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We’re Number One – top sellers for the week
Here are the number one Wii and DS games sold around the world this week: Wii North America: Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition Japan: Wii Sports UK: Wii Play DS North America: Pokemon Diamond Japan: Itadaki Street DS UK: Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Training Something cool to note is the number one DS game in Japan, Itadaki Street DS. It’s apparently a Monopoly-style boardgame, but this edition fe...
Miyamoto 20 on Business 2.0’s 50 most important people list
Whatever your thoughts on Wii, Business 2.0 seems to think its innovator is one of the 50 most influencial persons in business right now. Not Iwata, not Reggie, but the man we sometimes call, Shigditty, or just Shiggy. From the article: By marketing the Wii aggressively to 25-to 49-year-olds, Miyamoto is breathing new life into a $30 billion industry that was starting to stagnate. I still can̵...
Kalman Filters and Wiimote accelerometers
Sometimes when I read articles over at Gamasutra I feel like I’ve accidentally stumbled onto the campus of M.I.T. here in Boston much like Matt Damon’s troubled character did in Good Will Hunting. Only unlike Matt, when I step in front of that chalkboard, I draw silly little pictures of cartoon animals, because I never took Calculus and math is more of a foreign language to me than Jap...
Nintendo closes in on Sony in market share cap
The rest of the Infendo staff had their fun today with contest winners and near-perfect Zelda Famitsu scores and Tesla coils — but not me. I’m into numbers and net worth and things with commas separating tens, hundreds and thousands. So when I heard about what Nintendo accomplished today, I nearly fell over and hit my head on the solid mahogany desk that all Infendo writers get for the...
Sony’s greatest quotes
Why on earth am I posting Sony’s greatest (read: dumbest, most arrogant, and ultimately untrue) quotes here on Infendo? Because so many of them bash Nintendo, that’s why. Go check them out. Here’s a sample: “Nintendo knows its target audience, because it has really narrowed that down; and it’s pretty much defined by a boy or girl’s ability to admire Pokemon.R...
Nintendo releases for the week ending June 23rd
Here are the new releases for all Nintendo systems in North America this week: Wii: Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition DS: Brothers In Arms DS Fullmetal Alchemist: Trading Card Game SimCity DS Time Ace Transformers: Autobots Transformers: Decepticons Zendoku Also worth mentioning: The Legend Of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass is coming out in Japan this week!
Wii 2.0 — coming soon!
Take this news with your usual dose of Internet cynicism, but yet another analyst* said Wii 2.0 could be out in a matter of years. Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter told GamesIndustry.biz that a higher spec, HD-enabled “Wii 2” could be on the shelves “in a couple of years.” Pachter’s comments were in response to those made by our old, misguided friend, SEGA execu...
We’re Number One – top sellers for the week
Here are the number one Wii and DS games sold around the world this week: Wii North America: Mario Party 8 EU/UK: Wii Play Japan: BioHazard 4 Wii Edition DS North America: Pokemon Diamond UK: Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Training Japan: Miru Chikara o Jissen de Kitaeru: DS Ganryoku Training This week’s list is nearly identical to last week, with the only change being Wii Play in the EU/UK. ...
NOA Marketing shakeup – Perrin Kaplan replaced by Princess Peach
It seems like Perrin Kaplan is no longer acting as the Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Affairs for Nintendo of America. In a recent post on Nintendo.com, a new spokesperson for the company, Princess Peach, informs us of new NPD sales data: Oh, my! All this attention is enough to make a girl blush! As a princess I’m used to being adored, but this is just too much! I know I’m...
Nintendo still topping US hardware sales (May)
NPD just announced US hardware numbers for the month of May. They are as follows: DS – 423,000 units Wii – 338,000 units PSP – 221,000 units PS2 – 188,000 units 360 – 155,000 units PS3 – 82,000 units GBA – 81,000 units GCN – 10,000 DS sales solid and steady, Wii down slightly (though still selling a grundle), and the PSP benefited nicely from its rec...
Nintendo, the Wii, and the Black Swan
Slate.com writer Tyler Cowen tackles a new book by Nassim Taleb called the Black Swan today, and while I read the column I couldn’t help but think of Nintendo. Some might attribute this to an obsession, but once you see the points made by Taleb in his new book I think you’ll see I’m only half-obsessed.
Wii sales top 8 million
Nintendo has sold over 8 million Wii systems worldwide in less than seven months. This outpaces both the Xbox 360 and PS3 for the same period of time since their respective launches. Check out VGChartz for the full graph. If it was easier to buy a Wii, would this number be even higher?