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A second player can pick up a controller and journey alongside Kirby as the spear-wielding Bandana Waddle Dee. This year is a notable one for Kirby, as the series is celebrating its 30th anniversary. To commemorate the milestone, Nintendo shared a special anniversary wallpaper on the official Kirby Twitter account. Perhaps: by the company's wacky standards, it was a very conservative design, while its software catalogue leaned heavily on the past glories of the NES, SNES and Game Boy.

Innovation mostly came in the form of a cavalcade of accessories, including the rarely used but ahead-of-their-time GameCube link cable and e-Reader scanning device. It saw a handful of great original games, including Intelligent Systems' flawless strategy classic Advance Wars and the almost postmodern madness that was WarioWare, Inc.

Luigi's Mansion was criticised for not being the Mario game many wanted alongside their new console, but Super Mario Sunshine was only a few months off, and Nintendo had the GameCube's release schedule well-stocked until then with Super Smash Bros. Melee and Pikmin. Third-party support was also decent, with platform exclusives such as the superlative Super Monkey Ball and Rogue Leader - both reasons to pick up the console by themselves.

From a software point of view, it was a very strong start, and the machine also boasted a tempting price tag, a unique, charming design and a superb controller. But strategically, Nintendo was still off the pace. The console took too long to get to market again, and though it did leave cartridges behind, Nintendo couldn't let go of esoteric bespoke media entirely - snubbing industry-standard DVDs in favour of GameCube's cute, but storage-limited, miniature discs.

Regarded as a failure in terms of hardware sales, GameCube suffered from competition with the already well-established PlayStation 2, and its purple-lunchbox looks branded it as the 'kiddie' choice - which of course left it forever uncool among kids. Older players, meanwhile, frequently bemoaned its lack of multimedia functions. GameCube ended up selling only slightly less than the upstart Xbox, but its sales and reputation were dwarfed by Sony's console.

Its software line-up remains one of Nintendo's finest, an all-too-brief run of genuine classics: Smash Bros. Melee is still a fixture of the world's top fighting game events; Pikmin and Animal Crossing, both born on GameCube, now rank among Nintendo's most prized IP; Zelda: The Wind Waker, reviled before launch for its dramatic change of art style, now rightfully places among the series' finest entries; and then there's Retro Studios' lonely masterpiece, Metroid Prime.

Many complained about GameCube's ineffectual marketing and the eventual drought of software towards the end of its life but, looking back, we never realised how good we had it.

Nintendo, for its part, appeared quickly to decide that even the quirky GameCube was too close in style and substance to its rivals. From now on it would pursue its own, third way. DS was the first Nintendo launch under new president Satoru Iwata, so all eyes were on it for any perceived weakness or changes of direction - and before launch, it was met with nothing short of ridicule.

A Frankenstein's monster seemingly cobbled together randomly from a parts bin, nobody understood the appeal of its dual screens or believed that touch-screen gaming could possibly work. Also, it was a pretty homely-looking thing. We could scarcely have been more wrong. A nominally impressive port of Super Mario 64 gave no indication of the machine's real talents, but the included stylus-controlled mini-games gave some hint, as did WarioWare Touched! In an age before smartphones, Nintendo's new handheld brought this new, instinctive type of gaming to the masses - although there was no knowing how successful this would turn out to be.

The less said about the "sexy" advertising targeting young men with the eyebrow-raising phrase "Touch Me", the better, mind. DS is Nintendo's best-selling games machine of any kind, and the best-selling games handheld from any manufacturer. This success was not instant: it took a year or so to gain momentum, but when it did, DS was unstoppable.

Nintendogs, Brain Training, and Level-5's Professor Layton carried the handheld to an audience far wider than that of even the Game Boy, accompanied by some genius marketing aiming it at older buyers who would never consider a traditional video game console. It's also important to remember DS as the first Nintendo device to dip its toe in the internet, offering play over Wi-Fi, a paid browser, and on the DSi, Nintendo's first digital game downloads.

Iwata had made his mark - and he had similarly unconventional plans for the living room. We didn't learn our lesson from DS, and sniggered again - though mostly, and forgivably, at the still rather silly name. Beyond that, there was a lot of excitement about the TV-remote-shaped motion controller, but a fair measure of suspicion too - how would we be able to play the Nintendo games we loved on it?

Nintendo's choice of codename, Revolution, seemed a bit hubristic. There was a big launch line-up, but a great deal of it was worthless shovelware, which unfortunately turned out to be an accurate preview of how third-parties would treat the machine. Even sceptics had to admit that the launch was perfectly executed, though, with an attractive price point and an unthreatening, almost deliberately bland marketing campaign that landed squarely with the DS' new demographic.

Nintendo's two big launch titles were poetic justice of a kind: a huge but ultimately rather drab Zelda game that pandered to the desires of hardcore fans, and the revolutionary Wii Sports, included with the machine, which gamers dismissed as simplistic, and the rest of the world quite rightly considered a marvel.

Nintendo's greatest home console success, Wii sold more consoles than its rivals Xbox and PlayStation 3, whilst remaining an outsider throughout. It was hugely popular with families, kids, and curious non-gamers who enjoyed Wii Sports and the lifestyle application Wii Fit, but gamers never quite made their peace with it, despite the stellar Super Mario Galaxy games.

The machine never quite shed the stigma of novelty, and for good reason: the motion control was inexact and developers outside Nintendo struggled to get it right. Even Nintendo itself could hardly top Wii Sports, a game that perhaps did too good a job of distilling everything great about the console. You can hardly sniff at a smash hit console that boasts more than its fair share of the biggest-selling games of all time, including the likes of Mario Kart Wii - but while Wii was a revolution of sorts, it would also prove to be a dead-end.

Nintendo's most curious system since the Virtual Boy had a gimmick powerful enough that seeing, quite literally, was believing, its stereoscopic 3D screen taking the technological fad of its time and running with it in a strange new direction.

Good job the gimmick was strong, because the launch line-up was very limited in quality, even if the quantity was there. Third-party support ranged from mediocrity like Asphalt 3D, Super Monkey Ball 3D and a poor Splinter Cell port to enjoyable curios such as Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars - a turn-based tactical game headed up by none other than Julian Gollop - and Ridge Racer 3D, which would have been a series highlight for Namco's racer if it hadn't been few years too late.

Nintendo's own efforts were equally uneven, from the overdue and entertaining revival of Pilotwings to the throwaway thrills of Nintendogs. It'd take a while before anything truly noteworthy launched for the 3DS, ensuring it took time to gain momentum and provided plenty of frustration for early adopters. Researchers say the system complements traditional techniques through use of simultaneous gaming rehabilitation In May the American Heart Association AHA endorsed the Wii to encourage sedentary people to take the first step toward fitness.

An executive for Frontline Studios stated that major publishers were wary of releasing exclusive titles for the Wii, due to the perception that third-party companies were not strongly supported by consumers.

In his blog, 1UP. Worse than it was on N Worse than on GameCube…the resulting third-party content is overwhelmingly bargain-bin trash. Furthermore, price cuts and the introduction of motion-sensor controllers for the Xbox and PS3 nullified advantages once held by the Wii. Since its launch, monthly sales numbers of the console have generally been higher than its competitors around the globe.

This lead is even larger in the Japanese market, where it currently leads in total sales having outsold both consoles by factors of to nearly every week from its launch to November In Australia the Wii broke the record set by the Xbox and became the fastest-selling game console in Australian history.

On September 12, , the Financial Times reported that the Wii had surpassed the Xbox released a year earlier and had become market leader in home-console sales for the current generation, based on sales figures from Enterbrain, NPD Group and GfK.

This was the first time a Nintendo console led its generation in sales since the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. On July 11, , Nintendo warned that the Wii would remain in short supply throughout that calendar year.

In October Nintendo announced that between October and December the Wii would have its North American supplies increased considerably from levels, while producing 2. In the United States the Wii sold In Japan the Wii surpassed the number of GameCube units sold by January ; it sold 7,, units by December , according to Enterbrain.

According to the NPD Group the Wii had sold a total of 1,, units in Canada by August , making it the first current-generation home console to surpass the million-unit mark in that country. Ampere analyst Piers Harding-Rolls has gone on the record saying he believes the next Nintendo console will arrive sometime in late What this console will be, is anyone's best guess, but that's pretty soon considering how the Switch is selling, but standard when you compare it to the lifespan of previous gaming consoles.

That said, because the next console is so close, Harding-Rolls believe there will be no "Nintendo Switch Pro," like rumors have suggested.



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