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1. Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker (DS) 266,827 / 860,820
2. Wii Sports (Wii) 166,011 / 732,719
3. Wii Play (Wii) 141,702 / 664,512
4. New Super Mario Bros. (DS) 128,211 / 3,986,506
5. General Knowledge Training (DS) 109,752 / 1,063,093
6. More Brain Training (DS) 99,320 / 3,805,787
7. Animal Crossing: Wild World (DS) 94,917 / 3,843,832
8. Pokémon Diamond (DS) 94,370 / 2,479,819
9. Kirby Squeak Squad (DS) 93,522 / 836,588
10. Pokémon Pearl (DS) 78,398 / 2,054,443

What’s that? This is a chart for all games. Seriously! Nintendo used the charms of DS and the Wii to clean-up the Japanese software sales in the very first week of 2007.

Did it get any better for Sony and Microsoft in the 10-20..
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His hair color is not natural. Look at that sweet belt!

Nintendo of Australia just released, or we just noticed, a small promotional page in the vein of ‘The Wii Experiece’ named PlayWii. On the aptly named page, are images of first time Wii players, with positive Wii quotes interspersed between the images.

Check out the page here

Take one of the most popular movies of all time, add a little EA magic, and you have a themed video game released on every major console. The Wii gets The Godfather: Blackhand Edition. The game will be released around the beginning of April in most territories.

Twelve Interactive, an Italian games developer, has reaffirmed their interest in developing for the Nintendo Wii. Managing director and founder of Twelve Interactive, Giuseppe Crugliano said, ‘The Nintendo Wii is a perfect console to work on for small independent developers like us. It give us the opportunity to work on triple A games, with very reduced budget.’

The first game to be released on the Wii? Crash Dummy Vs the Evil D-Troit. The game has already appeared on a range of consoles, and will also appear on the PSP.

Official Crash Dummy Vs The Evil D-Troit Web Page

Twelve Interactive Website

My heart screams in agony. I have three Wiimotes, so the Nyko recharge device won’t be able to double as a fancy storage location for the little bastards. Regardless, the mounting battery costs of owning and regularly using a Wii will be vastly diminished with the purchase of this delightful gadget.

The recharge station is suggested to cost $29.99 USD. Which coincedentally $10 USD cheaper than the suggested price for JoyTech’s Wiimote charger. [below]

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Strategy First Inc. and Glyphic Entertainment today announced Warlords Nintendo DS.

According the the official press statement, Warlords DS is an eight player turn-based game of conquest and empire. Different worlds provide a stage for the player to excel in combat. In the quest for final victory, gamers can assemble vast armies, conquer and loot mighty cities, undertake perilous quests, make and break alliances, and wield magical artifacts of great power.

Sounds fairly exciting eh? The game features random map generation, hidden maps on four kinds of terrain. The game supports up to eight players with Nintendo WiFi support.

The same developers are also releasing Disciples DS. Disciples is a strategy/RPG. It supports four-way multiplayer, and heavily features the use of magic.

Isn’t this just special! A few pieces of media that we should have posted 24 hours ago. Unfortunately, more exciting news came up and these enthralling screenshots of Theme Park DS were delayed. We apologize to all fans of chunky graphics and zany characters that have no appeal.

In closing, only leprechauns should wear green suits.

See after the fold for more delightful screengrabs.

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Renchi wants to sell you Wii accessories. We are in no way affiliated with them, but thought you might like to check out some of their products. In particular, the component cables. Because if you don’t have them yet, you are incredibly lazy and deserve to be covered with cream and attacked by an angry mod of clowns. They even have Wii Dust Covers!

Wii Accessories from Renchi

Are ya bored..? Just.. how.. bored..? Well if you are rEaLlY bored, then I strongly encourage you to check out some new video on the Japanese Official Wii Website. It is of the News Channel final build. Fo’ serious. Yes its in Japanese, but it gives a clear-ish indication of what the Western versions are going to be like.

Watch the video here

Reggie and Iwota are out on the town, boozing and cruising tonight. Why? Because Nintendo has upgraded their financial forecast for the fiscal year 2007 by 20%. That’s a whopping 120 billion yen. Or over 1 Billion US dollars.

[Don’t ever search ‘muscle man’ in Google images] 

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