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Kathy Wood popped into her fellow math teacher’s room and was greeted by a not-so-unusual question: “Hey, Mrs. Wood, is it true that you play ‘Call of Duty?’” Until age 58, when her son and motivation-to-play departed for college, her answer was a casual “yes....

Nintendo Co., Ltd (ADR) (OTC: NTDOY)’s new gaming console Switch set record sales in the United States in its first two days, according to a tweet from New York Times reporter Nick Wingfield. “Fri-Sat sales for Nintendo Switch exceeded first 2-day sales in Americas for any system in...

Japanese video game console maker Nintendo Co., Ltd (ADR) (OTC: NTDOY) has just announced more details of its newest console on the block, the Nintendo Switch. Switch will go on sale March 2017. As the company, analysts and avid Nintendo fans keep their fingers crossed over, looking forward to...

Michael Pachter appears on SIFTD.net Games every week to answer questions about the gaming sector. In this week's episode, Pachter talked about Nintendo Co., Ltd (ADR) (OTC: NTDOY)'s Wii U and NX launch. Nintendo's NX Release Nintendo has set a dismal forecast of 800,000 Wii Us to be sold in 2016,...

Michael Pachter is an analyst at Wedbush who weekly contributes to SIFTD.net about the video gaming world. In response to the prompt "does Nintendo Co., Ltd (ADR) (OTC: NTDOY) have enough resources to survive if the NX sells poorly? Must the NX be a hit for the company?" Michael Pachter responded...

It's not everyday that Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY) receives some assistance from a competitor. But at this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo, Sony's (NYSE: SNE) E3 presentation might have given Nintendo a little bit of help. Coincidentally, both companies chose to focus on games that...

Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY) is arguably the most troubled developer within the video game industry. The company announced in January that it had reduced its Wii U sales estimate from nine million consoles to just 2.8 million units by the end of March 2014. This was not the first time that Nintendo...

Sony (NYSE: SNE) is ready to release a game console in China. According to market intelligence and consulting firm Marbridge Consulting, Sony President and CEO Kazuo Hirai has confirmed that the company will bring its game console business to China. The company will begin by establishing a "...

The past week was nearly dominated by Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) many product announcements. New iPads, new Mac Book Pros, new details on the Mac Pro -- the list went on and on. The only thing missing was Apple's first TV set, though the rumor mill helped consumers cope with that. The unconfirmed...

During the June quarter, Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY) sold 210,000 units of the seven-year-old Wii game console. Wii U, Nintendo's newest game console, sold 160,000 units during the same period. Despite the sales discrepancy, Nintendo has decided to throw its weight behind Wii U and cease production of...

Uninformed retail employees may have contributed to the sales problems afflicting Nintendo's (OTC: NTDOY) latest console. Christine Arrington, the Senior Games Analyst at IHS Electronics & Media (NYSE: IHS), told Benzinga that she realized that Wii U was in trouble when she became an...

In January, China Daily USA reported that China might lift its ban on the sale of video games. "We are reviewing the policy and have conducted some surveys and held discussions with other ministries on the possibility of opening up the game console market," an unnamed source from the Ministry of...

After two years of declines, the video game industry is beginning to rebound. According to The Wall Street Journal, sales of new hardware (consoles like Xbox 360 and handhelds like Nintendo 3DS), new software and accessories have risen one percent in the United States. The collective sales of...

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has reportedly lowered the number of Xbox One units that it expects to ship to retailers in 2013. According to a DigiTimes translation of a report by the Chinese-language publication Economic Daily News, only 6.2 million Xbox One units will arrive before the end of the...