“I cannot say that the recession has no effect on the sales of video games. My belief is we should not blame the bad economy for the cause of slow sales of video games. The slow sales must be due to the lack of great software that everyone wants to buy. We have not shown off the great attractions of whatever we are selling. This is not the problem of Nintendo alone, but the entire video game industry. After all, something that is really fresh can make our industry grow. The important thing we have to tackle is making attractive games and marketing them well toward the end of this year. I think the whole industry should be more cautious about how we act and how the general public perceives us. In the past, the formula was to make the computer graphics more gorgeous. It used to fit the taste of the majority of the gaming audience, but it doesn’t work so well in this day and age. It’s more difficult for us to come up with something new and different and show people how different we are. The whole industry has to recognize that. Looking at the product line-ups this year, these titles might have been big hits three years ago. But now this year, they are not selling that much. In other words, people get tired of games more quickly than they did before. When you look at our 3D games concept, we recognize it will not be eternally appealing. However, it’s not a shallow concept that can be forgotten as a momentary fad.”

5 minutes of Wii Party footage

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Wii Party screenshots

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Famitsu software sales (6/14 – 6/20)

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1. [Wii] Super Mario Galaxy 2
2. [DS] Ghost Trick
3. [DS] Egokoro Kyoushitsu DS
4. [PS3] Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City
5. [Wii] Xenoblade
6. [DS] Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2
7. [DS] Tamagotchi no Pichi Pichi Omisecchi
8. [PS3] World Soccer Winning Eleven 2010: Aoki Samurai no Chousen
9. [DS] Tomodachi Collection
10. [PS3] Hakuoki: Junsouroku

Nintendo Pushes Summer Blockbuster Action to the Max with Sin & Punishment: Star Successor

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Thrilling New Shooter for Wii Features Nonstop Arcade-Style Excitement and Online Leaderboards
REDMOND, Wash.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– How much explosive, high-scoring shooter action can one video game deliver? With the June 27 launch of Sin & Punishment™: Star Successor for the Wii™ console, Nintendo is taking adrenaline-soaked adventure to inspiring new heights. Packed with nonstop arcade-style thrills, intense boss battles and precision pointer controls, the game challenges players to rack up high scores as they fend off waves of enemies in a stylish post-apocalyptic world.
Sin & Punishment: Star Successor was created by developers at the acclaimed Japanese game studio TREASURE, makers of the original Sin & Punishment game for the Nintendo 64™ system. Many Wii owners have already discovered the fun of the original game, which was originally only available in Japan, thanks to its availability on the Virtual Console™ downloadable game service. Now, this long-awaited sci-fi sequel pushes the arcade shooter genre to new levels of intensity and fun.

Nintendo Voice Chat podcast summary

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– Nintendo had a really awesome showing
– Peer thinks a bunch of people were disappointed with the Zelda showing
– Peer, Craig think Nintendo had the best conference at E3
– Nintendo skipped the Vitality Sensor entirely
– Miyamoto confirmed to IGN that Pikmin 3 is for Wii

Donkey Kong Country Returns video/interview

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Cammie Dunaway interview

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Reggie admits Nintendo doesn’t handle digital downloads so well, hints at account-based approach for 3DS downloads

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“We look at what we do well. We look at what we don’t do so well. The things we don’t do so well we commit ourselves to fixing and making improvements. I would put our digital business in that second category. We are looking hard at our digital business and saying, ‘You know what? We can do better.’ And we will do better. It will not look like what our competitors are doing. But we will have more content, have it be more easily discoverable. We will make it engaging and a much bigger piece of our overall business.” – Reggie Fils-Aime

“It is certainly something we’re looking at. Our current approach is a device-based approach. The content is tied to a particular device. Until we move to a different type of an approach like an account based approach you’re not going to be able to transfer the content. We are looking at how best to bring that to life. The step function change we want to see is going to need to be on a new device, like the 3DS.” – Reggie Fils-Aime

A single account for online content is basically what fans have been clamoring for. That would make things much easier and the possibility of transferring downloads between systems could become a simple process.

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