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Lock the doors and board up the windows, folks. Considering the seismic backlash to the announcement that the (formerly) 360-exclusive Tales of Vesperia would be coming to the PS3, we fear for what might happen when this story gets out. Japanese voice actor Rikiya Koyama, who provided the...
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Bayonetta had a strong debut in Japan this week -- on PS3. The PS3 version of Platinum Games' action title sold 135,242 copies in its first week, topping the Media Create sales chart. The Xbox version had a good launch for an Xbox 360 game in Japan, at 64,325 copies. It wasn't a Resident Evil 5-si...
It certainly sounds like a firm refusal, but let's all try to remember that the shelf life of a Nintendo denial is exactly 10 days.Reggie denies the existence of Wii HD originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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As for the rest, Uno sounds like Uno and SUDOKU sounds like sudoku, but louder. Fighting Street (Turbografx-16 CD-ROM, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)Manic Monkey Mayhem (WiiWare, 1-4 players, 1,000 Wii Points)Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 3: Lair of the Leviathan (WiiWare, 1 player, 1,...
Yesterday
We know many Joystiq readers don't want to read spoilers on the site. That's why, for your sake, we've carefully posted the intro movie to New Super Mario Bros. Wii after the break. The upcoming 2D platformer returns the series to its roots, but adds a number of features that make it "new" -- it s...
Genyo Takeda, GM of Nintendo's Integrated Research & Development Division, said that "moving to HD appears to me a natural flow" given the adoption of HD by television programming. "If we can find out the most appropriate medium, between SD and HD, and flexibly move around them depen...
A trailer recently released for the July 2010 film and in it, the Wii makes quite the cameo and is featured in a few different scenes. See, when you're the best that supervillainy has to offer, you can just lay around in your orange track suit on your matching couch, snacking on potato chips an...
Despite the handicap of not being for sale in most of the world, Dragon Quest IX for the DS sold more copies than any other game in the world between July and September of this year, according to a Top Global Markets report. With 3,925,000 copies sold in Japan, it outsold the number two best-se...
This doesn't just happen in the movies, folks -- it also happens in Canada! Judge Marvin Garfinkle has agreed to release a rather problematic child on bail, granted he provides the court with his beloved console as collateral. The Winnipeg Sun reports that the 12 year old -- whose name has n...
At that time, we'll randomly select one winner to receive Wii Fit Plus for the Nintendo Wii ($20 ARV) and a Wii Fit Plus workout shirt ($20 ARV)For a list of complete rules, click hereJoyswag: Wii Fit Plus and a Wii Fit Plus shirt originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:...
Our guess would be an episodic WiiWare presentation of the first Phoenix Wright. Or a mistake in the rating description.USK: Phoenix Wright holding court on Wii originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Via CVG] Source - Is it Time for the PlayStation 3 to Shine? Source - How the venerable PlayStation 2 made it to 9 years oldAnalyst: 'Sony was saved by the success of the Wii' originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Wednesday, Nov 4
As Kotaku notes, it looks rather like Konami's Jackal, prompting the site to speculate that it's a ReBirth made for Konami, like the recent Castlevania, Contra, and Gradius games. If true, it would be the first ReBirth title not to be developed by M2 in Japan. Of course, the American side of K...
Ubisoft points to its fiscal third quarter -- that's October to December on your official Secretive Hunks of Third Echelon Calendar -- as "the most important quarter in Ubisoft's history." Sales are expected to reach €540 million ($801 million) during the period, thanks to Assassin's C...
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CBS announced today that it's bringing a wide array of its TV programming to the video game world, mainly via the PC, Wii and DS. As you can see after the break, the company revealed equally insipid-sounding game versions of Survivor, Hollywood Squares, The Amazing Race, and Criminal Mind...
Tuesday, Nov 3
Nintendo's resident legend, Shigeru Miyamoto, has revealed that the next installment in the Legend of Zelda series on Wii will make use of Wii MotionPlus for more realistic sword combat and targeting. "In this (installment of the series), we're using MotionPlus to make you feel much mor...
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During the recent investor Q&A session, Satoru Iwata announced plans to begin rolling out demos for a small selection of WiiWare games this month. He didn't say which region or regions would receive this service, so let's assume it's just Japan.
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This week marks two major events (sort of) for the Japanese Wii and DSi download services. First, both Wii and DSi downloads now go up on the same date. In this case, it's November 4, which is today in Japan. Second, the Neo Geo is back! The last Neo game came out in Japan in July 2008.
Monday, Nov 2
Fighting Street (TurboGrafx-16 CD-ROM, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)R-TYPE (Sega Master System, 1 player, 500 Wii Points) Every week, we like to check out what's new on the Virtual Console. We offer these videos as a sort of taste to help you decide whether or not you would want the game in qu...
Stop Stress sounds like one of those My Coach non-games for DS: based on the title, we'd assume it would be full of relaxing exercises and tips about reducing the strain of daily life. But Abylight's Stop Stress: A Day of Fury on WiiWare encourages its players to take their stress out on the vi...
Another football game came out in the UK last week and, once again, it came in first place in the region's weekly software sales charts. This time around, the game was Football Manager 2010, in which soccer isn't played, but rather, managed. That's far too boring a concept to discuss further...
If you're in the market for a Wii, perhaps as a gift for someone this holiday season, then you may want to hit up Dell. The computer company is offering the console for $179.99 (as part of a sale that expires tomorrow), complete with free 3-to-5-day shipping, on its web store. If you snag the cons...
Sunday, Nov 1
Wii: 25,917 4,824 (15.69%) DS Lite: 6,550 1,096 (20.10%) Xbox 360: 4,470 1,144 (34.40%) See: The malted archivesJapanese hardware sales, Oct. 19 - Oct. 25: Time travel sugar rush edition originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Saturday, Oct 31
No, that isn't your high school gym teacher (pictured right), that's Weezer front man Rivers Cuomo and he's joining with Nintendo to help launch the upcoming Pop-centric music title, Band Hero. Tomorrow, November 1, beginning at 11AM (EDT) at the Nintendo World Store in Rockefeller Pla...
Tuesday, Oct 27
The PS3 was the top-selling console in September, which is the first time it's ever managed a first-place sales finish. It's still in last place in the 2009 year-to-date totals, though, and Sony's system would need to outsell Xbox 360 by about 35,000 units every week until the end of the yea...
Thursday, Oct 15
At a New York City roundtable event, Nintendo's resident wunderkind Shigeru Miyamoto showed Joystiq and several other press outlets his latest creation: New Super Mario Bros. Wii (more on that later). During the Q&A that followed, when asked if he was particularly surprised by the r...
Thursday, Oct 8
Like New Super Mario Bros. before it, New Super Mario Bros. Wii is instantly playable, addictive and fresh. It plays like every Mario game before it, embracing its NES legacy by requiring players to hold the Wii Remote on its side. Although the gameplay is immediately recognizable, the addit...
Tuesday, Oct 6
Divnich maintains that Wii games are getting better, but he concludes, "It is just coming at the cost of not reviewing the increase in casual and low-budget titles." He believes that a similar issue could appear occur with respect to PS3 and Xbox 360 as the consoles' casual demographics in...
Sunday, Oct 4
DS Lite: 15,057 1,502 (11.08%) Wii: 11,731 4,967 (29.75%) Xbox 360: 4,854 111 (2.24%) See: The diminishing archivesJapanese hardware sales, Sept. 21 - Sept. 27: Diminishing returns edition originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Friday, Sep 25
Much like 2007's Silent Hill: Origins, the PSP version of Shattered Memories is quite capable of conveying an eerie, unsettling experience, even on a platform that might seem ill-equipped for the survival-horror genre in comparison to home consoles. The Wii re-imagining of Konami's P...
Monday, Sep 21
Wada also believes that the three platforms will start looking more like each other by the year 2011, when he believes Nintendo will release the fabled successor of the Wii. The system will add features found on the PS3/360, and may also introduce a brand new controller. It'll certainly be i...
Friday, Sep 18
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Friday, Sep 11
Yesterday, Electronic Arts CEO John Ricitiello pointed to a downward turn in game sales this summer as a prime culprit in what he called a "discouraging" August kickoff for one of the "highest-rated and best-marketed Madden titles in years." Still, that didn't explain the 42 percent dec...
Thursday, Aug 27
Aspiring artists that want to publish their songs in the Rock Band Network will have to stick with Xbox 360. The tools, which were developed through Microsoft's XNA program, can't be ported over to Sony's machine. However, PS3 owners will still be able to access a large number of user-uploa...
Sunday, Aug 23
Wii: 47,732 592 (1.26%) Xbox 360: 9,162 3,726 (68.54%) DS Lite: 7,921 778 (8.94%) PS2: 4,907 306 (6.65%) See: The scientific archivesJapanese hardware sales, Aug. 10 - Aug. 16: Science edition originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 23 Aug 2009 22:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Monday, Aug 10
PS3 and Xbox 360 owners who own GHWT will be able to download a free update from within GH5 that enables DLC backwards-compatibility (for 152 of 158 available tracks) and adds new GH5-specific features to their existing DLC. In order to rip the tracks from GHWT and SH discs will need to purch...
Thursday, Jul 30
Giant Bomb (100/100): "Unless you're the kind of sullen misanthrope who can only feel at peace when getting headshots with some kind of virtual scope, you'll surely find something about Wii Sports Resort that keeps both you and your non-gaming friends or family coming back for more."1UP...
Tuesday, Jul 28
So Ubisoft is looking to the Wii, and beyond, for the bulk of its casual gaming sales. "The casual business is changing rapidly and it will still be a very interesting business but we have to reinvent it this year," Guillemot expained. "We already have a big shift from DS to Wii this year, and we...
Friday, Jul 24
Ahoy thar! You, with the Wiimote! Ye best be knowin' that episode one of Tales of Monkey Island[TM] (that be "Launch of the Screaming Narwhal") will be pullin' into port on WiiWarrrrr (*ahem*) WiiWare Monday, the twenty-seventh o' July. Yarrr, that's but three days from now!
Thursday, Jul 23
Nintendo converted Times Square into a tropical island getaway for a day to celebrate this coming Sunday's launch of Wii Sports Resort, the first sequel to Nintendo's flagship Wii title. We had a chance to chat with Bill Trinen, product marketing manager for Nintendo of America, while ov...
Continue reading Review: Little King's Story (Wii) originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Monday, Jul 20
But as I started unlocking games and playing more, I found myself losing track of time. Many of us know that a great game can just suck you in and you can easily lose hours mining it for all of its glorious, fun riches. Wii Sports Resort was no different for me. Gallery: Wii Sports Resort
Wednesday, Jul 1
And here, courtesy of UK retailer GAME's first-half fiscal statement, we find data from GfK Chart-Track for sales up to June 27th, 2009. Unsurprisingly, Nintendo is in the lead with the DS, having sold 2.7m in the past year, bringing its total up to 9.1m units (that includes 300,000 DSi units...
Wednesday, Jun 24
While you're patiently waiting for the end of the week so you can cash that paycheck and pick up High Voltage Software's The Conduit for your Nintendo Wii, why not take a gander at what the rest of the interweb had to say about the game. Considering the lack of correlation between Metacritic s...
Thursday, Jun 18
Various industry figures have come out in support of Peter Moore's claims that review scores don't impact the success of Wii games. One developer told Eurogamer that how a Wii game does is contingent entirely upon marketing, calling Wii games "pure risk." "A lot of these games that you thin...
Tuesday, Jun 9
Combine that with the heavier emphasis on platforming that we saw in the level (which was much more linear and involved more jumping, in much more of a Mario style), and Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter should be of more interest to the gamers who found the first game too leisurely.Hands-on: D...
Thursday, Jun 4
Ahh that old familiar feeling. It's been a few years since we played New Super Mario Bros. for the Nintendo DS -- and yes, we loved it with all of our bitter, embattled hearts. Three years later and the Nintendo Wii's sorta sequel of the DS hit is set to release this holiday. We did, however, get to p...
Last year, Nintendo only had three playable games from Wii Sports Resort: Disc Dog, Power Cruising, and Swordplay, all of which were used to show the precision of the Wii MotionPlus device. This time, twelve games are available for play, and we were able to get our hands on two of those, whic...
Wednesday, Jun 3
Easy and fun to play," according to the game's feature list. "Basic controls move the Nunchuk and Wii Mote up, down, left and right." In which case, it's just a cutesy music game. Why does Konami do this stuff to its music games every E3? originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:15:0...
Tuesday, May 19
It may not be a TKO, but Punch-Out!! on the Wii is certainly a knock-out. We've already entered the ring of public opinion with our review, but let's find out what the others in the peanut gallery have to say about it. It appears that -- much like Little Mac -- the series has aged gracefully and fo...
Friday, May 8
Go on, "break" a sweat in our review ... behind the break. Sadly, bad puns do not burn any calories whatsoever. Gallery: EA Sports Active Continue reading Joystiq hands-on: EA Sports Active originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 08 May 2009 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Monday, Apr 13
Thanks to the success of the original, Deca Sports 2 is ready to be the newest not-Wii Sports minigame collection for the console. The latest iteration will add 10 new sports, including motorcycle road racing, speed skating, hockey, moguls, dodge ball, tennis and darts. It'll release thi...
8:00 AM: Warriors Orochi 2 for Xbox 360 ($25.98)10:00 AM: Even more songs for your Wii.11:00 AM: Axe > Lance > Sword for Nintendo DS.1:00 PM: Take triviality on the road with your PSP. 3:00 PM: Get your PlayStation 3 out of Vault 101. 5:00 PM: Get into the zone with your PlayStation 3. 6:00 PM:...
Wednesday, Apr 8
Following up its work with EEDAR on Xbox 360 review scores, Edge has now compiled similar data for both the PS3 and Wii. The idea is simple: Look at every game on each console and find out how many games scored either above 85 or below 65 on EEDAR's review scale. What results is a basic snapshot of...
Monday, Mar 30
Following a significant Wii menu update from Nintendo, Waninkoko has revealed footage of its new USB Loader software in action. Using any USB storage device in combination with the software allows gamers to play their "legal game backup collection."
Wednesday, Mar 25
Well folks, it's finally here, and many of you likely can't wait to run home and check out the new functionality. Above, you'll find a video walkthrough of the new SD Card Channel in action, and below is a slide-by-slide walkthrough, if you're anti-video. So, check out the new Wii update and w...
Friday, Jan 23
The games in Ultimate Shooting Collection are a great showcase for the evolution of the shooter genre, which may seem stagnant or even dead, in the modern age. Even with the piles upon piles of existing shooters, there aren't any like these on the Virtual Console.
Wednesday, Jan 21
Judging by an alleged scan of Spanish magazine "Nintendo Accion," a sequel to Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games could be in the works at Sega. GoNintendo has a scan of the image, which teases a reveal in the next issue and clearly shows Mario and Sonic. SegaNerds roughly translates the te...
Wednesday, Dec 17
Filed under: Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii First of all, check out some giveaways currently going down at DS Fanboy and Wii Fanboy. Here is your chance at a pair of Tecmo titles, and here is your chance at Animal Crossing: City Folk. Hit up those posts to find out how to enter.
Friday, Nov 28
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Wednesday, Aug 13
Filed under: Nintendo Wii var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/nintendo/Guide_to_playing_DVDs_on_your_Wii'; So, we guess you heard about the homebrew app that lets you play DVDs on your Wii? Well, Wii Fanboy has put together a simple guide on how to do this yourself. All you have to do is cli...
Wednesday, Nov 7
Super Mario Galaxy might not be out until next week but all the reviews are pretty much in. It's a hit with the critics! According to almost every review it is the game Wii owners have been waiting for (but please don't forget about Zack and Wiki, if only for the sake of third-party support). Gal...
Tuesday, Jun 19
Filed under: Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, ActionLego has revealed a couple more details about Traveler's Tales (Lego Star Wars) upcoming take on the Dark Knight. Even though the game is not expected to launch until fall of 2008, L...
Thursday, Apr 26
Nintendo has been characteristically stingy with details about the highly-anticipated game, releasing no new information since a trailer last November. Could this be a sign the game will indeed make the 2007 release date promised way back at the last E3? Here's hoping.
Tuesday, Dec 12
The following idea was birthed from what could only be described as a drunken orgy between a Wii-mote, a Mac, and a Star Wars geek. The program's creator took his existing app that uses the MacBook's built-in tilt sensor to transform your computer into a lightsaber, and took it one step furt...
Thursday, Oct 26
Filed under: Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Retro, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360 Are you anxiously awaiting the reviews scores for the PS3 and Wii launch games? Be anxious no longer -- Next Gen has kindly projected those scores weeks in advance by studying review scores for p...
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