Gaming giant Nintendo has announced a host of new software this week at the Tokyo Game Show.

The companys new handheld gaming gadget, the 3DS, has not gone well, with sales figures disappointing shareholders.

Satoru Iwata, Nintendos president, said Nintendo was soon to launch an unprecedented range of games, in a move some commentators have said was to counter bad initial 3DS sales.

Nintendos classic Mario character will feature in some of the new games whilst other games have been made specifically to tempt women players. The soon-to-be-launched pink 3DS is also aimed at female gamers.

From the end of this year to the beginning of the next, we are planning the kind of extensive line-up that has probably never been seen before in the history of video games, Iwata said at the Tokyo Game Show.

We hope to make it so that, through the release of this new colour and the direction we take our software, that the 3DS will be liked by both men and women as the DS was.

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