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GameStop, Wal-Mart breaking Wii street dates
Santa Claus is filling his bag with major holiday Wii titles a little early this year, but there’s a problem. He’s not allowed to have them yet. Rayman Raving Rabbids: TV Party and Animal Crossing: City Folk are hitting the streets early at select GameStop and Wal-Mart stores. Beneficiaries of the early sales are showing proof of their purchases across the Web. Both Wii Fanboy and GoNi...
Monthly Wii production ramps to 2.4 million
Oompa doompa-dee-do, Nintendo is ramping production for you. In an interview today with the Los Angeles Times, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime says the company has increased monthly Wii production to 2.4 million units. He doesn’t name any names, but Fils-Aime also takes a jab at Sony. “One of our competitors projects they will sell 10 million consoles worldwide this year...
Interview with Conduit developer: If we aren’t listening to the fans, we aren’t doing our jobs
Eric Nofsigner, Chief Creative Officer of High Voltage Software, has long been an advocate of better gaming on the Wii. “Most of the games on the Wii look like crap.” Nofsinger told IGN last April, “We want to change that. ”¦Our goal is to be the most technically innovative Wii developer on the planet.” High Voltage has spent the last year developing The Conduit, the much hyped independent ...
Microsoft beats one-week Wii sales in Japan
Microsoft’s Xbox 360 outsold Wii in Japan for the week ending Sept. 14 On the strength of an aggressive price drop and the release of the popular RPG Infinite Undiscovery, Microsoft sold 28,681 Xbox 360 units in Japan, Famitsu reports. These figures were just enough to pass Wii, which sold 27,057 units. Sony moved 8,050 PS3 units. Microsoft has struggled to capture a Japanese audience since ...
Former Metroid developers go multiplatform
For Armature Studio, the hardware will finally match the vision. Kotaku is reporting today three former Retro Studios employees have formed a new multiplatform development studio under a publishing deal with Electronic Arts. The newly formed Armature Studio is headed by Mark Pacini, Todd Keller and Jack Matthews, the former Game Director, Art Director and Principal Technology Engineer of Nintendo&...
Wii for Dummies hopes to make you smarter
Kyle Orland, a generous colleague and former blogmate of mine at Joystiq, has released his first book, Wii For Dummies. It’s probably more intended for your mom and grandpa who still don’t know what a Wii Channel is, but informed Wii owners like yourself might still be interested in: * Ways to prevent damage to — and from — Wii remotes * How to use the Wii’s full-feat...
Wii to exceed N64 lifetime sales next month
When there aren’t any asses left to kick, why not kick your own? VGChartz is reporting today the Nintendo Wii has topped 30 million units in worldwide sales. The video games sales-tracking site projects lifetime Wii sales will surpass those of the Nintendo 64 in August. This projection is based on sell-through data for the week ending July 26, according to which Nintendo has sold 30.01 milli...
Nintendo is doing very well, thank you
That’s in billions, folks — more than all profitable public publishers combined. It won’t soothe your hardcore-loving, first-party heart, however. Via Edge
Nintendo on the latter-half of 2008
I couldn’t resist. 🙂
Steady sales help Boom Blox beat anti-hype
Boom Blox failed the midterm, but it just might pass the final. Sales tracking Web site VGChartz is reporting Boom Blox, Electronic Arts’ critically acclaimed Wii exclusive, has sold approximately 250K copies worldwide in its first two months on store shelves. The figures also suggest Boom Blox may have long legs at retail. It has sold no less than 11,000 copies each week in North America, a...