Nintendo DS: The Next Popular Book Reader?
blog.wired.com 12/11/2008 — Nintendo and a publisher are selling a game cartridge that effectively turns the Nintendo DS into a reader. Nintendo and HarperCollins this week announced the cartridge, which will include 100 literary classics from authors such as Shakespeare, ...

Welcome to Nintendo of America's Media Site
press.nintendo.com 3/11/2009 — NINTENDO SHIPS 100 MILLIONTH PORTABLE NINTENDO DS SYSTEM Nintendo DS Helped Redefine What a Video Game Could Be REDMOND, Wash., March 11, 2009 - Somewhere - perhaps in Chicago, maybe in Paris, possibly in Tokyo - the 100 millionth system in the ...

New Nintendo DS Bundles Put a Colorful Spin on ‘Black Friday’
businesswire.com 11/25/2008 — REDMOND, Wash.--( BUSINESS WIRE )--The day after Thanksgiving might be known to holiday shoppers as “Black Friday,” but this year Nintendo is rewarding eager consumers with two brilliant splashes of color. On Nov. 28, Nintendo will release a duo of ...

Nintendo (mostly) owned Japan in 2008
nintendowiifanboy.com 1/8/2009 — While Nintendo couldn't boast the biggest-selling game in Japan in 2008 -- that honor went to Monster Hunter Portable -- but the company dominated ASCII Media Works' list of the top 30 games of the year. In fact, the entire rest of the top ten is ...

Book-like Nintendo DS to get, you guessed it, books
crunchgear.com 12/12/2008 — Turn the Nintendo DS sideways and then open it. It’s like a book! ROFL!!! They should totally make it so you could read books on it, but they should only make 100 books available at first and it should only be available in Britain– like so . One ...

Nintendo Responds To December NPD Sales, Seems Pleased [Corporate Gloating]
kotaku.com 1/16/2009 — Did you hear? Nintendo had a nice Christmas, giving 5 million good girls and boys Wiis and Nintendo DSs, smashing records left and right. Defensibly, Nintendo would like to brag about its...

A Nintendo DS for every student! No fair!
japanator.com 3/12/2009 — This is one of those articles that will make you happy, and very angry at the same time. About ten elementary and middle schools in the Osaka area will begin plans to distribute Nintendo DS consoles, plus educational software, to their students; ...

Mario makes way for Shakespeare on Nintendo DS in HarperCollins deal
technology.timesonline.co.uk 12/10/2008 — Nintendo, the Japanese video games company that brought us Donkey Kong and Mario the Plumber , is to announce a deal with the publisher HarperCollins today to make literary classics available to read on its DS portable games consoles. The 100 ...

Nintendo brain-trainer 'no better than pencil and paper'
technology.timesonline.co.uk 1/26/2009 — A 10p pencil is just as good as a 100 Nintendo at stimulating the memory, according to a study that dismisses the DS Lite's claims to boost the brain. The survey of ten-year-old children found no evidence to support claims in Nintendo's advertising ...

solar power your nintendo ds
technabob.com 2/12/2009 — The Nintendo DS Lite boasts pretty decent battery life when fully charged… but why charge it at all? Slap a few solar panels on that bad boy and stop worrying where you left your charger. Not sure how to accomplish such a feat? Well, thank ...

Video game announces record revenue — SFGate: Technology 1/15/2009
Powered by chart-topping sales of the Nintendo Wii and the DS, the U.S. video game industry pulled in a record $21.3 billion in revenue last year, defying the overall drag of the economy. The annual numbers from the NPD Group paint a picture of a ...

Video game announces record revenue — SFGate: Technology 1/16/2009
Powered by chart-topping sales of the Nintendo Wii and the DS, the U.S. video game industry pulled in a record $21.3 billion in revenue last year, defying the overall drag of the economy. The annual numbers from the NPD Group paint a picture of a ...

Nintendo Wii and DS set new Sales Records in 2008 — I4U News 1/16/2009
You guys made the Wii the biggest thing since sliced bread. Before 2008, no video game console had ever been purchased by 10 million Americans in a single year. The NPD Group says that Nintendo sold overall 10.17 million Wii consoles in 2008 in the ...

Youtube now on Sony PS3 and Nintendo Wii — I4U News 1/16/2009
Youtube launched a optimized web interface to watch Youtube videos in full-screen mode on the Sony PS3 and the Nintendo Wii. Why the Xbox 360 is not supported is a bit strange. I do not think there is a technical reason. The Youtube TV service is ...

Nintendo crushes it in 2008 console sales — CNET News.com 1/16/2009
Although it still lags Sony in lifetime sales, Nintendo's Wii and DS sold like hotcakes during the year, NPD reports, leaving PlayStation sales in the dust.