Wii U

Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) enjoyed a healthy turnout when Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY) came to town last week. The Japanese game publisher and developer brought two new game demos -- Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and Nintendo 3DS -- to more than 100 Best Buy stores in the U.S. and Canada. The two-day...

The 2014 Electronic Entertainment Expo is officially over. While gamers will be sad to see the show go, attendees are likely too tired to realize that the three-day game-fest has come to an end. This year's show was definitely an improvement over the last few years, but it (like all E3 events) had...

Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY) and Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) teamed up for another Wii U event this week, to coincide with the 2014 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. Designed as a promotional tool for both companies (it increases store traffic while encouraging attendees to purchase a Wii U and/...

Video game consoles have been part of American culture since the 1980s. Over the years, many different console manufacturers have come and gone, including Sega and Atari. Despite the fluctuations in the market, one company has continued to feed the American public’s need for the latest in...

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...

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...

Critics and consumers will surely argue about which company had the better presentation at the 2014 Electronic Entertainment Expo. Some analysts have already chosen a winner, but Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter has a different take on the matter. "They both did as well as they...

Sony (NYSE: SNE) sold more new game consoles than any of its competitors in 2013. Can that winning streak continue for another year? The answer could be found within the company's press event at the Electronic Entertainment Expo. The annual trade show is used by Sony and other game...

Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) unofficial price cut could allow the company to compete more effectively against Sony's PlayStation 4. On June 9, 2014, Microsoft will begin selling its latest game console, Xbox One, without Kinect. Originally developed to compete with the motion-based controllers...

Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY) announced this week that the company will design new hardware specifically for emerging markets. Company President Satoru Iwata told Bloomberg that Nintendo wants to "make new things, with new thinking rather than a cheaper version of what we currently have." "The...

Nintendo's (OTC: NTDOY) latest console is struggling to keep up with its competitors. Will that change in 2014? The company has repeatedly lowered its sales expectations for Wii U, all the while insisting that it would remedy the situation by releasing more games. That strategy has currently...

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...

Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY) could rebound with a fresh console in the distant future, but don't expect Wii U to turn things around. "I don't see any indication that they'll do anything different [in 2014]," Christine Arrington, Senior Games Analyst at IHS Electronics & Media (NYSE: IHS), told...

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has delivered its first game console in the form of a set-top box called Fire TV. Available to order at Amazon.com, Fire TV can stream movies, music and TV shows, just like other set-top boxes. This one comes with a couple of bonuses (such as voice search) that set it apart...

Sony (NYSE: SNE) is officially developing a virtual reality headset for PlayStation 4. Known as Project Morpheus, the headset features a panel resolution of 1920×1080, which amounts to 960×1080 per eye. The prototype device currently contains a 90 degree field of view, as well as 3D audio, an...