Another beginning to a year, its time for us to predict the top Nintendo headlines for 2009. First lets take a look at how we all did …
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Active Life Outdoor Challenge – $40 We Love Golf – $20 Balance Board sleeve – $3 Wii Fit energy pack – $5 Wii Power Adapter – $4 Wii maracas – …
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Sorry this start now, but it you are on now go get some!!
Monday Only (From Monday, December 1 at 3:00AM ET until Tuesday at 2:59AM ET.)
Nintendo DS
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Toys “R” Us:
Wii:
All Cheer Squad $39.99
Bolt $49.99
Boogie Superstar $59.99
High School Musical 3 Senior Year Dance $49.99
Jillian Michaels’ Fitness Ultimatum 2009 $39.99
Nerf N-Strike Bundle $59.99 **
PopStar Guitar AirG Bundle $59.99
Rayman Raving Rabbids $49.99
Shaun White Snowboarding: Road Trip $49.99
Sing It $59.99
Star Wars: The Clone Wars $49.99 *
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed $49.99 *
Ultimate Band $49.99
We Ski $29.99
Wii Fit w/Balance Board $89.99
Wii Music $49.99
• Sales1 up 32%
• Strong increase in profitability:
o Current operating income2: 9.6% of sales
o Net income: €24 million
• 2008-09 targets confirmed
Paris, November 26, 2008 – Today, Ubisoft released its results for the six months ended September 30, 2008.Yves Guillemot, chief executive officer at Ubisoft, stated: “Our strong first-half growth fueled a sharp rise in profitability. Based on our initial sales figures for the third fiscal quarter and thanks to the diversity of our game line-up, we are confident that we will be able to achieve the targets that we recently raised for full-year 2008-09, despite a highly competitive environment marked by the launch of numerous high-quality games. In addition, consoles are continuing to record robust sales levels, which represents a very positive sign for the video games industry for 2009.”
Hardware Unit Sales – Oct-08
PlayStation 2 136K PlayStation 3 190K PSP 193K Xbox 360 371K Wii 803K Nintendo DS 491K
Top 10 software
Publisher Release Date Rank # Units
EA SPORTS™ Active
Product Description
Introducing EA SPORTS™ Active exclusively for the Wii™. Designed in collaboration with fitness experts, EA SPORTS Active gives you fun, easy to learn exercises and activities that create a western fitness circuit you can do with family and friends, all from the convenience of your living room. It’s like having your very own personal trainer in the comfort of your home, offering the promise of a better you, in just 20 minutes a day.
EA SPORTS Active tracks your movements on screen to give you real time feedback on your workout. Track both upper and lower body movements and experience Wii controls in a whole new way with our specially designed leg straps. There will be two provided in each box so you can work out alongside a friend or family member.
– Matt catching up on Monster Lab, MySims Kingdom, Spyro, Celebrity Sports Showdown
– 3 weeks without a podcast, they did one last week but it failed, crashed, etc.
– Bozon’s been working on SmackDown vs. Raw, playing Call of Duty World at War reviews (should go up tomorrow)
Tales of Symphonia
– Daemon’s reviewing the game, says fans of the first game will like it
– Nothing new or original about it
– Bozon thinks it didn’t click like the first Tales game
– No overworld, just clicking around
– Slower combat
– Daemon enjoyed the combat, but it’s very linear
– Main character is winy, always complains
Quantum of Solace
– DS version is okay, Wii version not so much
– Controls aren’t great on the DS version
– Bad framerate issues on the Wii version, visuals aren’t even too impressive
– Has a bunch of technical issues on Wii
– Online mode is somewhat fun
– Not attacking the Wii version just for the fun of it
– Bozon wanted a cool Bond game with IR precision
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Nov. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Activision
Blizzard, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) today announced September quarter financial
results.For the quarter ended September 30, 2008, Activision Blizzard’s GAAP
net revenues were $711 million. Excluding the impact of change in deferred
net revenues ($12 million) and net revenues from Activision Blizzard’s
non-core exit operations ($6 million), the company’s non-GAAP net revenues
were $717 million. Including Activision’s stand-alone net revenues of $53
million for July 1 – July 9, 2008, the company’s non-GAAP comparable-basis
net revenues were $770 million. The company’s prior non-GAAP net revenue
outlook was $620 million.
Activision Blizzard’s GAAP operating loss for the quarter was $194
million. Excluding the impact of the change in deferred net revenues and
cost of sales ($12 million), the impact of equity-based compensation
expense ($26 million), Activision Blizzard’s non-core exit operations loss
($110 million), one-time costs related to the business combination with
Vivendi Games ($78 million), and the amortization of intangibles and the
changes in costs of sales resulting from purchase price accounting
adjustments ($90 million), Activision Blizzard’s non-GAAP operating income
was $122 million. Including Activision’s stand-alone non-GAAP operating
loss of $9 million for July 1 – July 9, 2008, the Company’s non-GAAP
comparable-basis operating income was $113 million.
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—EA Montreal and Black Box, studios of Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS), announced today that their award-winning Skate It videogame will hit retail stores starting November 19th in North America and November 20th in Europe for the Wii™ and Nintendo DS™. With intuitive Wii remote, nunchuck and DS stylus controls and the optional use of the Wii Balance Board, Skate It delivers a fun and unique skateboarding experience for skate fans and gamers of all ages.
Wii – 687K units DS – 536.8K units 360 – 347.2K units PS3 – 232.4K units PSP – 238.1K units PS2 – 173.5K
1. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed – …
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WAYNE, N.J., Sept. 25 /PRNewswire/ — With the official start of the
holiday shopping season only weeks away, today Toys”R”Us announced its 2008
Hot Toy list, representing the definitive selection of toys that will top
kids’ wish lists this holiday season. The company’s predicted list of the
biggest holiday “must-haves” features 36 new toys that are sure to delight
and excite kids across the country when they open their Christmas presents.
Carefully selected after a comprehensive review process, items on the list
are organized by age from “Baby’s First Christmas” to “Big Kids” and serve
as a starting point to help parents, friends and family find the perfect
gift for any child. From the overall list, the “Fabulous 15″ were selected
to represent the very best toys of the season. All items featured on the
list are available at Toys”R”Us stores nationwide and at
http://www.Toysrus.com/HotToys“After a thorough evaluation of all new toy introductions throughout
the year, and consultations with our global merchandising team in 34
countries, Toys”R”Us has the unique ability to provide our guests with THE
ultimate list of items certain to bring big smiles to kids’ faces – the
Toys”R”Us Hot Toy list,” said Karen Dodge, Senior Vice President, Chief
Merchandising Officer, Toys”R”Us, U.S. “With new toy shipments arriving in
our stores daily, customers will have a better chance of finding the
hottest toys, in stock, at Toys”R”Us than anywhere else.”
– The Conduit is still at pre-alpha, working pretty heavily on multiplayer. About six months of development left to refine and polish. Single-player campaign has a lot done, you can play through the entire game right now. The core is done, working on details. Making sure everything looks and plays as good as it can.
– The Conduit has had full funding all the way through the project, thus High Voltage was not rushing to get a publisher. High Voltage is very close to announcing the publisher for The Conduit, should come in the next month.
– Eric Nofsinger says we should be very excited about their publisher, High Voltage weighed the decision heavily. It’s a “larger publisher.” Deal with the publisher included that, when the publisher is announced, High Voltage will still continue to provide the press with coverage concerning The Conduit, will push to start on the sequel right away. High Voltage was very choosey about the publisher for The Conduit.
Hardware
DS 608k Wii 555k Playstation 3 225k PSP 222k Xbox 360 205k Playstation 2 155k Top 10 Software
360 NCAA FOOTBALL 09 ELECTRONIC ARTS JULY 2008 397.6K WII …
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Fatal Frame 4
– Controls are “retarded” – just as clunky as other versions if not worse
– No dual analog
– Doesn’t use pointer at all to look up and down
– Can’t use classic controller
– Nintendo-themed unlockable characters
– Movement is still slow
– Game itself is still spooky, Matt thinks he’ll still have fun with it
– Looks really nice graphically
10:11- Reggie leaves the stage and thats its folks, Animal Crossing: Folk City, Grand Theft Auto for DS, WiiSports Resort, WiiMusic, WiiSpeak were announced.
10:10 Reggie is stating how Wii is not a fad, and how Nintendo has to create new ideas to keep ahead in the game
10:08- Reggie and Cammie takes the stage and discussing WiiSpeak, Wii balanceboard and they are recapping what has happened so far.
10:05- Nintendo brought their finest on stage and is play Mario music, 5 different intraments are being played, the game looks easy to play and sound really good. Nintendo is rockin the stage
10:04- miyamoto is talking about how hand bell choirs and orchastras, but the game wont judge how bad you are at it, but you can record videos of different part of the games.
Two Nintendo video games designed to appeal to both novice and expert gamers posted healthy numbers in the May sales charts, according to the independent NPD Group, which tracks …
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Hardware
Wii – 675.1K DS – 452.6K PS3 – 208.7K Xbox 360 – 186.6K PSP – 182.3K
Software
1. GTA IV – Xbox 360 – Take-Two – 871.3K 2. …
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