
IGN - Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has addressed the cause of Nintendo's sparse release schedule, blaming the company's focus on new hardware launches.

The rejection is non-final (and even when such rejections are labeled as “final”, the process is far from over, given that there can be, at minimum, an appeal to the Federal Circuit).
Good, as they should! A game mechanic like that shouldn't be locked behind a patent, and Nintendo didn't invent it either.
Nintendo wants to keep wasting money on bullshit lawsuits, real smart in this economy. They should put that money aside for other game projects. On the other hand, I don't care if they waste it all either, and they are screwed in the future maybe that will teach them a lesson.

Nintendo completed its share repurchase and set its secondary offering price at 8,347 yen ahead of March 16 delivery.

Nintendo filed a lawsuit in the United States Court of International Trade.
Nintendo of America is suing the United States government over the sweeping tariffs President Donald Trump put in place last year, according to a complaint filed Friday in the U.S. Court of International Trade and obtained by Aftermath.
LOL I read this on gaff, will they refund the money back to the gamers? highly unlikely. Didn't they just raise prices and pass it onto the gamers? Only Nintendo would send out the Ninjas to the US government.
"Possibility of four active platforms", that says it all. They being doing a great job spreading major releases across DS and Wii this gen, having two more consoles to cater for sounds like a bridge too far.
Most likely, they'll expand their empire.
Nintendo doesn't have enormous development teams which is why they can't handle too many platforms at once. When they axe the Wii and the DS we will start seeing a lot more games for their new handhelds and consoles. But seriously they should have released the 3 DS with a better library of games.
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I hope that less games for Wii, means more games for the WiiU.