Nintendo Weekend Warrior – ups and downs in sales

wiids_ww_shortThe Nintendo Wii and DS have been holding up very strong on the Japanese sales charts, but they will have to bow to Sony for this week. On a more positive note, Just Dance 2 pulls a big milestone – selling two million copies worldwide. The same can’t be said about Red Steel 2, which sold only 50,000 in its first month. Make that week. I guess casual is ringing more bells for Ubisoft on the Wii right now.

 

 

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The Nintendo Wii and DS have been holding up very strong on the Japanese sales charts, but they will have to bow to Sony for this week. On a more positive note, Just Dance 2 pulls a big milestone – selling two million copies worldwide. The same can’t be said about Red Steel 2, which sold only 50,000 in its first month. Make that week. I guess casual is ringing more bells for Ubisoft on the Wii right now.

 

Games

  • A look at Sin & Punishment: Star Successor. Link
  • Video: Two minutes of NBA Jam gameplay. Link
  • Video: New Super Mario Bros. 2 gameplay. Link
  • Sengoku Basara: Samurai Heroes hitting North America this fall. Link
  • Red Steel 2 sells only 50,000…so far. Link
  • Hideki Kamiya wants Nintendo to force him to make a new Star Fox game. Link
  • Just Dance breaks 1 million sales in the US, 2M worldwide. Link
  • Harvest Moon: Twin’s Village finally dated for Japan. Link
  • Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands first DS screenshots. Link
  • Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 able to connect to DQIX, DQVI. Link

Hardware and industry

  • Nintendo going through a publishing hiccup? Link
  • Now we know what Poke Balls run on. Link
  • Shigeru Miyamoto on retirement and games. Link

Hacks and homebrew

  • Wii homebrew – RaveWild v0.1 Link
  • Wii homebrew – CustomizeMii v3.11 Link
  • Wii homebrew – DeSmuME Wii r154 Link
  • Wii homebrew – WiiMC v1.0.1 Link
  • DS homebrew game – Pokemon Battle v0.61 Link
  • DS homebrew – fb4nds v1.3 Link

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