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DS surpassed the 3.5 million units sold mark in Japan this past week. In related news, the Xbox didn’t. Hardware:NDS – 48,520PSP – 29,395PS2 – 22,030GBM – 9,349GBASP – 7,089GCN – 3,290GBA – 284XBX – 167 YTD / LTDDS – 2,032,796 / 3,528,392PSP – 1,513,252 / 1,995,504DS Lead – 519,544 / 1,532,888 [Source: DS-x2]

Chris Morris writes: “One final note for holiday 2005 shoppers: While Nintendo seems set to be a price spoiler next year, don’t look for the GameCube, Game Boy Advance or Nintendo DS to get any cheaper this year. There is “nothing planned right now” in terms of price cuts, according to Fils-Aime.” Maybe Nintendo will change their mind about holiday price cuts at the l...

CNN/Money is predicting that the DS will be the next Nintendo system to get a face lift, a la Micro style. Even Nintendo’s Fils-Aime hinted a revamped DS is in the works: “As soon as [the DS] was launched, we started looking at ways to tweak it visually.” CNN/Money is implying, you’ve been asking, and Nintendo has been hinting. It’s seems like the DS is the logical ch...

I was a fan of the Metroid Prime games before, but it was Metroid: Zero Mission last year that made me see the light. The super tight controls, gameplay, and explorative nature of the adventure showed me that there’s a whole ‘nother experience with Metroid in taking my admiration of the franchise to the next level. That brings me to the game in question. Released in 2002, Metroid Fusio...

From RRC: “[The Revolution] will come with a silver stand that makes the system a welcome, artistic component of any multimedia setup, whether it’s displayed vertically or horizontally.” While I believe the Revolution stand is just a design choice, and a nifty one at that, could it contain any hidden functionality? Does the controller’s 3D space work better when the system ...

Eurogamer recently had the chance to speak with the man of the hour, Jim Merrick, on several subjects. These are the most notable parts: While suspected, Revolution is not the final name, the company is still throwing other names around. Kojima is indeed working on Revolution. We can expect many playable games at E3, including ones that use the remote, nunchuk, or the shell add-on. It’s up t...

I’m certain everyone here knows what Epic VP Mark Rein had to say at the IGN Live event from a while back. Now, the Nintendo hype man himself, Jim Merrick of NoE responded to Mr Rein’s harsh comments. Here’s what the man had to say: “Mark has a very narrow section of the business. Epic builds middleware, they’re very technically savvy guys, but he doesn’t have a...

From Kotaku: “The Nintendo Micro GBA made Toys R Us’ 2005 holiday gift trend list. The Micro was actually the only gaming system or video game to catch the toy store’s attention as part of a 2005 trend.” Great news for the Micro. Now how about some sales figures and a holiday price drop? ‘Tis the season…[Source: Kotaku]

The DS has been selling increasingly well in the UK. Always nice to hear. October 6-13NDS: 24,492PSP: 18,723GBA SP: 8,799 October 14-21DS: 23,035GBA SP: 10,034PSP: 8,000 October 22-29NDS: 30,000GBA SP: 15,500PSP: 12,900Maybe games really do move hardware… [Thanks Anon, Source: Cubed]

Be sure to check out the past (128) Infendo comments made while my schaef self accidentally had comment moderation on. There’s some really good postings that are now up from last Saturday starting with: Revolution Name Coming Soon? so that should keep you fine readers occupied for quite a while. Infendo without comments is like Oreos without milk. Not good. Thanks to all those for solving th...

[Update: Boy do I feel like a horse’s petute. I accidentally had comment moderation on. There is no more “stinkin” moderation now so have at it. Heck, let’s increase comments by 50%!!! Sorry about that. Houston, we’re a go…”] Hopefully slow news is to blame for the sudden drop in comments, or maybe my writing is just getting worse. Regardless, check out th...

As if you needed any more Apple/Nintendo comparisons, the Micro meets the Powerbook. The resemblence is uncanny but is that a blog running on the Micro?