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Wii console sales boosted by casual, hardcore titles in Japan

Thanks to the one-two punch of titles like Super Smash Bros. Brawl and the quirky Wii Fit balance board, Nintendo has widened its lead in Japan over Sony’s PlayStation 3. According to an article from Reuters today, Nintendo’s Wii game console outsold the PlayStation 3 nearly 4-to-1 in Japan in February despite Sony’s console beginning to narrow the gap last autumn. In addition to...

Sony exec Phil Harrison *hearts* Wiimote, iPhone

I never in a million years thought I’d be caught dead saying this, but thank you Phil Harrison, thank you. Why the love? Because last week at the Game Developer’s Conference the outgoing Sony video game chief said that controllers for the PS3 and the Xbox 360 were too confusing for a majority of people in the world today. “You hand somebody a game controller and it’s like y...

2007 Video game growth outpaced music, video

All signs are pointing to 2007 being the best year ever for video games, but how did the industry stack up against some of the Old Guard like movies and music? If the Entertainment Software Association (via Ars Technica) is to be believed, it was a banner year that left tired old things like “CDs” and DVDs” in the dust.

Nintendo and the rising continent

Malstrom is at it again. Today he’s delivered us a series of new (and lengthy!) articles about gaming, Nintendo and the future of the industry as a whole. I think with the outrageous success currently being enjoyed by the Wii and its software (you know, the software that ignoramuses say doesn’t exist yet) this is an especially timely delivery. On a personal note, the reason I enjoy the...

Wii’s a fad. Or, Sony is getting desperate

Sony’s Jack Tretton is in a difficult position right now. His company has on their hands the most powerful console that nobody knows they really want. It’s the thing people will buy “eventually.” It’s got the most “potential” of any system out there, and developers will realize that “one day.” Today, the San Jose Mercury News digs into the best...

E3 begins with a yawn. Can Nintendo save it?

The more I watch the recaps of Microsoft’s E3 presentation and the GameTrailers Killzone 2 footage, the more I find myself agreeing with Infendo contributor Malstrom. I usually agreed with ol’ Mal when he wrote over at The Wiikly, but more recently he said something in a column here at Nintendo that managed to coalesce all the thoughts in my head into one easy to swallow morsel. That m...

Penny Arcade on marketing

The recent comic at Penny Arcade is spot-on, but for once I’m linking to the commentary that’s provided alongside it by Tycho. He discusses how uncomfortable everyone’s become now that Nintendo has rewritten the rule book on gaming (tore it to shreds with its bare hands, then manifested a new one out of thin air is more like it, I suppose). No one, aside from Nintendo, really kno...

About those PS2 “Wii controller” rumors…

I’ve discussed this via the comment section with some Infendo readers in the past, but today I’m coming back at it because Wired’s Chris Kohler and EGM are reporting on the PS2 Wiimote-like controller *allegedly* due out at Christmas time. As I said in the past, this kind of controller would be a colossal failure for Sony. The last minute addition of motion sensing to the PS3 con...

Nintendo closes in on Sony in market share cap

The rest of the Infendo staff had their fun today with contest winners and near-perfect Zelda Famitsu scores and Tesla coils — but not me. I’m into numbers and net worth and things with commas separating tens, hundreds and thousands. So when I heard about what Nintendo accomplished today, I nearly fell over and hit my head on the solid mahogany desk that all Infendo writers get for the...

Sony’s greatest quotes

Why on earth am I posting Sony’s greatest (read: dumbest, most arrogant, and ultimately untrue) quotes here on Infendo? Because so many of them bash Nintendo, that’s why. Go check them out. Here’s a sample: “Nintendo knows its target audience, because it has really narrowed that down; and it’s pretty much defined by a boy or girl’s ability to admire Pokemon.R...

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?

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...