Wii news: Mario Kart, Mario Galaxy street dates - WII FIT ANNOUNCED
It’s about 1am here in Hong Kong, and I am dead tired after a long, hot day. But watching these E3 press conferences streamed online sure beats flying all the way to LA to do it!
Nintendo’s press conference is taking place right now, and the first 20 minutes going over the same sales stats [...]
Classic video games that need to be revamped in 2D
With the huge success of New Super Mario Bros. (having sold about 10 million copies by now), and upcoming games like Contra 4 DS
and Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix being announced (and looking great), it appears that gamers are really getting back into playing their favourite game series the way they were [...]
Nintendo Wii Continues To Outsell PS3…By A Lot
If Sony isn’t dropping Playstation 3 prices by $100 like the rumors currently say, they really should. According to BBC, the Nintendo Wii is outselling the PS3 by a ’six to one’ margin. Actually, it’s more like a 6.5 to 1 margin, 270,974 Wiis compared to 41,628 PS3s in June. In comparison, [...]
Is the Sony Turnaround Coming?
So we’ve documented pretty well here at HCW how Nintendo is kicking Sony’s behind. And the results are showing through in the markets. Nintendo has just passed Panasonic-maker Matsushita, and is fast closing in on Sony, with Nintendo having a market cap of 6.30 trillion yen, while Sony’s is 6.64 trillion yen.
We [...]
Video games sales for May: Nintendo RULES
The results are in for sales of video games and consoles in North America for the month of May. My verdict: Nintendo RULES. With Pokemon Diamond and Pearl together moving over half a million copies (apparently Diamonds are more sought after, as that version outsold Pearl by 100,000 copies),Mario Party 8 sitting between them [...]
Nintendo vs. hackers: The cat & mouse game commences
It was inevitable; as soon as the Wii launched, several mod chips started appearing, allowing the console to play burned discs. Nintendo, always ready for a fight, has apparently introduced a new hardware revision of the Wii already. So far, only some NTSC-J region consoles are affected. The original blog report cites a forum post, [...]
Sony Losses and Nintendo Profits Both Huge
I wasn’t particularly surprised when I read about the financial reports for the last fiscal year from Sony and Nintendo. It’s quite obvious since over six months after their release dates, I still can’t find a Wii anywhere in Vancouver and there is dust about half an inch thick covering every PS3 I [...]
