
Medical research appears to have confirmed that Wii Fit and other “sports” games offering apparent physical exertion actually have no positive effect on fitness at all.
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The latest Japanese console sales figures for the end of November seem to demonstrate some very healthy sales for Nintendo, as well as an embarassment for Sony with the PSP Go now slipping below even the Xbox 360’s dismal sales…
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China’s unique grasp of intellectual property once again courts controversy with the allegations that “Dinosaur Planet” in fact heavily plagiarises Nintendo’s Super Mario Galaxy, for the Wii.
Decide for yourself in the below videos:
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Nintendo has suffered a rare courtroom reverse in its efforts to discourage rampant piracy on its Nintendo DS system, with courts telling it that flash cartridges “add functionality,” even if they admit most of this functionality is intended to enable copyright infringement.
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Nintendo’s much maligned DSi LL has sold 104,000 units in two days, according to Enterbrain estimates, double what Sony’s nogoing PSP Go managed in three weeks of release.
However, the DSi LL itself barely managed half the DSi’s two day sales of 170,000…
The tale can readily be told in release day queue comparisons:
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Nov 17, 2009 13:37 JST
- Tags: Marketing, Microsoft, Nintendo, PS3, Rankings, Sony, Technology, Wii, Xbox 360

Aging hardware and a severe lack of quality titles have led to the Wii’s eighth consecutive month of shrinking sales, with US sales now down 37% on a year earlier, even as certain competing consoles enjoy record sales.
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Sony’s product marketing vice president Scott Steinberg has been busy rubbishing Sony’s competitors as being “dated, dead, dumb terminals,” for whom he has “bad news” in the form of a resurgent PS3…
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Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata has publicly admitted the Wii’s momentum has slowed and that a failure to deliver any decent games has soured the public to the console.
His statements were made after the company had to announce a 58% drop in net profits and a 43% drop in Wii sales…
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Nintendo has attracted no small disappointment with its revised DS console, with the new “handheld” having been given 25% larger screen than the DSi at the expense of a 33% increase in weight and a substantially more bulky design.
Worse yet, the screen is the same resolution as the previous model, only larger…
You can see a scale comparison of just how bloated the new unit is below, with the old unit superimposed on the new:
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Oct 24, 2009 02:14 JST
- Tags: Comparison, Marketing, Microsoft, Nintendo, PSP, Rankings, Sony, Wii, Xbox 360

A comparison of the post-price cut Japanese sales figures for the major consoles reveals that PS3 sales have rocketed 707% compared to the same period a year earlier, whilst Xbox 360 sales have actually decreased 70%, in spite of price cuts.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Oct 20, 2009 23:29 JST
- Tags: Microsoft, Nintendo, PS3, Rankings, Sony, Statistics, USA, Wii, Xbox 360

The expected huge lead in PS3 sales in the USA has materialised, and it is no wonder Microsoft put a brave face on things – the PS3 even managed to unseat the Wii, and is currently the best selling home console in the much coveted US market.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Oct 9, 2009 08:55 JST
- Tags: Marketing, Microsoft, Nintendo, PS3, PSP, Rankings, Sony, Wii, Xbox 360

The latest console sales figures show what looks to be an irreversible and humiliating collapse in Japanese Xbox 360 sales, with the console by some margin the worst selling console on the market, even dropping once again below the PS2.
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