PSP 36,659
PS3 20,704
Wii 18,232
3DS 16,415
DSi LL 5,267
DSi 4,625
Xbox 360 1,616
PS2 1,594
DS Lite 138
PSP go 7

For comparison’s sake, here are the hardware numbers from last week.

3DS – 31,826
PSP – 26,854
PS3 – 23,343
Wii – 17,114
DSi LL – 5,258
DSi – 4,921
Xbox 360 – 1,546
PS2 – 1,475
DS Lite – 155
PSP go – 14

The Wii U is not your traditional “home console” from Nintendo. Unlike what we’ve seen from them in the past, the system allows you to play an entire title directly on the controller. You also won’t be limited to the television.

For these reasons, Satoru Iwata doesn’t want people to label Wii U as a “home console”. Rather, he believes that it is more of a “game console”.

Speaking with investors last week, Iwata also discussed how he hopes the console can become “Nintendo’s new answer to the upcoming change of lifestyle.”

“…Also, I just mentioned ‘home console’ unwittingly, but although the Wii U was announced as the successor of the Wii, I believe it will be positioned slightly different than the past home consoles. In the past, there were two categories of gaming systems, handheld devices and home consoles, and there was thought to be a great wall in between those two categories; however, the Wii U will be connected to a home TV, but it is not a simple home console, meaning it is not something ‘playable only when facing the TV.’ This is because, the controller has its own screen, so even if you are not facing the TV or the TV is occupied for some other reason, you can still use the game system. Therefore, in our release, we have written ‘a new game console’ and not ‘a new home console.’ In English, both are translated as ‘console’ and therefore, this nuance will not be expressed but, in the Japanese releases, we would like to propose the Wii U without using the term ‘home console.’ For your information, for game systems that have been sold as handheld devices, many consumers do not actually use them outside of their homes. Given this fact, we proposed the idea of carrying the Nintendo 3DS outside by enhancing the communication functionality and challenging consumers to change their usual routine but, on the other hand, there is a very high demand for playing a game system inside the house without using the TV, and we would like to answer that demand with the Wii U. In other words, since our lifestyles are changing minute by minute, I think that a play style where a person plays only when the person sits in front of the TV and has to occupy the TV is becoming less and less fitting with the times. Therefore, I would like to make the Wii U Nintendo’s new answer to the upcoming change of lifestyle.”

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Some Nintendo fans might be concerned that the Wii U could see a price drop soon after it’s released. President Satoru Iwata is aware of this and hopes to regain trust from consumers before the new console arrives.

You might also be wondering when we’ll be getting a Wii U launch date and price. Iwata confirmed to investors last week that an announcement can be expected next year.

“…With regard to the influence on the Wii U, what we have to take most seriously is that the price markdown could damage the trust of the consumers who bought the Nintendo 3DS just after the launch. I feel greatly accountable for it. Our decision of the price markdown this time has a side effect that, at the launch of the Wii U, people may feel that the price might drop in the near future if they wait. Nevertheless, we have decided to cut down the price of the Nintendo 3DS as we consider it as a necessary decision now. What we will be able to do to recover the consumers’ trust before the launch of the Wii U is very important to us. Since the Wii U we showed you at the E3 show in June was still in the development phase without very specific proposals on the software titles, we are going to announce the release date and the price next year when we are able to explain the specific proposals. Anyway, the biggest influence is on our consumers’ trust, I think. …”

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We heard a few days ago that Nintendo is preparing an update for the StreetPass Mii Plaza to provide new content for 3DS owners. We also heard that the company is developing additional software to take advantage of Miis. Now we finally have Satoru Iwata’s direct-quote from his Q&A session of Nintendo’s latest financial results.

“As we hear that a fairly good number of people have already done everything we offered with StreetPass Mii Plaza, we are preparing for something new that you can enjoy there in the near future. We are planning to make it available by the end of this calendar year.

“In addition, now that a number of Miis are there in StreetPass Mii Plaza, including those in your immediate circle and those who happened to pass you by, we are developing several software titles to take advantage of them. We will not be able to offer you the full or all the specific possibilities of the Miis stored in StreetPass Mii Plaza within this fiscal year, but we can say that you will never let your 300 Miis stored in your Nintendo 3DS go to waste, as we are preparing for a number of software titles, which will feature such as a theme, to be launched in this and the next fiscal years. Nintendo 3DS is hardware designed so that a number of your surrounding people’s Miis in your StreetPass Mii Plaza will generate a synergistic effect on the software to be offered in the future.”

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Order Up!! Allows players to experience the dizzying life of a top-notch Chef and restaurateur as they prepare all manner of exotic food, serve hordes of demanding patrons, and build their own restaurant empire from the ground up!.

Order Up! Was first released on the Wii in North America and Europe during the 4th Quarter of 2008 to impressive levels of critical acclaim. With a critical meta-score of 76%, including a healthy number of reviews scoring 80% or higher, Order Up! easily ranks as the highest-rated cooking game across all platforms.

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You thought Capcom was finished with paid demos after Mega Man Legends 3 was cancelled, didn’t you? Well, think again!

Capcom will be offering a ¥200 demo version of Nazo Waku Yakata this Thursday in Japan. It’ll feature the first chapters of the full game. Neither Nintendo nor Capcom label this download as a demo… but, come on, that’s essentially what it is.

It hasn’t been decided yet if future chapters will make their way to the eShop. If this initial “demo” is successful, I’m sure Capcom will do their best to provide additional content from the retail game.

Thanks to Thomas N for the tip!

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