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Nintendo remained seemingly untouchable in January according to the latest NPD stats, and has claimed that the growth seen in both the Wii and DS market is helping the overall games sector by offsetting declines on other platforms ”. The overall January market in North America grew by $150m compared …
Read More »NPD: Microsoft and Nintendo gain but PS3 sales fall
Nintendo and Microsoft were the main beneficiaries of the promising Janauary sales climbs seen in NPD’s latest numbers – but Sony’s PS3 continues to suffer a decline in sales, surely putting more pressure ion the firm to drop the price of the machine in March. Total North American hardware sales …
Read More »Activision Blizzard: Wii to sell 16m in 2009
Activision president Mike Griffith has predicted that in the next year 16 million Wiis will be sold over 2009, forecasting healthy sales increases for all the remaining leading formats. For calendar year 2009, we expect the installed base of hardware in North America and Europe will be up eight million …
Read More »Vicious Cycle partners with Smack Down Productions
Developer returns to Vicious Engine for two new Wii titles
Read More »UK CHARTS: Wii Fit makes it four in a row
Until recently it had never managed more than a week at the top of the charts – but now Nintendo’s Wii Fit is celebrating its fourth successive week at the top of the ELSPA GfK ChartTrack All Formats Top 40. It’s Wii Fit’s eighth week at the top of the …
Read More »Activision to join the Wii family revolution
Publisher Activision Blizzard has launched a new label of Wii family games dubbed Fun4All, with the drive kicking off next week with six Wii exclusives hitting retail. The range includes Pirates: Hunt for Blackbeard’s Booty, Monkey Mischief, Block Party, Pitfall: The Big Adventure, Little League World Series Baseball and World …
Read More »Iwata: Wii Music has fallen short of expectations
Saturo Iwata, the boss of platform holder Nintendo, has admitted in an investor call that the firm’s recent release Wii music has not yet lived up to the firm’s expectations – but insisted that it’s day in the sun could still be on the way. I agree that Wii Music, …
Read More »EA: Casual gaming to be big news in 2009
North American games publisher EA has pledged to make casual and family gaming a big part of its reinvention roadmap following some disappointing financial results for the firm’s last three months of 2008. It’s online games portal POGO is currently riding high with record subscribers of 1.7m, and EA Mobile …
Read More »Ricitiello: Wii development is ‘a third to a fourth the cost’ of next-gen
EA CEO explains company's increased internal focus on Nintendo titles
Read More »Nintendo Xmas sales up 17%
The strength of the YEN has caused Nintendo to cut its operating income forecasts by 15.9 per cent. The news comes as Nintendo reports its Q3 financial results for the three months to the end of 2008, which saw net sales increase by 17 per cent to reach 1.5 trillion …
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