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<title>Toyota uses Nintendo DS as an in-car GPS system controller</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/05/17/nintendo.ds.works.with.toyota.in.car.navigation.for.control.more/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1337266295_toyotadsgpsin.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[At a press conference in Tokyo on Wednesday, Toyota showed off its upcoming Estima Hybrid minivan. At the same time, equipping the van with an aftermarket Smart Navi NSZT-W62G GPS head unit will let a Nintendo DS control the GPS system of the car, 4gamer reported. The DS needs to have a Kuruma de DS (meaning Use DS in the car) cartridge inserted, which allows the portable games console to communic...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 14:51:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Nielsen: 66% of homes with Nintendo, Sony handhelds have iOS</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/03/09/nielsen.shows.apple.infiltrating.gaming/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1203/ipad2012-infinityblade2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[New Nielsen data has shown that cross-platform gaming is seeing heavy inroads, including from Apple.  About 24 percent of US homes used at least two gaming platforms, but diversity was especially high among those who had a traditional handheld.  In homes where a Nintendo DS or Sony PSP was was used by a child under 12, 66 percent also had some kind of iOS device....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 20:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Review: PlayStation Vita</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/03/04/we.review.sonys.flagship.handheld.console/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1203/psvita-review.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Many had written off Sony from the mobile gaming arena not long into the PSP's history: high prices and a lack of major games kept it on the sidelines as the Nintendo DS took over. Apple and Google have seemingly been poised to deliver a killing blow with much better general abilities and cheaper games. The PlayStation Vita, then, is a chance at redemption. We'll gauge in our PS Vita review whethe...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 03:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Nintendo 3DS reaches 5m home sales mark ahead of ancestor</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/02/20/nintendo.3ds.fastest.selling.handheld.console/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1202/nintendo3ds-home.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Nintendo confirmed a milestone for both itself and the gaming would by revealing that the 3DS should now be its fastest-selling console.  The system took less than a year to reach the five million-unit sales mark in its home of Japan, four weeks faster than the 56-week record set by the decade-old Gameboy Advance.  The DS took 58 weeks to get to the same point....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Sony starts $50m PS Vita ad blitz to recapture iPhone gamers</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/02/14/sony.targets.adult.gamers.mobile.users.with.vita/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1202/psvita-ad.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Sony on the eve of the PlayStation Vita's first US wave has kicked off a record $50 million ad campaign to recapture its place not just from Nintendo but from Apple.  The most Sony has ever spent on any PlayStation launch in the US, the campaign includes both online spots as well as traditional billboards and TV spots.  Where PSP ads focused on younger gamers, though, Sony's new Vita ads (below) w...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Nintendo buys video streaming startup Mobiclip</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/02/13/nintendo.gets.mobiclip.for.vide.streaming/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1202/nintendowiiu-handson2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Mobiclip quietly confirmed Monday that it had been bought out by Nintendo.  The new subsidiary of the console giant didn't explain details, including the value of the deal or what it would be producing with Nintendo's help.  The company has been making primarily video codecs for the console universe, including Microsoft and Sony....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 03:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Nintendo, NTT DoCoMo use DS for voice recognition </title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/01/30/voice.to.text.to.aid.disable.students.in.classroom/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1201/ntt-nintendo-ds-voice-to-text-classroom-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Nintendo is partnering with Japanese service provider NTT DoCoMo to bring speech recognition tools to the classroom. Together, the two companies are using Nintendo's DS handhelds to display a teacher's words directly on the handheld gaming device's screen as they are spoken. The intent is to help students with disabilities learn better....]]></description>
<guid>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/01/30/voice.to.text.to.aid.disable.students.in.classroom/</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Nintendo rumored mulling a Wii U name change</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/01/27/wii.u.may.launch.under.a.different.name.source/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1201/nintendowiiu-handson3.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Nintendo is reportedly considering changing the name of its upcoming game console, the Wii U. The reason for this internal mulling, CVG heard, is supposedly due to the confusion with the 3D and 3DS, which Nintendo found to be too similar in the public eye. It supposedly fears the same would happen with the Wii U and its existing Wii....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Nintendo 3DS tops 4m sold, outpaces Wii</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/01/03/nintendo.more.than.recovers.from.early.3ds.slump/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1201/nintendo3ds-home.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Nintendo returned from holiday with word that it had shipped more than four million 3DS systems in the US.  The milestone, which it reached in nine months, was enough to outsell the Wii over its own intro period.  Nintendo had already passed four million in Japan just days earlier....]]></description>
<guid>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/01/03/nintendo.more.than.recovers.from.early.3ds.slump/</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Sony sells out of PS Vita pre-orders in Japan in comeback</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/12/15/ps.vita.japan.launch.already.spoken.for/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1112/psvita-resistance.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Sony on Thursday said that it had sold out of the PlayStation Vita in Japanese pre-orders.  Not due to go on sale until Saturday, the handheld game system triggered lines that saw its initial batch spoken for.  It did have a significant amount of time to sell stock, having started pre-orders on October 15....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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