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AFTER ENDURING A disappointing year, Nintendo is planning on developing new devices for emerging markets.
In an interview with Bloomberg, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata said the company would develop completely new game machines for emerging markets rather than sell cheaper versions of existing consoles like the Wii U.
Nintendo reported a net loss of €164 million over the 12 months through March and sold 2.72 million Wii U consoles, missing its estimated target of 9 million.
Despite the poor earnings, there are no plans for the company to release any games on smartphones with Iwata saying “The smartphone market is probably more competitive than the console business… we have had a console business for 30 years, and I don’t think we can just transfer that over onto a smartphone model.”
Instead, it’s experimenting with new functionality which requires smart devices. Its next flagship title, Mario Kart 8 for the Wii U, will be released at the end of the month and will have a smartphone service called Mario Kart TV, allowing users to watch official and user-generated videos as well as following rankings from the game.
It’s also launching another similar service called the Nintendo Figurine Platform, allowing you to create figurines and link with different video games through Near Field Communication (NFC) technology in the Wii U Gamepad.
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The EU has been really positive for Europe and the world. Cooperating with our neighbors and friends just makes sense. If we all break up we will be bullied by China, Russia and the USA. The UK is full of its own self importance and exaggerated sense of its place in history. nationalism has destroyed Europe many times before and our best defence is the EU
@Wesley Conboy: my take is, like individuals, some countries are confident and do not want to be reigned by bigger unaccountable group. I understand Brexit and supported it. But God knows, Ireland should never try it. Country mostly made up of followers who are so eager to give up a bit of freedom so to get some ‘looking after’ in return. Like with people, not something I value.
@Raymond Scott: what is freedom? Do you think that the British have any more freedom now than before the Brexit disaster? I think agreeing common rules for mutual benefit is not giving up freedom. All trade deals are based on that. Are the Irish so willing to give up freedom that we fought the British for centuries???
@Wesley Conboy: ask yourself, why did it take 800 years….
@Raymond Scott: traitors and not actually having a force strong enough to win.
@Raymond Scott: you could say the same about Barbados! Ireland agreed to join the EU and ratified various treaties as is our want. We had no choice in being taken over and made subjects, that was just thanks to Dermot MacMurrough, never trust a greedy Leinster men!
@Wesley Conboy: lived there for many years and the ordinary British people are real down to earth friendly people, However “Class” is very much in existence in UK society and perhaps its the upper classes you should be referring to as regards self importance.
@This time its personable!: Barbados is nothing like Ireland. Barbados was an uninhabited island before it was colonised
@This time its personable!: Barbados is nothing like Ireland. Barbados was an uninhabited island before it was colonised
@Joe Thorpe: that’s untrue. The Carribbean islands were populated by natives. Just because European settlers wiped them out doesn’t mean they was no one there!
@Dave Thomas: I have followed Barbados for a good old while as I am an avid Cricket fan & Gary Sobers was one of my all time heroes & I know for a fact Barbados was uninhabited when the English first arrived that is a fact & a fact you can’t change. I don’t have a notion about the “All” the Islands in the West Indies but I do know about Barbados
@Dave Thomas: I have followed Barbados for a good old while as I am an avid Cricket fan & Gary Sobers was one of my all time heroes & I know for a fact Barbados was uninhabited when the English first arrived that is a fact & a fact you can’t change. I don’t have a notion about the “All” the Islands in the West Indies but I do know about Barbados
What i personally learned for the past few months is that Brussels is trying to hold a complete and total control of a european country , but fair play to the likes of Poland which stands it ground and not letting get bent and fully controlled.
@John Johnes: from your comments on this site, it would seem that you are anti-Europe, anti-mask wearing, anti-vaccine, anti Covid restrictions.
Would you consider moving to Poland or even the UK? It seems that you might be happier there.
@Lee King Buckett: you are an odd one , find me at least one comment of mine where i would be anti mask , anti restriction , anti covid and anti vax? Or is this your assumption of every single person who doesnt go along even slightest with your beliefs?
Might be shock to you , but people do have different opinions.
@John Johnes: fair play to Poland?? Fair play for undermining the power of the judiciary so that it can’t hold the government to account for any crimes it might commit?? Do you have any idea what you are talking about!? In functioning democracies the judiciary holds the government to the rule of law, Poland’s government doesn’t want that. Fair play to the EU for calling them out on their undemocratic and dictator building actions
@John Johnes: why is it that people like you never have a profile associated with them?
@Jim Buckley Barrett: simple Jim , i am a
Anti vax , anti lock down, anti mask, anti eu , anti restrictions, anti everything bot, because having your own opinion is prohibited and you automatically fall under all the categories mentioned by me above isnt it?
@John Johnes: well, you said it. When you have to hide before a fake account to post comments, it speaks volumes about you.
@Jim Buckley Barrett: oh the irony. A guy with a fake account accusing somebody having a fake account.
@Lee King Buckett: Poland does not want anti-everything ideologies either.
if you took a second to open your eyes you would see how the EU is strangling Ireland, it’s people, it’s culture, it’s growth. Yes, the EU has benefited ireland in the past bit not since 2010, like any relationship, that has worked in over 10 years, time to separate
@Gerard Jennings: please give examples?
Have you looked at the difficulties the UK have with trade agreements, customs, etc. because of Brexit? Imagine how little old Ireland would fair.
I could see mass exiting of multinationals, leaving hundreds of thousands unemployed.
@Jim Buckley Barrett: examples of what? Could I ask for examples of how the uk is struggling? 3 percentage points ahead of Germany in growth this year? The EU is holding Ireland back, look at Norway Switzerland etc etc.
Farage done anymore videos lately
@bmul: haha
@bmul: heard he’s releasing broad black brimmer for the hope of a Christmas no. 1!
@bmul: Did one today actually at 7pm I’m sure it will be on YouTube by the morning lol
I’m always amused by Irish Eurosceptics. We have a track record of continually voting for the same two useless political parties for nearly 100 years and the Eurosceptics turn around and blame Europe for our woes.
Go figure…
@Lee King Buckett: it worked for farage!
The age of the small nation state is over! To deal with massive oligarchs and blocks like China, U.S. etc we need a strong Europe. That is not the same thing as losing sovereignty but like most things the devil is in the detail and most people never read the detail going for erroneous political sound bytes!
@Niall O’Reilly: “That is not the same thing as losing sovereignty”
How do you figure that? I’m not arguing it’s a good thing or a bad thing but by definition, a more integrated and united Europe means a loss of sovereignty for the member countries. If you give up control of your borders, currency, immigration policy etc. etc. you are losing sovereignty no matter what way you look at it.
@Will: Every country gets to vote on matters which impact on its particular requirements.
@Niall O’Reilly: look around, Norway Switzerland?
The EU project has been checked , it is unlikely that we would be forced to vote in a referendum more than once so they “got the right answer” again –
Brexit has been good for the Union, showing us the advantages while teaching the unelected eurocrats that there is another choice, restoring balance to the project.
@ChronicAnxiety: advantages??? What would they be then?
I’m very sad to live in a province on the side of Europe. We used to have a culture and a nation. Now we have a province that has to wait before it decides to scratch its ear. Of course they have been aspects that were positive like legislation on equal rights and things like that but what did we ever do with all the butter and the sugar mountains? Where did they end up in the end.
@Anne Marie Kearney: so you think the EU has eradicated our culture? Hahahaha
Surprised that “Yes, Minister”s Sir Humphrey Appleby didn’t get a mention in the first part of this article.
The British objective to enter the EEC was simply to destroy it from within and England had been doing that to Europe so successfully for the last 500 years. “But Minister..It’s just like the United Nations, the more members it has the more arguments it can stir up..the more futile and incompetent it becomes”
Or in Brexit UK’s case: The next two weeks will be farcical.
The amount of voted anti-EU parties in Ireland get can be counted on the badly mutilated fingers of a leper’s hand. A noisy tiny minority who should loudly on social media
MEP elections are very prone to protest votes. But the national government views are most important.
The next two weeks will be critical.
Interesting piece by the way
I blame it on the BOOGEYMAN, will o’ the wisp and sherlock holmes, all fictional characters who influence the minds the “anti- everybody” nobodies.
I love the fact that Rosslare’s business trade has gone above 100% since brexit, we’re trading with our fellow Europeans
I am not surprised by this development.In the Book of Daniel, we read, “At the appointed time [the king of the north] will return back.” (11:29a) The return of Russia in this context also means the disintegration of the European Union and NATO. Many countries of the former Eastern block will return to a military alliance with Russia.
Part 2 of my opinion…
Shouldn’t we be more concerned with helping each other fight that which is killing Irish people every day. I know Cancer and heart disease also cause high death rates. My wife an I are both lucky to have had got through cancer in its milder forms.
I love that we have free choice of opinions, I just feel we don’t need to shove our opinions in other people’s faces. Free speech is essential in a society. United we stand and divided we fall!
Euroscticism isn’t the same thing as opposing the ambitions and values of the liberal federalist euro-elites. The latter are quite happy with the democratic deficit within the EU structures when it produces and sustains the things they want. For a growing number of EU electorates, the question is how to make the EU more reflective of what europeans actually want in such areas as immigration controls and no further moves towards federalism. The refusal of the euronutters to countenance any change in their pet ambitions has substantially been the cause of Brexit, and has caused the alienation of Poland and Hungary. It is the euronutters who are threatening to atomise the EU.
Unless the centrist parties better reflect the concerns of European electorates on such matters as federalism and third country immigration, sooner rather than later we will see a right-wing populist government in one or more of the big core EU states.
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