As the Editor of Push Square, Sammy has over 15 years of experience analysing the world of PlayStation, from PS3 through PS5 and everything in between. He’s an expert on PS Studios and industry matters, as well as sports games and simulators. He also enjoys RPGs when he has the time to dedicate to them, and is a bit of a gacha whale.
It has been customary to track the sales figures of Nintendo consoles against that of Sony ones to learn of which company is king of the consoles.
However, today has seen some talk from toy manufacturers Tomy who have suggested Nintendo is shrinking the toy market. The company has cut its annual profit forecast from 5 billion yen to 1.7 billion yen...
A lot of the complaints about Legend Of Zelda: Twilight Princess was that it wasn't properly orchestrated and instead the music was all MIDI.
While I felt the music in Twilight Princess perfectly suited the game a lot of people who don't really know what they are talking about saw the words MIDI and thought bad. Personally the fact that Twilight...
News Japanese Only Games Could Get Worldwide VC Launches
Finally Nintendo make some kind of hint that we may see Japanese only Nintendo classics put out for worldwide release.
For a few weeks now the word on then street has been that import favourites will not see a release on the Virtual Console due to problems with translation and such. However, speaking with Wired, Nintendo senior Vice President George...
Either that or TheInquirer.net are seriously in need of some hits to their site this week.
Anyway, according to a post on their website the Wii is in fact capable of High Definition graphics. It's just hidden. Or something. The original article states: It is amazing what you can get out of a drunk Nintendo executive. Who would have thought Nintendo...
News Reggies Talks Shortages And Metroid
Talking to MTV Reggie had some interesting stuff to say about the Nintendo Wii and DS consoles.
Firstly he apologised for the lack of Wii and DS units being made readily available. "We apologize that it continues to be a difficult problem to get your hands on [a Wii]," he said. "The fact is, we manufactured 4 million Wii consoles by...
Finally some news has come out of Nibris HQ regarding their hotly anticipated survival horror thriller, Sadness.
Within the game you will take control of a character known as Maria who has just survived a serious train crash. Maria is left in control of her brother Alexander, who was blinded from the crash and it is from here that the game takes a...
News "Everybody Votes Channel" Available
Nintendo released their latest channel onto the Nintendo Wii Shop last night - the aptly titled "Everybody Votes Channel".
The channel which is available for free is likely to run as a customer feedback tool for Nintendo but if only all customer feedback forms were this fun then I'd fill them in more often. The update will require you to run a...
News BBC Take Advantage Of News Channel
Just an amusing little snippet to round off the day involving the BBC taking advantage of the Nintendo Wii's news channel.
Wired.com reader "chrominance" claims: So I'm watching the World Business Report on BBC World and there's a story about Google being attacked by media conglomerates because of copyrighted videos on YouTube. Apparently the BBC...
IGN.com have today reported that Okami may well be heading to the Nintendo Wii system.
According to a "reliable industry insider" Capcom are seriously considering bringing their beautiful Okami title, a game which requires you to control an innovative magical paintbrush, to the Wii. While the game would fit perfectly hand in hand with the Wii's...
As I have already stated in my preview the concept for Cooking Mama is utterly fantastic. To think that there are still companies out there that want to be original, that want to make something new and that want make use of Nintendo’s technology is quite heart warming to me.
Cooking Mama might not be the best game you’ll ever play. In fact – I...
Allow me to pose you with a question. You are armed with a Katana blade and a shotgun. Your enemy is armed with just a sword. Would you have a sword fight with him or would you blow his brains out with your shotgun? Exactly.
I guess Ubisoft thought that sword fighting might be something a bit different – particularly in a first person shooter game...
News Fanboys: EA Say "Buy 360 And/Or Wii, Skip The PS3."
I'm not one to create speculation over which console is the best. As far as I am concerned NintendoLife.com is 100% unbiased and all of us here keep an open mind about the latest video games and consoles.
However the question does always ponder as to whether people within the actual industry (so developers, publishers and the such) have meaningful...
News Peach And Bowser To Marry April 9th?
Haha, Nintendo don't half like doing things a little abnormally. As this press release proves.
Nintendo of America Requests the Pleasure of Your Company at the Marriage of PeachtoBowser on the 9th Day of April 2007 The nuptials will take place at the beginning of Super Paper Mario, which will be available for Nintendo's hot new Wii home video game...
News Fight Night Could Be Coming To Wii...
... and when I say "could" I mean it's pretty much inevitable that we can expect several boxing games on the Wii this year, right?
In an interview with doghouseboxing.com, producer of the Fight Night series David Blank stated: "We're talking about it right now. We're contemplating and we definitely feel there are some exciting things we can do...
News Virtual Console Round-Up: Issue 1
A round-up of the best Virtual Console releases from the months December 2006 and January 2007.
Ok, so this is a new monthly feature that we are going to be running on NintendoLife.com in the upcoming future. Due to the runaway success of the Virtual Console (and I have always been enthusiastic about it to be honest) we are going to be integrating...
News Capcom: "Nintendo Is For Teh Kids, Lol."
Nintendo has always been perceived to have an overly "kiddy" image but recent announcements about Mamhunt 2 and other such mature games looked set to straighten the record about Nintendos image.
Cue Capcoms senior director of strategy to get his 15 minutes of fame: "If there is a “core player base” on Wii, within two years, it will be...
News Wii Weights Will Enhance Your Workout
A couple of weeks ago I was genuinely going to do a test for NintendoLife.com based around how fit you can get from playing the Wii. I was not the only one to notice an increase in the size of my biceps.
Unfortunately some American blogger had already beaten me to the idea and recorded himself losing a total of 9lbs just from playing the Wii daily...
News Starfox 2 Footage Hits The Net
The unreleased sequel to Starfox has had a number of bits of footage floating around on the Internet just lately and I thought you might like to share it with me.
Whether this is old news or not I'm not totally sure but I wasn't even aware of a Starfox 2. I'm sure the geeks will be flying over here to set me straight on the record but I'll just be...
News DS Reaches European Sales Milestone
The Nintendo DS has become the fastest selling games console in European history, smashing the 10 million sales mark in less than two years.
"Nintendo DS topped the six million mark in September and has continued to go from strength to strength with thousands of new people being introduced to gaming through the Nintendo DS," said Laurent...
Here is a little fact for you: Superman is shit. Why people choose him as their favourite superhero I will never know. How can you relate to an alien character that perfectly resembles a human and wears his underwear outside his tights? Oh and couple that with the fact he is perfectly invincible and it all gets a bit pointless really, doesn’t it?
...
News Unannounced Hudson Title Coming To VC?
Previously unannounced TurboGrafx title Alien Crush is likely to make a release on the Virtual Console this Monday.
In a post on Hudson's company website an employee teased: "Stay tuned! This upcoming Monday Dec 11th, there will be a new TurboGrafx game coming to your Virtual Console on the Nintendo Wii! It's a new one, which has not been...
News Sony Patents Wii Remote Style Device
So we're not one for rumours here at NintendoLife.com but here's something you may (or may not) be interested in.
Sony - who suffered some harsh press from hardcore gamers when they announced the tilt sensors in their PS3 remote may be about to enrage Nintendo fanboys and the general gaming press once again. A recent patent filed by Sony states: An...
News Wii Go Online Second Quarter Of 2007
Reggie Fils-Aime has announced the full details of when we can expect to take the Wii online for multiplayer gaming.
Speaking with SpikeTV's Game Head Show he said: "The multiplayer is coming. During the Japanese launch, there is Pokémon Battle Revolution, and that's really the first one. There will be titles that we'll be announcing in first...
News EA Acquires New Plant Solely For Wii Production
Electronic Arts are said to make or break a console depending on how much third party support they provide. so it can only be good news that they have acquired Utah-based Headgate Studios purely for Wii production.
EA has previously worked with Headgate Studios on an external contract basis but after six years the video game giant has finally...
