Nintendo 3DS gets close to Wii sales record

Nintendo are taking the new hand-held 3DS, the glasses-free 3D gaming device, on a tour around Australia (well most of it anyway).  This will give people a chance to try out the magical 3D effect, and start saving their cash for the March 31st release date.

The DSi XL is the supersized hand-held gaming device from Nintendo.  Launching next month Nintendo are hoping to grab a whole new demographic under their influence.  Today Nintendo Australia announced the DSi XL pricing.

Nintendo has announced drastic cuts to the price of both the DSi and DSi XL hand-held gaming devices.  Yet the 3DS remains at a price that leaves it vulnerable to competitor attacks.

Nintendo has released a very brief pre E3 teaser announcement referring to a revamped version of the mega-selling DS hand-held gaming device.  The 3DS, a temporary name, jumps on the 3D vision band wagon, purporting to  give gamers on the move an experience in the 3rd dimension without the need for special goggles.

Perhaps poor marketing is holding back Wii U sales for Nintendo. As Spike TV’s GTTV host Geoff Keighley noted on Twitter, a new campaign from Nintendo is using flyers to show just how awesome the Wii U is. Except, instead of going after console rivals Nintendo decided to aim its attack at its own, older-generation console the Wii.

At the Electronic Entertainment Expo show in Los Angeles, Nintendo has revealed the snazziest piece of new gaming hardware the show has to offer.  Powering up the Wii to high definition levels and introducing a game changing controller that provides an alternate view for each gaming experience.  The Wii U and new touch-screen based controller may silence the Nintendo nay-says.

Nintendo today claimed to have registered record Australian sales for its 3DS portable device, within weeks from the console's launch locally.

This is pretty cool! Nintendo has announced that it is releasing an update to the DS/DSi handheld console line and introducing a brand new feature - glasses-free 3D!

The Wii U only sold around 64,000 consoles in the U.S. during the month of February, according to a new NPD Group report out today.