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Analyst: Wii fails Boom Blox’s “true test”
With his celestial voice, Freddy Mercury once belted the words, “Another one bites the dust.” Nearly three decades later, the meaning of the prophetic lyric is clear. The latest NPD sales figures show Boom Blox, EA’s critically acclaimed collaboration with filmmaker Steven Spielberg, sold a paltry 60,000 copies in May. As with Zack & Wiki, No More Heroes and Okami, it is disa...
Nintendo sues Nyko over wireless nunchuk
Bloomberg reports today Nintendo is suing Nyko Technologies over a copyright infringement stemming from Nyko’s wireless Kama Nunchuk. Nintendo says the Kama Nunchuk copies patented Wii remote designs and infringes the “nunchuk” name and packaging. Nintendo filed a federal court complaint Wednesday claiming the Nyko controller “wholly appropriates the novel shape, design, ov...
Boss pays for employee’s WiiFit
If you can even get your hands on one, Red Mozzie may have come up with a way to get a WiiFit on the cheap: [My] office has a health and fitness policy, which allows employees to claim an allowance of $150 per year for fitness-related equipment or services: sports clothes, gym memberships, that sort of thing. Well, I submitted my form to apply for a reimbursement for Wii Fit. And it came through n...
Three reasons Metroid games aren’t selling
Okay, so Metroid isn’t exactly a commercial flop. But if Samus ever decides to spend some social time with Mario and Link, she’d better keep a thick skin; they’d chuckle at her comparatively modest sales. Within the overall industry picture, the Metroid series has always been successful. But by Nintendo’s standards, it has failed to captivate the amount of players the compa...
Will Wii soon own over 50% of worldwide console market?
VGChartz is the source of the graph that shows us 45% of worldwide current gen consoles on the market are Wii. Wii Fit seems poised to push Wii sales past the 50% mark. Do you think the hype surrounding its North American release later this month will spur a slew of new console sales?
Nintendo doing very well, thank you
Nintendo Co., Ltd., has announced record revenues and profits for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2008. Nintendo posted sales of more than 1.67 trillion yen, an increase of 73 percent over the prior year. Nintendo also reported FY08 operating profits of more than 487 billion yen, a year-over-year increase of 115.6 percent. The company also increased projected shipments of the popular Wiiâ„¢ home ...
Wii reaches 22 million-sellers in 16 months
The sales-tracking website VGChartz.com is now reporting 22 Wii games have sold one million copies or more worldwide. LucasArts’ Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga is the latest Wii game to go platinum, making it the ninth third-party game to reach this prestigious plateau. These figures sharply contrast criticism asserting Wii software has poor selling potential. For comparison, Microsoft...
Customers still lining up for Wii shipments
Last week, while the Infendo offices bubbled with giddy Brawl-induced enthusiasm and my colleagues took some brutal smash attacks from the regulars, I was taking a week-long break in sunny San Jose. Finding a launch-week copy in California was almost impossible, so as soon as I landed in Pittsburgh late last night, I committed to a very important goal. There would be no phone calls, no unpacking. ...
New Game Get – Nintendo releases for the week ending March 8th
 Spring training, wandering samurai, and more animalz! Wii Major League Baseball 2K8 Bully: Scholarship Edition Ninja Reflex DS Let’s Ride: Friends Forever Anno 1701: Dawn of Discovery Chicken Hunter Eco Creatures: Save the Forest Imagine Figure Skater Mysterious Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer Ninja Reflex Pet Shop Petz Bunnyz What’s your new game get this week?
Resident Evil 4 and the cost of perfection
“The perfect game.” Our community often scoffs at the concept. Many argue perfection is unattainable, a Utopian mirage no game developer could ever reach. No game is entirely unblemished; there is always room for improvement, we argue, and there is always a flaw worth criticizing. It almost seems an unwritten rule of gaming. The words of a writer who describes any game as “faultl...
New Game Get – Nintendo releases for the week ending March 1st
A couple budget titles for Wii and a lot of ‘gamez’ for DS. Wii Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None Destroy All Humans! Big Willy Unleashed Sega Bass Fishing DS Bratz: Super Babyz Brain Assist Bubble Bobble Double Shot Disney Friends Fantasy Aquarium Homie Rollerz Mazes of Fate DS Naruto: Ninja Destiny Petz Wild Animals: Tigerz What is up with that letter Z?
Nintendo praises Ubisoft for “getting” Wii
In a GDC interview with GameDaily this afternoon, Ubisoft Montreal CEO Yannis Mallat discussed Wii development and revealed some of the surprising praise Ubisoft received from Nintendo for its Nov. 2007 Wii release, My Word Coach. “We were working in secret on a game called My Word Coach…and we had the chance to show the game to (Nintendo of America President) Reggie Fils-Aime, and he ...