Wii sales are cooling off. Nintendo's hype machine is set on this year's versions of tried and true franchises (Zelda, Mario and Samus), with the yet to be seen towering pile of shovelware branded as "family fun".
Sad, but if families actually played that crap, it'd probably boil down to dysfunctional freakin' fast.
3DS's hype hasn't really moved much since E3.
Nintendo's keeping the focus..... [ read more ] 
Sep 08
Wii sales are cooling off. Nintendo's hype machine is set on this year's versions of tried and true franchises (Zelda, Mario and Samus), with the yet to be seen towering pile of shovelware branded as "family fun".
Sad, but if families actually played that crap, it'd probably boil down to dysfunctional freakin' fast.
3DS's hype hasn't really moved much since E3.
Nintendo's keeping the focus..... [ read more ] Sep 08
Who wants some? Come get some, cuz Duke Nukem's comin' back. Supposedly.
It's been 10+ years and this on again-off again game just won't die. This time Duke's got a lot of baggage. He's (or at least the IP has) been through takeovers, sales, bankruptcies, dev limbo and IP limbo.
Next to a famous #4's annual summer ritual, watching for Duke Nukem news..... [ read more ] Aug 31
Nintendo announced price drops for DSi and DSi XL. Each unit dropped $20 bucks with DSi now coming in at $149.99 and DSi XL at $169.99.
While not earth shattering news, it's not at all surprising that Nintendo would discount its still hot-selling units.
Clearing inventory for 3DS Nintendo? I think so.
Which means one, most important thing for those of you that haven't jumped into Nintendo..... [ read more ] Aug 26
I'm usually one to decry Wii ports and stay clear like week old sashimi. For Sid Meier's Pirates!, I'll make an exception.
Regardless of the platform, quality, well designed games like Pirates! usually turn out to be fun and well worth it. Consdier that I have every version of Sid Meier's Pirates! (from Apple IIc Pirates to Pirates! Gold) on every..... [ read more ] Aug 23
Calling Wii VC "ignored" is nothing more than a severe understatement. Red-headed step children get more attention than Wii's once touted feature. Heck, even your neighborhood whipping boy is more noticed.
It's gotten to a point where besides the back catalog, at some point, you'd think Nintendo would stop mentioning the service.
Oh wait...they pretty much have.
This week, we finally see..... [ read more ] Aug 20
Wii sales are slumping and the associated software sales, in a word suck. Really really suck.
Wii games, outside of the core Nintendo staples a-la Zelda and such, have never really done that well.
Way back 2007-2008, when Wii hardware sales were ripping the charts, developers got caught with their pants down.
So they took the cheapest and fastest way back into the Wii market. Hoark,..... [ read more ] Aug 20
Move bundle pricing was announced earlier this week. If you've already spent $300 on a PS3 slim, then you'll just need to spend an extra $100-$150 to get your "Move" on (cheap pun...please forgive me).
If you've been dying to jump into PS3 (yet another cheap reference, I promise, my last) and haven't done it earlier because you just have to have your motion controller, then get ready to drop..... [ read more ] 
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