Well, that didn’t take long did it? Team Acekard announced today that their latest one slot solution, the Acekard 2i, is now fully functional on DSi units. You can check out a video clip showing off the flash cart in action above. A release date is expected to be announced “soon,” along with further details. Seeing as the DSi has […]

Nintendo’s little white box, the Wii, has sold through an seven million units in Japan since its introduction back in 2006, according to sales data collected from Famitsu publisher Enterbrain. An impressive figure, no doubt, but what’s interesting is that sales are on the decline. This January Wii sales reached five million units, then six million in May, but took […]

Last month, an early Sears Black Friday advertisement revealed Nintendo’s intention to release a special edition Mario DS Lite. Nintendo made it official today, announcing that the Mario Red DS bundle will hit store shelves nationwide on November 28, along with the previously Japan-only Ice Blue colored DS. “Nintendo DS is both the most affordable and the most popular video […]

Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime has went on record to say that certain third-parties don’t “get” Wii, or understand how to create compelling titles for the motion-sensing powered console. I will be able to say our licensees ‘get it’ when their very best content is on our platform. And with very few exceptions today, that’s not the case. The […]

Just like that, Nintendo has rolled out yet another Wii System Menu update. This is a required update to maintain Shop Channel access that features enhanced parental controls, USB keyboard support for Mii Channel, and vague system function improvements. What the changelog fails to mention, and understandably so, is that the ability to run homebrew applications has once again been […]

Looks like Nintendo isn’t pleased with the secondhand market either. The voice-controlled Wii Speak peripheral, which is slated to hit retailers early next week, will ship with a unique access voucher that is required to unlock the upcoming Wii Speak Channel. Worse, the voucher in question is only good for a single use — meaning once you have used it […]

According to a report from Norwegian-based magazine GameReactor, Nintendo is poised to roll out a updated of Opera’s Wii browser as soon as this December. Pictured above, the new browser is said to sport a slightly revamped interface, complete with redesigned icons. Other notable additions include Wii Speak interoperability, support for checking Wii Mail from within the browser, and a […]

Word broke late last week that the newly released DSi was incompatible with all flash cart models, but it seems that Nintendo’s security efforts were in vain. Yasu of YSMenu fame already has managed to run homebrew code on the handheld, a mere three days after its release in Japan. Above is a video clip of him running a simple […]

According to sales data collected by Famitsu publishing house Enterbrain, Nintendo took the handheld market by storm this week, selling through 170,779 DSi units in the first two days following launch on November 1. Not too shabby! Especially when taking into account that a recent survey pegged only 4 percent of the core market as being interested in purchasing a […]

Now you, too, can mash a button in less than 16 times in a single second, just like Hudson’s Takahashi Meijin. Our friends over at hardware modification site AcidMods have constructed a Wii Rapid Fire Kit, which automatically activates turbo mode on either the A or B button of the Wii Remote controller at the flick of a switch. As […]

With the DSi now officially out in the wild, Japanese site Impress Watch decided to pick one up and dissect its contents, taking an in-depth look at the electronic innards of Nintendo’s third-generation handheld. While the most obvious and noticeable additions are the refined stereo speakers and slightly larger LCD screens, there is one significant change elsewhere that may be […]

Surprise, surprise. According to a user over at Chinese site Hacken, who managed to lay hands on a DSi ahead of its November 1 street date, the new handheld is incompatible with all current slot-1 flash carts. Various cart brands were tested, from the popular R4 to CycloDS, with each repeatedly failing to auto boot. Only one cart in particular, […]

Shortly after the multimedia-packed DSi was announced, Reggie Fils-Aime was asked when the handheld would be hitting North America, to which he replied “well into 2009.” Thankfully, that vague release window has since been narrowed down by Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, who expects that the handheld will arrive in overseas markets this summer, not beyond fall 2009. Specific plans will […]

By way of just-released Q2 2008 financial data, Nintendo has revealed that total year-to-date Nintendo DS sales have surpassed that of the company’s previous generation handheld, the Game Boy Advance. As of this September, Nintendo had sold 84.33 million DS units worldwide. In comparison, life-to-date sales of Game Boy Advance hardware hover at 81.36 million. These figures of course include […]

According to a reader survey conducted by prominent Japanese video game site Dengeki Online, only a scant 3.6 percent of gamers plan to purchase the newly announced Nintendo DSi on its November 1 release date. In comparison, 40.7 percent say they will not purchase the third-generation handheld at all, while 29.4 percent said they were “interested” but not completely sold […]

Assuming demand does not spike significantly, you should have less of a difficult time finding a Wii this holiday season, as Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime recently dropped word that production has been bumped up to 2.4 million units per month. Nintendo has continually raised the production levels of the Wii hardware. We’re now producing 2.4 million units a […]

The Wii programming gurus of Team Twiizers are back, this time with an update to their multi-purpose Homebrew Channel. In addition to several bugfixes and enhancements, beta 9 features compatibility with SDHC format cards and can be installed on the latest system menu firmware, which as of writing was the one released last week on October 23. For those not […]

The NPD Group has published its software and hardware sales figures for the month of September. On the hardware front, sales were up across the board overall. Nintendo once again obliterated the competition with 687,000 Wii units sold, up 234,000 from the previous month. Sales of the 360 nearly hit the 350,000 mark, largely thanks in part to the September […]

At its pre-TGS fall presser last week, Nintendo announced that it would be renaming its Wii Point to Nintendo Points later this year in Japan to coincide with the launch of the online DSi Store. Given the new universal name, you’d assume that points on a single card can be transferred between the Wii and DS stores, right? Wrong… read […]

Nintendo announced its third DS hardware revision earlier last week, the slimmer, lighter, camera-equipped Nintendo DSi. It’s been making waves in the gaming community ever since. What do the folks over at Sony think? Are they at all worried that the multimedia features of the DSi will give Nintendo a stronger competitive edge against the PSP? Here is John Koller’s […]