MARIO HELPS KIDS SWING FOR THE FENCES AT 2008 CAL RIPKEN WORLD SERIES

In preparation for the Aug. 25 release of Mario™ Super Sluggers for the Wii™ console, Nintendo will be giving fans and players an interactive boost at the 2008 Cal Ripken World Series, the season's most anticipated baseball tournament for 11- and 12-year-olds. Featuring a roster of champion youth-league teams from across the United States and around the globe, the event will take place Aug. 8-16 at the prestigious Ripken Academy in Aberdeen, Md., where young players will compete on professional-quality diamonds in front of thousands of enthusiastic baseball fans.

Throughout this exciting series, players and fans are invited to experience Mario Super Sluggers, Nintendo's new Mario-themed baseball game designed exclusively for the Wii console. Interactive kiosks will be placed in the park's batting cages, where attendees can try out the game's imaginative baseball action and unique motion-sensing controls, swinging the wireless Wii Remote™ controller like an actual bat. Anyone who samples the game will be entered into a drawing to win a free copy of Mario Super Sluggers.

What's more, to heighten the excitement on the field, any Cal Ripken World Series player who hits the Nintendo banner on the outfield wall will win a copy of Mario Super Sluggers. During the series' semi-final game on Aug. 15, one lucky fan will receive a complimentary Wii console and a copy of the Mario Super Sluggers game. Nintendo will also award a copy of the game to each member of the team that captures the Cal Ripken World Series championship.

For more information about Mario Super Sluggers, visit www.nintendo.com.

Link: http://wiinintendo.net/2007/01/15/wii-sports-experiment-results/

Video gamers who'd rather battle virtual villains than fight the flab can take heart. Use of the new Nintendo Wii can lead to weight loss.

Playing the Wii is quite a different experience than the usual sit-motionless-on-the-couch scenario. Nintendo’s new console has gotten people on their feet and using muscles their bodies had forgotten about. One blogger in Philadelphia has lost nine pounds just from playing Wii Sports.

After six weeks of playing Wii Sports for 30 minutes a day, Mickey DeLorenzo dropped from 181 pounds to 172. DeLorenzo came up with the regimen after his first breathless Wii Boxing match against his wife.

His food intake remained the same and he didn’t deny himself the usual holiday indulgences, either. He tracked his progress at WiiNintendo.net, which includes before and after photos.

DeLorenzo told Reuters a fitness Web site has enlisted his help in creating Wii workouts, and he also recently bought the domain name WiiWorkout.net.

See: Wii Sports Experiment, Results! for complete story and results.

This week has been a rather busy week for Nintendo...
First, they raised it's stake in major-league baseball's (Seattle) Mariners to more than 50 percent, a company spokesman said today.

Nintendo's U.S. subsidiary spent $67 million to acquire the stake held by former Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi, who acquired his share of the club in 1992, Yasuhiro Minagawa said.

Nintendo's U.S. subsidiary had owned a stake in the team but is not disclosing how much it owned or how much it owns after the transaction, he said.

The Mariners are one of the most popular major-league baseball teams in Japan because of right fielder Ichiro.

Then, comfirmed some new Cube games including Pokemon and Mario are in develeopment..

Finally, the company has begun internal work on the planning and production side of animated movies. All financing for these projects will be handled internally. While specific content hasn't been revealed, the company does expect to have its first pictures made public some time in 2006.

Previously, Nintendo's dealings in the movie business have been through licensed properties, like Pokemon and a positively weird movie based on Super Mario Brothers. One wouldn't actually call these Nintendo movies, though.

Whatever movie properties do show up, it's expected that Nintendo will take advantage of the new wireless technology from the DS in its film releases. The first film to allow DS owners to download content via wireless transfer by simply bringing their DS systems to the theater will be the new Pokemon movie, a non-Nintendo production that's scheduled for Japanese release in the Summer.