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Nintendo checkmate? Not yet, but closing in…
Once upon a time, either here on Infendo or in the clandestine back channels of the Infendo staff offices (read: gmail), I predicted that in 2007, we would see one of the major print magazines like BusinessWeek or Wired run a cover story about the resurgence of Nintendo. It came a bit earlier than even my fanboyish self could have predicted. Fortune has a huge article on Nintendo up right now, and...
Ubisoft plays the politician
Ubisoft is in a great position now. They were quick to recognize the potential in the Wii and got a gob of games out for it in time for launch. A bit too quick, however, as many of the games lacked the polish and finish of some of the more robust Wii titles to date. Seriously, I think Far Cry didn’t even have an intro screen. It just started you off in level 2. Regardless, they made bank off...
Nintendo’s Harrison: Console lifecycles? Peshaw!
A smidgen of a tidbit of a morsel from Game|Life’s interview with Nintendo of America’s George Harrison reveals that the Wii could be disrupting more than just software libraries. The 5-year life cycle, commonly accepted by many in the industry as standard across all consoles from all time, could be next. WN: In five years, where do you see the Wii? In the US.
Nintendo media day: The gaming press gets left behind
Did anyone else get the impression that Nintendo’s big media day was kind of like one of those meaningless photo ops that politicians do these days just because they “have to?” (bear with me, I’ve been sunning it in the Outer Banks for the past week and I’m playing Infendo catch up today). From Game|Life: One longtime mainstream journalist who I spoke to was really di...
Monday Thoughts: The Reggilution/The Miyamoto-verse.
There was a question posed this weekend on Infendo radio of who has had more of an impact on Nintendo, Reggie or Miyamoto. My initial answer was that since being hired in 2003 Reggie has been the driving force for the rebirth of Nintendo and is the reason I am here so for me Reggie is the impact player at Nintendo. So a day goes by and I am watching my girlfriend play Super Paper Mario. I ask her ...
Get Your Spend On – new releases this week
Here are the new releases for all Nintendo systems this week: US releases: Wii: – Mario Party 8 – Mortal Kombat: Armageddon – Surf’s Up – Tamagotchi: Party On! DS: – Pony Friends – Surf’s Up – Tank Beat Game Boy Advance: – Surf’s Up GameCube: – Surf’s Up EU/UK releases: Wii: – Legend of the Dragon DS: – Meteo...
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: Wii Play EU/UK: Mario Strikers Charged Football Japan: Wii Sports DS North America: Pokemon Diamond UK: Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Training Japan: TOEIC Test DS Training Wii Play is #1 in the US? Craziness. Not so crazy: Strikers is tops in EU/UK. Anyone get their hands on a copy yet?
Nintendo speedlinking
Some delicious Nintendo morsels on the day. New Wii download service (not VC) coming within 2 months Rumor: Nintendo Power To Be Licensed To Outside Publisher Nintendo VP Harrison Moving to San Francisco With Sales, Marketing Crew Regginator is “doin’ great” because his employer is making grundles of money Out of the above four, I’m going to easily say the first one has me ...
Old-gen consoles easily outselling next-gen
Due to my love for oversimplified graphs, I give to you old-gen hardware sales compared to next-gen hardware sales in delicious pie graph form. Nintendo should be sending me checks for all this market research I’m doing in support of their strategy. Data was taken from the NPD, North America’s hardware bean counter. Definitions are as follows: Old-gen category includes all reported sys...
Wii outsells the mighty PS2 for the same period
To steal a term coined by Kotaku, I put together the above charticle juxtaposing the first six month console sales of Wii, 360, PS3, PS2, Xbox, and GameCube. First, the Wii has sold better than the mighty PS2 after the first six months. Amazingly, both the PS3 and 360 sold worse than the GameCube for the same period (!). Cumulative first six month totals in units sold are as follows:
Nintendo Dominates Famitsu Top Sellers Chart
Famitsu magazine/website unveiled their top thirty sellers chart, which uses data taken from the 23rd of April until the 6th of May. Nintendo dominated with 25 of the 30 spots going to DS and Wii games (and even a DS system bundle!), and not a Sony title is in sight until spot 18.
A Nintendo fanboy reflects on a press release
Blake’s already posted a few thoughts on Nintendo’s dominance of North America today, but I thought I’d cut and paste the first paragraph of Nintendo’s press release on the news, and then reflect on it with unabashed love and admiration. “Already riding a streak as America’s No. 1 seller of video game consoles, No. 1 seller of portable game systems and No. 1 pub...