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Corporate Management Policy Briefing/
Semi-Annual Financial Results Briefing
for Fiscal Year Ended March 2009
Oct. 31, 2008 - Satoru Iwata, President
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We are also developing software that makes use of the newly installed camera function of Nintendo DSi. This, "WarioWare Photographed" is a new game to WarioWare series that uses camera as its input device.

You put your DSi on a table and have your own silhouette, taken by the camera, which appears on screen in real time to play games.


We are planning to make this available as a Nintendo DSiWare 500 software in late December, when we start the Nintendo DSi Shop.


Other than Nintendo DSiWare, I'd like to introduce you to some of the new software that I could not sufficiently explain at Nintendo Conference Fall 2008.


Nintendo believes that building a foundation for an environment where the player's creativity is harnessed and the results of their creativity can be shared by many others is becoming increasingly important.


We launched a DS software called "Band Brothers Deluxe" in Japan in June this year. The software has a unique music composition mode. When a player arranges existing music whose copyrights are managed by the JASRAC organization and upload the music to Nintendo's server, it may become music available for download for other players who can download a maximum of 100 songs onto their Band Brothers Deluxe DS cards. As for the payment of the royalty for the music, Nintendo makes the payment to JASRAC, so the users do not have to worry about it.

At the launch of the software, Nintendo prepared 200 downloadable songs. As of today, the number has increased to 3303 titles including the individual players' tunes, and this number is still increasing. The unique environment has been constructed to make this software "a music game software that never becomes obsolete." In addition, while respecting the rights of the original music copyright holders, the software has been encouraging other players to be engaged in their own creative activities and has been linking them with other owners of this software who enjoy listening to and appreciate the creativities of others. In all, we think we were able to create "a game which continuously grows."


Wii Music that we recently launched was created by the team headed by Shigeru Miyamoto of Nintendo with the theme "to provide everyone with the inspiration and joy of playing music." This software not only provides anyone with the excitement of jam sessions with friends but also offers one-player mode with deep play contents with which you can create your own unique music video clips and share them with your friends. Wii Music is another software that harnesses and shares the players' creativity by connecting our customers' creativities in making their original performances for other people's entertainment.


Just last week, we launched a DS software called GIRLS MODE in Japan. Using this software, an individual user can open their store on the network, where they can demonstrate their fashion sense. This is another way to leverage upon our players' creativity and is well received.


We announced the "Moving Notepad" at the Nintendo Conference 2008 the other day. We are developing it so that customers can share and exchange their creativities.


Let me introduce you to another software that challenges players' creativity. It is called WarioWareMyself which has been developed by the development team of the WarioWare series.

Not only can you enjoy playing this game like other DS WarioWare games, you can also create your own mini games by yourself. That's why it's called WarioWareMyself.


If I can have you take a look at the process of creating a game yourself here: This game includes a function for you to create a game, music and/or manga comics so that you can draw pictures to create the background, draw and place characters, compose background music, choose the player's character, identify the logic to create a simple program, and complete a mini game of your own.


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