Nintendo’s Reggie Fils-Aime clearly denounced the likely hood of the Wii HD in a recent interview with Game Trailers TV, but it appears Nintendo of Japan are openly undecided on providing HD support in the future.

President and Chief Operating Officer of Nintendo of America, Reggie Fils-Aime, has warned that the eagerly awaited Legend of Zelda Wii might not make its widely expected 2010 release date.

“We haven’t committed to Zelda for 2010… so we’ll see how that continues to develop,” Fils-Aime told GameTrailers TV.

- Reggie Fils-Aime

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Reggie Fils-Aime has clearly stated on Game Trailers TV: Nintendo Special that despite what Michael Patcher has lead us to believe, Nintendo are not going to be releasing a high definition version of the Wii.

“Michael [Pachter] continues to be the only one that believes this is going to happen,” the NoA president told presenter Geoff Keighley.

“I don’t know how forcefully we can say that there is no Wii HD.”

- Reggie Fils-Aime

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School kids who deliberately ditch their sports kits at home in an effort to avoid playing physical sports such as Rugby or Football are being offered a chance to play the Nintendo Wii at a select school in Gravesend, Kent.

They are great to use as a carrot on a stick to get lads disaffected with PE back into enjoying exercise. We have been picking out the youngsters who deliberately leave their kit at home – the ones who are trying to get out of it.

Sports instructor, Aaron Brown

It appears as though Infinity Ward, the developers behind the Modern Warfare franchise, aren’t particularly interested on working on the Wii.

Robert Bowling, Infinity Ward’s community manager,  believes there’s just too much difference between the Wii and other competing platforms when it comes to delivering a spectacular cinematic experience.

“If we felt like we could deliver the cinematic experience we were going for on other platforms, then we would gladly move to that platform. Right now, we don’t think the Wii can deliver the exact experience that we’re doing. We like to be very equal across all platforms, and if it’s not equal then we won’t do it.”

- Infinity Ward community manager, Robert Bowling

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The next iteration of the Zelda franchise for the Nintendo Wii will fully utilise the Wii MotionPlus peripheral according to legendary games designer, Shigeru Miyamoto.

“About MotionPlus. We’re implementing it so that players can feel like they themselves are holding the sword. In the previous Zelda (Twilight Princess) the targeting was based on the IR pointer. This time however, we’ll be using MotionPlus for a variety of more convenient targeting systems that will allow for more pleasant gameplay.”

- Shigeru Miyamoto

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Netflix are currently testing out the streaming media service on Nintendo Wii according to an industry source.

StreamingMedias Dan Rayburn has stated in a recent blog post that he’s received numerous photos from an individual working on the Netflix project for the Nintendo Wii. He also claims that Nintendo are set to delay the service until early next year in an effort to showcase the service on the often talked about Wii HD.

“What I’m hearing is that Nintendo originally planned to bring the Netflix service to the Wii before the end of this year, which still might take place, but that Nintendo is also considering holding off on the Netflix service until they release their next generation Wii HD unit in early 2010.”

- Dan Rayburn

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In a recent interview with the Financial Times Nintendo are currently considering adding free 3G to the next DS.

With the iPhone currently dominating the handset market, giving its plethora of users access to 3G Internet wherever they go, Nintendo’s current wireless access for the DS seems a little draconian. Nintendo is therefore considering adding an extra up front charge to their next iteration of the DS, in exchange for free lifetime 3G access.

“Only people who can pay thousands of yen a month [in mobile phone subscriptions] can be iPhone customers. That doesn’t fit Nintendo customers because we make amusement products. In reality, if we did this it would increase the cost of the hardware, and customers would complain about Nintendo putting prices up, but it is one option for the future.”

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Happy Halloween everybody!

Hope you all have a fun filled night with lots of tasty treats : )

- Sickr

Whilst the Nintendo Wii remains the best selling console of this generation it’s common knowledge that sales in recent times have been on the decline. Satoru Iwata has accepted this, and has issued a smaller target for the full year – only 20 million units compared to the previous 26 million forecast..

“Wii has stalled. We were unable to continually release strong software, and let the nice mood cool. We were unable to show a new game to become ‘the next thing.’ In the game market, once you’ve lost the momentum, it takes time to recover. With the price drop, sales returned to a certain level, but they just did not reach the level of last year around this time.”

- President and CEO of Nintendo, Satoru Iwata

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