Nintendo Weekend Warrior – award-winning and still holding up

There are a lot of distinctions, there are a lot of milestones, but few have actually won an award. For Nintendo, they took home three in one day. Shigeru Miyamoto received Japan’s Lifetime Achievement Award, while the Nintendo Wii and DS received a Distinguished Service award for having “further expanded the horizons of gaming culture”. DSi’s selling hot in Japan, while the Wii and DS both did well on Thanksgiving Week -who’s to say the honor isn’t well-deserved?

 

 

 

There are a lot of distinctions, there are a lot of milestones, but few have actually won an award. For Nintendo, they took home three in one day. Shigeru Miyamoto received Japan’s Lifetime Achievement Award, while the Nintendo Wii and DS received a Distinguished Service award for having “further expanded the horizons of gaming culture”. DSi’s selling hot in Japan, while the Wii and DS both did well on Thanksgiving Week -who’s to say the honor isn’t well-deserved?

 

Games

• Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers
  • Watch: Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers combat trailer. Link
  • FFCC: The Crystal Bearers has a screen-cap feature. Link
• King of Fighters ’95, Final Fight 3 hitting Virtual Console. Link
• Screenshots: New Super Mario Bros. Wii in 720p. Link
• Localized subtitle trademarks confirm European Dragon Quest IX release. Link
• Sonic Classic Collection confirmed, coming to DS next year. Link
• Incoming: Puzzle Quest 2 for DS and XBLA. Link

Hardware and industry

• Miyamoto honored with Lifetime Achievement Award. Link
• Nintendo cuts down Wii orders, parts suppliers hit hard. Link
• Nintendo sells over 1.5 millions Wiis, DS during Thanksgiving week. Link

Hacks and homebrew

• Wii homebrew – Visual Boy Advance v2.1.0 Link
• Wii homebrew – Snes 9x GX v4.1.3 Link
• DS homebrew – S8DS v0.5 Link
• DS homebrew game – Super Smash Bros. Rumble DS demo v0.7 Link