OUYA: Should Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo tremble?

And if this OUYA was able to get a place in the video game console market?

The console very inspired official but turning models under Android with a SoC ARM and coming from Asia, there are dozens. But a project which also quickly Federated players than this OUYA, benefiting from the exhibition currently offered to any well wrapped Kickstarter project since the crowdsourcing is fashionable, it is more rare. Because success is already at the rendezvous, at least in the promises of funding. Added only a few hours on Kickstarter, the OUYA project has already attracted more than 20,000 investors, which allows the console to explode its initial objective of harvest $950,000 in record time. Currently, the collected sum displays more than 2.6 million $, what give a sacred kick to the project, actually. Especially him still have 28 days of fundraising.

But then, what did this OUYA to please as much? The promise is simple: it's a console under Android, proposing a joystick resolutely "gamer" to connect HDMI to its screen and that promises to offer quality games, if possible independent and the mode of the Free-to-Play. Some see it as a useless defiance to platforms in place, others the console of the future. In a context also uncertain that it is the game, although malignant industry would in any event that might know what type of game console will be booked in the future.

Always is it that project OUYA accompanied by some interesting business principles. For example, no royaltie will applied to game developers, and the SDK based on Android will be simply integrated into the console. Don't need, therefore, for the studios to invest in specific materials to develop a game OUYA. Only constraint: that sets OUYA are - at least partly - free. Demo and Free-to-Play (Freemium) accepted.

Click to see the video on Kickstarter...

If the sauce is, it is also because this console would be sold at a competitive price if times it came to be distributed one day. $ 99 For a console and a joystick ($ 95 for the first 1000 contributors). Expected now to know more, waiting to see a finished prototype, before will be launched production and development kits are available.

Reactions of independent developers are rather ambitious. Jenova Chen, creator of flOw, Flower and Journey, said: "I'm excited by OUYA." "I think there is always material to disrupt the status quo," while Adamm Saltsman, Canabalt creator, explains: "the prospect of a console open and affordable, is an excellent idea".

Preliminary technical data:

CPU Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core1 GB of RAM8 GB of flash memory connection HDMI, 1080pWiFi 802.11 b/g/nBluetooth 4.0Un port USB 2.0controleur wireless (touchpad, two analog sticks, pad, eight buttons) Android 4.0

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E3: A Nintendo Conference mixed blessing.

After the average benefits of its two competitors, and a first implementation rather successful mouth, Nintendo had more than make rugs for the implementation of this E3. Lack of pot, the Japanese no longer had nothing in his game.

In the continuity of a first exit Sunday evening which was designed to demonstrate the technological superiority of the Wii on its competitors, Nintendo had to prove now that all these great advances were not simply there to make nice, but would be well laid by an armada of games all more sexy than others. A goal that you will not hesitate to characterize as missed, both the proposed line-up has been struggling to raise the approval of the crowds.

Thus, Nintendo will be announced not less than 23 titles for its new console. Yet, if the gross figure appears attractive, things are much less interesting when there is interest in the games it includes: there are indeed is very classic Nintendo licenses, such as New Super Mario Bros.. U, is from third-party titles and not really first youth. And so it will not present in question the intrinsic quality of a Batman Arkham City or a Mass Effect 3, as it is not clear that the Nintendo console gives us really want to plunge back us there, a few months after have bouclé them.

The Japanese editor well tried to correct shooting by reserving a large part of his presentation to Pikmin 3 and Nintendoland, a party game involving a dozen of mini games, and integrating of many iconic characters of the mark, such as Zelda, and Donkey Kong. But then again, difficult to ignite, especially when seen the day before this thunderous Watch Dogs of Ubisoft. Indeed, note in this regard that it is likely the French editor who will best fired his pin of the set of conferences. While maintaining his own show, very successful however, Ubisoft will have taken care to invite in each of the three conferences of constructor, to leave its footprint. In the case of Nintendo, with ZombiU that the editor will be imposed, the title that shows strong integration of the Wii U Gamepad, using it such as scanner to give a different view of what appears on the screen, or to simulate a terminal to hacker a protected door.

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For the first time, Nintendo losing money...

Nintendo nippon group recently published annual losses for the first time in its history...

Nintendo yesterday published the results of its 2011-2012 fiscal year ended March 31. In one year, the company still there shortly if successful, capitalizing on the success of the Wii and the DS, has lost EUR 425 million while she mailed still 675 million euros of profit 12 months earlier.

It must be said that on this exercise, turnover fell by 36.2% to € 6.4 billion. Sales of consoles and games are in sharp decline, and this despite the launch of a newcomer, the Nintendo 3DS portable and auto-stéréoscopique (see test). These poor figures can be explained in part by poor sales of this 3DS who forced Nintendo to quickly respond by lowering a few months only after its sale price, of ever.

In total, 13.5 million Nintendo 3DS have been sold on the exercise. In lack of strong games and still too dear (including accessories), the Wii also recorded a large decrease in sales with 9.8 million units over the year. Is that Nintendo, more than ever concurrencé of the casual game market and portable by smartphones and other tablets, moral guard and ambition. The consolier and Publisher plans to return to the green as from 2012-2013 thanks to the democratization of the 3DS and the launch of a new living room console, Wii U and its handle in the form of Tablet. Posted objectives: 7,690 billion euros of turnover and profit EUR 188 million.

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Nintendo: a new Wii for Christmas

While the Wii U is always expected in 2012, Nintendo has not given up so his Wii, and Announces a new pack for its console lounge, benefiting some menus change for the occasion.

It is a "Family Edition" which should arrive in Europe for the Christmas period. The console will be thus sold with two games to the Wii Sports and Wii Party classic. The pack will also contain a Wii MotionPlus joystick and of course the console, that is of benefit for the occasion ofa very slight relooking, which was intended to be put in the non-vertical and horizontal position.

This new version of the Wii however made some sacrifices, sinceit will be more compatible with games and accessories for the GameCube. Nintendo is a so far not confirmed of possible drop in price for this new model of console.

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Nintendo 3DS: friction of screens and its consequences

The Nintendo 3DS sells poorly. With 750,000 units since its release, it is a fact. On top of all, it would be a problem of design at the level of its screens.They affect the level of the framework of the lower screen. L' main screen being wider, this causes premature wear by manipulating. Well, Nintendo provided skates on each side of the console to protect screens. Unfortunately, they are not thick enough. Also, users found themselves with permanent marks on their screen.

After several complaints, Nintendo stated that it would take not this support issue. The Japanese giant recommends 3DS owners to place a piece of fabric or plastic between the two screens when the console is closed. A response that would be badly perceived by consumers.

To compensate for this defect, some users have had the idea to use a Xbox 360, and more particularly skates that are based on the console. They have the ideal size to set on the 3DS and permanently protect its screens. A home solution worth the penalty to be cited.

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Nintendo: shareholders want to invest the iPhone

After the announcement of a first "game" Pokémon on iPhone, some users could expect to see Mario and iconic figures of Nintendo on iOS. However, this is not news. The Japanese manufacturer wishes to continue to build on its own supports, 3DS, and Wii. Yet, the shareholders of the Japanese firm does not the ear fit.

According to Bloomberg, Nintendo would suffer a strong pressure on the part of its investors to migrate its content on smartphones, starting with iOS and Android. The will of the President of Nintendo Satoru Iwata to develop titles for its house platforms seems to annoy them. They would thus benefit from a strong growth market is one of the smartphones but also the games within social networks.

Reminder, Nintendo announced a significant decrease in the price of its last terminal, the 3DS: $ 249 (launch price), it would fall to $169 a few months only after its marketing. A price decline felt as an admission of failure by many observers.

The Nintendo 3DS passes to 170 EUR

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The Nintendo 3DS passes to 170 EUR

Only a few months after its launch, the Nintendo 3DS will be a significant decrease in price. Currently, sold the price of 249 $ for the United States, it will pass in the days to come to $ 169,99.

It is not usual for Nintendo to lower as the price of one of his consoles if shortly after its release in stores. There was to turn to the Wii, which has kept the same price for several years, to understand that something goes wrong with the 3DS. It is indeed unsatisfactory, since sales only 710,000 consoles have found payee in the world these past three months.

However, the 3DS is not only Nintendo console to suffer from a lack of interest on the part of the public, since the Wii has experienced a decline of 50% of its sales from last year, 1.5 million in the quarter. Same sentence for the Nintendo DS, to 1.4 million units sold in three months, against 3.1 million year last at the same time.

The reaction of Nintendo has therefore failed to wait any longer. The Japanese giant, which is not new console waiting before 2012, and the release of the Wii U, therefore operated a significant drop in price for its Nintendo 3DS, which will be effective from August 12. Given the young age of the console, the Publisher will offer compensation to those who bought the laptop after his release, offering them several downloadable games. The question is if the Wii will face the same fate, assuming that its sales continue to decline.

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Nintendo 3DS: friction of screens and its consequences

The Nintendo 3DS sells poorly. With 750,000 units since its release, it is a fact. On top of all, it would be a problem of design at the level of its screens.

They affect the level of the framework of the lower screen. L' main screen being wider, this causes premature wear by manipulating. Well, Nintendo provided skates on each side of the console to protect screens. Unfortunately, they are not thick enough. Also, users found themselves with permanent marks on their screen.

After several complaints, Nintendo stated that it would take not this support issue. The Japanese giant recommends 3DS owners to place a piece of fabric or plastic between the two screens when the console is closed. A response that would be badly perceived by consumers.

To compensate for this defect, some users have had the idea to use a Xbox 360, and more particularly skates that are based on the console. They have the ideal size to set on the 3DS and permanently protect its screens. A home solution worth the penalty to be cited.

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