December 8th, 2008 by David Hinkle
Filed under: News
If you’re on the hunt for a Wii this holiday season, then Walmart.com just might have you covered. The retail giant will supposedly be selling “tens of thousands” of Wiis starting now. If you’re looking for just the console, or a bundle package, Walmart will have several different options available to consumers, starting with the console alone ($250) on up to a bundle package featuring Wii Fit ($460). Of course, now that the word is out, there might not be much time for you to nab one of your own. So we suggest you get to it.
[Via Joystiq]
Looking for a Wii? Try Walmart.com originally appeared on Nintendo Wii Fanboy on Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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November 18th, 2008 by Chris Greenhough
Filed under: News, Sales
Gamasutra has compiled a bunch of charts showing the best-selling games of 2008 (so far) across all formats. At first glance, the results are thoroughly predictable — it’s yet more Wii dominance in the U.S. — but there are interesting factoids to be drawn from this.
Wii Play, for example, looks like finishing in the top five games of the year for the second year running. Even more impressively, Gamasutra thinks it could sell more copies in 2008 than in 2007, which is all kinds of crazy. Surely that would be some kind of first?
The top two spots are held by Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Mario Kart Wii, a pair of titles that we always expected to sell well, but to beat the likes of Wii Fit or other games aimed at Nintendo’s broadened audience? Speaking of Wii Fit, it tops the chart for estimated revenue so far this year, thanks to its higher retail price. We’ll reproduce the 2008 YTD sales table below, but Gamasutra has other data worth looking at here.
1. Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii) — 3.5 million
2. Mario Kart Wii (Wii) — 3.4 million
3. Grand Theft Auto IV (360) — 3.2 million
4. Wii Play (Wii) — 3.0 million
5. Wii Fit (Wii) — 2.8 million
2008’s best-sellers revealed, familiar outcome ensues originally appeared on Nintendo Wii Fanboy on Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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October 24th, 2008 by David Hinkle
Filed under: News
Analysts think that due to the continuing decline of the U.S. dollar and the 13-year high for the Japanese Yen, you won’t be seeing too many hot deals on Nintendo’s Wii this holiday season. With the Yen being so high, it drives up the cost of Japanese goods for U.S. retailers. And, seeing as how the U.S. economy has been in such bad shape all year, merchants have discounted their goods to offset that fall to a point where they can’t afford to lower prices to attract customers any more.
Wii Fit, one of the items analysts see as being a must-have this season, could be most affected. With the profit margin on it so small (same goes for the Wii console itself), retailers can’t afford to cut prices. One positive thing to come out of this, however, is that the Euro has been on a decline, as well. This means that Nintendo should be shipping more to the U.S., whereas in the past, Nintendo focused on Europe first.
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October 21st, 2008 by David Hinkle
Filed under: Video
If you were to tell us that
Shigeru Miyamoto could see into the future and fire rainbows from his fingertips, we’d totally believe you. We just love the guy
so much that we believe he’s not even human and some kind of freakish evolutionary leap for our species, as his mind churns out these amazing things on a regular basis. So, it’s no wonder that Channel 4 in the UK interviewed him out of all of the prominent figures in gaming about the current financial woes and if they’ll have an impact on gaming. He plugs
Wii Music a bit, but, for the most part, tells us how Nintendo has and always will make gaming affordable.
[Via CVG]
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August 8th, 2008 by Chris Greenhough
Filed under: News, Interviews, Peripherals
The boffins at InvenSense who developed the MotionPlus accessory have insisted that their relationship with Nintendo is “not an exclusive one,” and haven’t ruled out the possibility of the MotionPlus technology seeing other companies on the side. The cads!
There’s certainly not a lack of interest, with company head Joe Virginia telling Eurogamer “I can’t get into details about other folks that are interested in this technology, but as you might imagine of course there is more interest out there.” Whether Sony or Microsoft will pounce at this opportunity remains to be seen. The whole internet decided that Microsoft would reveal a motion-sensing controller at E3, only for the Redmond firm to unveil a big, fat nothing.
On a more positive note, Virginia talked up the possibilities of MotionPlus, discussing adding spin to tennis shots, curve to a bowling ball, ultra-precise golf swings, and sword motions with forward thrusts. You already knew all that was possible, but reading it this morning made us excited for MotionPlus all over again.
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July 22nd, 2008 by David Hinkle
Filed under: News, Peripherals
Remember that recent lawsuit that didn’t work out in Nintendo’s favor? Then they tried to appeal and failed? Yeah, things aren’t looking so hot for Nintendo right now. And the latest on this debacle, courtesy of Bloomberg, doesn’t look good for the house that Mario built.
U.S. District Judge Ron Clark denied Nintendo’s appeal for a new trial. In Lufkin, Texas, Clark said that he planned to ban further sales of Nintendo’s Wii Classic Controller, WaveBird controller and Nintendo GameCube, but must wait for another appeal from Nintendo (this one is headed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit) to go through. Judge Clark is set to issue this ban tomorrow, unless Nintendo posts a bond or puts royalties into an escrow account, which will then stop the ban.
Thankfully for Nintendo, the Wiimote and Nunchuk controllers both have been recognized as not violating Anascape’s patent. So, sales of each of these peripherals should not be affected by all of this.
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July 21st, 2008 by Kabalyero
My castle, which is located in the Animate Me Poseballs sim, has three levels. The dungeon, the main area and the throne room. The throne room is like my personal space. the main area is where all my vendors and affiliate vendors are placed and the dungeon was once a place where I put freebies. […]
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June 13th, 2008 by David Hinkle
Filed under: Rumors
Reader Shawn, hailing from sunny and fabulous State College, PA (hey, we’re practically neighbors!), wrote in to inform us that his local Circuit City had restocked Wii consoles and Wii Fit bundles. He received an email from the retail giant (he’s likely signed up for some waiting list thing) and headed on down to his store to check. Sure enough, he found both in stock and ready to be liberated from the confines of the dusty retail shelf it sat upon.
We did our own fact-checking, calling up the local Circuit City in our own town, as well as checked their site online. Online, we had no luck, but the young lady that answered the phone at our local Circuit City store said that they did indeed have consoles in stock, but they were holding them until Sunday. Then, they plan to hand out vouchers and sell the consoles like it was launch day. When asked about Wii Fit, she assumed the store would do the same thing, but had no official word to give.
So, for those of you still in the market for either a console or Wii Fit, we’d suggest calling up your local retailers (it might be other retailers than just Circuit City) to see what the deal is. Because this isn’t something confirmed by corporate (or a Sunday circular scan), we’re going to keep it in the rumor pile.
[Thanks, Shawn!]
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June 13th, 2008 by David Hinkle
Filed under: Rumors
Reader Shawn, hailing from sunny and fabulous State College, PA (hey, we’re practically neighbors!), wrote in to inform us that his local Circuit City had restocked Wii consoles and Wii Fit bundles. He received an email from the retail giant (he’s likely signed up for some waiting list thing) and headed on down to his store to check. Sure enough, he found both in stock and ready to be liberated from the confines of the dusty retail shelf it sat upon.
We did our own fact-checking, calling up the local Circuit City in our own town, as well as checked their site online. Online, we had no luck, but the young lady that answered the phone at our local Circuit City store said that they did indeed have consoles in stock, but they were holding them until Sunday. Then, they plan to hand out vouchers and sell the consoles like it was launch day. When asked about Wii Fit, she assumed the store would do the same thing, but had no official word to give.
So, for those of you still in the market for either a console or Wii Fit, we’d suggest calling up your local retailers (it might be other retailers than just Circuit City) to see what the deal is. Because this isn’t something confirmed by corporate (or a Sunday circular scan), we’re going to keep it in the rumor pile.
[Thanks, Shawn!]
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June 13th, 2008 by David Hinkle
Filed under: Rumors
Reader Shawn, hailing from sunny and fabulous State College, PA (hey, we’re practically neighbors!), wrote in to inform us that his local Circuit City had restocked Wii consoles and Wii Fit bundles. He received an email from the retail giant (he’s likely signed up for some waiting list thing) and headed on down to his store to check. Sure enough, he found both in stock and ready to be liberated from the confines of the dusty retail shelf it sat upon.
We did our own fact-checking, calling up the local Circuit City in our own town, as well as checked their site online. Online, we had no luck, but the young lady that answered the phone at our local Circuit City store said that they did indeed have consoles in stock, but they were holding them until Sunday. Then, they plan to hand out vouchers and sell the consoles like it was launch day. When asked about Wii Fit, she assumed the store would do the same thing, but had no official word to give.
So, for those of you still in the market for either a console or Wii Fit, we’d suggest calling up your local retailers (it might be other retailers than just Circuit City) to see what the deal is. Because this isn’t something confirmed by corporate (or a Sunday circular scan), we’re going to keep it in the rumor pile.
[Thanks, Shawn!]
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