WII NEWS
1.) Shaun White Skateboarding rolling out this holiday ~ By: Tom Magrino
[not good fro activision - Tony Hawk]
... st's board for "action sports" title on unspecified platforms later this year. Shaun White's gravity-defying snowboarding exploits have already earned him a sports game from Ubisoft (as well as a couple of Olympic gold meda ...
03-05-2010 11:49:06am Not There? Try Google
2.) Argos Gets Into Pre-Owned Games ~ SPONg
[if successful could roll out to all 735 stores...]
... ore Argos has followed the lead of HMV, Tesco and Asda by buying and selling second hand games. Gift cards are being offered at 27 selected stores for trade-ins of Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii and Nintendo DS software. Thos ...
03-03-2010 11:46:16am Not There? Try Google
3.) Argos Gets Into Pre-Owned Games ~ WSJ By JULIET YE
[if successful could roll out to all 735 stores...]
... ore Argos has followed the lead of HMV, Tesco and Asda by buying and selling second hand games. Gift cards are being offered at 27 selected stores for trade-ins of Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii and Nintendo DS software. Thos ...
03-03-2010 11:46:11am Not There? Try Google
4.) 10 million-plus Wiis sold in Japan ~ By Tor Thorsen, GameSpot
["9.72 million units were sold in Japan, 32.02 million units in North and South America, and 25.71 million units in Europe and elsewhere."]
... Famitsu publisher Enterbrain says Nintendo's console has sold 289,736 units in two months in the island nation. The month of January ended with Nintendo announcing it had shipped 67.45 million Wiis worldwide as of December ...
03-02-2010 11:18:58am Not There? Try Google
5.) EA Sports Active series sales top $125M, PS3/360 spin-offs hinted at ~ gamespot
[good for ea]
... estors that fitness genre is a billion-dollar industry; talks up "authentic sports action" for upcoming motion control systems. It didn't take long for EA to find success in the nascent fitness game genre. Having launched t ...
03-02-2010 11:19:07am Not There? Try Google
6.) Game industry to grow 6% in 2010 - Analyst ~ By: Tom Magrino
["34% digital sales growth will buoy stagnant packaged goods;"]
... s growth will buoy stagnant packaged goods; PS3 only console predicted to see sales increase. The sky began to fall for the global economy in late 2008, but many analysts maintained during the first part of 2009 that the ga ...
02-10-2010 11:52:34am Not There? Try Google
7.) Disney Interactive to be more 'judicious' with HD games as losses abate ~ Joystiq by Ludwig Kietzmann
["a loss of $10 million compared to a $45 million loss in Q1 the previous fiscal year"]
... 0 at 12:15PM } Though Disney's gaming division saw improved operating results during the company's first fiscal quarter of 2010 (which ended January 2) -- a loss of $10 million compared to a $45 million loss in Q1 the pre ...
02-10-2010 11:52:31am Not There? Try Google
8.) Ubisoft: Revenue Down - Ambition Tempered ~ SPONG
[down 2.7%]
... acebook Twitter iGoogle RSS Share on... Twitter N4G digg Facebook Slashdot Lead image Here's the facts from Ubisoft's recent third-quarter sales briefing: "Sales for the third quarter of 2009-10 came to €495 million, do ...
02-10-2010 11:52:32am Not There? Try Google
9.) Electronic Arts' Net Falls ~ zacks
["product mix shifts to lower-margin distribution business in North America"]
... EST Electronic Arts Inc. (NasdaqGS: ERTS - News) reported third-quarter of 2010 results with a steep fall in net earnings and revenue due to weakness in its EA business, dismal holiday sales for the overall packaged goods ...
02-09-2010 11:48:10am Not There? Try Google
10.) EA's Peter Moore ~ computerandvideogames.com
["That thing has got a scale, but it's got to prove that five million people want to play the same game."]
... In the first part of CVG's Peter Moore interview, the EA Sports boss discussed the rise of FIFA, how he's brought EA closer to gamers - and looked back fondly on the huge challenges he faced at Xbox. In this second install ...
02-09-2010 11:48:13am Not There? Try Google
11.) The Battle for British Living Rooms ~ By Stephen Foley
["you can use it to get programmes via the BBC's iPlayer, rather than having to watch them on your laptop."]
... ng the new home entertainment hubs—and a key TV battleground By Stephen Foley Remember the days when football fans had to ring up BSkyB (BSY), sign up for a satellite-TV subscription and then wait for a man in a van to c ...
02-02-2010 11:46:36am Not There? Try Google
12.) DVD Kiosk Firm e-Play Shuttered; Had Tested Used Video Game Sales In Wal-Marts ~ By Eric Savitz
[not a surprise...]
... here was tremendous buzz in the video game sector about news that Wal-Mart (WMT) had begun rolling out a test of kiosk operated by privately owned e-Play to sell - and buy - used video games. My post at the time noted that ...
02-02-2010 11:46:35am Not There? Try Google
13.) Nintendo Profit Fell 9.4% in Holiday Quarter ~ By DAISUKE WAKABAYASHI
["though a strong yen and price cuts continued to push down the company's profit."]
... holiday sales were "robust," suggesting that its Wii game console had regained its footing after a slowdown in demand, though a strong yen and price cuts continued to push down the company's profit. Nintendo said group net ...
01-28-2010 12:47:28pm Not There? Try Google
14.) EA tees off on Tiger Woods console game in June ~ Reuters
["Tiger game generates $80 mln in annual revenue-analyst"]
... sole game * Console version annually a top-selling EA sports product * Tiger game generates $80 mln in annual revenue-analyst By Ben Klayman CHICAGO, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc
01-21-2010 12:31:58pm Not There? Try Google
15.) Majesco posts $7.2 million loss ~ GIBIZ
[ $94.5 million revenues...]
... esults for its fiscal 2009 period, which ended on October 31 last year. The company disclosed a net loss of $7.2 million for the 12 months overall, compared to a profit in the previous year of $3.4 million - despite revenue ...
01-15-2010 11:36:14am Not There? Try Google
16.) U.S. Videogame, Console Revenue Rose 4% ~ By BEN CHARNY
[ummmm...]
... e and console sales increased 4% annually to $5.53 billion in December, but videogame sales disappointed as the industry registered growth in the year's final month, according to research firm NPD Group. Revenue from sales ...
01-15-2010 11:36:11am Not There? Try Google
17.) GameStop Whiffs Q4 As Holiday Sales Disappoint ~ By Eric Savitz
["same-store sales were down 8.6%."]
... is morning after the company said holiday period sales were flat, with weak results at stores open at least a year. The video game retailer said sales for the nine-week holiday period ended January 2 were $2.86 billion, fl ...
01-07-2010 11:52:09am Not There? Try Google
18.) Japan game sales slip 6.9% in 2009 ~ By: Tom Magrino
[down...]
... llion; Nintendo DS, Dragon Quest IX led charts. Much like the US market, the Japanese gaming industry has been unable to keep up with last year's pace. In July, Japanese stat-tracking firm and Famitsu publisher Enterbrain s ...
01-06-2010 11:34:36am Not There? Try Google
19.) Nintendo Shares Rise After Record Wii Sales in U.S. ~ By Pavel Alpeyev
[7%]
... intendo Co. rose the most in more than a year in Osaka trading after sales of its flagship Wii game console in the U.S. climbed by more than 40 percent to a record in December. The stock climbed 6.9 percent to close at 24,5 ...
01-06-2010 11:34:34am Not There? Try Google
20.) Nintendo estimates 3 million US Wii sales in December ~ GIBIZ
[not bad...]
... orm to have sold an additional 3 million units in the US in December, ahead of official figures to be released by the NPD Group on January 14. The platform holder, which has endured a tough time in 2009, ended the year stron ...
01-05-2010 11:52:33am Not There? Try Google
21.) Nintendo Europe: 20 Million is a Lot Of Wii ~ SPONG
[big numbers]
... brought low by mounting disquiet with sales of the Wii, Nintendo in Europe is has announced that in its territory, 40 million DSs and 20 million Wiis are "being played across Europe." Now, we've got to assume here that Ninty ...
01-05-2010 11:52:37am Not There? Try Google
22.) Sega Unlikely To Do More Mature Wii Titles by Leigh Alexander ~ by Leigh Alexander
[wrong delivery system...]
... More Mature Wii Titles The September 2009 launch of Electronic Arts' Dead Space Extraction was a "litmus test" for Sega on the realities for mature content on the Wii, says studio director Constantine Hantzopoulos -- and t ...
01-04-2010 11:35:20am Not There? Try Google
23.) Japan Sees 2009 Sales Drop As DQ IX Tops Yearly Charts ~ Gamasutra
[decline....]
... DQ IX Tops Yearly Charts Advertisement AD GD Research The Japanese retail game industry has revealed a 16% drop in console and 4% drop in game sales during 2009, as Square Enix's Dragon Quest IX nonetheless sells over 4 mil ...
12-29-2009 11:30:00am Not There? Try Google
24.) Sony Sells Over 4 Million PS3s In Japan ~ SPONG
[price drop...]
... 17 Dec 2009 Sony’s PlayStation 3 has sold over 4 million units in Japan since its launch on 11th November 2006, according to Famitsu publisher Enterbrain. Well, 4,020,563 units if you want to be precise. The PS3 total i ...
12-17-2009 11:51:54am Not There? Try Google
25.) Under 114,000 ride Tony Hawk in November ~ By: Tor Thorsen
[ouch...]
... d reboot of once-iconic skate series sells just 67,000 units on Wii, 30,000 on 360, and 16,000 on PS3. Before its November 17 release in North America, Tony Hawk Ride was being hailed as the second coming of the once-iconic ...
12-11-2009 11:48:26am Not There? Try Google
26.) Record breaking Mario Bros tops Japanese top ten ~ GIBIZ
[sales put at 934,739 units.]
... -selling game in Japan in the latest weekly data from Media Create, with sales put at 934,739 units. The figure matches earlier estimates from rival research firm Enterbrain, making the game the fastest selling Wii game eve ...
12-11-2009 11:48:35am Not There? Try Google
27.) Fitness video games are reshaping medium ~ By Derrik J. Lang, AP Entertainment Writer
[The biggest competitor to "Wii Fit" is "EA Sports Active,"]
... e' are reshaping medium * By Derrik J. Lang, AP Entertainment Writer * On 10:03 am EST, Friday December 11, 2009 LOS ANGELES (AP) -- At first glance, the rack of video games seems out of place next to the row of e ...
12-11-2009 11:48:34am Not There? Try Google
28.) November video game sales fall 8 percent to $2.7B US video game sales fall 8 percent in November to $2.7B, despite 'Call of Duty' record ~ By Barbara Ortutay, AP Technology Writer
[Call of Duty $550 million during its first five days]
... espite 'Call of Duty' record * By Barbara Ortutay, AP Technology Writer * On 8:09 pm EST, Thursday December 10, 2009 NEW YORK (AP) -- Americans reached into their pockets -- though not as deep as last year -- to s ...
12-11-2009 11:48:33am Not There? Try Google
29.) Disney: Iger Seems Uninterested In Buying Video Game Company ~ By Eric Savitz
[wait it out...]
... hinted at a presentation at the UBS investment conference in New York today that the company isn’t likely to be making any acquisitions of the increasingly cheap video game stocks. Breaking Views yesterday speculated that t ...
12-10-2009 11:56:08am Not There? Try Google
30.) Disney: Iger Seems Uninterested In Buying Video Game Company ~ By Eric Savitz
[wait ti out...]
... hinted at a presentation at the UBS investment conference in New York today that the company isn’t likely to be making any acquisitions of the increasingly cheap video game stocks. Breaking Views yesterday speculated that t ...
12-10-2009 11:56:05am Not There? Try Google
31.) New Super Mario Bros sells 900k in first week in Japan ~ GIBIZ
[always a winner...]
... ing its first week on sale in Japan, making it the fastest selling week one Wii title in the region to date. The Famitsu sales figures put the title ahead of previous week one high sellers Super Smash Bros Brawl (816,198), ...
12-07-2009 12:17:54pm Not There? Try Google
32.) Riccitiello: Digital market will overtake consoles next year ~ GIBIZ
[that is a bit soon...]
... d that the digital videogame market will overtake the traditional console and packaged goods business next year. He added that if the publisher's digital business was a stand alone company, it would be seen as the "darling ...
12-02-2009 15:11:20pm Not There? Try Google
33.) GameStop Swoons As Walmart Chops Video Game Prices ~ By Eric Savitz
["offer $50 gift card to customers who buy a $199 Nintendo Wii."]
... fter Walmart (WMT) this morning announced price cuts on many video games. Walmart also unveiled a plan to offer $50 gift card to customers who buy a $199 Nintendo Wii. Walmart said it will discount the top 25 video games b ...
12-02-2009 15:11:26pm Not There? Try Google
34.) Wii sales dipped Thanksgiving week ~ By: Tom Magrino
[down...]
... 22-28 window; DS Lite, DSi set new handheld record with combined 1-million-unit haul. Though two years out from launch, Nintendo's Wii remained in high demand during the 2008 holiday shopping season. For the high-volume Tha ...
12-01-2009 11:52:46am Not There? Try Google
35.) Video Game Sales Slide 19% In October ~ By Eric Savitz
[down...]
... llion in October, down 19% from $1.32 billion a year ago, according to market research firm NPD Group. Hardware sales fell 23% in the month versus a year ago, with software off 18%, and accessories down 2%. The slide could be ...
12-01-2009 11:52:45am Not There? Try Google
36.) Analysts predict cold October for game industry ~ By: Tom Magrino
["sales will dip 9 to 11 percent on the month."]
... believe software fell 9 to 11 percent last month; Uncharted 2, Borderlands, Wii Fit Plus lead sales. The NPD Group is expected to release its US retail sales report for the October 4-October 31 period this Thursday, and an ...
11-11-2009 11:44:13am Not There? Try Google
37.) EA: The Market is Below 40 Million Wiis ~ SPONG
[no hits...]
... Electronic Arts, John Riccitiello, John Schappert The SeekingAlpha transcript (bless them) of EA's second financial quarter conference call has revealed the frustration of both EA CEO John S Riccitiello and COO, John Schappert ...
11-11-2009 11:44:12am Not There? Try Google
38.) Electronics Arts buys social game maker Playfish ~ By Franklin Paul
[$275 million in cash for 2-year-old Playfish]
... NEW YORK, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Electronic Arts Inc (ERTS.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) has acquired privately held Playfish for $275 million in cash plus other consideration as the maker of the "Madden NFL" series e ...
11-09-2009 14:13:45pm Not There? Try Google
39.) 'Call of Duty' game shoots to make history ~ Reuters By Gabriel Madway and Franklin Paul
[will be big..]
... nd Franklin Paul SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Forget the buzz over the next "Twilight" film or James Cameron's "Avatar." The biggest entertainment hit of the holiday season may come on Tuesday, when "Call of Du ...
11-09-2009 14:13:48pm Not There? Try Google
40.) Sega Sammy spins off Bakugan ~ gamespot By: Tom Magrino
["a cross-media franchise with ties to collectible card games, video games, toys, and animation."]
... s-media card-battling game; six-month revenues fall 23 percent to $1.7 billion. Sega Sammy's finances have been hammered recently on a number of fronts, ranging from dwindling demand in the Japanese arcade market to currenc ...
11-05-2009 17:51:28pm Not There? Try Google
41.) Sony Swings to Loss ~ ByKENNETH MAXWELL
["smaller-than-expected loss for its fiscal second quarter and an improved outlook for its fiscal year."]
... ping offset continued soft consumer demand and a strong yen, leading to a smaller-than-expected loss for its fiscal second quarter and an improved outlook for its fiscal year. But the maker of everything from digital music ...
10-30-2009 16:50:47pm Not There? Try Google
42.) Nintendo's Net Profit Slides as Wii Demand Wanes ~ By KENNETH MAXWELL - WSJ
[we will see thier price tomorrow...]
... al-first-half net profit tumbled more than 50% and warned the rough ride will continue, slicing nearly a quarter off its full-year profit forecast as sales of its Wii videogame consoles wane amid a shortage of new blockbuster ...
10-30-2009 16:50:46pm Not There? Try Google
43.) DJ Hero preorders augur weak sales - Analyst ~ By Tom Magrino, GameSpot
[stock steady...]
... :03 pm PT Cowen and Company's Doug Creutz cuts sales projections for Activision's latest rhythm game by 61%, citing online demand that is "well below" expectations. Beyond Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, arguably Activis ...
10-26-2009 17:40:36pm Not There? Try Google
44.) U.S. Video game sales up 1 pct in September-NPD ~ Reuters
[hmmm]
... n 6 pct, software sales up 5 pct * First month of growth in a half-year * Sony PS3 is top-selling console SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Sales of video game equipment and software in the United States rose a modest 1 ...
10-19-2009 18:43:05pm Not There? Try Google
45.) September sales spike could be short-lived - Analyst ~ gamespot
[will see...]
... ll likely see a return to shrinking revenues, projects Guitar Hero 5 outsold Beatles: Rock Band in debut month. US retailers have seen six straight months of declining game software revenues, but analysts are largely in agr ...
10-13-2009 18:07:01pm Not There? Try Google
46.) SEGA: We'll carry on chasing innovation ~ GIBIZ
["We've spent a lot of time thinking there must be a way to release mature, more adult content on the Wii format.?]
... z that the publisher is firm in its commitment to pursue innovation and invest in new IP in a bid to "crack core gaming". The company, which has enjoyed a great deal of success in the past couple of years with Mario & Sonic ...
10-12-2009 16:18:10pm Not There? Try Google
47.) Sony's Latest Gaming Device Cuts Out Retailers ~ CNBC
[direct download...]
... Go represents a bold leap forward in the field of digital content distribution. For retailers, it might as well be called the PSP No. Unlike its predecessors, the new portable gaming system from Sony does not run on tradit ...
09-25-2009 15:15:14pm Not There? Try Google
48.) No Wii price cut for UK ~ GIBIZ
["instead the firm will offer a new retail bundle with added software and the Wii MotionPlus peripheral."]
... m will offer a new retail bundle with added software and the Wii MotionPlus peripheral. The Wii will still retail for GBP 199 in the region, and come bundled with the new controller peripheral, a nunchuck, the original Wii ...
09-23-2009 15:47:28pm Not There? Try Google
49.) Netflix CEO Reed Hastings on Xbox, Youtube, iPhone ~ Reuters
["Eventually we want to be on all the game consoles"]
... lockbuster, iPhone, Netflix, ps3, redbox, Reed Hastings, video game consoles, Wii, Xbox Live, youtube We caught up with Netflix CEO Reed Hastings at the movie rental company’s event where it awarded a $1 million prize afte ...
09-23-2009 15:47:28pm Not There? Try Google
50.) Report: Wii to see $50 price reduction in September ~ GIBIZ
["a leaked Toys R Us catalogue advert."]
... to USD 199.99, according to reports that stem from a leaked Toys R Us catalogue advert. The price cut would see USD 50 slashed from the price of the console, which comes bundled with Wii Sports, reports Kotaku. This new pri ...
09-15-2009 11:38:30am Not There? Try Google
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