Nintendo Weekend Warrior – ups and downs in sales

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.

 

 

 

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