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The french as are most countrys worldwide mad on the DS and Wii, heres the sales figures for the first Quarter of the year:

Hardware Figures

1.) Nintendo DS - 260,000
2.) Wii - 144,000
3.) Playstation 2 - 92,000
4.) PlayStation Portable - 90,000
5.) PlayStation 3 - 81,000
6.) Xbox 360 - 43,000

Software Figures for weeks apr 2nd-8th

1.) New Super Mario Bros. (NDS, Nintendo) - Up Two
2.) Dragonball Z Budokai Tenkaichi (Wii, Atari) - Down One
3.) Wii Play (Wii, Nintendo) - Re-entry
4.) Animal Crossing: Wild World (NDS, Nintendo) - Up Five
5.) MotorStorm (PS3, Sony) - Down Three
6.) Brain Training (NDS, Nintendo) - Up One
7.) The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Wii, Nintendo) - Up Five
8.) Mario Kart DS (NDS, Nintendo) - Up Five
9.) Final Fantasy XII (PS2, Square Enix) - Down Three
10.) Resistance: Fall of Man (PS3, Sony) - Down Six
11.) nintendogs: Labrador & Friends (NDS, Nintendo) - Up Seven
12.) Virtua Tennis 3 (PS3, Sega) - Down Seven
13.) Rayman Raving Rabbids (NDS, Ubisoft) - New Entry
14.) Spectrobes (NDS, Disney) - Up Two
15.) F1: Championship Edition (PS3, Sony) - Down Seven
16.) Tamagotchi Connexion: Corner Shop 2 (NDS, Bandai Namco) - New Entry
17.) Rayman Raving Rabbids (Wii, Ubisoft) - Down Three
18.) Super Mario 64 DS (NDS, Nintendo) - Re-entry
19.) Medal of Honour: Vanguard (PS2, EA) - New Entry
20.) Pokémon Ranger (NDS, Nintendo) - New Entry ...

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The Wii-mote is becoming a cult object for hackers, with gadget geeks re-engineering the device to do all sorts of things having nothing to do with playing videogames. To repurpose the Wii-mote, they download free software from one of a number of Web sites and then tweak that code to assign a specific command to each movement of the device. In the end, the remote takes the place of a computer mouse or keyboard. Waving the Wii-mote sends a message wirelessly to the computer, which then communicates with whatever object the hacker is trying to control. Software engineer Chris Hughes has tinkered with almost everything in his Los Angeles home, from adding more storage capacity to his TiVo digital video recorder to changing the combination on the keyless entry to his Ford Explorer. When a friend at a Christmas party suggested he find a way to get his Wii-mote to control his Roomba robot vacuum cleaner, Mr. Hughes worked through the night tailoring the software code.

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Oh, Sony, when will you learn? The UK's Daily Mail is reporting that Sony has created an uproar with a photo from their official magazine, showing a burly man wearing fur, a topless girl wearing body paint and no pasties, and a mostly decapitated goat. It's the goat that's got everyone's ... goat. During a release party for God of War II in Athens, attendees were invited to reach into the head-hanging-on-by-a-thread goat and eat still-warm intestines (as it turns out, the offal was procured elsewhere and stuffed inside of the goat). Yum!


He said Sony's UK office had been shocked to see the report in the official PlayStation magazine, which the company licenses to publishing house Future. Sony is this weekend recalling the entire 80,000 print run of the magazine. ...

via wired

Nintendo has sold 3.3 million games on its Virtual Console download service worldwide, the company's president Satoru Iwata told the Japanese press yesterday.

On January 24 of this year, Nintendo announced that sales on the Wii's downloadable retro games service had topped 1.5 million; today's news means that sales have more than doubled in the three months since. However, since Wii launched in November, this means that sales are actually dropping off, month on month, as the userbase increases.

1.5 million in two months is not a bad number. 1.8 million in the three months that follow, when the userbase is exploding, is not necessarily a good follow-up. ...

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Electronics giant Sony has sparked a major row over animal cruelty and the ethics of the computer industry by using a freshly slaughtered goat to promote a violent video game.

The corpse of the decapitated animal was the centrepiece of a party to celebrate the launch of the God Of War II game for the company’s PlayStation 2 console.

Guests at the event were even invited to reach inside the goat’s still-warm carcass to eat offal from its stomach.

Sickening images of the party have appeared in the company’s official PlayStation magazine – but after being contacted by The Mail on Sunday, Sony issued an apology for the gruesome stunt and promised to recall the entire print run.

Critics condemned the entertainment giant, which produces scores of Hollywood blockbusters each year, for its "blood lust" and said the grotesque "sacrifice" highlighted increasing concerns over the content of video games and the lengths to which the industry will go to exploit youngsters.

At the event, guests competed to see who could eat the most offal – procured elsewhere and intended to resemble the goat’s intestines – from its stomach.

They also threw knives at targets and pulled live snakes from a pit with their bare hands.

Topless girls added to the louche atmosphere by dipping grapes into guests’ mouths, while a male model portraying Kratos, the game’s warrior hero, handed out garlands.

The International Fund for Animal Welfare said it was "outrageous" that the animal’s death had been used "to sell a few computer games".

A spokesman said: "We are always opposed to any senseless killing of an animal and this sounds like a gruesome death. We condemn Sony’s actions. It is stupid and completely unjustified."

The party features across two pages of the latest edition of the company’s PlayStation magazine, which was due to hit newsstands on Tuesday but has already been sent to subscribers.

We have reproduced the spread – headlined Sony’s Greek Orgy – here, but have pixellated the image to spare readers the sight of the goat’s decapitated head hanging by a thread of tissue from its corpse, with blood dripping to the floor.

But the magazine’s readers were shown the picture in its full horror.

The article, based on a Sony Press release, shows more vivid pictures from the event under headlines such as Topless Girls! and Flesh Eating?

It asks readers how far they would go to get hold of Sony’s next-generation console, the PlayStation 3.

"How about eating still warm intestines uncoiled from the carcass of a freshly slaughtered goat? At the party to celebrate God Of War II’s European release, members of the Press were invited to do just that . . ."

In God Of War II, which is so violent it has been given an 18 certificate, players follow Kratos into battle against a series of fearsome characters from Greek mythology.

Sony describes it as "an adult-rated, fast-paced bloodbath – and enormous fun to boot", adding that it is "bigger, better and as brutal as ever".

One reviewer said the title featured "the most brutal, visceral combat of any action game".

Former Minister Keith Vaz, Labour MP for Leicester East and a long-time campaigner against violent computer games, branded the stunt "distasteful and irresponsible".

He said: "The slaughter of animals is not something that should be done to advertise a product.

"Sony as a global entertainment company has a social responsibility. At this event it failed in that responsibility.

"I think people should think very carefully before bringing games like this into their homes.

"I would understand if customers wanted to boycott other Sony products such as their televisions because of this controversy."

Sony, based in Japan and run by Welshman Sir Howard Stringer, is one of the largest media organisations in the world, boasting global revenues of £40billion from electronics, video games, music, television programmes and feature films – including Spider-Man 3 and Casino Royale.

It is regarded, along with Coca-Cola, Nike and Mercedes-Benz, as one of the world’s most valuable brands.

The company, which released the game in the UK on Friday, admitted that the stunt had been a mistake. In a statement it said: "Sony does not condone or sanction any inappropriate behaviour by its staff or sub-contracted staff.

"It has come to our attention that at the God Of War II launch showcase, an element of the event was of an unsuitable nature.

"We are conducting an internal inquiry into aspects of the event in order to learn from the occurrence and put into place measures to ensure that this does not happen again."

The party was held last month in Athens in homage to the game’s Greek mythology themes. Revellers partied against the floodlit backdrop of the Parthenon.

The Sony spokesman said the animal had not been slaughtered for the event but had been bought from a local butcher by the Greek company hired to stage the event. ...

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The latest issues of US magazine EGM has printed a rumour suggesting that Team Ninja is currently working on a PS3 exclusive game set in the popular DOA universe.

No further details on the rumour were given, so we only speculate what Team Ninja (responsible for Ninja Gaiden and DOA games) is up to.

There are three obvious options; a new fighting game, a new DOX volleyball game or a new Ninja Gaiden game. We don't think it would be a new Ninja Gaiden game though, Ninja Gaiden Sigma is nearing release and to release another one so quickly doesn't make sense. Unless it's Ninja Gaiden Sigma: Black.

Let the speculation continue below in the comments section. What would you like to see from Itagaki's crew?

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