"I think America has always been better at creating unique products," says Miyamoto. "In Japan, the technology required to create videogames tends to be concentrated in the bigger corporations. Here in the United States, you have these independent developers who have managed to get the skills and the training and the development, and also have managed to get access to the technology and the hardware needed to develop it.
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Sales # of the Wii Ware title in Japan : Pokemon ranch 234,745 FFCC 129,904 mojipittan Wii 72,971 Dr.MARIO 43,354 Pokemon # is the highest. FFCC: My life as a king got a nice number. No mention of the source.
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Next-Gen.Biz reports that As part of its annual financial statement, Nintendo has revealed a host of sales stats for its ever-popular Wii and DS systems and associated software. For the year ended March 2008, sales of both consoles exceeded the company's targets. Annual Wii sales totaled 18.61 million, taking global life-to-date sales to 24.45 million units, while DS sales for the fiscal year hit 30.31 million units, meaning worldwide life-to-date sales now total 70.6 million.
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"Wii consoles, on average, sit on the shelves for just an hour before they are purchased. That stat comes straight from Reggie Fils-Aime. Fils-Aime [also] noted that North America gets about 40 percent of the 1.8 million Wii consoles Nintendo manufactures every month. The Americas are the only territory in which supply and demand are out of whack for Wii: Fils-Aime said you can walk into stores in Japan and Europe and find Wii on shelves."
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We're sure many are wondering what's next from Treasure, the developer behind Ikaruga and other classics. CNET Japan got the answer in a recent interview with Treasure president Masato Maegawa. In the interview, Maegawa revealed that the studio is working on 2 titles for the Wii. While he wouldn't get too specific, he did reveal that the 2 games are 3D titles, rather than the 2D for which the company is known. He also hinted that his team is putting the special features of the Wiimote to use.
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Hudson appears to have some ambitious plans for Karaoke Joysound Wii, as the program is currently being called. The company hopes to have 20,000 songs available at the start of service, with 1,000 additional songs added every month.
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The message states: An update to your Wii Shop Channel is now available. This update is needed in order to access WiiWare games launching later this spring.
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Nintendo has launched a TV guide channel for Wii in Japan, but Nintendo Europe has told Eurogamer there are "no plans for Europe". IGN reports that it's called the "Television Friend Channel", costs nothing, and allows you and your friends and family to keep track of programmes up to a week in advance.
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Upcoming game catalog with screens and publishers. In japanese language.
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Nintendo dropped us a line to clear up a bit of misconception in our write up of WiiWare from Wednesday. They aren't just looking for games from small teams from big-name developers - in fact, a good number of upcoming WiiWare titles are from up and coming or little-know developers getting their first shot at having a game appear on a console.
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