This morning, having sold over 100 million units worldwide, Nintendo ceased production on the console that secretly won this generation. Wii shouldn’t have worked. Its name, its controller, its outdated innards, a launch line-up without Mario. It was, of course, a sensation for the very same reasons. For a few golden years following its launch in…
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While many Channels are being closed, the Wii Shop remains open.
Nintendo has confirmed that it sold 3.06 million Wii Us globally between launch and the end of December 2012, with 11.69 million software titles sold for the new console. In its financial results Nintendo cut its Wii U sales forecast from 5.5 million to four million unit sales by the end of March, with software sales targets also sliding down from 24 million units to 16 million.
Microsoft’s home console is less than 200,000 total UK unit sales behind Nintendo’s current-gen leader and catching up fast, says a report on CVG.
China is considering lifting its 12-year ban on game consoles according to a report in Chinese newspaper China Daily. The report cites an anonymous source from the Ministry of Culture who says that the department is looking at the moratorium.
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What has Nintendo given videogames? Well, it’s created mascots and traditions, and even come up with a handful of genres. It’s pushed physics and character, too, along with analogue controls and rotating sprites. Yet a big part of what Nintendo always brings with it is an understanding that videogames shouldn’t just build environments. To be great, they need to create actual places.
Just minutes after one of the most frustratingly conservative E3 conferences in recent memory, the image of Nintendo president Satoru Iwata staring at a bunch of bananas in his outstretched palm was a welcome reminder of his company’s willingness to indulge its inner eccentric. Beat The Beat: Rhythm Paradise is another, a game with such a delightfully antic disposition that it seems unlikely it would have been made by any other multibillion-selling corporation.
