Date: June 30th, 2009 - Author: herald

Video game sales graph showed a southward ride by 23% in May. This has been revealed by latest data from NPD Group. The bright spot of this report is the ongoing domination by Nintendo, whose hardware and associated games outsold the competition by nearly 2 to 1.

The CNET’s Lance Whitney report says, “NPD blamed most of the decline on the lack of blockbuster games rather than the weak economy. The report noted that last year’s sales were boosted by the launch of popular software titles such as Grand Theft Auto IV. Nintendo’s Wii Fit also was a hot commodity in 2008.”

Check the below top 10:

1. UFC 2009 Undisputed(THQ) Xbox 360 - 679,600
2. Wii Fit(Nintendo) Wii - 352,800
3. EA Sports Active(EA) Wii - 345,800
4. UFC 2009 Undisputed(THQ) PS3 - 334,400
5. Infamous(Sony) PS3 - 175,900
6. Pokemon Platinum(Nintendo) DS - 168,900
7. Mario Kart(Nintendo) Wii - 158,300
8. Punch Out!!(Nintendo) Wii - 156,900
9. X-Men Origins: Wolverine Uncaged(Activision) Xbox 360 - 120,700
10. Wii Play(Nintendo) Wii - 109,800

Total Nintendo software: 1,292,500
Total other vendor software: 1,310,600

Nintendo even remained strong in the console business. The Nintendo DS and Wii sales were nearly doubling the competition.

· Nintendo DS: 633,500
· Wii: 289,500
· Xbox 360: 175,000
· PlayStation 3: 131,000
· PlayStation 2: 117,000
· PSP: 100,400

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Date: June 27th, 2009 - Author: herald

The Nintendo DSi and the PSP of Sony Corp. has kept their reign at the retail of Japan in the latest hardware figures.

According to the recent reports of Media Create Co. the DSi has sold 40,464 units between 8th of June and 16th of June 16 to rank No. 1 in overall sales.

When compared, the PSP sold 27,884 units and has been ranked second in the same period.

In the month of April the Nintendo began the sale of the Nintendo DSi at U.S. retail.

Sony has this month announced that the PSP Go, a new 16GB handheld to hold all digital content. It will be sold for $249 on Oct. 1.

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Date: June 26th, 2009 - Author: herald

The new Nintendo DS-Lite pouch has arrived. Don’t miss it. It is too beautiful. It is just like cool Nintendo gameboy case. It has been made by Janis13.

This new pouch of the Nintendo DS-Lite is made up of different colored felt appliques that are hand sewn to give more realistic and 3-D feel. It is exactly made of the size of the DS-Lite. It has a dimensions of 4” x 6 1/2”. It holds the DS-Lite well.

The pouch is also made of such kind which can have enough space to house some stationary, an iPod, your glares, a small digicam and many more stuffs too.

Janis13 is also making it customized. Nintendo owners can now choose their own color of the pouch.
Grab this pouch on Etsy for 14$. Soon there will also be pouches available for original DS and also that of a PSP for a mere 2$ extra.

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Date: June 23rd, 2009 - Author: herald

The Nintendo MP3 Player is to some extent of the size of a Game Boy Advance Game Pak. Though similar but there are some differences. When slotted into Nintendo DS’s Game Pak Slot then it turns your handheld into a full-featured music player. One has to simply select tracks and adjust the playing options with the easy on-screen interface. The rest is done. It plays your tunes through the DS speakers or headphones.

The Nintendo MP3 Player make use of common SD cards. It stores there the musics. One can simply transfer the selected songs to SD card through a PC of a laptop. It takes only second to do so and without requiring any software.

This Nintendo DS Lite is compatible with Game Boy Micro and Game Boy Player. It includes built-in headphone socket for crystal clear stereo sound and it is simple on-screen interface.

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Date: June 19th, 2009 - Author: herald

There is a good news for the fans of Nintendo. This month Nintendo is launching a unique and exclusive DS Lite bundle in the United Kingdom market. It is the Nintendo DS Lite Professor Layton and the Curious Village bundle. They will be available in UK for just £119.99.

This bundle has in it a Black DS Lite system and Professor Layton and the Curious Village. It is also being said that the bundle may be to commemorate Professor Layton and the Curious Village for its BAFTA for “Best Handheld Game” or for Father’s Day.

This bundle of Lite Professor Layton and the Curious Village has not yet been announced for launch in the North America market. It seems that that there will be no DS Father’s Day bundle for the US. But yes, Nintendo of America did launch a Nintendo DS Lite Green/Spring bundle for Mother’s Day.

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Date: June 14th, 2009 - Author: herald

Nintendo DS has led the video game system sales of America in the month of May. It has sold 633,500 units. This is in fact a hike of 40% compared to the same month in 2008. The sales were split 369,000 and 244,000 of DSi and DS Lite respectively.

The sales of Wii console of Nintendo were down by 57% over May 2008 to 289,500 units. But, the sales of course pushed the console past the 20 million mark in the US after only 31 months on the market.

On the other hand the Xbox 360 suffered the least of the home consoles. It had only a 6% drop in sales over last year. It is a fact that this console is suffering and it shows just how much the US video game industry is suffering.

The total industry sales has dropped below $1 billion for the first time since August 2007.

The NPD Group’s analyst Anita Frazier says, “The video games industry continues to struggle with difficult comparisons to last year, and this is the first month that industry sales have dipped below $1 billion since August 2007. May is typically one of the lowest revenue-generating months in any given year for the industry in general.”

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Date: June 11th, 2009 - Author: herald

Good news for all the fans of Nintendo. The game is now coming with a Pedometer. It can be easily inserted into the DS or DS Lite through the Game Boy Advanced Slot.

With this new feature, now the DS can track gamers steps, physical activity, food intake and even more. DS is also available with a whole lot of other health “goodies’ like coaching or education session, challenges, trivia games, tips, hints and more. The challenges has an option of accepting or not.

This new feature of the Nintendo has been developed in conjunction with a fitness coach and nutritionist. Hence, we can say that there is a lot of credibility to the usefulness in this “game” bringing in weight loss results.

Now gamers can measure their physical activity and balance it. They can follow the advice of a stick-figured fitness coach. The result of this is that gamers motivation increases with each coaching session, daily challenge, and mini-games that it provides.

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Date: June 9th, 2009 - Author: herald

Let us check what the President of Nintendo, Saturo Iwata, has to say. In an interview to CNBC, he admitted that the company had scrapped a new handheld which they had not just been working on, but also had even completed it.

Now it appears, according to Iwata, that this handheld was going in a different direction than the DSLite and DSi. He said, “when we are launching new hardware, the most important thing is to sustain the momentum. If introducing new hardware won’t do anything to do that, well…”

Now it seems that as if they went with the DSi as it kept with the DS and thus would maintain the popularity of the system. The sale of DSi is of course impressive. One cannot help but only wonder as to what this other handheld was though. Let us take the flashback. Way back, DS first launched Nintendo claimed that they weren’t abandoning the GBA platform. The DS was simply another way to game. It seems now that this handheld fell more in line with the GBA or something, may be.

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Date: June 8th, 2009 - Author: herald

The new and the much of hype Nintendo MP3 Player is not much bigger than a Game Boy Advance Game Pak. One thing to say here more is that if it is slotted into Nintendo DS’s Game Pak Slot then turns your handheld into a full-featured music player.

Its simple to use. Just select tracks and adjust the playing options. The entire operating steps is easy on-screen interface and one can play their tunes through the DS speakers or headphones

This new much wanted Nintendo MP3 Player uses common SD cards where the musics can be stored. One can very simply transfer songs to SD card via a PC. It takes only few seconds and one do not have to use any software of converting.

More to this, it is compatible with Game Boy Micro and Game Boy Player. It has built-in headphone socket for crystal clear stereo sound and there is simple on-screen interface that includes Repeat and Shuffle modes. The player can store about 240 songs in its 1Gb SD card.

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Date: June 4th, 2009 - Author: herald

At the Nintendo E3 2009 press conference recently there was on display a beautiful and handful portable gaming titles for the DS and DSi Shop. Officially this portable was yet to be announced.

It was the new Kingdom Hearts portable game that was announced later. It was the first DS version of the collaboration of Square Enix and Disney franchise. Role playing games fans have many more reasons than this to be excited as Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story and also Golden Sun DS were announced at the conference. Gamers can also expect Bowser’s Inside Story this fall. The Golden Sun DS may arrive by the year 2010.

The Nintendo had showcased a desire in the press conference of E3 2009 in order to appeal to fans of James Patterson novels as Women’s Murder Club: Games of Passion checks in to provide a new way to enjoy the crime-solving novels. By using the Nintendo DS, gamers will uncover clues, reaching very closer to the truth.

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