NINTENDO PRESS RELEASE 600,000 First-Week Purchases Attracting Veteran and New Gamers REDMOND, Wash., Nov. 27, 2006 – Built on a foundation of pure fun, Nintendo’s new Wii™ video game system sold through to more than 600,000 consumers in the Americas in just its first eight days of availability. That’s a rate of nearly one per [...]
Wii worshippers in old Blighty should keep their eyes open for a rather tasty Twilight Princess advert that has been cropping up the past week or so. As part of Nintendo UK’s Wii advertising campaign, the clip demonstrates some of the Wii-motes unique capabilities, including showing off Link fishing from his boat. Click here to [...]
With Wii fever currently running rampent throughout the world, gaming magazines have cast their judgement on the latest titles available for the new console. Up next, we have the latest scores from UK magazines Games Master and ONM. Games Master:- Zelda TP – 96% Wii Sports – 80% Super Monkey Ball – 86% Red Steel [...]
PRESS RELEASE Two Classic Hudson Titles Now Available On The Wii Virtual Console Hudson Entertainment announced today that for North America two of its classic TurboGrafx games are now available for download using the Virtual ConsoleTM feature on WiiTM: “Bomberman 93″ and “Bonk’s Adventure”. The announcement comes after a delay in the release of the [...]
Japan’s popular Famitsu magazine this week cast their verdicts on the Wiis launch titles. It must be said that, minus one or two, its fair to say that the console has got off to a positive start among games journalists in its native region. See below for the full list. Crayon Shin-Chan – 7/8/7/6 Elebits [...]
The Nintendo Wii has broken records for the fastest selling item in Amazon UK’s history. The console, which was finally available to pre-order yesterday morning, sold out in an amazing seven minutes – promptly letting down alot of eager punters in the process, who had hoped to bag a Wii for Christmas. “We expected a [...]