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NINTENDO PRESIDENT SATORU IWATA DIES AT 55 AFTER BATTLING CANCER

FILE PHOTO: Satoru Iwata, president of Nintendo Co., gives a keynote speech at a game developers conference in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Wednesday, March 2, 2011. Iwata, who led the Japanese gamemaker back to ascendancy in the early 2000s with the Wii console, died July 11, 2015, from bile duct cancer, the Kyoto-based company said in a statement. Photographer: Noah Berger/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The gaming community has been thrown into mourning following the death of Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata. Mr. Iwata died of bile duct cancer.

As a mark of respect for the legendary president, Nintendo halted all activities on its social network accounts.

“He was a visionary in every sense of the word and we will miss him dearly. Just as Mr Iwata challenged us to always push forward, we will ensure his legacy lives on through our ongoing work to always surprise and delight our fans. At this time our thoughts are with his family,” said Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo Europe president.

Mr. Iwata had great influence on Nintendo biggest titles, including Mario series, Pokemon series, Zelda and Animal Crossing. He was appointed president in 2002, taking over from Hiroshi Yamauchi.

Shigeru Miyamoto is widely believed to succeed Iwata. At this point, Nintendo is yet to release an official statement. Mr. Iwata will surely be missed; his legacies will live on forever.

Rest in Peace, Satoru Iwata.

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New Android gaming handheld alike Nintendo 3DS XL without the 3D or the DS

Looking for an alternative to Nvidia’s Shield Portable? There aren’t a lot of options stateside, but fortunately Chinese OEMs are happily churning out new models all the time — models like the GPD XD, which looks an awful lot like Nintendo’s new 3DS XL.

The maker, GPD (Game Pad Digital), left out quite a few details that keep it from being a true knockoff. There isn’t a 3D display, and it lacks the secondary screen on the bottom half that puts the D in DS. It’s fairly XL, though, with a five-inch diagonal and the control layout is pretty much bang on.

You can pre-order the XD right now on a site called Willgoo. For $160, you get a system powered by a quad-core Rockchip RK3288 processor that maxes out at 1.8GHz. A Mali-T764 GPU handles the rendering, and it has 2GB of DDR3 memory. The base unit comes with 16GB and there’s a 32GB version in the works, but you can also expand via micro SD.

GPD opted for Android 4.4 instead of 5.0+, which is kind of a bummer. The XD also lacks Bluetooth support and cameras, but on the upside it does come with a speedy 802.11ac Wi-Fi adapter. So it has that going for it. They also threw in a nice, big battery — 6000mAh — which allows for an estimated eight hours of gaming. That’s probably a bit on the generous side, but it should at least be able to outlast your phone.

This isn’t GPD’s first, let’s call it “homage,” to another handheld gaming system. They have another one that bears a striking resemblance to Sony’s PS Vita. GPD has even built one with a seven-inch touchscreen that seems to have been inspired by Nintendo’s Wii U GamePad.

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Nintendo To Launch A Smartphone Game This Year

Just In: that one of thr worlds bog game company, Nintendo has revealed its plans to launch a smartphone game before the end of 2015, this will be the first of the Gaming giants, including five titles by 2017. The gaming company revealed in March that it has formed a game partnership with game publisher DeNa.



The deal includes a gaming service that would be cross-platform. This means it would be available on a array of devices, like the PC, phablets, tablets, Nintendo 3DS, Wii U, smartphones and others.

For those thinking Nintendo is just going to port existing titles, Nintendo CEO Iwata says the games would be built from scratch.

If we were simply to port software that already has a track record on a dedicated game system, it would not match the play styles of smart devices, and the appropriate business models are different between the two, so we would not anticipate a great result. If we did not aim to achieve a significant result, it would be meaningless for us to do it at all. Accordingly, we are going to carefully select appropriate IP and titles for our smart device deployment.

Regarding the number of the titles, you may want to know that we will release approximately five titles by the end of the next fiscal year, which is the end of March 2017. You may think it is a small number, but when we aim to make each title a hit, and because we want to thoroughly operate every one of them for a significant amount of time after their releases, this is not a small number at all and should demonstrate our serious commitment to the smart device business.

Nintendo will redirect some attention to smartphone games, in a way to up its revenue, Iwata Said.

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