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Nintendo president says other studios are reaping the benefits of Wii sales and has the figures to prove it
Read More »Brain Training suffers Watchdog attack
Gaming has supposedly got a race war going on thanks to BBC One’s consumer rights show Watchdog . Last night’s edition granted five minutes to claims that that voice recognition technology used in Nintendo’s Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training on DS discriminates against those with Northern accents as it struggles to …
Read More »EA expects PS3 fightback
In a supplement issued alongside its third-quarter fiscal results, Electronic Arts has provided its predictions for console and portable hardware. The report states that European gamers are to favour the PS3 over the Xbox 360 in 2008, although the formats will remain tied in North America. In Europe, EA predicts …
Read More »US: ELSPA condemns piracy chip
90 per cent of North American DS pirates are using the R4 chip to play pirated DS games, according to ELSPA. Speaking to The Sunday Post, John Hiller, manager of ELSPA’s Intellectual Property Crime Unit said: The implications are massive. In America it’s thought 90 per cent of Nintendo DS …
Read More »DS hits 1m in Australia
Nintendo DS has sold one million units in Australia after just 153 weeks on the market. According to Gfk figures released by Nintendo Australia, Wii also passed a milestone of 300,000 units after 58 weeks on sale. Vooks reports that the last reported figure for the Xbox 360 was also …
Read More »Nintendo reassures third-party publishers
Nintendo has responded to worries that only first-party titles are selling on the Wii, stating that it believes the situation is only temporary. According to the company’s third-quarter report meeting transcription, translated by MCV sister site Develop, the problem is simply one of the Wii still being a young system …
Read More »Nintendo responds to third parties’ concerns
'We believe the situation will change,' says Japanese giant
Read More »Nintendo boosts Japanese Wii development teams
Format holder increasing internal support for home console; internal DS development gets slight cut
Read More »Wii overtakes 360 in UK; DS hits five million
Nintendo UK has revealed an impressive set of console hardware figures, stating that Wii has sold over two million units in the UK and DS now has an installed base of over five million. Wii was the best selling home console of 2007 in the UK and now has an …
Read More »Wii hits six million sales in Europe
Nintendo has revealed its latest installed base figures – and can boast six million Wii sales and a phenomenal 20 million DS sales across Europe. The platform holder also announced its financials for the year ending December 31st 2007, confirming that it has sold over 20 million Wiis and over …
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