Exclusive: Working out the future with Shigeru Miyamoto
April 27, 2008
JAPAN has come up with some cruel and unusual punishments over the years:
toilets that blast you where and when you least expect, the TV game show
Endurance and Hello Kitty, the popular cartoon cat character. Nothing is
more terrifying, though, than the latest product to emerge from the
laboratories of Tokyo and Kyoto.
EA looks to Wii to drive sports growth
Video-game publisher Electronic Arts unveiled two initiatives on Tuesday to breathe new life into its sports business by making games that are easier to play and customized for Nintendo's popular Wii console.
Electronic Arts looks to Wii to drive sports growth (Reuters)
Reuters - Video-game publisher Electronic Arts Inc unveiled two initiatives on Tuesday to breathe new life into its sports business by making games that are easier to play and customized for Nintendo Co Ltd's (7974.OS) popular Wii console.
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Investor's Business Daily - Nintendo raised the bar for casual, easy-to-play video games again Tuesday, as rivals Microsoft and Sony scrambled to imitate the family-friendly appeal of Nintendo's Wii game console with their own product announcements this week.
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July video game sales leapt an appreciable 28 percent over last year, the 360 and PS3 finished in a dead heat, and Nintendo creamed everyone, as usual. Overall video game sales...
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In Japan, the Wii's lead over the PS3 shrank from six-to-one in May to just one-point-seven-to-one in June, according to Japanese magazine publisher Enterbrain. According to the publisher, Nintendo sold 235,990 Wii in a five week period ending June...
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