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Nintendo patent app reveals DS tracking system

A new Nintendo patent application uncovered from the USPTO reveals that the company plans to further extend the use of its gaming consoles in tour guiding. Nintendo had previously outfitted the Louvre so that its 3DS could guide tourists through the museum and now this new patent application shows plans to use the DS with Read The Full Story

Miyamoto's DS patent offers upgraded tourist hunting techniques

The DS Lite could see society's next great advancement in GPS technology, at least in tourist-heavy areas such as museums and haunted-home expeditions, a patent from Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto suggests. The patent describes a system where an overhead grid of infrared "positional information transmitters" reads a user's DS to light up floor patterns and potential walkways. The user can then pick ...

Nintendo brings 3DS, strong launch lineup to Korea on April 28

Nintendo will finally bring its newest portable, Nintendo 3DS, to South Korea on April 28, more than a year after the system's launch in North America, Europe, and Japan. South Korea's later launch has enabled Nintendo to release the portable with several high-profile localized games that didn't come out until long after 3DS's debut in other countries. Analysts and consumers in other regions ...

Nintendo Drops DSi Prices to $100, $130

The new prices go in effect on May 20.

Annual U.S. game retail could hit six-year low in 2012

["Should the contraction from 2011 continue at this pace, annual U.S. retail video game revenue in 2012 could fall below the $12.6 billion figure from 2006," says Gamasutra analyst Matt Matthews in his latest Behind the Numbers column.] It is getting more difficult to have any optimism about the U.S. retail video game market in the near term. Prior to last Thursday, when the NPD Group announced ...