Nintendo.com appeared today with a new design and some extra sections. First, they added complete sections for both, the Revolution and the Wi Fi connection where you will be able to find some news about the console and service.

I think the old design was cooler than the new one. I´ve also been having some trouble accesing some sections, hopefully this will be fixed soon.

The part i´m loving about the new design is the adittion of the RSS Feed wich will allow you to get some news right to your favourite news reader.

Reggie Fils-Aime executive vice president of sales and marketing for Nintendo was interviews by CNN recently. He talked a bit about the iminent next-gen console wars and the future of Nintendo. Reggie confirmed (by the nth time) the Revolution will have a lower price tag than the PS3 and the 360:

“Do I expect us to be at a lower price point than our competition? Yes I do. Have we determined a price yet? No we haven’t.”

“I think there were some lessons we learned with the GameCube that we need to apply to the Revolution. First, we’ve got make sure that the titles in the first six months are strong and can drive sales. We’ve also got to make sure the console is attractive visually. And we’ve got to deliver on the right consumer needs. With GameCube, at the time, portability was thought to be a big factor – that’s why it has a handle. Obviously, that wasn’t the case.”

Reggie also hinted new design coming for the DS, something similar to what they did to the GBA when the GBA SP showed up.

“As soon as [the DS] was launched, we started looking at ways to tweak it visually”.

You can read the full interview at CNN.

Finally, after a few weeks of a teaser site with no real info the official Mario Kart DS website has launched.

The site features 6 main sections where you can take a look at some items, characters and courses info, the official artwork and some extra stuff. It also includes a pretty cool downloads section where you can find wallpapers, buddy icons and a screensaver for both, windows and mac computers.

Link | Official site

Zi Corporation Zi Corporation, a leading provider of intelligent interface solutions, today announced that it has signed a licensing agreement with Nintendo, under the agreement, Nintendo DS developers can employ Zi’s Decuma handwriting recognition technology while creating software for the Nintendo DS handheld video game system.

Decuma Alphabetic handwriting recognition software provides fast and natural handwriting input, enabling users to focus on the content rather than the writing. Users can closely mimic writing with pen and paper, with letters and words being written and interpreted in a natural flow, allowing for easy editing and correction.

This technology could have a lot of applications for the DS, text chatting would become easier, and a lot of nintendo games could make use of this for some extra interaction. How about writing the solution of a puzzle or your character´s name in a rpg instead of typing it.

We´ll have to wait and see how this technology is applied to the ds but i think we could see some applications similar to the ones used on Palms and smartphones wich would be really cool.

Yesterday i talked you about the announcement of Mario basketball and the infamous Tingle RPG, well, more games were announced and here´s the full list. Wow! a sudoku game

# Ash
# Bomberman story
# Brain Training 2 DS
# Crossword
# Custom Robo DS
# Dangerous Jiisan
# Densetsu no Stafi 4
# Detect Hacker
# Dracula
# English Training DS
# Final Fantasy III
# Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles
# Gyakuten Saiban 4
# Jigsaw Puzzle
# Kaitou Wario
# Magical Vacation
# Mario & Luigi RPG 2
# Mario Basket 3 VS. 3
# New Gundam
# Nobunaga’s Ambition DS
# Puzzloop DS
# Stylebook Serie - Ocha Inu no Heya
# Sudoku
# Tales DS
# Tenchu
# Tingle RPG
# Wishroom
# Yu-gi-oh
# Vs. Puzzle Papi Inu Vector Wan!!

Via | Eurogamer

Ok, not so surprising news right? we all knew Nintendo Revolution would likely be last in terms of horsepower but Nintendo president, Satoru Iwata confirmed it a few days ago when he was interviewed at g4.

“”If you are just going to compare the spec sheets and spec numbers, Revolution may not have an equal or higher number as the PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360. But the fact of the matter is that if people are going to connect our machine and their machine to an ordinary TV set at home and try to compare the differences, I really don’t think that they can tell such a huge difference between the machines.”

This means that if you connect and compare the revoltion with one of the other consoles to a regular tv the graphics will look pretty much the same. The problem will come when people starts to get HD tv´s, then the difference will be easy to notice.

I think we´ll be seeing the consoles really going different ways in the next generation. Sony is going for more graphic power, Microsoft is betting for online gaming and Nintendo will keep being the most innovative company. Maybe we won´t even have a “console war” as we were all expecting.

Wow, that´s too much pink. 1up has the new Game boy micro commercial wich will start airing soon and looks like Nintendo has a well defined strategy: they want to attract non-gamers, that includes girls, adults and some other people you wouldn´t usually imagine playing videogames.

Link | 1up

Some official release dates for Europe were just announced by Nintendo, mark your calendars and start counting the days if you are interested in these games.

First we have Batallion Wars, this game has surprised a lot of people who weren´t expecting much since of this gamecube strategy game. Batallion wars has received good critics since it´s release on the US just a week ago and will be hitting european stores on December 11th. Why is this game shipping so late? i have no idea but it might be worth the wait.

Then there´s Mario Baseball, one of the Mario sports series games that are coming to the cube. This game will be available on November 11th.

Via | Planet Gamecube

United States

• Gamecube: NBA Live 06
• Gamecube: Frogger: Ancient Shadow
• Gamecube: Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Lockdown
• Gamecube: Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness
• Nintendo DS: Trace Memory
• Nintendo DS: Lost in Blue
• Nintendo DS: Lunar: Dragon Song
• Nintendo DS: Big Mutha Truckers
• GBA / Micro: Pac-Man World 2
• GBA / Micro: Big Mutha Truckers

Europe

• Gamecube: FIFA 06
• Gamecube: Sonic Gems Collection
• Nintendo DS: Advance Wars: Dual Strike
• Nintendo DS: Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow
• Nintendo DS: Madden NFL 06
• Nintendo DS: FIFA 06
• GBA / Micro: Ed, Edd n Eddy: The Mis-Edventures
• GBA / Micro: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Junior Edition
• GBA / Micro: FIFA 06
• GBA / Micro: Samurai Jack

Japan

• Gamecube: Viewtiful Joe Battle Carnival
• Nintendo DS: Daigasso! Band Brothers Tsuika Kyoku Cartridge
• Nintendo DS: Touch Game Party

So, you always wanted a cute pink stylus to match your Pink DS? This is you chance!. Nintendo is giving away an exclusive Kirby pink stylus for free. All you have to do is register you Kirby Canvas Curse copy and wait:

Register your copy of Kirby: Canvas Curse and receive an exclusive pink stylus for your Nintendo DS. To claim your free stylus, you must log in and register your copy of Kirby: Canvas Curse.

If you have your copy, go check it out.