During Nintendo’s recent shareholder meeting at the company’s headquarters in Kyoto, Japan on Tuesday, a few choice pieces of information emerged regarding possible future directions for star designer Shigeru Miyamoto’s games.

They may seem like throwaway comments… and they probably are, but Miyamoto has a habit of telegraphing what games he’s working on based on the discussion of his hobbies: his interest in gardening lead to the creation of Pikmin. The addition of a dog to the Miyamoto household produced Nintendogs. And when the legendary game developer became obsessed with measuring his waist and weighing himself, Wii Fit was born.

More recently, Miyamoto casually mentioned that he found cats interesting. Lo and behold, Nintendogs + Cats was just announced at E3 2010.

You see where I’m going with this.

So when Miyamoto talks about his hobbies and extra curricular activities, gamers, investors, current shareholders and even other game designers had better take note.

What’s Miyamoto been up to lately?

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Nintendo’s recently unveiled stereoscopic 3D handheld console, the 3DS, will see a number of new games from a multitude of developers and publishers in the coming months, but Nintendo itself is determined to provide gamers with their own brand of videogames to further flesh out the console’s software offerings.

Amongst these new titles from Nintendo is a new Nintendogs game called Nintendogs + Cats, which (you guessed it) will feature the addition of those unpredictable little fluff balls, ‘Cats,’ to the virtual pet simulator.

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Following their (most impressive) financial results reported yesterday, Nintendo have revealed their list of million selling titles on the Wii and DS.

No surprises to see Wii Sports, Wii Play and Wii Fit top the list of million-selling Wii titles, while Nintendogs, New Super Mario Bros and Cooking Guide (?!) top the list of million-selling DS titles.

Check out the full list of Nintendo’s million-selling Wii and DS first-party titles below:

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We are reporting live from the Nintendo DS Lite launch in Johannesburg. Following the success of the Wii launch in September last year, Core Group has pulled out all the stops to put together a great launch event for the DS.

First things first…the Nintendo DS Lite will be available in all major retail outlets for a retail price of R1 799 from 1 February. The question on everyone’s minds has been what launch titles will hit the streets, and today we can confirm that New Super Mario Bros. (R449), Nintendogs (R449), Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training: How Old is your Brain (R349) and Mario Kart DS (R449) will be available from 1 February.

The DS Lite will be available in four colours: white, black, silver and pink.

Also launching in South Africa today is the big slugger titles for the Wii including the legendary Super Mario Galaxy (R499) and Mario Party 8 (R499).

More to follow later regarding how well the Wii has been received in South Africa and more coverage of the event.

Update:The DS Lite will be in stores from 1 March and not 1 February as stated.