“These two strategies (targeting casual gamers and peripheral launches) have made Nintendo stronger than Sony and Microsoft. There’s no reason to cut the Wii’s price as demand is strong. The macroeconomic environment is in poor shape but based on past experience, game demand will not be affected much by this.” – Mito Securities analyst Yoichiro Watanabe

” (on a WiiHD) High definition visuals are assured, as is a greater emphasis on digitally distributed and backwardly compatible content, indicating that the new system will feature some form of local storage medium such as a hard drive or large flash memory solution. It has also been indicated that Nintendo’s emphasis is again on what the consumer will hold in their hands and interact with, rather than the ‘console’ itself.” – journalist John Davison

As of this post we only have three and a half hours until the Nintendo conference starts in Japan.  Stay with us here at purenintendo.com,  we will be covering the whole Japanese Nintendo conference tonight from 12:30 am et to 2:00 am et. Then check back again tomorrow at 1 pm et, for the American conference. If you would like to chat with us about all the excitement tonight or  you have any questions, you can get us on our Aim. Our Aim name is not that hard, it is purenintendo. One of the best part about this conference is waiting like little kids right before x-mas. Nintendo is going to announce something big tonight or tomorrow, and the new DS has pretty much been confirmed. The only problem is going to be how much of it is going to be under embargo until Monday?

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