Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime holds up the new DS-i handheld device. It will not appear in the United States until well into 2009, he said, because the existing DS Lite is still selling very well here. Instead, the DS-i will be available in the short term only in …
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Update at 2:10 p.m.: This story now reflects Nintendo’s response to a request for comment.
If there’s one thing that’s sure to get video gamers talking, it’s a rumor that there could be a new Wii, Xbox, or PlayStation console on the horizon.
Well, the hot topic of discussion du jour is that there could be a new Wii by 2011, according to a post on the blog What They Play.
That site “has heard from multiple sources in the game development and publishing community that Nintendo is currently showing early presentations of its next home console hardware. Apparently set to hit the market ‘by 2011,’ the device is said to be the true ‘next generation’ Nintendo console, and far more than a simple refresh of the current (Wii) hardware.”
The post continued, asserting that this rumored new device could have high-definition capabilities, as well as a “greater emphasis on digitally distributed and backwardly compatible content.”
For its part, Nintendo said it does not comment on rumors.
It could be mere coincidence (because odds are that even if the rumors are true, Nintendo wouldn’t want to confirm them for quite some time), but on Thursday, the company is hosting its annual media day here in San Francisco. And I’d been told that it would “have news” it would be releasing at the event. Until now, I’d assumed the news would be something only minimally consequential, but of course, announcing a new Wii development project would make a few headlines, I would think.
More likely, the news that Nintendo will put out Thursday will be about a new multimedia DS handheld device, such as the one the video game blog Joystiq says could be unveiled at a separate press event in Japan Wednesday night.
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For Xbox 360 users, the so-called red ring of death is a worst-case scenario that can cause nightmares about total system failure and the inability to play any more Halo 3.
Since the introduction of the console, in late 2005, some users have suffered through a well-documented series of quality …
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Executives throughout the video game industry may be breathing a big sigh of relief. That’s because it looks like one of the industry’s biggest critics, Florida lawyer Jack Thompson, has had his voice cut off at the knees, to mix a metaphor or two.
According to a Thursday report on the popular video game blog Kotaku, Thompson has been disbarred by a Florida judge who ruled he has been guilty of some seriously unbecoming conduct.
Essentially, according to Kotaku, the court ruled that Thompson “made false statements of material fact to courts and repeatedly violated a court order…communicated the subject of representation directly with clients of opposing counsel…engaged in prohibited ex parte communications…publicized and sent hundreds of pages of vitriolic and disparaging missives, letters, faxes and press releases to the affected individuals…targeted an individual who was not involved with (Thompson) in any way, merely due to ‘the position (the individual) holds in state and national politics’…falsely, recklessly and publicly accused a judge of being amenable to the ‘fixing’ of cases,” and so on.
Thompson might best be known for his withering attacks of Rockstar Games for the sexual content that was hidden in its hit game, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. But he has also been vocal in his criticism of countless other games for what he saw as too much violence and sexual content.
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