After years of rumors and an encouraging statement from Netflix's CEO, it appears to be official: the Nintendo Wii will gain the ability to stream content from Netflix's "Watch Instantly" selections. The New York Times reports that the companies will announce the deal later today.
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Pokemon Platinum - 3.75 Million :: Kirby SS Ultra - 2.36 Million :: Wii Fit - 16.37 million (18.22 million lifetime):: Mario Kart - 15.4 Million:: Animal Crossing City Folk - 3.38 Million :: Wii Music - 2.65 Million
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The info could be found on page 6 of the pdf file (or page 5 when you print it out). This cover Nintendo games that sold (shipped) 1 Million + in the April 08 - Dec 08 period). For complete list, see comment.
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On March 10, 2006 Nintendo filed a patent for an "Accelerometer-based controller” in Japan, which is now registered on the US Patent and Trademark database. It is the Wii remote. On further perusal, the patent figures have some interesting tidbits. One sketch shows Mario playing tennis, which we know from a previous GDC was of the original concepts that became Wii Sports Tennis. Another figure shows the Wii remote linked to a Gamecube console via a Wavebird-like adapter.
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Nintendo posted a 34% gain in operating profit for April-September thanks to brisk demand for its Wii game console, but they cut its annual outlook amid a global economic slowdown and a surge in the yen. Operating profit is 252.2 billion yen, up from 188.78 billion yen YOY. For the year to March 2009 Nintendo lowered its operating profit forecast by 3 % to 630 billion yen. The latest outlook is still up from 487.22 billion yen a year earlier.
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As Nintendo's WiiWare service grows, avid Wii users are finding themselves burning through the console's paltry 512MB of internal memory quite quickly. So we found it slightly strange when speaking to Edge Magazine, NOE Marketing Director Laurent Fischer was surprisingly dismissive of the growing space demands of WiiWare titles. According to him, only "geeks and otaku" want the issue actually addressed. Which does not bode well for those "geeks" hoping for extra storage.
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Nintendo's WiiWare service will launch in Europe on 20th May and games will cost 500 Wii Points and upwards, according to a release issued today. Nintendo has yet to announce a European launch line-up for the service, which will offer first- and third-party downloadable games, but we can assume it will be drawn from the games shown off in the US recently. WiiWare has already launched in Japan on 25th March and will go live in the US on 12th May.
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According to a brief report by the Wall Street Journal, Nintendo is set to launch a Wii Channel for original downloadable Wii content, dubbed WiiWare, on May 12. Meanwhile, the anticipated exercise videogame Wii Fit will launch in America on May 19.
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"Since we should not be telling these third party developers what they should do in terms of the game content per se, we are offering advice and cooperation in order to produce software which is accessible to users with the least possible stress."
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"Nintendo management, including Satoru Iwata and Shigeru Miyamoto, recently discussed the issue of maintaining game quality in both first-party and third-party games."
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