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Nintendo Sells 13 Million DS’s, 1 Million Mario Karts
Posted by Brandon Gribin Categories: Corporate News, Nintendo DS,
How about that Nintendo. In a recently released press release, the company announced that it has sold 13 million DS units worldwide. To top that off, Mario Kart DS has sold 1 million copies since its release seven weeks ago. And finally, over half a million gamers have logged into Nintendo’s wireless service. Not bad, not bad at all.
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GameDR ScreenMax Plays PSP On Your Television
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Accessories, Portable/Mobile, PSP,
For Sony PSP fans frustrated by the inability to connect their extra-small dream machines to larger viewing screens, Digital Innovations is set to release the GameDR Excelerator Series ScreenMax for PSP Video Transmission System. The ScreenMax is a product that makes it possible to play PSP games and movies on any TV or computer monitor. You can pick this one up for $69.99 USD. We will be going hands on with this one very soon.
Nintendo Revolution Won’t Hurt Your Wallet
Posted by Oscar M. Cantu Categories: Corporate News, Wii,
Confirmed: Nintendo’s Revolution will launch for less than $299. Satoru Iwata stated in an interview on Yahoo that the revolution will definitely sell less than its cheapest competitor, the Xbox 360 Core unit. This is very interesting since more gamers and non-gamers alike would be less hesitant to fork over their hard earned money when they won’t need to fork over their plastic cards instead. Let’s just hope they don’t try to stiff us with the game prices.
Read More | Google Translated Page via Go Nintendo
There’s no doubt that the PSP’s biggest seller feature is its availability of UMD movies. The ability to watch a movie wherever you go is great and every week more and more movies hit the shelves. This week New Line Home Entertainment launches seven more top comedy hits to UMD format including Wedding Crashers “Uncorked” Edition, Dumb and Dumber: Unrated, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle: Extreme Unrated Edition, Rush Hour, Rush Hour 2, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery and Friday. Now you can have some laughs on the ride to work, in the waiting room, during your lunch hour, or wherever else you choose to watch your portable movies. Wedding Crashers will set you back $29.99 and the rest can be picked up for a cool Jackson.
Xbox Live Marketplace: Condemned Demo and Outpost Kaloki Fireworks Challenge
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Action, First Person Shooters, Strategy, Xbox 360, Xbox Live, Xbox Live Marketplace,
Finally, after a drought of about a week, more new content has been added to the Xbox Live Marketplace. First, is a demo of the Sega thriller Condemned. We have been having a great time playing the retail version of the game, and if you haven’t played it yet, grab the demo quickly. There is also a new Outpost Kaloki X challenge that looks to be free of charge, centered on creating a fireworks station. Probably capitalizing on the New Year season, we like this one. Outpost Kaloki X is like the old-school lemonade stand game on steroids.
Unreal Tournament 2007 Scheduled for PS3 Launch
Posted by Brandon Gribin Categories: First Person Shooters, PlayStation 3,
Yep, that’s right - according to the new issue of PlayStation Magazine, Unreal Tournament 2007 is scheduled to be a PS3 launch title. Sure, it may not be huge news (and the game certainly won’t be an exclusive) but it’s still better than no news right?
Read More | Gamespot
Alternate King Kong: The Game Ending
Posted by Brandon Gribin Categories: Action, Nintendo Gamecube, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Xbox 360,
Ubisoft recently announced that its King Kong game has an alternate (happy) ending! Possibly to help boost sales, after already dropping the price of the game, the publisher has revealed that the game contains an alternate ending where Kong survives and is returned to Skull Island. We feel this announcement has been made partly due to all the talk of the game’s low replay value. However, in order to obtain the other ending, players will have to put in a bit more time - and since the game’s only $30, this new announcement may help increase sales.
So what’s the big guy have to say about it? (No not Kong, Peter Jackson!)
“I wanted the game to be able to take the audience a bit further than what the film could,” said Peter Jackson. “And the final climax of the game gave us an opportunity to do something that the film could not do, which was to have an alternate ending - obviously everybody pretty much knows how King Kong ends.”
Read More | GameDailyBiz
J Allard talks about his thoughts on a few different matters in the newest issue of Edge. First off, Allard believes persistent worlds are the future of videogames - where you can log into whether you’re on a home console, a PC, a cell phone, or a portable gaming machine. Secondly, the Microsoft VP discusses why he thinks Sony is too alienating. In closing, he talks about rising game costs and how they could be combated with in-game advertising. We certainly understand that last point and do hope more publishers take advantage of the form of advertising.
Read More | GameDailyBiz
Okay, actually not - but someone at Wal-Mart needs to get on the ball as it pertains to the PSP product description. According to them, the PSP has an IR remote control, uses “UMC” media, has a microphone port, and a port which you can connect a controller to. Oh, and it only has a directional pad. Still, this isn’t as bad as the laptop that Best Buy advertised as having 256 GB of RAM a couple of weeks ago.
Read More | Wal-Mart
WSJ Article on Transition Period
Posted by Brandon Gribin Categories: Corporate News, Xbox 360,
The Wall Street Journal has yet another great front-page article on one of the pitfalls of the videogame industry - the transition period that comes about every five years.
It came in 2001 and it’s hitting again now as the Xbox 360 launched. As new hardware is released, consumers save their money to purchase a new videogame machine. Of course console shortages can limit the number of consumers that receive new videogame machines immediately. Just as the PS2 had a severe shortage in 2000, the Xbox 360 is in very short supply now.
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