read More...Japanese video game console maker Nintendo Co., Ltd (ADR) (OTC: NTDOY) has just announced more details of its newest console on the block, the Nintendo Switch. Switch will go on sale March 2017. As the company, analysts and avid Nintendo fans keep their fingers crossed over, looking forward to...
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Pokémon Go's Release Affected Nintendo Shares More Than Its Last Three Consoles
Monday, July 18, 2016 - 2:27pm | 174Read More...Nintendo Co., Ltd (ADR) (OTC: NTDOY) shares were up 34 percent after Pokémon Go was released. Never before has the market ascribed so much potential value to a release by the Japanese video-game maker as it has with Nintendo’s foray into smartphone gaming. For example: Wii U -...
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Don't Expect A New Nintendo Console Before 2018
Wednesday, July 30, 2014 - 1:28pm | 564Read More...Longer lifecycles could keep Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY) from releasing a new console in the near future. Up until recently, the Mario maker released a new TV-connected game machine every five years. This tradition ended with Wii U, which arrived in 2012 -- a full six years after the original Wii...
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Nintendo Promoted 'Mario Kart 8,' Nintendo 2DS With $9.7 Million TV Ad Campaign
Wednesday, July 2, 2014 - 10:32am | 593Read More...Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY) spent a fair amount of money to ensure the success of Mario Kart 8. The company spent $2.8 million on national TV ads during the first four months of the year (January 1 through April 30, 2014). Nintendo spent an additional $9.7 million during the following two months (May 1...
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Hints That 2015 Is The Swan Song For Nintendo's Wii U
Thursday, June 12, 2014 - 9:01am | 552Read More...Virtually every major character and franchise -- Mario, Zelda, Star Fox, Yoshi, Kirby, Smash Bros., etc. -- will arrive on Wii U by the end of 2015. Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY) could surely delay some of those games and save them for a later date, or develop something entirely new for the following...
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How Sony's E3 Press Conference May Have Saved Nintendo
Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - 12:23pm | 591Read More...It's not everyday that Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY) receives some assistance from a competitor. But at this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo, Sony's (NYSE: SNE) E3 presentation might have given Nintendo a little bit of help. Coincidentally, both companies chose to focus on games that...
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Nintendo's Next Big Innovation
Friday, April 11, 2014 - 10:25am | 457Read More...How will Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY) overcome the confusion and misinformation that hurt Wii U's sales figures? Investors shouldn't hold their breath for an immediate turnaround. The company's latest game console, Wii U, struggled at retail before Xbox One and PlayStation 4 were released. Now that...
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Sony's PlayStation Coming To China
Tuesday, November 12, 2013 - 2:39pm | 480Read More...Sony (NYSE: SNE) is ready to release a game console in China. According to market intelligence and consulting firm Marbridge Consulting, Sony President and CEO Kazuo Hirai has confirmed that the company will bring its game console business to China. The company will begin by establishing a "...
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China's Video Game Approval Could Be Worth Billions To Sony, Microsoft And Nintendo
Friday, September 27, 2013 - 12:24pm | 765Read More...In January, China Daily USA reported that China might lift its ban on the sale of video games. "We are reviewing the policy and have conducted some surveys and held discussions with other ministries on the possibility of opening up the game console market," an unnamed source from the Ministry of...
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Is Nintendo Facing a Secret Legal Battle?
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 - 4:09pm | 337Read More...Nintendo's Senior VP and general counsel is planning to step down this spring. The only question is why. Unlike Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), whose ongoing legal troubles may have prompted its chief patent counsel to leave, Nintendo (NTDOY) doesn't seem to have many legal battles going on right now. But...
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What Do the iPhone 4S Sales Figures Tell Us About Consumers?
Monday, October 17, 2011 - 2:23pm | 740Read More...At four million iPhones sold, the 4S has become Apple's fastest-selling device. Should we be surprised? Maybe. First Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) bragged that the iPhone 4S had been pre-sold to more than one million consumers. Now, in the weekend following its release, the iPhone 4S has moved four million...
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This Week in Tech Stupidity: Nintendo Drops Backwards Compatibility in Wii after PSP Drops Wi-Fi
Wednesday, August 17, 2011 - 8:28am | 404Read More...Has every publisher in the game industry lost their minds? Yesterday Benzinga learned that Sony (NYSE: SNE) will release a new version of the old PSP in Europe for 99 euro. It has since come to our attention that the device may lack Wi-Fi support, which is about the dumbest move Sony could have...
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Why Nintendo DS is the BEST System Ever, Why Nintendo 64 is the Worst
Friday, July 8, 2011 - 2:25pm | 1314Read More...One was filled with quality games and countless innovation. The other was a disaster from day one. In the ‘90s, everything was riding on Nintendo 64. The whole industry catered to its arrival, either as a third-party developer in support of its release, or as a competitor horrified by Nintendo's...
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Why Nintendo DS is the BEST System Ever, Why Nintendo 64 is the Worst
Friday, July 8, 2011 - 2:22pm | 1315Read More...One was filled with quality games and countless innovation. The other was a disaster from day one. In the ‘90s, everything was riding on Nintendo 64. The whole industry catered to its arrival, either as a third-party developer in support of its release, or as a competitor horrified by Nintendo's...
