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Nintendo Sold 4 Million 3DS Units, 4.5 Million Wii Consoles in 2011

Nintendo Sold 4 Million 3DS Units, 4.5 Million Wii Consoles in 2011

Nintendo finally released some of its sales statistics from last year, and there aren’t really any surprises. The Wii outsold the 3DS by 500,000 units. Continue reading

Nintendo Shares Fall 5% -- Could We Be Witnessing the End of the Nintendo Era?

Nintendo Shares Fall 5% — Could We Be Witnessing the End of the Nintendo Era?

An interesting article published by Reuters sported the title, “Nintendo Faces End of Era After 3DS Flop”. Could the 3DS really be the downfall of Nintendo? Continue reading

DIY Halloween: Be Your Mii

Simple, yet effective. With a few artistic talents and some old junk you likely have laying around the house anyway, you can create your own Nintendo Mii costume. This guy used some spare cardboard to fashion a tennis racket and little red rubber buffers as peg hands. The solid red t-shirt seals the deal. I imagine the mask is simple enough to make in Photoshop or Illustrator. The faces themselves are rather basic, strictly geometric, so not much of an... Continue reading

Custom Made Ghostbusters Wii Peripheral

Who you gonna call? Now you can just call yourself. Yeah, call yourself and get a busy signal. That’ll show them damn ghosts! Jump in your Ecto-1 and get busy! Modding extraordinaire Jack Rossi created this awesome custom Ghostbusters Wii Proton Pack peripheral, especially made for Ghostbusters Wii video game. Why doesn’t Nintendo ever think of things like this?

WiiThink Concept Means You’ll Actually Need To Use Your Brain

We know usually you set your brain’s power button to off when playing your Wii, and that’s fine that Wii playing is meant to be your downtime, but if you even plan on using the WiiThink concept peripheral, there’s just no way in hell you’ll be able to maintain that mindless mentality. Using EEG technology to read your brainwaves, the WiiThink encourages you to exercise your brain, helping to prevent Alzheimer’s and other developmental conditions. Link

Wii Steering Wheel Gets an Update, Now Includes MotionPlus

As much as we hate the Wii, we know a bunch of you assholes really dig it, so here you go. Brando has taken it upon themselves to update the Wii Steering Wheel, creating the aptly titled Wii Steering Wheel II. The second version offers MotionPlus integration and a slick, stream-line design. Not too mention you don’t need any additional batteries, since it’s pretty much just a form-fit piece of plastic. Fricken’ Wii is such a racket. You can grab... Continue reading

Call It: PS3 Outsells Wii in March

Big in Japan. That’s what the press should be calling the Playstation 3. Seems for the month of March, Nintendo’s fantasy box of magic couldn’t fend off the brute,building strength of Sony’s Playstation 3. According to Reuters, “domestic sales of the PS3 came to 146,948 units in the five weeks through March 29, compared with 99,335 units of the Wii and 43,172 units of Microsoft Corp’s Xbox 360.” So this isn’t even a war of the hundreds or thousands at... Continue reading

A $4,000 Nintendo Wii? We’d Rather Choke

Sure, the Wii might be the worst damn console in history according to our very official and scientific calculations. But the Nintendo gaming platform must have its fans out there somewhere, right? So, for all three of you at the Pleasantville Senior Rest Home, we’ve got a real treat for you and your saggy-diapered, Wiimote-wielding asses. Pimped out with an array of 20,000 crystals, this $4,000 shitbox Wii is covered in shiny Mario gayness goodness, with possibly the faggiest depiction... Continue reading

SUPER SANDWICH

I need not tell you how we feel about the Nintendo Wii here at Gearfuse. All I’m saying is that this screenshot from the game Excitebots is making me crack up this morning. “SUPER SANDWICH?” Seriously? Link