Month: November 2006

From Gamasutra’s “Question of the Week” (Are Games Industry Professionals Buying PlayStation 3 or Wii?): As a video game professional, are you buying a Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo’s Wii or both on their North American launch later next week? How are you securing your console (eBay, pre-order, queue?), and what underpinned your buying decision? Interestingly, of the profess...

Modojo gave Sonic the Hedgehog Genesis a mere 1/5 stars: “So what does $20 buy you? A piece of garbage port of a fifteen-year old Sega Genesis game with only a battery save and a new spin dash move to spruce it up… Slowdown and glitches; terrible sound; this is closer to the Game Gear version than the Genesis one.” Nice Q/A testing, Sega. Hopefully the VC version can deliver. [Th...

With violent situations happening at PS3 launch events across the US, do you have any concerns about camping out or picking up your Wii this weekend? If so, how does it change your plans? If not, how is the Wii launch different?

From an article today on MSNBC.com: “Which machine wins the battle for consumer bucks and gamer thumbs will be determined this holiday season and in the months after. But for a sneak peak at how the console wars may unfold, we invited a group of six gamers ’ hardcore and casual players, adults and children ’ to spend some time with us, the Wii and the PS3. After plowing through several hours...

If I were Nintendo of Japan, I’d have been worried this week that the sale of the PS3 would start to eat into my DS Lite hardware sales. Japanese hardware sales for November 6 – November 12: System – Weekly sales (2006 sales) 1. DSL – 148,174 (5,595,283)2. PS3 – 81,639 (81,639)3. PSP – 19,123 (1,492,596)4. PS2 – 16,1575. 360 – 3,8646. GBASP – 1...

You know your man is workin’ hard …He’s worth a deuce!

…and it’s not at the Nintendo store. Reggie and co.’s festivites will take place at Toys R Us on Times Square (pictured) Saturday night — will you be there, NYC? I’m thinking about it. Bring a DS, trade 2D genital drawings, i dunno. Whatever it is people do when they camp out for a system. Have you been to TS today or seen any campers? That’s a high traffic area...

Game Over opines: “With the Wii, a new type of gaming system has hit the industry. If the Xbox 360 and PS3 are Lamborghinis, the Wii is a Mini Cooper. It will never win a speed race. It will never be the flashiest. But it’s something that appeals to people who might not take notice otherwise – and it’s a heck of a lot of fun.”

A blogger by the name of Jimmy Canuk took hot chocolate to cold PS3 linees today after reports of violence and rioting at several locations. Here’s a snippit form his blog: “I had to pop into my local Best Buy this morning and saw about a dozen fanboys and one nice grandma huddled under plastic tarps and tents to keep themselves out of the freezing rain. So I drove across the parking l...

Web browsing, news, and weather channells have officially been delayed a bit. Though I’m not buying a Wii for any of the mentioned, it sucks to be out some value post-launch. From Nintendo’s press release: “The Wii Shop Channel is also where users will go to download the Opera browser that will let them surf the Internet from the comfort of their couches on Wii’s Internet C...

Japanese software sales numbers should always be taken with a grain of salt here in the States, but they’ve been fun to watch nonetheless because of the DS’s dominance there. SO, why even continue to post them, since its a given that the DS is going to command a majority of the top 10 week after week? Well, because this week saw the launch of a certain next-gen console. How would the D...