Filed under: News, Imports

We’re assuming that this is a clerical error of some sort — perhaps a new intern keeps uploading the wrong images and product descriptions for Wii Fit wallpapers. For the second week in a row, actual items have been added to the European Stars Catalogue, and they are cool.
For 3,850 and 4,850 [...]

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Filed under: It’s-a Mario World

As both game character and flagship intellectual property, Mario has long been the focal point of Nintendo’s efforts. Thanks in no small part to creative genius Shiggy Miyamoto, Mario’s adventures have ushered in some of the most pivotal games in the history of electronic entertainment. His moves have established and defined [...]

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Filed under: News
A Portuguese Nintendo fansite happened to notice the appearance on Amazon of the Animal Crossing: City Folk/WiiSpeak microphone bundle. Only just now after looking at it have we realized what Nintendo has done here: they’ve guaranteed City Folk’s bestseller status by making it yet another first-party Wii game with a bundled peripheral. It [...]

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Filed under: Wii Warm Up

Slowly, games are starting to trickle out that allow the use of the Balance Board, for activities like skiing, tilting a maze (and infuriating yourself), controlling a robot, playing the drums, and even moving puzzle pieces. Oh, and riding a moose down a mountain. The potential for non-fitness-related fun is increasing.
Have [...]

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Analysts think that due to the continuing decline of the U.S. dollar and the 13-year high for the Japanese Yen, you won’t be seeing too many hot deals on Nintendo’s Wii this holiday season. With the Yen being so high, it drives up the cost of Japanese goods for U.S. retailers. And, seeing [...]

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Wii Music, as you may already know, topped Japanese sales charts in its debut week. While the Media Create numbers skew a bit lower than what Famitsu had to say, Wii Music won the sales chart crown handily, pushing Pokémon Platinum back to the number two spot.
It will be interesting to see what kind of [...]

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Wii Music, as you may already know, topped Japanese sales charts in its debut week. While the Media Create numbers skew a bit lower than what Famitsu had to say, Wii Music won the sales chart crown handily, pushing Pokémon Platinum back to the number two spot.
It will be interesting to see what kind of [...]

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Wii Music, as you may already know, topped Japanese sales charts in its debut week. While the Media Create numbers skew a bit lower than what Famitsu had to say, Wii Music won the sales chart crown handily, pushing Pokémon Platinum back to the number two spot.
It will be interesting to see what kind of [...]

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Wii Music, as you may already know, topped Japanese sales charts in its debut week. While the Media Create numbers skew a bit lower than what Famitsu had to say, Wii Music won the sales chart crown handily, pushing Pokémon Platinum back to the number two spot.
It will be interesting to see what kind of [...]

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Wii Music was the subject of a substantial marketing campaign that hit while we were in Japan for Tokyo Game Show. Rare was the train ride or subway station that didn’t have some kind of Wii Music presence. That advertising — and Wii Fever, no doubt — translated to some pretty healthy first-week sales of [...]

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Wii Music was the subject of a substantial marketing campaign that hit while we were in Japan for Tokyo Game Show. Rare was the train ride or subway station that didn’t have some kind of Wii Music presence. That advertising — and Wii Fever, no doubt — translated to some pretty healthy first-week sales of [...]

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Wii Music was the subject of a substantial marketing campaign that hit while we were in Japan for Tokyo Game Show. Rare was the train ride or subway station that didn’t have some kind of Wii Music presence. That advertising — and Wii Fever, no doubt — translated to some pretty healthy first-week sales of [...]

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Wii Music was the subject of a substantial marketing campaign that hit while we were in Japan for Tokyo Game Show. Rare was the train ride or subway station that didn’t have some kind of Wii Music presence. That advertising — and Wii Fever, no doubt — translated to some pretty healthy first-week sales of [...]

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With Stephen en route to San Francisco today, one can only guess what game he might be passing on this week. But no worries, Tracey and I are here.
The fall gaming season is in full swing, which means we’re getting pickier and pickier about what games we decided to spend time with.
See what tough decisions [...]

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Nintendo loves the ladies, and they’ll be proving it tomorrow and Wednesday with their strong presnece at the 5th Annual Women’s Conference in Southern California. Hosted by California’s first lady Maria Shriver, the Women’s Conference celebrates the power of women to make a difference in their communities. Let’s see what Nintendo has going on [...]

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We’ve had some pretty major Weekly Wii updates over the past few months, so it’s about time we take it down a notch and give our Wii points a little rest, isn’t it? Today sees the release of two WiiWare titles and two Virtual Console classics that we could really give or take. I [...]

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Nintendo is attempting to appeal to attendees of the Fifth Annual Women’s Conference to discover their inner gamer. The event, held in Long Beach, California, is led by the state’s First Lady, Maria Shriver, and according to the press release, it “celebrates the power of women and inspires them to become architects of change in [...]

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Nintendo loves the ladies, and they’ll be proving it tomorrow and Wednesday with their strong presnece at the 5th Annual Women’s Conference in Southern California. Hosted by California’s first lady Maria Shriver, the Women’s Conference celebrates the power of women to make a difference in their communities. Let’s see what Nintendo has going on [...]

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Classic blocks and a classic shooter arrive on the Wii’s game networks this week. Tetris Party makes its way to the WiiWare, complete with new variations of everyone’s favorite brick-breaker, including Wii balance board support. Launching for the Virtual Console is the VIC Viper’s second flight in Gradius II.
Tetris Party’s available for 1,200 Wii Points [...]

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Filed under: Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Business

Under most circumstances, this month’s NPD sales figures would be quite impressive, with total sales of $1.27 billion. However, last September’s $1.35 billion had one looming trump card — namely, Halo 3’s launch. Year-to-date hardware sales were $497.98 [...]

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Filed under: News, Imports, Sales

Don’t they look happy? That’s because they all bought Wii Music, along with 49,996 others. Yup, you read that right: the Wii Music day one sales data from Japan is in, and according to Famitsu publisher Enterbrain, the magical figure is 50,000 units sold. How does that compare to the Japanese [...]

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Nintendo, the house of smiles, innovates once again. This time, it puts a unique and charming spin on responding to NPD sales data, in which it crushed the competition on the hardware side and showed spectacularly on the software side.
And while Nintendo rarely needs to manipulate numbers to put a positive spin on the performance [...]

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Looks like we can expect a Force Unleashed II, now that U.S. consumers have snapped up well over 1.1 million copies of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. The LucasArts title topped the NPD Group’s September sales charts, with the Xbox 360 version performing best to the tune of 610,000 copies sold. And it did it [...]

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Stodgily-named market analyst Dough Creutz has been taking a look at the Tony Hawk’s franchise and is convinced, convinced that the next game in the series will come with a skateboard peripheral.
“We also view it as highly likely that the game will include some sort of skateboard peripheral with all SKUs when it ships, given [...]

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With little in the way of new releases from October 5th to the 12th in Japan, Macross Ace Frontier made securing the first place spot on the Media Create sales charts look easy. It might have something to do with the game being rather good and the continued popularity of the PSP.
Other notable titles are [...]

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Does it ever get old? Nintendo lead the month of September’s sales in North America, continuing their reign over all. Not only have they won the hardware race, but several Wii titles found their way into the top software listings. You all know the drill.
September’s hardware sales according to the NPD:
- Wii: 687K [...]

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Nintendo, the house of smiles, innovates once again. This time, it puts a unique and charming spin on responding to NPD sales data, in which it crushed the competition on the hardware side and showed spectacularly on the software side.
And while Nintendo rarely needs to manipulate numbers to put a positive spin on the performance [...]

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Looks like we can expect a Force Unleashed II, now that U.S. consumers have snapped up well over 1.1 million copies of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. The LucasArts title topped the NPD Group’s September sales charts, with the Xbox 360 version performing best to the tune of 610,000 copies sold. And it did it [...]

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Stodgily-named market analyst Dough Creutz has been taking a look at the Tony Hawk’s franchise and is convinced, convinced that the next game in the series will come with a skateboard peripheral.
“We also view it as highly likely that the game will include some sort of skateboard peripheral with all SKUs when it ships, given [...]

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With little in the way of new releases from October 5th to the 12th in Japan, Macross Ace Frontier made securing the first place spot on the Media Create sales charts look easy. It might have something to do with the game being rather good and the continued popularity of the PSP.
Other notable titles are [...]

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