Nintendo Goes To Court Again, This Time Over DS Piracy [Nintendo]
Nintendo has won its second legal victory of the month in Australia, with a seller of R4 flash cartridges in the country ordered to pay the Japanese company over AUD$500,000 in fines. Local tech distributors RSJ. IT Solutions, which had been selling the cartridges - which allow for the use of both legally-acquired...
January 2010 Sales
Japan + USA Console Sales (NPD + Media Create) Platform United States Japan Total Year Over Year Change PlayStation 2 41,600 9,942 51,542 -58.43% Xbox 360 332,800 17,515 350,315 +1.57% PlayStation Portable 100,100 325,938 426,038 +19.08% PlayStation 3 276,900 158,144 435,044 +51.51% Wii 465,800 221,597...
Nintendo Is January’s Hardware Winner Once Again [Npd Group]
Wii fever swept the United States in January, another 465,000 units of Nintendo’s white wonder snatched up by consumers. Hey, when you’re selling that many copies of New Super Mario Bros. you’re gonna need a Wii to play it on. Nintendo once again took the top two spots in the hardware...
New Super Mario Bros. Wii Was January’s Biggest Game In The U.S. [Npd Group]
Nintendo’s New Super Mario Bros. Wii had a big January, following its 2.8 million copies sold in December ‘09 with another 650,000-plus copies to Mario-hungry Wii owners in the United States. The one game that came closest to Nintendo’s super popular platformer was BioWare’s...
Disney Eyes "High-End" Consoles For Marvel Games, Wii & DS For Disney [Marvel]
Now that Disney owns comic book company Marvel, what will become of the video game output of the two companies? Sounds like more Marvel games heading to the Xbox 360 and PS3, more Disney games to the Wii and DS. Disney CEO Bob Iger said during a quarterly earnings call that the home of Mickey Mouse...
The 2010 Console War, According To Activision [Business]
Publisher Activision Blizzard is hoping for a better year for the video game industry in 2010, expecting retail and digital sales to up 8 percent in the U.S. and Europe. And it’s calling the Wii to perform strongest this year. Activision is expecting the Wii to outsell its competitors, the Xbox...
Activision Boasts $1.56 Billion, Better Than Expected Q4 [Business]
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Despite doing business in “difficult times,” super publisher Activision Blizzard had a better than expected holiday quarter, with $1.56 billion in revenue during the company’s Q4, bringing the yearly haul to $4.28 billion. How did Activision do so well? Activision Blizzard CEO gives...