siliconera.com - 5/27/2009
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Prepare for an announcement about Wii Fit Plus at Nintendo’s E3 press conference next Tuesday. A trademark with an English logo for Wii Fit Plus in the Japanese trademark database.
joystiq.com - 5/27/2009
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joystiq.com —
Nintendo's core needs a workout, but it looks
like the company may be planning to pump up
its casual audience even more at next week's E3 with Wii Fit Plus . Originally uncovered in April via purported retailer listings, the game's title has been ...
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Nintendo trademarks 'Wii Fit Plus' and 'Art Academy'
gamasutra.com - 6/3/2009
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gamasutra.com —
[Reporting from Nintendo's E3 press conference in Los
Angeles, Gamasutra's Christian Nutt gives a detailed analysis of
its performance, suggesting a "robust, full of surprises, and appealing", with one or two exceptions.] Nintendo's press conference ...
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News - E3 Analysis: Nintendo - Not Quite Status Quo
kotaku.com - 6/1/2009
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kotaku.com —
Nintendo will release Wii Fit Plus , recently
trademarked in Japan , and a new Mario game
later this year, both for the Wii, according to a report from Japan's regularly reliable Nikkei newspaper. According to the report, the follow up to the 18 ...
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Report: New Mario Game, Online Wii Fit Plus For 2009 ...
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Nintendo Already Preparing Wii Fit Sequel? [Rumor]
Kotaku —
... Nintendo are actually working on. Oh, and if you remember, April is also when something called "Wii Fit Plus" started appearing on the databases of European retailers. With E3 right around the corner, who'd like to wager that, amongst the games, Nintendo take a minute or two to outline plans for an imaginatively-titled sequel (or expansion) to one of their biggest-selling (18 million and counting) titles of all time? [via Siliconera]
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Nintendo trademarks ‘Art Academy’
GoNintendo —
... Yet another interesting trademark from Nintendo. I would like to hope that this ends up being a successor to Mario Paint. Whatever it is, let's cross our fingers for an E3 reveal. Link ...
Nintendo trademarks 'Wii Fit Plus' and 'Art Academy'
Joystiq [Nintendo] —
... more likely to believe the November 2009 release date it claimed. Also trademarked by the Big N is Art Academy, a previously unheard -of title with no target platform mentioned. Detailed drawing would seem to lend itself more to DS, though we can't help but imagine a game in the vein of Wii Music in which players "paint" great works of art -- the Mona Lisa, the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel -- simply by waggling the Wiimote around. [Via Siliconera] Nintendo trademarks 'Wii Fit Plus' and 'Art Academy' originally ...
Nintendo Rumored to Show Wii Fit Plus at E3
1UP RSS feed —
... At least one of the Nintendo predictions is looking very accurate already. Siliconera reports that Nintendo has trademarked "Wii Fit Plus" and even included a logo (above). This confirms ...
Wii Fit sales will be challenged by... Wii Fit Plus?
Destructoid —
... Siliconera unearthed a Japanese trademark for both "Wii Fit Plus" and "WiiFitPlus,” presumably to protect the names in their plans to release new software or a follow-up bundle. We can take a leap of faith and make an assumption that the “Plus” indicates a new, updated title that would take advantage of the Wii MotionPlus controller add-on. Nintendo will be holdings its ...
Rumortoid: New Nintendo titles for E3, also Mario and Zelda
Destructoid —
... As you've heard, the Wii Fit part of this story is the most solid. In the Japanese Trademark Database, a Wii Fit Plus comes up. Great name, Nintendo. Very inventive. We'll act totally surprised at the announcement on Tuesday's press conference at E3. Siliconera also found a couple of other interesting title names in the database: Art Academy and BonsaiBarber, with the latter being a domestic WiiWare release. I wonder what Art Academy is. ...
7 Hot E3 Rumors (and Why Some Are True)
GameLife —
... not happen: Nintendo isn’t a normal videogame company, and if Shigeru Miyamoto and crew aren’t 100 percent happy with a game’s design, they just won’t show their work in progress.
Odds of this happening: 2 to 1.
Rumor No. 2
Nintendo will show Wii Fit Plus, a sequel to its incredibly popular exercise game, Wii Fit.
Where we heard it: Siliconera has dug up a Nintendo trademark registration, complete with logo.
Why it could be ...
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pressthebuttons.com 5/27/2009 — Is anyone else getting the sinking feeling that Nintendo's E3 media briefing will once again skew ultra-casual? That shouldn't be a surprise by now, and there's still every chance something worthwhilefor the core gamers will come out of the event, but in the meantime we're ...
Wii Fit Target Of Class Action Lawsuit [Wii]
kotaku.com 2/10/2009 — Wii Fit has been an exercise in smart marketing by Nintendo. Doesn't matter whether it actually makes you fit or not, you call it Wii Fit , it'll sell! Oh, and it'll also attract lawsuits. Slightly nutty fitness "guru" Michael Torchia has looked at ...
Wii Fit Is No Fad [Well Played]
kotaku.com 2/14/2009 — The Wii Nation have spoken: Wii Fit is no fad. Last week I got into a bit of metaphorical hot soup when a Forbes article quoted me as saying that I didn't know a single person who bought Wii Fit and used it routinely after a month. Now I do. ...
Nintendo Discovers That Wii Fit Is As Good As... Walking [Clips]
kotaku.com 3/19/2009 — In this ad, Nintendo says it had Wii Fit researched by Japan's National Institute of Health and Nutrition . About time! The game's only been out for over a year. The researchers found out that doing the Wii Fit hula hoop game was the equivalent ...
Science Doing Some Science On Wii Fit [Nintendo]
kotaku.com 1/3/2009 — Does Wii Fit work? It's hard for me to tell, personally, as my Little Debbie Zebra Cake intake ratio is tied proportionally to my progress in the game. See, I'm not a scientist. Thankfully, researchers at the University of Mississippi — ...
Nintendo Already Preparing Wii Fit Sequel? [Rumor]
kotaku.com 5/27/2009 — On the 7th of April this year, Nintendo registered trademark #2009-026024 with the Japanese Patent Office. For something called " Wii Fit Plus ". Hrm. What ever could it be? The mind boggles . While companies trademark stuff all the time that means ...
News: E3: Wii Fit Plus announced
eurogamer.net 6/3/2009 — New exercises, games, custom routines. Nintendo has surprised virtually nobody by announcing a sequel to Wii Fit called Wii Fit Plus, due for release this autumn both as a standalone disc and bundled with the balance board. One key ...
The Truth About Wii Fit And Weight Loss
forbes.com 2/7/2009 — Fitness videogames might be able to keep players in shape--but not if they don't play them. Nintendo 's (other-otc: NTDOY.PK - news - people ) exercise game Wii Fit is still flying off retail shelves eight months after its U.S. release last May. ...
Nintendo Sold 300,000 Copies Of ‘Wii Fit’ Last Week
multiplayerblog.mtv.com 1/30/2009 — Nintendo president Satoru Iwata announced in Tokyo this week the the company has sold nearly a third of a million copies of "Wii Fit" in the U.S. just last week -- one of the most extraordinary sales stats I've seen in a long time.
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Kombo.com 5/27/2009
I think we all remember where we were when Nintendo first revealed what made the Wii a "revolution:" The Wii Remote. And while some were immediately put-off by the strangeness they saw before them, others still were intrigued by the possibilities, ...
News: New Wii Fit, Mario, Zelda at E3 - report —
Eurogamer 5/27/2009
"Nintendo has learned its lesson." Macquarie Research has suggested that Nintendo will show new Wii Fit, Mario and Zelda titles at E3 next week. The company also repeated long-running expectations for a redesigned PSP from Sony, and Xbox ...
Wii Fit Plus, Zelda and Mario expected at E3 —
play.tm 5/27/2009
Nintendo's big hitters coming to LA? Macquarie Research have hinted that Nintendo will be showing Wii Fit Plus at E3 next week, with the game being released as both a standalone game and a bundle pack with the balance board.
Perhaps even more ...
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GamePro.com 5/27/2009
Will we see another Zelda on the Wii? A new PSP? And what about Halo? The show floor is rife with mystery this year at E3, and the GamePros have had their ears to the floor, against doors and eyes embedded in news reports trying to figure out what ...
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