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Nintendo have e-reader plans for the 3DS

June 18th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news

Satoru Iwata, the Chairman of Nintendo, was interviewed at E3 this week, and he said that Nintendo is considering how the 3DS might use its Wifi to download ebooks. “We’re thinking about functionality where it will automatically acquire newspaper and magazine articles.” This would mark an expansion on Nintendo’s previous foray into ebook reading. Back [...]

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Walker Books to release ebooks for Nintendo DSi

May 20th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news

The Bookseller is reporting: Children’s author Anthony Horowitz will give readers a sneak peek of a new collection of horror stories with three of them available on the Nintendo DSi handheld console. The stories, from the forthcoming Walker Books short story collection More Bloody Horowitz, will go on sale tomorrow (21st May) through Nintendo’s DSi [...]

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Nintendo reports a 50% drop in sales due to piracy

April 20th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news

I found this article on piracy on Asahi.com: … The magicom devices, which are spreading rapidly overseas, typically comprise of a cartridge about the same size as an authentic game disk and a separate memory card used to store downloaded software. Alternatively, some pirates modify the game consoles themselves. The objective is to make hardware [...]

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First Look: Nintendo DSi XL

March 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · hardware reviews

CrunchGear got their hands on one of the early review units. Take a look a side by side with the original DS: I’m drooling.

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