Game giant promises at least 65 new Wii games and 80 new DS games in the first half of the year.

"Our momentum is not limited to one system or one game," said Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America's marketing replacement for Perrin Kaplan. "We're going broad and bold in 2008, with something for every member of the family."

First-party highlights from the release list include Advance Wars: Days of Ruin and Crosswords for DS, with Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Mario Kart Wii, and Wii Fit headed to Nintendo's fifth-generation console.
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A report today from Jesse Divnich at the simExchange says Nintendo has turned casual games and gamers into the primary forces driving the videogame industry. Using data from the holiday 2007 shopping season, the firm said that one factor in the industry's growth has been a larger-than-expected next-generation adoption rate among casual gamers. (GameDaily, 01/09/08)
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9th Dec, 2008 Just what in the hell is going on with Mario and Peach? It was so simple back in the old NES days of Super Mario Bros. She got herself kidnapped, he went after her with the help of Luigi, and all ended happily ever after. Or so we thought. The thing is that it didn't really. It's become ever more apparent that since that first rescue things have only ever got messier, dirtier and more manipulative in their relationship. Far from the innocent damsel and hero set-up that appeared ... » Read More

It was recently reported that the Nintendo National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has received an Emmy for its advances in engineering creativity. This is the second year in a row that Nintendo has had the honor of walking home with this award.
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Dec 17, 2007 Mario Kart Wii is not due out for a few months yet, but US magazine Nintendo Power has already had a go and the feedback is promising. Following confusion over how many players will be in a race in the new game, NP confirms that the game will feature 12-player racing online, with an improved version of Mario Kart DS' matchmaking system that should get you into races far quicker than the portable could manage. Performing stunts, as seen in previously released screenshots, will ... » Read More

Rumors allegedly sourced from the latest issue of weekly Famitsu magazine claims five new Wii colors will launch alongside with Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Mario Kart Wii will feature an 8-multiplayer mode and animal riders, and Star Ocean 4 - previously announced as a PS3 exclusive - will release on the Xbox 360 as well

Kotaku and Advanced Media Network have updates: the source of these rumor, a 2ch message board poster known as "Syobonta" aka "Syobo Online", has admitted that his Famitsu information was faked. The rumors were apparently some sort of joke amongst NeoGAF forum members.
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The latest issue of Weekly Famitsu is claiming that Nintendo will launch five new Wii colors alongside the release of Super Smash Bros. Brawl in Japan. Rumors also suggest that animals will be added to Mario Kart Wii's list of drivable er...vehicles.
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According to IGN's GamerMetrics, the current top ten most-anticipated titles are as follows (ranked by percentages of mindshare among IGN's audience):

1. Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii) 5.00%
2. WWE SmackDown! vs. Raw 2008 (PS3) 3.11%
3. Assassin's Creed (XB360) 2.63%
4. Super Mario Galaxy (Wii) 2.54%
5. Mass Effect (XB360) 2.33%
6. WWE SmackDown! vs. Raw 2008 (XB360) 1.99%
7 Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (PS3) 1.91%
8. Assassin's Creed (PS3) 1.86%
9. Rock Band (XB360) 1.70%
10. Mario Kart Wii (Wii) 1.29%
11. Crysis (PC) 1.24%
12. Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles (Wii) 1.13%

In addition, GamerMetrics analyzed IGN's traffics of Assassin's Creed for different SKUs (see the image below) and forecast that the game will sell 1 million units for Xbox 360 and 350,000 units for PS3 by the end of the year.
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According to reports from 1up, Nintendo revealed at their annual Fall Conference in Japan this week that Mario Kart on the Wii is going to support up to 12 player games online. So far, no other Wii game has boasted 12 players online in a single match-up, and hints at a streamlined matchmaking system only raise the anticipation levels for the online game.
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Oct. 12, 2007 Call us Mario Kart purists, but we started becoming unhappy with the direction of Nintendo's racing series as soon as the karts stopped being karts and started being miniature racing cars. The last home console instalment, Double Dash, was arguably the worst in the series and we mostly put that down to the fact that it didn't feel like the Mario Kart we know and love. The colorful GameCube version lost all sensation of carving a perfect corner and clipping centimetres off your ... » Read More

Oct 11, 2007 When it rains, it pours Mario news. Not only have we learnt over the last 48 hours that Mario Kart Wii has been delayed (boo!), but now we can see that there's a new racer joining the fold (Boo!). Keep your eyes peeled on the footage below, taken from Nintendo's recent autumn conference. At about two-thirds of the way through, ghostly karter Boo whizzes by. Soon after, Mario pulls out bags of style as he pops a wheelie on the game's new motorbikes. Brill. ... » Read More

Oct 10, 2007 New screens of Mario Kart Wii's new vehicles have emerged today and offer the first glimpse of the newly-added motorbikes. Check out Peach's ride below. It's going to feel a bit odd at first riding bikes at such low speeds, especially when we're used to Project Gotham Racing 4's super-fast horses of steel, but if any game can do it right, it's Mario Kart. The rest of the new screens show impressive draw distance on some big jumps and some ultra-cute Shy Guys taking a ski-lift ... » Read More

At the same conference where Nintendo confirmed Sonic as a playable Smash Bros. character, the company also announced that Mario Kart Wii will include motorcycles when it ships next year. While there's no other information about the new Mario Kart vehicle type, we know that Wario already has his own set of two wheels, as pictured above. It'll be interesting to see which characters can ride on two wheels or if it'll be available to one and all.

Unfortunately, no one is going to find out very soon, as the game has been delayed from early 2008 to Spring 2008. At least Nintendo gave gamers something to look forward to in the way of motorcycles and then reconfirmed that the steering wheel accessory will come with the game.
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Sept 6, 2007 Update: A statement released by the UK's Official Nintendo Magazine reads: The details printed in Official Nintendo Magazine 21 regarding Mario Kart Wii were healthy speculation on our part and are in no way an official announcement from Nintendo. We are sorry if we have mislead anyone. We do not set out to mislead our readers. ONM apologises profusely for any misunderstandings that this has caused. Update ... » Read More

Fans of Mario Kart and people who still possess the capacity to enjoy things just received tentative confirmation that their futures are going to be so bright that they'll need sunglasses. The source? It isn't new-fangled space drugs or mind-porn this time around, but Mario Kart on the Wii, online, with a maximum of 16 players.

The news was featured in a scan of the original Official Nintendo Magazine.
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Told you, didn't we? But knowing that Mario Kart Wii was going to be announced at Nintendo's E3 press conference didn't make us any less excited. When it came to the thing actually being revealed - in precisely 30 seconds of mouthwatering footage - we were cheering on the edge of our chairs just like you, gawping at the promising new tracks and classic old ones just like you... squeezing our eyelids shut and wishing that we could be transported ahead to 2008 in order to play it right now, just ... » Read More

Hardcore Nintendo fans certainly weren't the focus of this year's press conference. True, we saw the Wii Zapper revealed and finally got confirmation on Mario Kart Wii (due Q1 next year) and Super Mario Galaxy's release date (November 12), but the real focus was the company's continued audience expansion. In addition to showing Brain Age 2 and a new visual acuity game called Flash Focus, Nintendo unveiled its secret weapon for its next casual carpet bomb - Wii Fit, an exercise program that uses ... » Read More