Nintendo

The famed Mario creator is on the cusp of reporting another major loss. According to Bloomberg, Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY) will report a loss of 18.7 billion yen in the 12 months ended March 31. This is the second consecutive loss that the company has endured. Bloomberg quoted a number of Japanese...

Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY) may have sold a depressingly low number of Wii U consoles last month. According to sales estimates from Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter, only 55,000 Wii U consoles were sold domestically in March. This is down from 66,000 units in February, 57,000 units in January, 463,000...

After the massive success of the original Wii, Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY) was expected to develop a popular successor. Thus far, the company has failed. Despite the sales declines, Nintendo execs had vehemently fought against the prospect of developing software for smartphones. PC downloads were also...

The gaming world is changing: tablets are being used more and more for gaming, consoles are developing more functions than just gaming, Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY) is trying to combine the home console and travel console, and more games are becoming available for download. The next generation gaming...

Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY) lost a patent infringement case this week after a federal jury found that the company infringed on display technology invented by a former Sony (NYSE: SNE) employee. The technology was initially invented by Seijiro Tomita. According to Reuters, Tomita was awarded $30.2...

In Star Wars, Yoda famously said that there were only two Sith Lords -- "No more, no less; a master and an apprentice." His words held true for the game industry for several years. Sega and Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY) successfully prevented Panasonic (NYSE: PC), Philips, NEC Corporation and other...

It might be hard to tell when looking at the sales figures for Nintendo's (OTC: NTDOY) latest game machine, but the console game market is actually growing. In fact, it has been growing for more than 20 years. According to VGChartz, which chronicles the lifetime sales figures for almost every...

With every passing month, new reports suggest that Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY) may be unable to recover from the lackluster Wii U sales figures. To be fair, three million units is nothing to sneer at. Startups and smaller corporations would be overjoyed to sell three million units of anything in three...

Nintendo's (OTC: NTDOY) latest console is off to a rocky start, selling only 3.19 million units since it was released last November. According to The New York Times, Nintendo expects that it will have sold no more than four million units through March -- nearly 30 percent less than the company's...

PlayStation 3 set records as one of the most expensive game consoles ever released. When Sony (NYSE: SNE) shipped the console in 2006, it offered two different packages, one at $500 and another at $600. Since the former was only available in limited quantities, most consumers ended up buying the...

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is expected to unveil its third game machine at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) this June. While many had hoped that this announcement would be accompanied by a similar unveiling from Sony (NYSE: SNE), company execs have all but denied that PlayStation 4's release is...

While Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Samsung and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) are free to ship their devices nearly anywhere, Sony (NYSE: SNE), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY) have been prevented from selling their most successful hardware items -- video game consoles -- in China. That could...

Over the past 12 months, tech companies have added touch screens to just about everything. This trend will surely continue in 2013, but what is the next big thing in technology? What can consumers and business professionals look forward to in the next 12 months? Flexible Screens Samsung, LG and...

From movie theaters and 3D televisions to 3D game consoles, smartphones and other devices, consumers are always eager for new avenues of three-dimensional entertainment. The latest trend started in a familiar place: movie theaters. After the release of Avatar, which grossed $2.7 billion worldwide...

Six years ago, Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY) was on top of the world. The company had overcome two console blunders (Nintendo 64 and GameCube, both of which lagged behind in sales to their competitors), and released a new console -- Nintendo Wii -- that would go on to sell 97 million units worldwide....