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There’s no budging Nintendo’s Wii Sports Resort from the top of the ESLPA GfK-ChartTrack this week, with the popular mini-game collection holding firm at the top for the second week on the trot. Its strongest contender, fellow Nintendo title Wii Fit, can’t quite reclaim the top spot, though strong sales …
Read More »Miyamoto: â??Dev fortunes unchangedâ?? by DLC
Yet the Nintendo talisman praises the platformâ??s capacity for opportunities
Read More »Miyamoto questions digital distribution
Nintendo’s boss of development and games industry legend Shigeru Miyamoto has questioned the belief that a digital-only future for games retail is inevitable. The thing for us is we really don’t see the future of video games being merely confined to digital distribution or moving solely or even to a …
Read More »‘iPhone more powerful than Wii’
An interface developer at UK dev Telltale Games has publicly claimed he believes the iPhone to be more powerful than Nintendo’s Wii. A developer on the official TellTale forums claims that the Wii and DS are extremely underpowered and their popularity doesn’t remove the hardware limitations." Develop has the full …
Read More »Nintendo Q1 profits tumble 61%
Nintendo has become the latest video games company to suffer significant year-on-year declines, with net profits down 60.6 per cent in Q1 2009-2010 to YEN 42 billion, compared to YEN 107 billion in the same period a year before. The firm this morning reported operating profits of YEN 40bn for …
Read More »Ubisoft reports 67% YoY drop in DS sales
Ubisoft has seen Q1 revenue generated by DS titles fall by a huge 67 per cent in the last year. CEO Yves Guillemot reveled the news in the publisher’s Q1 fiscal results announced yesterday. Ubisoft’s share of the DS software market has remained exactly the same, however – suggesting that …
Read More »Wii could do damage with Gaikai
David Perry has revealed he is eager to see the cloud-computing service Gaikai available on consoles, and thinks Nintendo would benefit from the service in particular. In a Develop Blog Post – which looks at the genesis of the Gaikai model – the Perry explained, What I would love to …
Read More »Nintendo’s Wii â??could do real damageâ?? with Gaikai
Gaikai co-founder David Perry reveals his ambition to take Gaikai to consoles
Read More »Nintendo: Market could grow by 50%
Speaking at the CGA’s ongoing Casual Connect event in Seattle, Nintendo of America’s senior director of product development Tom Prata has predicted that despite the recent boom in the target audience of the console game market the sector could still be set for 50 per cent more growth in the …
Read More »New Super Monkey Ball announced
Sega has lifted the lid on a brand new instalment to its popular Monkey Ball franchise – brand new Wii title Super Monkey Ball: Step & Roll. More or less nothing is known of the game as of yet, though the publisher promises fresh information the coming weeks. We do …
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