Nintendo’s next possibly big product is going to be the Wii U and along with it comes a new component called the Mii-verse. This is a social gaming features that you will not only be accessed through the Wii U but also through your smartphone or tablet. An interesting move from a company who has long stood against smartphone and tablet gaming.
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Here comes a crazy rumor that is starting to circulate the internet today. Apparently Nintendo’s upcoming Wii U will have the Android OS integrated into it. While this seems rather far-fetched, anything is possible in the gaming industry and crazier things have happened although this is up there in the Top 5 even as a rumor.
Originally from Nintendo back in the 1980’s, Eggs (Model EG-21) from Nintendo’s Game and Watch pocket games series has been around for a long time and is also one of the rarer ones to try and find these days, the original version that is. Well now you can play this retro game on your Android device thanks to Celtic Spear called Eggs Deluxe.
While we did report Nintendo’s issue with mobile gaming on smartphones and tablets a few days back, it seems as though the console giant is ready to make a peace offering. According to Engadget, Nintendo’s patent for emulating their games on devices with a built-in screen has been granted.
Despite Nintendo’s insistence that mobile games are “cheap”, it is surprising to find that its lead franchise creator enjoys some Angry Birds. According to an interview with Edge, Shigeru Miyamoto, the mind behind classic franchise such as Legend of Zelda, Super Mario and a slew of other Nintendo series. has admitted that Angry Birds by Rovio was his favorite game of the past year.
At the time of its injunction, mobile gaming has bunkered on lowest level of video game caste system. Regarded worthwhile only to pass the time while waiting on line, cell phone games have been casually dismissed by hard core gamers as time wasters. Not fit to fly under the banner of video games, cell phone games also felt the same discrimination from their mobile cousins, the Nintendo and Sony handhelds.
Before we get into this I’ll let you feint right now and get it over with. Done? Alright moving along, yes a game from Nintendo is coming but it’s not actually from Nintendo. It’s a game from the Nintendo DS system, a rather popular one at that called Soul Bubbles.
Yongzh, the developer of a lot of popular emulators for Android including the Nintendo 64 one called N64oid, has announced that in one of the upcoming updates that it will support the ability to use the Xperia Play touchpads. However, he won’t be doing that until the Xperia Play gets it’s Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) update.
I’ll be honest here, anything related to PETA gives me a good chuckle regardless if their means of getting their message across can sometimes border on the illegal like the recent issue with that Dogfighting game on Android getting a trojan put in it by a PETA supported.
We don’t generally post statistics here or some of those cool graphs and charts like everywhere else but this one is an exception to the rule. Flurry has released a comparison chart of mobile gaming from 2009, 2010 and estimating 2011 results and who are the dominate forces in that sector.