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Posted on: May 02, 2008
Filed under: Another Week in ...
Mario Kart Wii continues to top the charts in Japan, but a lot of movement happened with the Wii's other software. Because a bunch of new video games came out last week, Wii Sports, Deca Sports, and Super Smash Bros. Brawl were all knocked out of the top ten. We know that Wii Sports will return to top ten fame soon enough, since it always does, but we'll be interested to see whether the other 2 titles can pull that off as well.On the hardware side of things, the Wii got sandwiched by the 2 portables as it jumped up into second place:
- PSP: 92,411
- Wii: 48,796
- Nintendo DS: 42,435
- PlayStation 3: 9,107
- PlayStation 2: 7,108
- Xbox 360: 1,283
Software:
01.(01) [Wii] Mario Kart Wii --- 151,918 (947,000)
02.(02) [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G --- 92,656 (1,807,000)
03.(__) [PS3] Valkyria Chronicles --- 77,267 (New)
04.(__) [NDS] Taiko Drum Master DS: Seven Island Adventure --- 55,950 (New)
05.(__) [NDS] Summon Night --- 37,856 (New)
06.(04) [Wii] Wii Fit --- 36,851 (1,934,000)
07.(03) [NDS] We're Fossil Diggers --- 22,319 (58,000)
08.(06) [NDS] Pokémon Ranger: Batonnage --- 19,553 (477,000)
09.(07) [NDS] DS Beautiful Letter Training --- 17,879 (167,000)
10.(05) [PS2] Musou Orochi: The Evil King Returns --- 14,897 (322,000)
11.(__) [360] Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2
12.(__) [NDS] Naruto: Shippuuden Shinobi Retsuden II
13.(08) [Wii] Deca Sports
14.(10) [Wii] Wii Sports
15.(09) [Wii] Super Smash Bros. Brawl
16.(__) [PSP] Vantage Master Portable
17.(12) [Wii] Wii Play
18.(14) [NDS] Mario Kart DS
19.(__) [NDS] Detective Saburou Jinguuji DS: Inextinguishable Heart
20.(__) [NDS] Yatterman DS: Surprising, Startling Battle
21.(11) [PS2] Pro Baseball Spirits 5
22.(16) [NDS] Sim City DS 2: From the Past to the Future
23.(__) [PS2] H2O Plus
24.(__) [PS2] Prism Ark: Awake
25.(15) [PSP] Star Ocean 2: Second Evolution
26.(__) [360] Frontlines: Fuel of War
27.(__) [NDS] Phoenix Wright 4
28.(13) [NDS] Tottado! Yowiko's Deserted Island Life
29.(__) [PS2] Edel Blume
30.(18) [NDS] Crayon Shin-chan: Arashi wo Yobu Cinema Land
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Posted on: May 02, 2008
Filed under: News
Speculation that Microsoft may be about to launch a rival to the Wii Remote started early last month, yet Nintendo President Satoru Iwata's thoughts on the matter have only publicly emerged now. His verdict? A resounding, distinctly unimpressed "Meh."Well, we're paraphrasing a bit there, but it's more or less what he meant. "We are not concerned about what other companies may do," Iwata told an audience of investors. "[We're] rather more concerned with presenting [...] new ideas to our customers based on the prospect that our existing customers will surely get tired of [gameplay] enabled by the Wii Remote if we do not try to improve the experience."
Rather than fret over what Microsoft and Sony get up to, Iwata says he'd prefer that Nintendo concentrated on producing more "new surprises" for consumers. Or, to put it another way, keep one step ahead of the competition, and they'll never catch you.
[Via Develop]
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Posted on: May 02, 2008
It's needless to say that the Virtual Console has been through a pretty slow slump in 08. We've seen a fairly good amount of first-party Nintendo titles, but it's been pretty dry for third-party releases. Today, on 04/21, it looks as though as the slump is over, as a NES classic makes it's way to the download service.
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Posted on: May 01, 2008
Filed under: News
Yes, you read that title correctly. The dire situation regarding every Wii owner not having enough storage space is being considered by the Big N, so you can all bet we're happy campers. While Nintendo president Satoru Iwata doesn't come out and say that Nintendo is working on a hard drive for the console, or some other solution, he does say enough to get our hopes up for some sort of memory expansion (or support for external hard drives through USB)."Statistically speaking, it is true that there are a small number of customers who feel that the flash memory is too small, while many others find that they have plenty of memory," says Iwata. "However, because this small number of people are none other than the most avid players, we know we have to review the best possible solution to eliminate their inconvenience." Interesting bit in that last line, if we may say so.
We all know that being able to re-download something just isn't a good enough solution because, well, it's a total pain. But, if Nintendo can come up with a solution to our storage space issues that doesn't provide us with a hard drive to buy or support for USB external drives, we'll be fine with it. We just need something to help us eliminate the chore of moving things around each and every week.
[Via IGN; Thanks to everyone who sent this in!]
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