Today Nintendo held another worldwide direct event showcasing news for upcoming releases and updates to the Wii U and they are fantastic. Starting off, Nintendo addressed the Wii U load times and stated that with their Spring and Summer updates that all loading times and screen navigation times should speed up. Along with the new [...]

Last night Nintendo held a 3DS specific press conference to detail upcoming plans and support for the system. Many people were speculating that Nintendo would announce a new re-design of the system for an upcoming launch but Nintendo focused on game and accessory announcements. The first thing to address is that Nintendo officially confirmed the [...]

It is no secret that we are huge Mario Kart fans here at Nerd City (certain members even claim the increasing challenges available during online competition is proof the computers can learn). Needless to say, I was uber-pumped to see these brand new Mario Kart Wii Construction Sets from K’Nex (available exclusively from Toys R’  Us). Toys [...]

In a stunning announcement today Nintendo announced, after only being out on the market for five months, that they will be dropping the price of the 3DS from the current $249.99 to $169.99 effective on August 12th. This is very interesting on Nintendo’s part as this is very early for such a huge price [...]

Nintendo didn’t hold back on their official announcement of their new system, the Wii U. Just like the Wii before it, the Wii U is looking to innovate the home console and how we play once again when it will be released in 2012. Tags: GameTrailers.com, E3 2011: Introduction & Revelation (Stream), PC [...]

Over the past week there have been rumblings of Nintendo dropping the price of the Wii and introducing a line of older Wii games at a discounted price. In an interview with USA Today, Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime confirmed that starting on May 15th the Wii will have a permanent price of [...]

Ever since the unveiling of the 3DS while showing off Kid Icarus, Ocarina of Time, Star Fox and many other titles, we were still curious as to what the final line-up of launch games would be when the system launches on March 27th. Well there is good news and bad news, the good news [...]

Last week Nintendo held their Nintendo World convention basically highlighting the upcoming release of the 3DS in Japan. During this event not much new information came out on games or hardware as it was pretty much all information we have known, but Nintendo did confirm the expected battery life for the 3DS. When [...]

Yesterday Nintendo held a press conference to announce further information on their upcoming 3DS system. The biggest news was that the 3DS will be released in Japan on February 26th for 25,000 yen with a release date in the US of March 2011. The downfall is 25,000 yen converts to roughly $300, which [...]