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Nintendo Seeks Wii U Boost with Shooter Game, Toy Platform
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Nintendo Co. President Satoru Iwata yesterday delivered his clearest message yet to gamers about the company’s future: Don’t count the Wii U out yet.
Nintendo, threatened with becoming an also-ran in the market for home consoles, announced a half-dozen new titles for the Wii U in an online presentation for the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. They include a multiplayer shooter game called Splatoon and Super Smash Bros. as it unveiled a toy platform for the console called Amiibo, similar to Activision Blizzard Inc.’s Skylanders. Nintendo shares fell.