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GameStop discovers Nintendo is a corporation
GameStop is today accusing Nintendo of holding back stock because it has met its Q4 Wii sales quota. The retailer believes the Big N is holding back stock until April, because that’s when the new year begins and they can thus begin the sales push anew to meet the continued demand for the console. Let me be the first to congratulate GameStop on figuring out that Nintendo is a corporation, and...
Should Nintendo buy Take Two?
Take Two Interactive, the company behind GTA, is in trouble. Microsoft was floated as a potential buyer, but today Infendo reader Gaumer asks, why not Nintendo? Gaumer’s email to the Infendo Tip line: I assume you have heard of the probable (and from what I have read as recently as today, inevitable) sale of take 2 interactive the great publisher/developer of games like GTA and Bully and Tab...
Satoru Iwata makes Barron’s list, one step closer to world domination
Even stuffy financial types are getting on the Nintendo bandwagon, and with good reason. The Kyoto-based flagship of fun has capitalized on the success of the Wii and the DS to the tune of $6 billion in cash. Oh, and Satoru Iwata was the only video game exec to make Barron’s top 40 CEOs list. Kyoto, Japan-based Nintendo’s earnings are jumping and its cash hoard has swelled to more than...
DS has potential to be best-selling interactive entertainment platform ever
The portable gaming market has exploded with worldwide revenues expected to exceed $10 billion in 2007 and Nintendo’s DS is leading the way. David Cole, an analyst with DFC Intelligence, says: “The DS has the potential to be the best-selling interactive entertainment platform ever.” I guess it really does print money. To be honest, when I first saw the DS I never thought it was going to tak...
Reggie boasts too hard
News that doesn’t directly affect my gaming habits hardly ever amuses me. Of all the industry news that pours onto the internet daily, sales boasting is at the bottom of the barrel, and more often than not it’s just arrogant corporate mudslinging, no matter who it’s from (with varying degrees of severity, of course). This is one of the less drastic times. Reggie said: 360 is sell...
Defective Wii? No problem, says Joystiq
Lucky for us all, Wii bugs and malfunctions have not reached the levels of say, the Xbox 360. There are some, to be sure, including that infamous error message from November that roughly translated into “you are screwed” but far and away things have gone swimmingly on the hardware front. But, when a Wii does go to that console heaven in the sky, what happens to your Wii points, MiiR...
Current gen resembles Atari vs. Betamax
Information Arbitrage: I was trolling around YouTube and came upon three gaming commercials – one vintage ad for the Atari VCS 2600 (circa 1977), one current ad for the Wii and one new-ish ad for the PS3. After viewing them it hit me like a brick, and in a more intuitive way then I’ve written about previously: Nintendo has captured the imagination of families and casual gamers in a way...
Overheard on the blogosphere: "Nintendo is the old Sony"
A comment from Game|Life regarding Nintendo’s 54% take of US video game sales in February: So… PS3 is the new Gamecube.Wii is the new PS2. Sony is the old Nintendo.And Nintendo is the old Sony. That’s a compliment considering Sony’s 11 year dominance of the home console industry. Hopefully Nintendo remembers that if/when they become the number one game manufacturer again.
NPD sales numbers great for Wii, Xbox 360
Did the console sales numbers last night, so I might as well show you the NPD software numbers too, huh? Top 10 Games for February courtesy of The NPD Group:360 – Crackdown 427,000Wii – Wii Play w/ wiimote 371,000DS – Diddy Kong Racing 262,000Wii – LOZ: TP 130,000PS2 – Guitar Hero 2 130,000360 – Gears of War 119,000360 – MLB 2K7 113,000360 – Lost Pla...
Nintendo DS, Wii trounce EVERYTHING in February
Game|Life: PlayStation 3 was outsold by every other game console and portable system in February 2006, the NPD Group reported today. Nintendo DS 485,000Wii 335,000PlayStation 2 295,000Xbox 360 228,000PlayStation Portable 176,000Game Boy Advance 136,000PlayStation 3 127,000 It’s a thing a beauty, it is. Game Boy Advance beat you? Seriously?
Scott and Blake have a tough time finding Wii crap in Utah
This is why Scott and I have a hard time finding ANY Wii product here in Utah. On average, 24% of US households own at least one game console. In Utah, that number is 32%, the highest of any other state.
Wii sales hit 60% of total Xbox 360 sales in 3.5 months
According to Videogame Charts (whose accuracy remains in question), Wii sell through has reached 5.73 million units in 3.5 months representing 60% of total Xbox 360 sales to date (9.55 million). So… how soon before Wii takes the lead (if at all)? [via Digg]