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Matt Casamassina: Halo DS is for real!
Did Matt Casamassina’s torrid love affair with Perrin Kaplan finally pay off? When he revealed that, once upon a time, there was a working build of Halo DS in development, had he descended from the Ivory IGN Tower to bestow some legitimate truth upon we the gaming plebeians? Has his crazy hair finally, once and for all, taken over the rest of his gray matter real estate? Sadly, we may never ...
Wii sales top 8 million
Nintendo has sold over 8 million Wii systems worldwide in less than seven months. This outpaces both the Xbox 360 and PS3 for the same period of time since their respective launches. Check out VGChartz for the full graph. If it was easier to buy a Wii, would this number be even higher?
Commercially smart, or shamefully excessive?
Is Microsoft taking the whole Halo 3 thing a bit too far? I’d like to think other publishers wouldn’t exploit popular franchises to this extent (Note: I said think). Talk about chutzpah. I feel like I’m getting marketed to like I did when I was a kid. I’m 27 now. 27, people!
Japanese Hardware Sales (May 2007)
Bloomberg reports that Nintendo is outselling Sony in Japan. They say Wii is outselling PS3 by 5 to 1. Having a hard time visualizing numbers, and being inspired by Blake’s chart obsession, I created the above pie graph to illustrate just what those numbers mean. [The totals are for video game hardware only, so Sony’s plethora of other products do not figure into the equation.] Infendo...
Bill Gates endorses Nintendo’s strategy
If you didn’t think Nintendo was “on to something” with the Wii and DS by now, Bill Gates is on the scene to push you over the edge. During a unique discussion with Apple’s Steve Jobs, Gates was asked about the future of interactivity with game consoles, and had this to say: “Imagine a game machine where you can just pick up a bat and swing it or the tennis racket,...
Nintendo checkmate? Not yet, but closing in…
Once upon a time, either here on Infendo or in the clandestine back channels of the Infendo staff offices (read: gmail), I predicted that in 2007, we would see one of the major print magazines like BusinessWeek or Wired run a cover story about the resurgence of Nintendo. It came a bit earlier than even my fanboyish self could have predicted. Fortune has a huge article on Nintendo up right now, and...
Business 2.0: How the Wii is creaming the competition
Business 2.0 (my favorite biz magazine) has published the “untold story of how the Wii beat the Xbox, PlayStation.” Behold my copy and paste skills! “Nintendo’s turnaround began five years ago, when the company’s top strategists, including CEO Satoru Iwata and legendary game designer Shigeru Miyamoto, zeroed in on two troubling trends: As young consumers started caree...