Nintendo has now launched their new paid video downloads system in Japan, the Wii no Ma Channel under a new Theater no Ma section. From movies to animes, and other paid content from providers such as Walt Disney and Warner Entertainment, they've got it all right here.

Satoru Iwata said earlier this month that they're planning to add game demos into WiiWare, and just about two weeks later, the first ones are now available. They sure went about that pretty fast. When more demos come in, you can avoid risking your gaming money on shovelware and iffy titles.

Digital downloads seem to be the way of the future, looking at the current landscape of the gaming industry now. Even analysts say that retail will be overtaken by digital distribution in a mere three years' time. Nintendo's big boss, Satoru Iwata, begs to differ, however. To him, digital distribution will sure be a hit -- but not till 20 years later.

Soon, there will be demos for games on WiiWare. This appears to be the plan of Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata, as disclosed in a recent Q&A session.

After four years of staying on top, it's the first time for the Wii to experience a sales decline. Satoru Iwata owns up to the issue, but remains optimistic about Nintendo bouncing back into the game. Much of that is apparent as early as now - Nintendo is steadily adding more games into WiiWare and Virtual Console, grabbing more big Wiixclusives, unleashing the Black Wii, and even introduces a new king-sized DSi.

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The Wii may be miles ahead of the competition in the total sales race, but for the first time in four years, Nintendo saw a drop in profits from the cash-hauling console. Acknowledging the situation, Satoru Iwata owns up to the decline, looking forward to turning things around.

IndustryGamers recently caught up with Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto in NYC, where the gaming exec shared his thoughts on high definition gaming. While he said nothing that would point us to a Wii HD, we now have more reason to believe that Nintendo isn't gonna sit on its motion-control laurels and leave the graphics as they are. Miyamoto himself has confirmed - "Nintendo's games move along in step with the progression of technology."

Word from Satoru Iwata - the Wii Vitality Sensor is gonna come "not too late" in 2010. In case you're not really keeping your eye out for the new peripheral, the Nintendo chief himself talked about how the Wii Vitality Sensor could benefit its users and improve daily life.

Japan is without a doubt the Monster Hunter capital of the world, so what happens when you release the next big Monster Hunter title there on a new console? That console sells, of course. That's what happened with the Nintendo Wii, which saw sales quadruple following the release of Monster Hunter 3. Find out how each console fared in the latest Japanese hardware sales charts after the jump.

The Nintendo Wii has been suffering a sales decline of late. Most recently, Nintendo has posted a decline in quarterly operating outfit of more than 60%. Despite these numbers (and despite what analysts believe), don't expect the Wii to get a price cut anytime soon. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata believes that the slowdown in sales is due to the lack of big titles released for their home console at the moment, and they're going to remedy that by putting out some big ones.