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The Japanese game industry is dead. This week has been a flashback of last year's Tokyo Game Show — complete with gloom and doom from Capcom's Keiji Inafune. More »
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Since the launch of both the DS and Wii, five games published by Nintendo have sold more than twenty million copies. Can you guess which ones? More »
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The NPD Group has compiled fifteen years worth of video game sales in the United States, determining that Nintendo's 2006 release Wii Play is the industry's top seller, beating out Grand Theft Autos and Call of Dutys easily. More »
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An analysis by website Gamasutra of first-half sales figures for the three big gaming consoles shows that the Wii's hits are older hits. More »
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Never mind what's at the bottom of this barrel, here's a list of 29 Wii games from Nintendo and the amount of hours people play them, per gamer. More »
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Wii Fit. Well, fastest game to reach half a million copies sold, that is. More »
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The answer to the question "What was 2008's bestselling game in the U.S.?" is "Wii Play." Or is it? What about all those multi-platform, multi-SKU releases like Madden and Call of Duty: World at War? More »
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To be honest, we're still not sure. The NPD Group released data for the "Top Selling Games Annual 2008" with Wii Play coming in at number one, boasting 5.28 million copies sold. More »
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Call of Duty: World at War couldn't win the battle against the Wii in December, selling 150,000 units shy of Wii Play's staggering 1.46 million copies. Yes, that's a lot of Wii Remotes. More »
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Nintendo's seemingly insurmountable lead in the U.S. became less "seemingly" in December, if EEDAR analyst Jesse Divnich's figure of 3.2 million Wiis sold last month is spot-on. "Simply put, Nintendo saved Christmas," Divnich said. More »
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Nintendo also announced its software sales data in its Q1 FY3/09 statement. In Q1, Nintendo DS software sales were 36.59 million, up 2.33 million units from Q1 last year. Standout titles for the DS include the international release of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness/Explorers of Time. Wii software sales reached 40.41 million units, a 24.42 million increase from Q1 last year. Titles like Mario Kart Wii, Wii Fit, Wii Play and Wii Sports in Japan led the charge. More »
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Today's NPD sales numbers reveal that Bungie's Halo 3 was the best selling game in the United States in 2007, with a whopping 4.82 million copies sold. Nipping at Master Chief's heels was Nintendo's own Wii Play. It sold through a staggering 4.12 million units to the masses. More »
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Wii Play is just some $10 game you pick up because, what the hell, we're all paying too much for Wiimotes and nunchucks anyway. As Opposable Thumbs points out, it's a strategy that's paid off well for Nintendo. Because while not many people talk about group sessions of Wii Play at senior centers, it's been in the top five selling games for the last eight months straight. More »
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The NPD Group's software sales estimates for June show that American gamers haven't yet tired of mini-games, Pokemon or Guitar Hero. Nintendo revealed earlier this month that over a half-million gamers had snapped up Mario Party 8, with the lion's share of sales happening in June. Wii Play saw similar hardcore gamer heart-stoppingly stellar sales. You know what that means? More mini-games! More »
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Look familiar? That's Tyler Bleszinski (in green), older brother of Gears of War designer CliffyB. Known primarily as a sports blogger, TylerB is also a big gamer. Over at Newsweek's Level Up, he's written an editorial on why he's on edge about the current Wii popularity. From the piece: More »
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Taking a page from College Humor's "Rejected Wii Games" comes "Rejected Wii Play Games." See the difference? While it may ring familiar, Loading.Ready.Run's collection of mildly offensive to extremely offensive Wii Play titles that were nothing but ill-conceived whiteboard notes manages to amuse... slightly longer than an actual playthrough of Wii Play itself. Michael McWhertor More »
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If the duck shooting segments of Wii Play weren't realistic enough to satisfy your avian bloodlust, Detn8 Games has the solution. The "new videogame company that's been around a long, long time" is releasing Ultimate Duck Hunting—which, going by the box art, is possibly titled Ultimate Duck Hunting: Hunting And Retrieving Ducks for clarity's sake—for the Wii this July, bringing us our first proper duck destroying simulation. More »
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Next-gen? Not quite yet. PlayStation 2 title God of War II pwned March by shifting 833,000 units — That's more than double the number two title, Ubisoft's G.R.A.W. for the Xbox 360. Following that were Guitar Hero II for the Xbox 360, Wii Play for the Nintendo Wii and Motorstorm for the PLAYSTATION 3. Glad to see the focus back on actual games and not on pieces of hardware. Brian Ashcraft More »
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Japan has baseball fever! With no less than four baseball titles in the top thirty (five if you count Wii Sports), it's clear that Gundam and Naruto aren't the only games in town. Or the country. Or whatever. More »
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In the recent Next-Gen article on user created content becoming a driving force in console games, including Nintendo's Miis and Will Wright's upcoming Spore, one interesting and unexpected nugget of info rests. It seems that Nintendo has not yet released tools to allow third party developers to import user created Miis into their games. More »
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I popped Wii Play into the Wii last night and got my game on. More »
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Wii Play just arrived at the house. The game's got some fancy packaging and comes with a new remote (featuring a new, breakless strap). More »
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According to the eagle-eyed datehounds at GoNintendo, the North American ship date for Wii Play has just been moved from January 15 to February 12 of next year. Their source? The Nintendo press area, which has in the past been fairly reliable. More »
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