Infendo

Well the GameStop/EB Games Wii preorder came and went this morning. Several reports claimed longer lines than the recent PS3 preorder in some areas, and that several gamers were turned away. Though not mass hysteria, an encouraging showing for the little console that could. Though Scott and I are going camping come November 19, did any of you preorder today? What was your experience? Post thoughts...

I said the portable war was in effect over given the DS’s dominance in Japan and N.A., but this number from the same NDP report is almost unbelievable. Apparently, if you were to remove the DS hardware and software sales numbers from overall industry growth over the past nine months, it would fall from 11% to a mere 1.6% (otherwise known as stagnant). Reggie seems to think that these numbers...

Infendo Forum member Basil gives us the inside scoop on what we can expect to see at Target in a few weeks. Items include a Wii Sling Bag, Large Home Organizer Kit, Small Home Organizer Kit, Glove Kit: Mario Colors, Glove Kit: Zelda Colors, Wii Metal Tin w/ Magnets, Wii Dog Tags & Pin Set. There will also be Wii Target gift cards and Virtual Console Points cards on the display. Most of these p...

There’s something reassuring about the cold, lifeless and emotionally dead hardware sales numbers that come out every month here in North America. People can argue about the meaning of an executive’s quote all day, or whether a future system will do well, but statistics are simple and effective. With that said, here are last month’s surprising hardware sales for North America: 1....

Reuters has posted an article which begins by mentioning the online strategies of the three next-gen (buzzword) players, and then basically the rest is a feature about Nintendo. “While the designers behind the Playstation 3 are expected to follow a model similar to Xbox Live with a robust online component offering games, music and movies, Nintendo is taking a different approach with its cons...

Nintendo announced a new Wiimote development tool that aims to make programming motion-sensing controls easier and with less time. From the release: “Nintendo and AiLive Inc. announce the immediate availability of LiveMove, a groundbreaking Artificial Intelligence product, that enables the Wii Remote to learn. Instead of complicated programming, developers need only take a few minutes to tra...

I assume it’s because of the pending release of the Virtual Console, but there have been a spate of top [number here] lists for the NES arriving on the Internet tubes lately. This latest one is interesting not only because I agreed with most of the titles on the list (including numero uno, a certain yellow-boxed title that I waited in line for at a local K-Mart back in the day), but also bec...

The headline says it all. Go Nintendo has a scan of the email to all GameStop stores that tells them to prepare for a Wii preorder rush on Friday. They’re billing it as 100% accurate. Check in with Infendo on Friday to give us the scoop on what the lines were like, etc. No fistfights, please. Save it for Wii Boxing. [Thanks, Bildo]

Nintendo announced their Nintendo World 2006 event for Japan today to preview upcoming DS and Wii offerings. Let’s hope similar events come stateside and on an annual basis. We don’t need no stinkin’ E3.

Nintendo released a statment today in lieu of GameStop exaggerations of exclusive Wii demo kiosk rights: “Playable Wii setups will be available at a variety of retail outlets. We expect that anyone who wants to try Wii will be able to through multiple different methods. In addition to retail outlets, Wii will be playable at a number of mall tours throughout the country, the nationwide Ninten...

First off, apologies for the lack of images in my posts; I made fun of Joystiq and Blake took away some of my privileges. I kid. But seriously, CVG has some very interesting news about Red Steel multiplayer up today. The confirmed multiplayer matches are deathmatch, team deathmatch and an a newly announced game type called “Mission mode.” “We all know what deathmatch and team dea...

The Wii continues to gain momemtum going into November’s launch, and no amount of Internet fueled, sunlight-driven controversy appears to be having any effect. The lastest push comes from from two distinctly different holiday wish lists, one from U.K.-based retail chain Comet, and the other from PC World Magazine. Wii has made some holiday wish lists already, but the significance of these ne...