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December 15th, 2009 at 01:30pm
Under Wii / Nintendo
The internet is running rampant with speculation that Nintendo is working on a follow-up to its current home console, tentatively dubbed “Zii.” Siliconera discovered a Japanese trademark for the Zii, and many wondered if this was the official name for the fabled Wii HD.
Conspiracy theorists will want to settle down, though. Our friends at Engadget discovered that the Zii trademark request is simply a renewal of a 2006 request. In fact, in addition to the Zii, Nintendo has applied for trademarks covering Bii, Cii, Oii, and Yii. Unless Nintendo is planning on making five new consoles, each with a different name, it seems as though the company is just covering its bases.
Source – What Is The Nintendo Zii? [Siliconera]
Source – Nintendo trademarks ‘Zii’ all over Japan [Engadget]
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December 14th, 2009 at 02:30pm
Under Wii / Nintendo
North American Wii owners, the wait may soon be over. After years of patient, patient waiting — and watching the game land on both the European and Japanese Virtual Console — the original Smash Bros. should soon be winging its way to American Wiis. The evidence: The game has been rated for Wii by the ESRB, hopefully signifying that a release is imminent. In case you were wondering, the game received an E rating, ostensibly making it suitable for everyone.
We’ll just have to wait and see how Grandma takes it when she gets a Star Rod to the dome.
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December 13th, 2009 at 10:00pm
Under DS
Though Japan has been enjoying the adorable bounties of Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver for months now, us poor westerners still don’t know when to expect the games on our store shelves, or whether they’ll include the Pokéwalker accessory which allows you to take one of your encapsulated soldiers out for a discreet night on the town. Fortunately, if the games’ Amazon listings are on the money, both these Unown pieces of info have been divulged: According to the listings, they’re coming March 14, along with the Poke Ball-shaped peripheral.
The latter information actually comes from the games’ supposed box art, which we’ve posted above. We’ve contacted Nintendo to find out if the Amazon listing is authentic. If it’s not, we’re going to give them the most guilt-inspiring sad puppy face anyone’s ever seen. It will be absolutely brutal.
Amazon listing for Pokemon remakes includes March 14 release date, Pokewalker accessory originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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December 11th, 2009 at 01:15pm
Under Wii / Nintendo
More than twenty years and five home consoles later, you’d think Nintendo would get this “third-party support” thing by now. However, EA CEO John Riccitiello says the console manufacturer is still learning how to reach out and offer a hand to games other than their own. “They’ve always been first-party-centric, and they’re learning how to be third-party supportive,” Riccitiello told Gamasutra. Looking at November’s NPD figures, it’s clear that Nintendo has been very good to itself. But is there hope for EA on the Wii? “Third-parties can do a lot better on the platform with the right support from Nintendo.”
What kind of “support” are third parties like EA looking for? Most likely, third parties are looking for co-opted marketing opportunities provided by other first-party platforms, like Sony’s PlayStation.Blog or Microsoft’s MW2-branded hardware. Unfortunately, Nintendo appears content with its hands-off approach to third-party marketing, offsetting all the blame for the failures of GTA: Chinatown Wars and countless other games at the hands of their respective publishers.
EA’s Riccitiello: Nintendo ‘learning’ how to support third parties originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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December 11th, 2009 at 03:17am
Under Wii / Nintendo
Nintendo has responded to the November NPD results by praising its record-setting month, but with almost 3 million hardware units sold last month you can hardly blame them.
Nintendo claimed the top two spots on the hardware chart, representing over half of all videogame systems sold in the US in November. The DS sold almost 1.7 million units in November, setting a record for the most handheld videogame systems sold in the month of November and beating the previous record of 1.57 million held by the Nintendo DS in 2008. Meanwhile the Wii sold over 1.25 million units in November, making it the fastest-selling home console to reach the 23 million install base in the US.
Nintendo also performed well on the software side of things, with four games published for Nintendo consoles in the Top 10. New Super Mario Bros. Wii finished at number 3 with 1.4 million units after launching on the 15th of November. The publisher’s internal sales figures show that the new Mario title has already passed the two million sales mark when December sales are included. Wii Sports Resort charted at number 6 with 580 000 copies, Wii Fit Plus at number 7 with 490 000 copies and Mario Kart Wii at number 10 with 310 000 copies.
Nintendo also revealed that six of the Top 10 best-selling games of 2009 until November play on Nintendo systems. Wii Fit features at number 2 with 3.5 million, Wii Sports Resort at number 3 with 2.4 million, Mario Kart Wii at number 4 with 2.2 million, Wii Play at number 5 with 2.1 million, Pokemon Platinum at number 6 with 1.9 million and New Super Mario Bros. Wii at number 10 with 1.4 million. Wii Fit Plus is also a favourite among gamers with 1.1 million units sold as of the end of November.
“Nintendo products top Amazon.com’s Most Wished For and Most Gifted lists for video games, and Wii remains at or near the top of the most-searched for video game terms on Yahoo!,” said Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America’s executive vice president of Sales & Marketing. “As families and friends gather for the holidays, Nintendo games offer the best shared experiences.”
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December 10th, 2009 at 09:35pm
Under Xbox 360
The US games industry’s performance numbers are out for November and,
as expected, software sales were
lead dominated by Activision / Infinity Ward’s
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 on Xbox 360 and PS3. The game sold 4.2 million copies during the month on Microsoft’s console, while the version for Sony’s machine sold 1.9 million. Coming in an extremely strong second was
New Super Mario Bros. Wii at 1.4 million copies, proving that 1) people still love the plumber and 2) if a Wii game is published by Nintendo, it sells like crazy (well, unless it also has “
Wii Music” in its title).
Nintendo lead in hardware sales, with the number of DS units sold skyrocketing by 262% to 1.7 million units — that’s better than the same month last year. Wii sold over two million last November; this year it hit 1.26 million for the month, indicative of the year-long decline in sales the console’s been experiencing. Its competitors, Xbox 360 and PS3, sold 820 thousand and 710 thousand units, respectively.
-DS: 1.7M
1.2M (+262%)
-Wii: 1.26M753K (+149%)
-360: 820K570K (+228%)
-PS3: 710K389K (+121%)
-PSP: 294K119K (+76%)
-PS2: 203K85K (72%)
Check out the software sales chart after the break.
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December 10th, 2009 at 03:30pm
Under DS+ Wii / Nintendo
GamesIndustry.biz reports that the DS has officially exceeded 10 million units sold in the UK. The revelation comes courtesy of data from European number crunchers GfK Chart-Track and, according to Nintendo, the handheld is currently owned by one out of every six UK residents. Of course, there’s no telling how many people have purchased more than one of the console’s many, many iterations. Still, the DS has managed to reach the 10 million mark faster than the PS2 did, just shy of five years since the handheld launched in March 2005.
We’ve been holding this back for a while now, but it’s probably time to just come out and say it: It looks like the DS is a success.
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December 7th, 2009 at 10:12am
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The release of New Super Mario Bros. Wii in Japan has broken Nintendo’s own sales records for the publisher’s Wii console, becoming the biggest sales debut for a Wii game ever with an enormous 422 000 units sold on its first day of availability.
The title then went on to sell 936 734 copies over the rest of the week in Japan, edging in ahead of Super Smash Bros. Brawl (which only managed 816 000 units sold in one week) in terms of first week sales numbers for the region.
The prophecy that Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime and research firm EEDAR mentioned a while back may just become true after all.
Source: Kotaku and AndriaSang
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December 1st, 2009 at 06:45pm
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The reality: Nintendo is holding a fluffy PR event for grandparents and their little, angelic grandchildren at the Fairwinds-Ivey Ranch in Oceanside, California, this week. The event takes place this Friday, December 4, from 11AM-1PM. It’s likely to be a schmaltzy feel-good event, inclusive of the whole family and further pushing Nintendo’s “pioneering efforts” to expand the video game market.
The fantasy: At the event, some little snot will get mad that grandma can’t figure out which button is used to jump, eventually swiping the controller from her hand and making her watch helplessly as her Toad floats through the stage in a bubble. Meanwhile, grandpa joins in. He’s figured out the location of the jump button, but does that weird old people thing of moving the controller upwards every time he gets the character to jump, thus his avatar spins wildly out of control, dying constantly. Having never put the Wiimote strap on, he accidentally flings the controller into the television in a fit of frustration. That would be glorious.
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December 1st, 2009 at 04:15pm
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Actually, the titular tracks from The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, don’t feature very prominently in a recent batch of ads for the game from the UK. Instead, the ads task a young woman with solving some of the game’s puzzles (presumably under the stipulation that she be adorable while doing so). All three of the commercials highlight the game’s use of the unique features of the DS, namely the microphone and touch screen. We’re not sure how entertaining it will be to blow into the mic to play the pan flute for the thousandth time, but the first glance seems novel enough.
Check out the ads after the break.
[Via GoNintendo]
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