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Playing fighting styled games on a gaming controller is fine, although some gamers might prefer going old school and getting their hands on arcade stick controllers to emulate the good old days. Well the good news is that if you were planning on picking up the Nintendo Wii U, it looks like there is an arcade stick controller that will be released at the same time that will be compatible with the console. This is none other than the Hori fight stick with a Tekken Tag Tournament 2 decal on it and will connect with your Wii U just like the Classic Controller Pro. Unfortunately it seems that the Hori fight stick will only be available for the Wii U in Japan, but we expect that eventually it will make its way stateside and to other countries around the world. It will also be priced at roughly $100.

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Mario’s alma mater may be looking at its next big console to bolster its stumbling net income, but it won’t be raising its bottom line on hardware alone: Nintendo says the Wii U is going to be sold at a loss. While this is par for the course for most game consoles, loss leader products are somewhat of a new trend for Nintendo, which only started selling hardware at a loss recently. On the upside, company CEO Satoru Iwata says the 3DS is back in the black, finally selling for a tidy (though unspecified) profit after dropping its price late last year. Nintendo expects business to pick up down the road, but says circumstances will keep it from attaining “Nintendo-like” profits in this fiscal year.

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When the Wii U launches on November 18, Nintendo will sell the new console starting at $299, which isn’t a bad price at all for a new console, especially something as promising as the Wii U. However, Nintendo confirmed that it will be selling it under cost, meaning that the company will take a loss for each console they sell.

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata confirmed the news to investors yesterday after the company’s latest financial briefing. Iwata said that “the Wii U hardware will have a negative impact on Nintendo’s profits early after the launch.” He said that instead of “determining a price based on its manufacturing cost, [they] selected one that consumers would consider to be reasonable.”

This shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise, though. For Sony, it actually wasn’t until a few years after the PlayStation 3 launch when the company finally started seeing a profit on its hardware sales, and the same goes for Microsoft with its Xbox 360. However, Nintendo has always been about making a profit on its gaming hardware.

With the Wii U being sold under cost, Iwata says that the company may not achieve “Nintendo-like” profits within their fiscal year, but he expects financial performance to at least be “revitalized.” The Wii U goes on sale November 23 starting at $299, and early adopters will have 23 games to choose from right on launch day.

[via Eurogamer]

Nintendo will sell Wii U under cost is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Nintendo delivered its financial report for quarter 2 earlier today, and though things aren’t looking so hot at the moment, the company has high hopes for the future. In the report, Nintendo said that it expects to sell 5.5 million Wii U consoles before the end of its fiscal year, which draws to close at the end of March 2013. That’s 5.5 million consoles in a little over five months, so the big N has its work cut out for it.

That’s not to say Nintendo can’t hit that goal, however. Hardware sales have been down lately, which seems to suggest that gamers are ready for a new console generation. The boredom with current generation consoles might be enough for Nintendo to muster up some sales, and we can’t forget that the holiday shopping season is quickly approaching.

Nintendo is also hoping to sell 24 million Wii U games in the same period, which – as Eurogamer points out – equals an attach rate of about four games per console. Of course, Nintendo is likely counting the pack-in games that come with Wii U Premium Bundles in that figure, so 24 million games sold by the time April 2013 rolls around might not be too lofty a goal. Still, Nintendo has a long way to go between now and then, and the company’s expectations for the rest of the fiscal year rely on how consumers react to the Wii U – a console that has received mixed attention so far.

It’s also worth pointing out that Nintendo is hoping for 17.5 million 3DS sales by the time the fiscal year comes to a close, which means it has about 12.5 million units to go before it hits that mark. A tall order to be sure, and considering that Nintendo just had to cut its profit forecast for the year due to slow 3DS sales, that might be a harder target to hit. In any case, we shall see if Nintendo can achieve its goals for the fiscal year soon enough!

Nintendo sets high goals for Wii U’s first six months is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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If you follow Assassin’s Creed news, you probably know that it might not be long before we say goodbye to Desmond, one of the main characters in the story, for good. In a new interview with OXM, lead designer Steve Masters seems to suggest that Assassin’s Creed III may be the last game to feature Desmond. At the very least, it sounds like Assassin’s Creed III will be the beginning of the end for our lovable modern-day assassin.

“What we’re trying to do is bring some finality to Desmond’s story,” Masters said. “To actually wrap up what you’ve opened and experienced with him. So we’re trying to make it a little bit more direct with the storyline, but at the same time there are still going to be plenty of little mysterious bits for you to dig into, especially in the side stuff.” It sounds like Masters is trying to say that even though Desmond’s story will begin to wrap-up in Assassin’s Creed III, he’s hesitant to make the claim that the game will be the final chapter in the long-running narrative.

Masters and the rest of Ubisoft are aware, however, that some fans find the cliff hangers in the Assassin’s Creed series annoying, and in Assassin’s Creed III, the studio is looking to change that. Even if this game doesn’t conclude Desmond’s story, it will make some serious strides as far as actually telling the story goes. According to Masters, Assassin’s Creed III will offer a story that players can “sink their teeth in to,” rather than telling a story that leaves players guessing.

Whatever ends up happening in Assassin’s Creed III, it sounds like we can at least expect some major progress in wrapping up Desmond’s story. Ubisoft may need another game to fully close the story of Desmond, but one thing is sure: Desmond won’t be a mainstay in the Assassin’s Creed series for much longer. What do you think?

Assassin’s Creed III to “bring some finality to Desmond’s story” is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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