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Nintendo wants to turn a movement that is a key part of its Wii video-game console into an exercise program with a new Wii Fit product.

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If you’ve been procrastinating on your New Year’s resolution to exercise more, the Nintendo Wii console might hold the incentive you need to get moving.

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The creative energy of the video game industry descended on San Francisco this week for the annual Game Developers Conference.Here are highlights of the gathering, which ends today. Nintendo’s Takao Sawano, who helped Super Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto design the upcoming Wii Fit, offered insights about the groundbreaking personal fitness program for the Wii system.

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Today, the Mario Kart Wii volcano has erupted, spewing forth screenshots and details like there’s no tomorrow. With the game’s European April 11 release date looming, we were looking anxiously at our watches. But the panic is over - it’s looking great.

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Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection Pay & Play will be Nintendo's version of micro-transactions. Also, find out what Nintendo is doing to address Wii's storage space problem. (Hint: Nothing).

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In a curiously ‘confidential’ session, in which photographs were explicitly and forcefully disallowed, Nintendo Network Administration Group Group Manager Takashi Aoyama spoke at length on the thought process behind the Wii’s online offerings. Amongst his anecdotes were a story of how WiiConnect24 came out of early dial-up concerns, during planning stages around 2000 for a GameCube network. …

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Here we have another look at the new Mario Kart game for the Wii. We get see a bunch of multiplayer gameplay as well as some people “enjoying” the Wii wheel.

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Attention, gamers. Wii may have a problem.

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Wii enthusiasts across the U.S. — and I count myself among them — are rejoicing over Nintendo’s latest announcement: Wii Fit is on its way. The new program, which comes with the weight-and-motion-sensing Wii Balance Board, launches May 19. Nintendo officially announced Wii Fit last summer.

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Whenever a PS3 or Xbox 360 game comes out, Wii owners say it would be great if Nintendo’s console got a port.

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(AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye) A model demonstrates Nintendo Co.’s new game “Wii Fit” which allows players to weigh themselves, check their balance and play fitness games, during a press event at Makuhari Messe in Makuhari, east of Tokyo, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007. Nintendo Co. said Thursday, Oct. 25, 2007, profits more than doubled in the six months to Sept. 30 on the soaring success of its hit Wii and …

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Two New Classic Games Announced.

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Free Accessory Enhances Grip, Adds Cushioning

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Three New Classic Games Announced.

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Oct. 26 (Bloomberg) — Nintendo Co. said it raised production of the Wii player by 80 percent during the fiscal second quarter to bolster revenue in Europe, and will further expand sales by selling the console in China next year.

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