news via gamasutra

Although specific sale results from the U.S. are unlikely until the usual NPD monthly data next month, Nintendo Canada has revealed the top five selling Wii games in their own territory.

Unsurprisingly, the best selling game was The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, with some Canadian retailers reporting an almost 1:1 hardware to software sales ratio for the game. The second best selling game was Ubisoft’s exclusive title Red Steel and, in third place, Activision’s WWII shoot ‘em-up Call of Duty 3. Sega’s exclusive Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz was the fourth best selling and Bandai Namco’s PlayStation 2 port Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2 was number five.

In an interview with Canadian website Globeandmail.com, Nintendo Canada market director Pierre-Paul Trepanier indicates that the country saw a 100 percent sell out of the console during it’s launch on November 19th. "We're struggling to try and find a solution to a situation in which demand has far outstripped supply," said Trepanier. "The expectation was that within a few days Nintendo would still be stock everywhere."

According to Trepanier, every region in North America has been demanding more hardware, with additional nunchuck controllers apparently in particularly short demand in the Atlanta region. "We wanted that to happen eventually, but we haven't even kicked in our TV advertising yet," said Trepanier. "We purposely held back on TV advertising so that we wouldn't be advertising a product that you couldn't find in stores.”

Although no figures were given, Trepanier also described interest in the Wii’s virtual console as generating “higher than expected traffic". The retro download service saw two TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine titles – Bomberman 93 and Bonk’s Adventure - added to its roster today, after the format went unrepresented in the launch weekend line-up. ...

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Nintendo of America president, Reggie Fils-Aime, expects to sell 1 million Wii units to North American consumers by early December.

Speaking to Reuters, Fils-Aime revealed that Nintendo expects to sell 1 million Wii consoles within the next two to three weeks, and another 1 million by the second week of January. He also added that a life span of four to six years for the Wii would be "just about right."

"We designed [Wii] from the get-go to be profitable," said Fils-Aime, "so it will be past this weekend and throughout its entire life. Because we're a gaming company, we have to be profitable in the gaming business. It's not like our competitors who can make profit in operating systems or TVs to offset their losses on the gaming side."

Despite, Reggie Fils’ optimism, retailers and analysts across North America confirm that the hottest selling gaming console this past weekend was the Xbox 360.

In Canada Microsoft Game Studios was offering a three game deal with a system with a 20GB hard drive and an extra controller at one retailer for $449.99. One of the free games was Gears of War and when that sold out gamers could get the new Splinter Cell, Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter and Xbox Live Arcade: Unplugged.

Microsoft also dropped the price of several of their Xbox 360 games and peripherals to try and out-market Sony and Nintendo.
As a result gamers will be hard-pressed to find an Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 or a Nintendo Wii on store shelves at least for the rest of this week.
"Retailers had a great four-day run and pretty much everything is gone. Sony dropped the ball and Nintendo didn't do that much better," said one Great Canadian Superstore electronics store manager who wished to remain anonymous. .

"They over-promised and under delivered in terms of the quantity of Wii systems that were available. Sony on the other hand warned everyone that supplies would be severely limited. Microsoft was the big winner. They had lots of systems and they had them priced right with game bundles that gamers were interested in." ...

news via playfuls

Nintendo of America president, Reggie Fils-Aime, expects to sell 1 million Wii units to North American consumers by early December.

Speaking to Reuters, Fils-Aime revealed that Nintendo expects to sell 1 million Wii consoles within the next two to three weeks, and another 1 million by the second week of January. He also added that a life span of four to six years for the Wii would be "just about right."

"We designed [Wii] from the get-go to be profitable," said Fils-Aime, "so it will be past this weekend and throughout its entire life. Because we're a gaming company, we have to be profitable in the gaming business. It's not like our competitors who can make profit in operating systems or TVs to offset their losses on the gaming side."

Despite, Reggie Fils’ optimism, retailers and analysts across North America confirm that the hottest selling gaming console this past weekend was the Xbox 360.

In Canada Microsoft Game Studios was offering a three game deal with a system with a 20GB hard drive and an extra controller at one retailer for $449.99. One of the free games was Gears of War and when that sold out gamers could get the new Splinter Cell, Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter and Xbox Live Arcade: Unplugged.

Microsoft also dropped the price of several of their Xbox 360 games and peripherals to try and out-market Sony and Nintendo.
As a result gamers will be hard-pressed to find an Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 or a Nintendo Wii on store shelves at least for the rest of this week.
"Retailers had a great four-day run and pretty much everything is gone. Sony dropped the ball and Nintendo didn't do that much better," said one Great Canadian Superstore electronics store manager who wished to remain anonymous. .

"They over-promised and under delivered in terms of the quantity of Wii systems that were available. Sony on the other hand warned everyone that supplies would be severely limited. Microsoft was the big winner. They had lots of systems and they had them priced right with game bundles that gamers were interested in." ...

news via playfuls

Nintendo of America president, Reggie Fils-Aime, expects to sell 1 million Wii units to North American consumers by early December.

Speaking to Reuters, Fils-Aime revealed that Nintendo expects to sell 1 million Wii consoles within the next two to three weeks, and another 1 million by the second week of January. He also added that a life span of four to six years for the Wii would be "just about right."

"We designed [Wii] from the get-go to be profitable," said Fils-Aime, "so it will be past this weekend and throughout its entire life. Because we're a gaming company, we have to be profitable in the gaming business. It's not like our competitors who can make profit in operating systems or TVs to offset their losses on the gaming side."

Despite, Reggie Fils’ optimism, retailers and analysts across North America confirm that the hottest selling gaming console this past weekend was the Xbox 360.

In Canada Microsoft Game Studios was offering a three game deal with a system with a 20GB hard drive and an extra controller at one retailer for $449.99. One of the free games was Gears of War and when that sold out gamers could get the new Splinter Cell, Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter and Xbox Live Arcade: Unplugged.

Microsoft also dropped the price of several of their Xbox 360 games and peripherals to try and out-market Sony and Nintendo.
As a result gamers will be hard-pressed to find an Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 or a Nintendo Wii on store shelves at least for the rest of this week.
"Retailers had a great four-day run and pretty much everything is gone. Sony dropped the ball and Nintendo didn't do that much better," said one Great Canadian Superstore electronics store manager who wished to remain anonymous. .

"They over-promised and under delivered in terms of the quantity of Wii systems that were available. Sony on the other hand warned everyone that supplies would be severely limited. Microsoft was the big winner. They had lots of systems and they had them priced right with game bundles that gamers were interested in." ...

news via eurogamer

Nintendo of America has moved quickly to sort out problems experienced by a handful of Wii owners whose consoles were "bricked" by a WiiConnect24 downloadable update.

The patch, of sorts, appears to have crippled a small number of consoles, and Nintendo's admitted that these will need to be replaced.

According to a report on IGN, the company has offered to replace consoles within 3-4 business days, although it will take slightly longer (4-10 days) to process consoles where customers want to retrieve stored data (for example, downloaded Virtual Console games).

Nintendo UK said that it expected the teething problems that have led to the problem to be resolved in time for the console's launch here on 8th December. ...

news via eurogamer

Nintendo of America has moved quickly to sort out problems experienced by a handful of Wii owners whose consoles were "bricked" by a WiiConnect24 downloadable update.

The patch, of sorts, appears to have crippled a small number of consoles, and Nintendo's admitted that these will need to be replaced.

According to a report on IGN, the company has offered to replace consoles within 3-4 business days, although it will take slightly longer (4-10 days) to process consoles where customers want to retrieve stored data (for example, downloaded Virtual Console games).

Nintendo UK said that it expected the teething problems that have led to the problem to be resolved in time for the console's launch here on 8th December. ...

news via eurogamer

Nintendo of America has moved quickly to sort out problems experienced by a handful of Wii owners whose consoles were "bricked" by a WiiConnect24 downloadable update.

The patch, of sorts, appears to have crippled a small number of consoles, and Nintendo's admitted that these will need to be replaced.

According to a report on IGN, the company has offered to replace consoles within 3-4 business days, although it will take slightly longer (4-10 days) to process consoles where customers want to retrieve stored data (for example, downloaded Virtual Console games).

Nintendo UK said that it expected the teething problems that have led to the problem to be resolved in time for the console's launch here on 8th December. ...

Video Marketplace pricing (both Gold and Silver):
High-definition TV shows: 240 Microsoft® Points ($3.00 USD) per episode.
Standard-defenition TV shows: 160 Microsoft Points ($2.00) per episode.

New release movies in high definition: 480 Microsoft Points ($6.00) each.
New release movies in standard definition: 320 Microsoft Points ($4.00) each.

Classic feature films in high definition: 360 Microsoft Points ($4.50) each.
Classic feature films in standard definition: 240 Microsoft Points ($3.00) each.

* Purchasing high definition content grants you access to the same standard definition content.

Examples of the download-to-own TV shows and download-to-rent movies available on the network on Nov. 22 include the following:

· “CSI,” “CSI: Miami,” “CSI: New York,” “NCIS” and “Star Trek” from CBS

· “Chappelle’s Show,” “Drawn Together” and Emmy and Peabody award-winning “South Park” from COMEDY CENTRAL

· “Pimp My Ride” and “Punk’d” from MTV

· “Avatar: The Last Airbender” and “SpongeBob SquarePants” from Nickelodeon

· “Skyland” and “Invader Zim” from Nicktoons Network

· “Chinatown,” “Star Trek VII: Generations,” “Patriot Games,” “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan,” “The Sum of All Fears,” “The Untouchables” and “We Were Soldiers” from Paramount Pictures

· “Aqua Teen Hunger Force,” “Frisky Dingo,” “Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law,” “Sealab 2021” and “The Venture Bros.” from Turner Broadcasting

· Some of the most intense fights from Ultimate Fighting Championship

· “Breaking Bonaduce” and “Hogan Knows Best” from VH1

· “Perfect Storm,” “Poseidon,” The Shining,” “Strange Brew,” “Three Kings” and “V for Vendetta,” as well as “The Nine” and “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip” along with the CW show “Veronica Mars” from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment ...

Hi folks,

here is my latest update of Boxy II, it has been a while because i was very busy with my studies.
Dj_Gordon has made two skins for this game and they are very beautifull, i'll hope he would like to make some more

here are the 2 new skins:

Wood:



Smilies:



The changelog:

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added
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- Buttonswap (cross and circle)
- line under the letters you edit in the gameoverscreen
- Ingame sounds
- menu option to set the volume of the sounds
- menu option to set the sounds on/off
- Spiced up the menu a bit
- new skin (Wood by Dj_Gordon)
- new skin (Smile by Dj_Gordon)
- skins in theme directory can have whatever name you want, you can add up to 100 extra themes. Just copy them to the themes directory

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Fixes
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- reordered some code hope it helps with the crashes
- cycle theme no multiple times.
- no more crashes after fourth start of a game



Here is the file to download: Boxy II release 0.5


As always i hope to get feedback from all of you,

greets,

ghoti ...