Wii

I had some time to blow before “I am Legend” started so I stopped by my local Wal-mart to find signs hanging all over the electronics department. The signs reminded …
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Just a friendly reminder that all major retailers are getting Wii’s in tomorrow. This includes Target, Best Buy, Circuit City, etc. This may be your last chance …
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This auction is for one (1) Brand New Never Opened Nintendo Wii Console Sports Edition with 5 Games. This also includes Wii Play Bundle that comes with …
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Nintendo sold 981,000 Wii units in the US during November according to the NPD Group, but according to James Lin, senior analyst at the MDB Capital Group in Santa …
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This would of made me a little misty if I didn’t already know that, Cruis’n Wii, was just that awful. I guess they thought they did such a good job …
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Review Scores

Battalion Wars – 5
FFXII (RW) – 6
Resident Evil UC – 7
Ghost Squad – 6
Contra 4 – 6
Front Mission – 6
Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 – 6
Mario+Sonic – 6
Endless Ocean – 7

The Edge Awards 2007

Best Game

SMG

Runners-Up
The Orange Box
Halo 3

Best Innovation
Halo 3
Runners-Up
Crysis
Portal

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Voice chat/Virtual Console
– Reggie talked about how Nintendo is still considering voicechat, and how he wouldn’t be surprised to see it on Wii in the future.
– Both expect it to happen (when Nintendo say stuff like this, it basically means it is happening) but are dumbfounded by how long it is taking.
– Both really hope it comes out in time for Smash, but are doubtful.
– For the majority of VC games, we’re not going to see modifications or upgrades (like we did with Pokemon Snap), simply because Nintendo doesn’t need to do it.
– Don’t expect a VC price drop in the future – they’re doing great and there’s no need to change anything.
– Hope to see more import games (like Sin and Punishment) and expect this because it appears that Nintendo is paying attention to the wider gaming community.

NPD
– Both Wii and DS did exceptionally well.
– Analysts are predicting around 1.6-1.7 million for Wii in December.
– Make sure you camp out if you want to get a Wii – don’t go on ebay or anything because you will be ripped off.
– If the quantity had been there, Wii sales would have definitely been over 1 million. Nintendo would be kicking themselves right now because of their inability to get more units out.
– Very solid performance by 360 (not too far away from Wii) and PSP, as well as Playstation 2. Playstation 3 numbers are still comparatively low, but much improved from last month.
– Galaxy released a week later than COD4, so both games are basically selling at the same pace – if Galaxy came out earlier, then it would probably have reached around the same numbers as COD4.
– Guitar Hero 3 Wii should be a 1 million seller by the end of the year, which should do very good things for future Wii 3rd party support and also proves that 3rd party games can sell very well if they are high quality and appeal to the Wii audience. EA should be kicking themselves for not releasing Rock Band on Wii.
– Bozon thinks it’s taken way too long for the mono issue in Guitar Hero 3 Wii to be fixed. Action needs to be taken.

Wii Software LTD’s

Super Mario Galaxy = 1.2 million

Smackdown vs Raw 2008 = 53,000 – not very good first-month numbers, and comparatively lower to PS2 and 360.

Carnival Games = 300,000 – has sold better than Nintendo’s Big Brain Academy.

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For the second time in a month the Big Five will be a little different. The normal information put into the Big Five hasn’t been released. So, instead of me …
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What happens during the holidays when  TV dies? When men and women put down their pens, to pursue their own happiness?  People turn their minds to other things: 

‘Twas Thanksgiving …
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Let me be clear that this is no way a confirmation, just wishful thinking. In this months EGM they had a big spread covering Street Fighter 4. In it they …
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I posted last night that most Best Buy’s and Circuit City’s are getting Wii’s this Sunday. Reggie fully confirmed what I said and more during his phone conference posted below. …
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I’m happy the Wii seems to be running a bit short of hardware,” he said. “The PlayStation 3 will come into its own because its [high-end games] are infinitely more …
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“The November sales figure is an all-time record for the month, beating November 2004 by over $450 million. The highest December on record was last year’s $1.7 billion, and we …
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Today Reggie held a conference call with a few gaming sites. I was a little up set we were not invited. What about us Reggie? What about us? Umm, anyways, here’s a run down from Gonintendo about what happened. This is a must see, if your a Nintendo Fan.

Nintendo didn’t expect Wii sales to takeoff so fast

6 million Wiis sold in the US alone

No other home system has ever matched sales this quickly

No ability to stockpile systems

This is an unfortunate happening

Nintendo is doing everything possible to stop this drought

Worldwide production has been upped twice since launch

14 million to 16.5 million to 17.5 million

current production run – 1.8 million Wiis a month

production depends on components from various suppliers

work force has been tripled at North Bend, Washington

This drought benefits no one

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