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Nintendo has announced having released, for the moment only in Japan, a new channel for the Nintendo Wii, called the Wii Fit Body Check Channel and aiming to allow gamers to share their information with health professionals. Those joining Nintendo in the project are NEC, Panasonic and Hitachi.Wii Fit has been a best ... |
30 January 2009
02:48 GMT |
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Another week passes and the United Kingdom videogames chart is still being topped by Wii Fit, the Balance Board using the fitness title from Nintendo, which has been selling well ever since it was launched and took the top spot in the second week of 2009. Britons are apparently very interested in getting their exerci... |
29 January 2009
03:33 GMT |
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In the United Kingdom, Wii Fit, the Nintendo Wii sensation relying on the Balance Board add on in order to make people lose weight and improve their health, sits at the top of the sales chart, managing to take down the best sold game of last week, FIFA 09 from EA Sports. The football title, which began the year in th... |
22 January 2009
12:51 GMT |
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As part of its reports for December, the NPD Group has also done a bit of math to see which game sold the most in 2008 and came up with a top ten offering few surprises but a lot of space for thought.Unsurprisingly, given the domination of the Nintendo Wii in all hardware charts, the best sold videogame of 2008 was W... |
19 January 2009
03:46 GMT |
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Videogame publishers have long complained that the second hand market, where major chains and small shops partner up to offer used games at usually lower prices, reduces the profits of the gaming industry and can be blamed, at least in part, for the troubles through which some publishers went through in 2008.Video Ga... |
13 January 2009
02:21 GMT |
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The Nintendo Wii, the clear front runner of the current generation of consoles, is preparing to beat the numbers the PlayStation 2, the biggest last gen console, was posting back in 2002, two years after its release by Sony. This shows that despite the less than stellar performance of the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and ... |
6 January 2009
16:51 GMT |
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We have seen some very interesting new game genres appear this year, as the music one really took off in terms of popularity, but none of them reached the same level of hype as the fitness one. Although only the massively popular Wii Fit is available at this moment, other games are being developed, which will certain... |
28 December 2008
15:01 GMT |
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If we add up the sales numbers for the Nintendo Wii home gaming console and the handheld Nintendo DS, then the Japanese company managed to sell more than 3.6 million devices in just one month. Nintendo says that its products accounted for 66% of the hardware sales in November. Basically, the DS and the Wii outsold al... |
16 December 2008
17:21 GMT |
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Black Friday was said to be the day when retailers broke into profit for the first time during the year. This might be less true now, with the crisis looming over both buyers and sellers, but a videogame was one of the most searched for bargains during this year's Black Friday.Sites like eBay and Shopping.com ar... |
2 December 2008
04:02 GMT |
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Nintendo is really happy this time of the year, especially considering the fact that sales are already through the roof, surpassing the ones from last year, and that the demand this holiday season is very big. So big in fact, that, although its manufacturing plants are working overtime, the company has stated that cu... |
28 November 2008
02:29 GMT |
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EA Sports is clearly a busy company these days, largely due to the fact that all of the employees are hard at work on the new EA Sports Active project, which promises to take fitness games to a whole new level. Dubbed a Wii Fit killer, the future title will employ new sports routines and exercises that will emphasize... |
24 November 2008
13:01 GMT |
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Speaking at the BMO Capital Markets Interactive Entertainment Conference, Reggie Fils-Aime, the president of Nintendo of America, has told the audience that Wii Fit can be called an “evergreen” game as it had maintained its sales numbers over the period since launch. This is the result of a change in the ... |
17 November 2008
15:21 GMT |
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GfK Chart Track Limited has announced a top five of the best selling videogames of the last quarter. The chart covers the period from July to September 2008 in the three biggest videogames markets, the United States, United Kingdom and Japan.Electronic Arts must be really content with the results. Madden NFL 2009, th... |
17 November 2008
11:51 GMT |
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Fitness games are becoming more and more popular these days, with Nintendo's Wii Fit holding a massive percent of the market and managing record sales in the countries where it has been launched. Seeing the massive success of the Japanese game, Electronic Arts decided that a more Western-oriented title would def... |
17 November 2008
02:34 GMT |
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Following the release of the hardware sales chart for October, which has seen the Nintendo Wii dominate its rivals, and the Xbox 360 outselling the PlayStation 3 two to one, the NPD Group has also released data regarding the videogames chart. The big winner is Fable II from Lionhead and Microsoft, which has sold almo... |
14 November 2008
13:01 GMT |
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We reported yesterday that EA had just announced that it would develop a rival for Nintendo's very popular fitness game Wii Fit, which would be produced by its EA Sports label. The game, which will be cleverly entitled EA Sports Active, will be launched early next year and promises to give players a totally diff... |
14 November 2008
11:41 GMT |
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The Nintendo Wii is quite a versatile little console, as a wide variety of games from different types of genres have appeared on the small white Japanese game console. From shooters to RPGs (Role Playing Games) or even musical games like Wii Music or the more successful Rock Band, every niche has been covered by game... |
13 November 2008
11:01 GMT |
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The United Kingdom weekly videogame sales chart is dominated, somewhat surprisingly, by Wii Fit. In a week when titles like Fallout 3 and Red Alert 3 were available to players, the fitness oriented release from Nintendo has managed to top the chart, having its third best week of its lifetime in the United Kingdom.Wii... |
7 November 2008
12:41 GMT |
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Well, the stereotype demands that gamers do not read manly magazines like Men's Fitness, but the last issue to hit stands had a cover featuring Strauss Zelnick, the outspoken chairman of the board at Take Two Interactive, so we had to take a peek at it and see if there was any piece of advice on how y... |
29 October 2008
06:09 GMT |
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The United Kingdom videogame chart is a good indicator of how the various releases are doing this fall. After all, the NPD Group data for the North American market is coming out only once a month, while this chart is released weekly. So, let's take a look.The big news is that Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 from Konam... |
23 October 2008
19:01 GMT |
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The NPD Group, which tracks videogaming related sales in the United States, has just released its charts for the month of September and there are some really big surprises inside, regarding both the hardware and the software sectors.Overall sales of videogames have brought in more than 616 million dollars. The figure... |
17 October 2008
19:41 GMT |
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As all good trade organizers, CESA, the people behind the Tokyo Game Show, have announced their list of recipients for their annual Japan Games Awards, which are given to those titles and developers that really stand out and have the ability to promote Japanese gamers while also “communicating the wonder and en... |
17 October 2008
03:24 GMT |
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The weekly chart which ranks videogame sales regardless of formats in the United Kingdom came out to show that FIFA 09 from EA Sports managed to sell faster than any other installment in the series and be the third quickest selling game of the year, with only Grand Theft Auto IV and Halo 3 selling faster on the Xbox ... |
9 October 2008
03:27 GMT |
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Spore is set on its way to conquer all videogame markets in the world and one of the first to send official word of its surrender is the United Kingdom videogame chart. Will Wright’s game has debuted at number one with another Electronic Arts release, Mercenaries 2: World in Flames, in second spot. Spore manage... |
10 September 2008
18:41 GMT |
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Not content with losing pounds using Wii Fit? Does the constant exercising on the balance board scare you? Are you afraid that you could fall and damage your home? Are you afraid that you might kill the cat? Are you one of the people fearing the fact that more Balance Board powered titles are coming to threaten your ... |
25 August 2008
05:33 GMT |
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A new super chart is born, aiming to track the worldwide success and sales of videogames. The NPD Group, which tracks sales for the North American market, has joined forces with GfK Chart-Track Limited, which hails from London and focuses on Europe, and with Enterbrain from Tokyo, which provides data on the Japanese ... |
22 August 2008
09:19 GMT |
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Nintendo is again riding high, when it comes to financial results, with profits going up more than 33% to reach some 992 million dollars.Hardware wise the Nintendo Wii continues to be a success while the Nintendo DS is going through a tough period. The Wii is still the best sold console in the world, beating both the... |
31 July 2008
02:42 GMT |
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There's a new trailer out for the Xbox 360 title Double D Dodgeball and it seems to imply that the game will be out on the Xbox Live Arcade service offered by Microsoft on July 30. There's no official release date from the developers but we know that the game will cost 800 Microsoft points, the equivalent o... |
26 June 2008
16:06 GMT |
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There's a good reason why gyms exist, namely that exercising in the living room can lead to serious personal injury and even damage to one's property. The upside of the launch of the Wii Fit is that it managed to get more people exercising and worrying about their weight. The downside is that more and more ... |
19 June 2008
19:26 GMT |
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With the crowd of games that are in development and aiming to use the Wii Balance Board somehow, it was just a matter of time before someone with considerably high engineering skills managed to get the Balance Board working in games it was not specifically designed for.The German Research Center for Artificial Intell... |
18 June 2008
19:06 GMT |
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Majesco is continuing its series of game announcements by telling us that it plans to enter the market of fitness games with the upcoming release of Fitness Ultimatum 2009, also known as Jillian Michaels' Fitness Ultimatum. The game is set to debut in retail sometime around the coveted holiday season and is bein... |
13 June 2008
02:16 GMT |
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Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Michael Pachter is ready to talk as soon as a new high success game is released and could, sometimes, have some really controversial opinions. This time, he talked about the Wii Fit shortage all over the world (and especially in North America) and knows why Nintendo does not do its b... |
3 June 2008
12:06 GMT |
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Wii Fit battles against Grand Theft Auto IV in many countries for the No. 1 best seller spot: I say that just to let you know how big Wii Fit is (no pun intended). Now, even though most of us are very happy with the game, the balance board and the illusion that it will turn them into thin, healthy, shiny happy people... |
30 May 2008
15:06 GMT |
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Nintendo has announced a couple of its plans regarding the summer videogaming conventions, telling people that it will not be attending the Games Convention in Leipzig, but also detailing its presence at E3, which is organized by the Entertainment Software Association. At E3, which is moving back into the Convention ... |
27 May 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Clearly, there are many risks inherent to a company deciding to release a product that is going to deal with one of the most hard-to-deal-with problems of mankind: weight. And that is exactly what Wii Fit does: it tells people when they are overweight and many are completely shocked by that (even though this is indee... |
26 May 2008
15:06 GMT |
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Last week, we reported on the girl who was offended by the fact that the Wii Fit game considered her to be... a little above the recommended weight as it was constructed based on her other physical attributes. The story itself seems a bit on the fishy side but, nevertheless, the parents of other kids, presumably over... |
20 May 2008
19:06 GMT |
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One of the most unlikeable trends in the videogaming industry is for a successful game to spawn a host of clones, which can sometimes take the genre forward because, for most of the time, they're only copycat game mechanics with less than stellar results. It happened at the beginning of the RTS genre, when the m... |
15 May 2008
14:06 GMT |
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It doesn't matter if the recently released Wii Fit tells your kids they are fat or if it really is a good way to lose weight - Nintendo's latest hit sells like crazy and it only seems natural that other people want a piece of the pie, too. But since nobody had the guts until now, Electronic Arts jumped up a... |
8 May 2008
03:26 GMT |
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It seems that Nintendo's Wii Fit can be wrong every now and them and, what is even more disturbing for many people, it has adverse effects on users. At least that's the result of a young ten year-old girl who used the Wii Fit which told her that she was fat. Now, it wouldn't necessarily be a problem, s... |
7 May 2008
15:06 GMT |
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As the Wii Fit is making history in Japan, where it is fast becoming the title that has sold the most in any given period since its launch, Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of the Wii Fit and its accompanying Balance Board, has been talking to the "Times" about the way gaming needs to change and about how this one game ... |
29 April 2008
18:16 GMT |
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The Nintendo Wii has always put emphasis on different and sometimes quirky gameplay over the classic game recipes. The control scheme of the Wii rewards those developers who create games that do not follow already existing patterns. And who's better prepared to take advantage of this than the Wii's creators... |
2 April 2008
06:48 GMT |
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A recent report reveals, unsurprisingly, that Nintendo has received another Emmy Award, this time for excellence in engineering creativity. The award was presented to the company behind the Wii and DS by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Read on for details and a few words from Don James, Nintendo o... |
9 January 2008
03:23 GMT |
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This piece of news I picked up on Slashdot says something about Nintendo neglecting their roots. While AGFlamey's opinion may very well be relevant, Nintendo is known for always trying to bring new stuff to the gaming market (like they'd tap other markets... someone slap me). However, what's good and w... |
23 July 2007
10:06 GMT |
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Thanks to a well known gaming site, I stumbled upon something I never thought I would see: a sarcastic commercial addressed to the Wii. It speaks of the new Wii Fit, which is said to help you stay fit without even leaving the comfort of your home and on top of that all, that it's fun and simple. I don't kno... |
19 July 2007
09:34 GMT |
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