Archive for April, 2010

Nintendo Wii in Black releasing on May 9

Friday, April 30th, 2010

Are you all getting bored with your or have you not yet got a . Well, next month you may get a chance of getting in Black.

Several sources such as GameStop confirmed that the Ninitendo in Black will be available by May 9th in the and by May 23rd in Canada.

The color has only been changed. The other functionality is the same as White Wiii.

However, the Black bundle will carry a Black Remote, Sports, a copy of Sports Resort and a MotionPlus upgrade.

The bundle will be tagged at $199.

Well, these are only sources information. There has been no official confirmation from about the release date.

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Nintendo for adults, soon

Monday, April 12th, 2010

We all know that DS handheld reached to record high sales in a very short period of time. It was launched in 2004. In 2006 it became the fastest selling gaming unit in the history of Japan. It crossed 10 million-units, that too easily.

Not only in Japan, but also in the United States had a strong sales hold. In 2009 the DS sold there 11.2 million units. This was more than 930,000 each month and it is just more than 3,650 DS sales a day.

In the early 1990s, learned that it could market its game system also to the adults by offering puzzle-action games such as Tetris for its Game Boy system.

In 2004 when the company brought to market their DS handheld, it said that it was going after a wider market also.

Reggie Fils-Aime, executive vice president for sales and marketing for of America told once, “We’ve been saying from the start that we wanted to position the DS toward an older audience… but the market didn’t believe that’s where we wanted to go.”

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Nintendo has also become lifestyle device

Sunday, April 4th, 2010

Did you hear the latest news about ? It is the launch of its new version named . It is tagged at $189.99. This device has the screens, two, of 4.2-inch that are 93% bigger than the normal and regular DS Lite priced at $129.99. Though the screen is big but the resolution is the same.

The bottom display of is touch-sensitive. It will allow to use it with fingers or with the stylus pens (one small, one large).

According to , the company had updated the most popular gaming platform of the world as gamers demanded for bigger screens. This means that friends can also see the action in a better way or they can play together.

has been sold through out the world over 125 million units.

One more thing to be noticed here is that the might be considered a lifestyle device also rather than only a gaming system because the company is broadening the kind of software that gamers can run on it.

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20% off on accessories with Nintendo DSi XL

Saturday, April 3rd, 2010

This week begins the week for . The Toys R Inc. is offering a flat 20 percent on accessories of with every purchase of the hardware. This seems to be a new retail promotion.

According to this new , customers who buys a will be getting 20% off on all the accessories.

The accessories that are included are a Car Adapter, Stylus Pack, Screen Protector and Universal Transporter Case.

The offer has been already started from April 3. Just go and grab the offer.

The , having 93 percent larger screen, was released in U.S. retail on 28 March in Burgundy and Bronze. It has been tagged at $189.99 each.

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