See this delightful plastic condom/cover for the Wiimote? It’s costing Nintendo over $20 million USD to send out free to all who request. But don’t worry about the company, Reggie is more than happy for Nintendo international to take the hit; and is not worried in the slightest about the news.
Early floorplans for e3 2007 have been made available for inspection. The question on everyone’s lips is, “Will the new e3 be cool?”T he following diagram [orignally from NintendoGal] proves that e3 is definitely going to be cool in 2007.
The May 2007 issue of GameInformer offered the above tidbit of Wii peripheral speculation. Could Nintendo seriosuly be considering releasing a first party peripheral in the form of a.. keyboard?
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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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]
Don’t fork out bundles of green on eBay for a Wii Sensor Bar. Don’t even pay 20-30 USD for a third party product. Just pop into your local Nintendo website and order a replacement Bar at a discounted price. If you are can’t have your Sensor Bar without a stand to ‘improve Wiimote to Sensor Bar connectivity’, then Nintendo has you covered there too, offering replacement stands for the equivalent of 1USD.
US and Canada Nintendo Store - Sensor Bar
US and Canada Nintendo Store - Sensor Bar Stand
Check out your country’s Nintendo page to see if they offer budget replacements.
California based company Interlink Electronics has filed a complaint against Nintendo of America, with an accusation of patent infringement. The Wiimote is compared with US Patent No. 6,850,221 (Trigger Operated Electronic Device).
The company is looking for a settlement that covers “loss of reasonable royalties, reduced sales and/or lost profits as a result of the infringing activities.”
I wonder if PowerPoint clicker sales went down after the Wii was released?
In the November NPD video games sales report, Nintendo dominated. Nintendo sold 55% of all video game consoles during the first month in which all three new home consoles were available.
The study also revealed that The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess was sold to 87% of Wii purchasers. This was highest industry rate of sale for any launch title since introduction of Super Mario 64 on the N64.
US buyers also purchased approximately two games for each console sold in the US. These figures do not include the pack-in game, Wii Sports.
Remember laughing when you found a Silica Gel sachet inside a pair of new shoes? The crazy thing had a ‘Do not eat’ warning on it. Drunk a coffee from a fast food store recently? Marveled at the ‘WARNING: Contents may be hot!’ warning?
Well the Nintendo Wii evidently attracts persons who eat small packets of poison they find within shoes, and burn their mouth on unexpectedly heated coffee. Nintendo mass-emailed Wii owners today, encouraging them ‘Not to let go of Wiimotes during gameplay‘.
Nintendo has let the excitement over the Wii heat up to an extroadinary degree using viral marketing as the fuel.
When Nintendo of America announced an advertising blitz, to the tune of 200 million dollars, many thought the Wii viral marketing pot had boiled, and that traditional marketing would dominate.
Nintendo again suprised the masses by releasing and featuring the first of the Wii adverts on YouTube. The video, which you can find here, has one week later, topped one million views.
One million views. Even the largest company would be happy with an additional 1,000,000 advert views, without spending a cent on bandwidth.