Nintendo Wii
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Nintendo Wii is a cultural phenomenon more then powerful game system. Nintendo sold more then 20 milion units of Wii. Success was a result of Nintendo’s strategy.
First of all Nintendo focused on new audience like women or adults. Next good move was motion controller. This pioneer controller allows for easy, no complicated, game playing.
Player may swing the controller like a sword, tennis racket. It was a new quality of digital entertainment.
Moreover, top selling game, Wii Sports (18 mln pcs sold), was bundled with this controller. Nintendo has traced the way for a future of video games entertainment.
Pandora console - myth or reality?
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Pandora console is going to be released in Spring of 2008, as a most powerful hand-held. This Texas Instruments OMAP 3430 powered device will be cost $320. But is it real?
When we look at performance, this console looks impressive - High Performance OMAP3430 is the most powerful processor made for mobile device. This processor supports OpenGL ES 2.0, 128MB of DDR SDRAM and 256MB of internal flash. This allow to emulate the Sony Playstation or Nintendo 64 and Nintento DS games.
Moreover, Pandora will be excellent equipped - qwerty keboard, 802.11g (Wi-fi), 4.3 inches 800×480 touchscreen LCD. Pandora will be open-source system running on Linux distribution.
But will it success? The most important factor in game systems are games. Even if console will be the most powerful device ever constructed, and there will be few games, this device will not success. Inside Nintendo DS, there is ARM9E architecture CPU, no High Performance CPU, but there are a lots of games for Nintendo DS, and this is a key factor of success in this field of electronic entertainment.
News from videogame systems business
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Last year was a time of 36% growth in US of videogame software. The biggest videogame systems producers - Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft have noticed a increase in this sector. Sales of game hardware have risen about 17%, this rise is mainly detected in next-generation consoles from Sony Corp., Nintendo and Microsoft Corp.
Nintento Wii with its sales about 1.35 million units per month has ranked first place, Microsoft Xbox 360 with sales of 1.26 million units is second, and the PlayStation 3 achieved 0.798 million units.
Entire 2007 year sale is: Nintendo Wii - 6.3 million unit, Xbox 360 - 4.6 million units and 2.6 million sold units for the PS3. The sale of handheld videogame systems - Nintendo’s DS 8.5 million and Sony PSP 3.8 million, for the year.
Nintendo plans for Wii
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Nintendo already sold 2.5 million of Wii consoles so far in the USA, main opponent - Sony has sold 1.3 million of PS3 consoles.
Nintendo is going to sell 35 million of Nintendo Wii in the USA by 2011 or 2012.
Nintendo is determined to get close to the result of Sony’s PS2, which sold 38.2 million consoles in the USA.
Success of Nintento Wii
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Nintendo sold more thene 13 mln units of Wii, that more then his Japan competitor Sony PS3 - 5,6 mln unit sold.
What was the factor of suces? On paper Sony PS 3 looks stronger. First of all Nintendo didn’t make GameCube mistake again. Wii had a first priority, moreover Nintento focused on game developing and innovations.
It makes that Sony PS3 top seling game Resistance: Fall of Man, was sold in 2 million copies, but Nintendo Wii Sports 11.86 million. Revenue form games selling is the most important source of profits for video game console producers, so game developing is what they should focus on. Top seling shows different between Sony and Nintendo gaming power.
PS3 or Xbox or Wii
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If you are interested in a video gaming system, you know that a choice is limited to three gaming consoles: the Sony Playstation 3, the Microsoft Xbox 360, and the Nintento Wii.
Nowadays it is sensless to type the winner, but the Sony PS3 has the lowest sales, and it is fact that the Nintendo Wii lead over the other two consoles.
Advantages of nintento are: Wii is easier to setup, the Wii?s games are easier to play, the Wii has the lowest price, even half of PS3 and X-box.
But the other video gaming system are selling well and they have advantages.
What console you are going to buy is not easy decision, but you have to consider some facts as: number of games, price of games and system, how long games are going to be developed for system etc.
Evolution of Nintendo
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Evolution of Nintendo portable games system.
Nintendo GameBoy.
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Nintend GameBoy Color.
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Nintendo GameBoy Advanced.
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Nintendo Dual Screen.
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Nintendo DS
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Nintendo has sold 50 million Nintento’s DS portable game sytem, just in 3 years.
It makes Nintendo DS the fastets seling game system.
Nintento makes the best selling portable game systems - GameBoy was sold in number of 100 million pieces.
Nintendo Wii accesories
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Nintendo Wii is very innovation game platform. Gamers has big variety of accessories, games etc.
One of the best gaming solutions are grips for Nintendo Wii remote. Baseball, golf and racket grip for use with Wii remote is ideal for use with Wii sports games and brings extra realism to Wii gaming.
Shooter grip compatible with Wii shooting games, bring them to life with amazing realism.
This stuf add an extra fun for Nintendo Wii games.