Nintendo

New Nintendo president Furukawa and Switch sales numbers – Nintendo news bonanza

March 19, 2018

After another quiet period, we finally got some big Nintendo news with the company’s year-end results. This includes the announcement of a new Nintendo president, Shuntaro Furukawa, plus great sales numbers!

2018 Nintendo predictions!

December 17, 2017

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2018 predictions: January Direct, as leaked by EA continue with the steady stream of games, January Direct will outline a lot of them big 2018 games – Kirby, Yoshi, Fire Emblem, Metroid Prime 4, Pokemon unannounced – Smash 4 Switch, Animal Crossing Monster Games – DKCR3 Next Level Games – Luigi’s Mansion 3 or Mario […]

Satoru Iwata’s Legacy

July 23, 2015

Satoru Iwata will be remembered for his innovative push into the “blue ocean” with the Wii and DS, as well as his great public presence in Nintendo Directs and Iwata Asks. Much of his legacy has yet to be written, however, as the initiatives he was putting into place right up until his death will […]

Radio Splode 89: Fire Iwata, Nintendo Must Start Over

January 18, 2014

Download Directly Following December’s NPD numbers, Nintendo finally revised their Wii U sales numbers for the fiscal year ending March 31st, 2014. They were saying they would sell 9 million Wii Us, and they’ve revised that down to a mere 2.8 million. Less than a third of an already low number. It’s not all good […]

Radio Splode 76: Gloom and Nintendoom

August 6, 2013

Download Directly Newbs and Weskimo have finally returned to bring you a new episode of Radio Splode! Despite taking a couple weeks off, the stories remain largely the same… everything Nintendo-related is a disaster! We’ve got Q1 2013 financial results to talk about, as well as more 3rd party woes, retailers dumping the Wii U, […]

Radio Splode 65: Fan Feedback Spectacular!

April 24, 2013

Download Directly This is the first full episode of Radio Splode we’ve posted to YouTube, and it’s all thanks to a request from one of our fans! In celebration of the format change, we’ve dedicated this episode to responding to the questions and other comments of our followers. Subjects range from Metroid Other M and […]

Radio Splode 62: Iwata’s gotta go and LucasArts takes a bow

April 4, 2013

Download Directly It’s yet another depressing news round-up this week with me, your old pal Newbs! In this episode, I dig into Emily Rogers’ thorough thrashing of Nintendo’s president, “Satoru Iwata: Hubris versus Western Culture”. Other topics include the closing of LucasArts, Square Enix’s troubled past and curious future, and the perplexing existence of Deus […]

Evaluating Nintendo’s E3 2012 Conference

June 5, 2012

Nintendo’s 2008 conference is remembered as one of the weakest in E3 history. Despite Wii’s industry-changing success, it was evident that year that Nintendo had failed to reinvest its success, and we were shown little more than a sad retread of Animal Crossing, and the embarrassing Wii Music. Nintendo’s E3 2012 conference didn’t include anything […]

E3 2012: Nintendo Conference Predictions

May 29, 2012

Nintendo’s E3 2012 press conference will be held on June 5th at 9AM PDT, with the company’s cast of lovable executives on-hand to reintroduce the world to Wii U and hype 3DS. That’s just a week away, making now the perfect time to lay out my totally-believable and not-at-all fantastical predictions of what will happen. […]

Shorter Nintendo Dev Cycles Viewer Feedback – Radio Splode Highlight

March 12, 2012

Don’t have time to listen to the entire Radio Splode podcast? Not a “podcast person”? Splodinator has you covered. Video highlights of the weekly Radio Splode podcast are now available on YouTube. In this clip, Team Splode responds to some great viewer feedback regarding Nintendo’s sometimes lengthy development cycles, and debates whether they’re ultimately beneficial […]

Nintendo, Fix Your Devolpment Cycles

November 15, 2011

Five years since The Legend of Zelda‘s last console appearance, Skyward Sword is about to be released. It’s bound to be an incredible game, and I’m anticipating it with a degree of excitement I haven’t experienced since, well, I was waiting for Twilight Princess (and before that, Wind Waker, and before that… you get the […]