According to Nielsen, which released a similar study earlier this year, the Wii comes in third behind the venerable PlayStation 2 and the Xbox 360 in terms of console usage.

Oddly enough, but no surprise given its current struggle, the PlayStation 3 checked in just above the GameCube cube with 7.7% to 4.4%, but behind the original Xbox at 9.1%. Yes, read that again. The “failure” that is Nintendo’s purple cube is nipping at Sony’s heels (quotes used because, as a profitable system, it’s silly to call the GameCube a “failure”).

Now, not that there was any real doubt, but the Wii is, apparently, not as dusty as the cacophony of dissenting Internet voices would have us believe. I know mine’s got a work out this past week thanks to de Blob and Wario Land: Shake It!

Note: The study is for the period Jan-Oct 2008, and did not track portables.

Nippon Ichi Software a.k.a. NIS in America is throwing all it’s weight on the Nintendo DS this coming Fall. Nippon Ichi is known mostly for the Makai Senki series and the revival of tactical RPGs. (I mean I consider them the company who revived them.) Anyway, They plan to release three titles for the DS, including their first ever attempt at making an Action RPG. So if you’re interested in Tactical RPGs and Nippon Ichi hit the jump to see what is going on!

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From the 7.5 review of Okami on Wii (May 2008 issue):

The controls just didn’t make the jump to Wii as well as they should have… Okami is a work of genius, but you should play the original [PS2] game instead of the Wii version if you can.

There you have it.