Robin Williams fan petition for Nintendo

Robin Williams passing and under such a circumstances was a great tragedy. The actor, comedian was loved all over the world by many different people and generations, he will surly be missed.

If you didn't know, Robin Williams was a Nintendo fan and especially a fan of the Legend of Zelda series. He even named his daughter Zelda after the game. Both of them did a commercial for Nintendo some years ago. The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time is one of the best games ever on any console.

After Robin Williams passing, fans started a petition where they want Nintendo to make a non-playable character named Robin, that will be included in the next Zelda game. Fan petition become viral very soon and a lot of fans singed it already so Nintendo decided to address the fans.

Nintendo spokesperson said: “Robin Williams was loved at Nintendo,Our hearts go out to his entire family, and especially to Zelda Williams who we've worked with multiple times. We appreciate the outpouring of support from the gaming community, and hear the request of fans to honor him in a future game. We will not be discussing what might be possible for future games during this difficult time, but we will hold our memories of Robin close.”

So they are not saying anything conclusive just yet, we certainly hope there will be a character named Robin in their new Zelda game, the fans would definitely love it.

Petition was started by Nick Shaedel and this is what he had to say about that: “Robin was an avid player of video games, with a love for all things Nintendo, and a particular love of all things Legend of Zelda, It is well-known that he named his daughter after the series' titular princess. Nintendo of America itself only recently hired him and his daughter to promote the franchise in a series of ads.”

Source screwattack.

Nintendo not Optimistic About 2014

Gaming consoles where a big hit during this holiday season. Microsoft and Sony are more then happy with the sales results, both Xbox One and PlayStation 4 have solid millions of units in a very short period. But not everyone is making good sales in the console market, Nintendo Wii U is having bad results.

Nintendo is already trying to lower their expectations about Wii U sales. Initial expectations where 9 million units from April 2013 to March 2014. Now that number has been lowered to just 2.8 million units, witch isn't even a third of what Nintendo expected. One of the reasons for this announcement was a very bad holiday season sales for Nintendo hardware and software.

There are many reasons for bad sales results. Even the Nintendo fans agree that the Wii U hardware isn's as strong and as up to date as the rivals hardware of PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Another thing is thirt party games. Nintendo is having success with their franchises like Zelda, Mario, Metroid Prime and others but without third party games it's very difficult to sell that many units as the competition.

With all the old competition having record sales and new many new rivals coming to the market in this year. Steam machines and Oculust Rift are just some of the consoles that are expected. The year 2014 might even be thougher then Nintendo expects.

Source engadget.

China Lifts Ban on Foreign Game Consoles

Next generation game consoles were a big hit during this holiday season, but not everywhere in the world. China is a country where it's not legal to sale foreign game consoles, well at least that was the situation until now.

China’s State Council has temporarily lifted the ban for foreign game consoles. Witch was in effect for full 14 years, ever since 2000. No further detail were provided, very short message from the Council. Keep in mind that the key word here is temporarily. But non the less this is great news for all the gamers in China and the game consoles companies. Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo can now sale their popular consoles in China one of the biggest markets in the world.

Both Sony and Microsoft released their new consoles in November and the sales results were great so far. Sony sold 4.2 million PlayStation 4 units and Microsoft 3 million Xbox One units. This decision will definitely increase those numbers. great

Source The Reuters.