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Well, I can’t confirm its yumminess, but it looks good.

The blogosphere was a twitter with buzz yesterday after Square Enix announced Dragon Quest IX was coming exclusively to the Nintendo DS, and rightly so. As Wired’s Chris Kohler and Eliza Gauger mentioned at Game|Life, this could be the DS’s first 4 million unit seller. The Wii still has a mountain to overcome before its longevity is even close to being known, but the DS does not. Even ...

Today, I reluctantly make an admission: My DS is gathering dust. There are times where I don’t see it for days, even weeks on end. Even last night, as my eyes danced in REM sleep, I was dreaming of being at a Toys R Us, buying Trauma Center: Second Opinion and Red Steel. It’s to be expected, I suppose, given the incredible playability of the Wii. But, I suspect my DS will have a second...

Nintendo could probably start selling snow to an Eskimo anytime now and still make a healthy profit, because it seems wherever the Wii is launched, a sell out and sales records are sure to follow. In Australia, reports GameIndustry.biz, the Wii sold 32,901 units at launch, surpassing the Xbox 360 and PSP as the fastest selling console of all time. There’s no data on which games sold well, bu...

Ever since Nintendo launched the DS, the company has been touted by its competitors and many gamers as gimmicky. And though Wii still has to prove itself as a sustainable novelty over time, things are solid for now. With that, 1UP revisits comments made by Sony that Nintendo’s DS and Wii are just a gimmicks. From the article: “With the DS, it’s fair to say that Nintendo stepped o...

Tech Web reports: “Searches for Nintendo’s Wii outnumbered those for Sony’s PlayStation 3 as the holidays approach, according to figures released this week. In fact, Hitwise reported more than three times as many searches for the most searched-for gaming console, the Wii, than for PlayStation 3 during the week ending Dec. 9.” Wii variants (Nintendo Wii, Wii) took the first ...

Nothing out of the ordinary here at all. Nothing.

At 9AM this morning, I bought a copy of Twilight Princess for GameCube. I’m playing the title on Wii, but needed to get it as a gift for a Wii-less person. Arriving at the store five minutes before they opened, I feared a line. Those five minutes were plenty, plus three. Being the first in line, I sat on the curb, read the Weekly Dig, and waited. Two minutes before the doors opened, another ...

If, upon returning home from work or school today you should happen to stumble upon an older person playing your Nintendo DS, do not be frightened. They cannot help it. The dual screens and touch screen are irresistible to their semi-arthritic, tested by the sands of time hands. Well, so says Nintendo anyway: “If you’re planning to buy grandma a fruitcake or silk flowers for the holida...

All was quiet in London today, and Prague and Berlin too. The Wii has sold out, and everyone was home playing their shiny new systems with a series of European-style arm flails. They look just like us Yanks do, but the swooshing sounds are in German, Olde English and Czech. Back on topic, Nintendo said today that a total of 325,000 consoles sold in Europe in two days. This makes the console not on...

BrandIntel’s research shows people are talking about the Wii a lot, the Xbox 360 sort of a lot, and the PS3 not so much. “The Wii continues to be in a strong position as discussion of the Wii-mote and Nunchuk controller have increased and remained positive. The revolutionary controller and low cost are what set the Wii apart from its competitors ’ this has been a popular starting point...

Redding business news examines how much Nintendo may have paid the former owner — a Washington company — for wii.com: “Domain Name Journal, which tracks public auctions of domain names, reported in June that wii.us [not wii.com] sold for $2,500 in a private sale. But the journal’s editor and publisher, Ron Jackson, said the value of wii.com ‘would be impossible to peg...