Welcome to the VGChartz Gap charts. The charts will be updated monthly and each article will focus on a different gap chart. The charts include comparisons between the 7th generation and 8th generation, as well as comparing the 8th generation consoles....

Here we see data representing the global sales through to consumers and change in sales performance of the six home consoles and four handhelds over comparable periods for 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015. Also shown is the market share for each of the consoles...

Now that the "New" Nintendo 3DS XL has successfully launched in the US and Europe, and the dust has settled a bit, many Nintendo fans are no doubt still left wondering why its smaller brother has not been confirmed for North America. Well Nintendo Life...

Nintendo's Satoru Okada, who helped develop the original Game Boy alongside Gunpei Yokoi, has officially retired from the company. Okada was chief developer of the Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Advance SP, and the original Nintendo DS. Okada...

With the news that Nintendo's new 3DS model will come with an upgraded CPU, making games specifically made for the system unplayable on older systems, comes the understandable concern from some fans that they’ll be locked out of purchasing certain games...

Japan is best known as the land of the samurai, birthplace of the conveyor belt sushi, a country where used panties can be bought from vending machines, and of course for being the mecca of video games. While one could talk about each of these topics...

Nintendo's Wi-Fi Connection service is set to be axed worldwide on 20th May of this year. What this basically means is that various online services across Nintendo's legacy platforms the Nintendo DS, Nintendo DSi, and Wii will no longer be available...

You may remember the first person shooter Moon, which was released on Nintendo DS back in 2009. It was fairly well received at the time, with a number of major review publications giving it glowing reviews, although others were more lukewarm in their...

Earlier in the year, Pokemon fans were gifted with a wonderful bit of news: Nintendo planned on releasing an online Pokemon bank that allowed avid fans to transfer Pokemon from earlier games to Pokemon X/Y and beyond. Today, we learned of the additional...

Today, Nintendo released their Financials for the first quarter of this year, and despite making a net profit of 8.6 billion yen ($88.1mil, mainly due to a weaker yen and strong 3DS software sales), the company made an overall operating loss of just...