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Nintendo has sold 9.02m consoles globally, says Nikkei
Read More »Gamebryo swings onto Wii
Emergentâ??s game engine now part of Nintendoâ??s third party tools programme
Read More »Zelda game bundled with Wii Zapper
Nintendo’s Wii Zapper – the gun-shaped holster for the console’s motion-sensing Remote and Nunchuck – will be sold with a new Zelda title when it is released in Novermber. The platform holder has revealed that the Zapper will be released on November 19th in the US, where it will retail …
Read More »$11.6m Wii and DS deal for Kuala Lumpur dev
GameBrains says deal will help studio expand from boutique status to 'development powerhouse'
Read More »PS3 closes gap on Wii in Japan
The latest hardware sales figures from Japan suggest that Sony’s PS3 is gaining ground on the hugely successful Nintendo Wii. According to Famitsu publisher Enterbrain, Nintendo sold 245,653 Wiis in the four weeks to August 26th, compared with 81,541 units for Sony’s PS3. Xbox 360 sold 11,288 units in the …
Read More »Wii hits one million sales in UK
Nintendo’s Wii has hit one million sales in the UK after just nine months on sale, according to ChartTrack statistics released this week. The console becomes the fastest selling home format in UK history to reach the figure – 11 weeks earlier than the PS2 and 22 weeks before the …
Read More »Nintendo denies production delays
Nintendo has refuted rumours that the hardware production capacity of Wii has been hindered following a shortage of components. The claims, which recently emerged across internet news channels, appeared to come from the component manufacturers themselves, and asserted that a shortage of internal hardware such as IC chips and PCBs …
Read More »No value label coming for Wii
Nintendo has told MCV that it has no plans to follow the lead of Sony and Microsoft by introducing a budget label on first-party Wii software. Sony’s PlayStation Platinum and Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Classics ranges have both significantly boosted revenues for Nintendo’s rival format holders – but the Japanese firm …
Read More »Data Design opens Popcorn Arcade studio
Aims to be â??the biggest developer for the Wiiâ??
Read More »Wii production push delayed
An expected boost in the number of Nintendo Wiis, initially slated for June, has been held up, according to Digitimes . A shortage of internal components such as IC chips and PCBs has been blamed for the delay. The component makers said that due to this it is unlikely that …
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