CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED ANIMAL COLOR CROSS LANDS ON NINTENDO DSiWareTM THIS SPRING FOR EUROPE; FIRST TRAILER RELEASED

LYON, FRANCE –May 6th, 2010 – Little Worlds Studio, a family-oriented game developer of video games, today announced that it is bringing its critically-acclaimed Animal Color Cross to the Nintendo DSiWare™. Animal Color Cross will be available this spring for download across Europe on Nintendo DSi System for 500 Nintendo DSi Points™.

Gear up your brain, train your fingers, and practice your logic before this colorful gridbased puzzle becomes available!

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We posted about Nintendo’s 2009 earnings report a little bit earlier, but one piece of information that is of significance is the number relating to lifetime DS sales. With this past year of sales, the total sales of the Nintendo DS (128.9 million) broke Nintendo’s record for most units sold, previously held by the Gameboy, at 118.69 million. Congratulations to Nintendo for hitting another milestone in sales!

An ESRB rating has recently popped up for a new Wii game (probably WiiWare) called “My Fireplace”. I can only assume that the developer behind the game, Korner Entertainment S.L., has seen the lack fireplace simulators on Wii and decided it was time to fill that gap. Unless of course you run the homebrew channel on your Wii and have the “FireWii” application, which displays an interesting looking “fire” over a black background. You know, for those nights when your local TV station isn’t running the all-night fireplace.

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01. / 00. [NDS] Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 (Square Enix) – 624.000 / NEW
02. / 00. [PSP] Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (Konami) – 434.000 / NEW
03. / 00. [PS3] Super Street Fighter 4 (Capcom) – 81.000 / NEW
04. / 02. [WII] New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo) – 44.000 / 3.760.000 (+53%)
05. / 00. [360] Super Street Fighter 4 (Capcom) – 28.000 / NEW
06. / 08. [WII] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo) – 28.000 / 2.739.000 (+105%)
07. / 04. [NDS] Friend Collection (Nintendo) – 27.000 / 3.157.000 (+37%)
08. / 00. [NDS] Katekyoo Hitman Reborn! DS Fate of Heat III – Yuki no Shugosha Raishuu! (Takara Tomy) – 24.000 / NEW
09. / 01. [PS3] NieR Replicant (Square Enix) – 21.000 / 81.000 (-65%)
10. / 07. [WII] Wii Fit Plus (Nintendo) – 20.000 / 1.867.000 (+31%)

11. / 06. [PSP] Pro Baseball Spirits 2010 (Konami)
12. / 10. [NDS] Pokemon Ranger: Tracks of Light (Pokemon Co.)
13. / 00. [360] Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction (Ubisoft)
14. / 00. [PSP] Ikki Tousen: Xross Impact (Marvelous Entertainment)
15. / 00. [PSP] Marriage Royale: Prism Story (ASCII Media Works)
16. / 16. [WII] Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo)
17. / 13. [PSP] Monster Hunter Freedom Unite [PSP the Best Reprint] (Capcom)
18. / 12. [PS3] Pro Baseball Spirits 2010 (Konami)
19. / 21. [NDS] The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks (Nintendo)
20. / 14. [PS3] Fist of the North Star: Warriors (Koei)
21. / 22. [NDS] New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)
22. / 17. [WII] One Piece: Unlimited Cruise 2 – Awakening of the Hero [Everyone’s Recommendation Selection] (Namco Bandai)
23. / 00. [PSP] Zettai Meikyuu Grimm: Nanatsu no Kagi to Rakuen no Otome (Karin Entertainment)
24. / 18. [PS3] Yakuza 4: Heir to the Legend (Sega)
25. / 23. [PS2] Pro Baseball Spirits 2010 (Konami)
26. / 05. [PSP] Ys: Oath of Felghana (Falcom)
27. / 28. [NDS] Crayon Shin-Chan: Obaka Daininden – Susume! Kasukabe Ninja Tai! (Namco Bandai)
28. / 24. [NDS] Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies [Ultimate Hits] (Square Enix)
29. / 11. [360] NieR Gestalt (Square Enix)
30. / 00. [PS2] ef: A Fairy Tale of the Two (Comfort)

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Wii:
July:
16 – Toy Story 3
30 – PokéPark: Pikachu’s Great Adventure

September:
02 – My FitnessCoach
02 – HAWX2
09 – MySims SkyHeroes
16 – Rock Band: Pearl Jam
17 – Disney Epic Mickey
30 – FIFA11

Q3:
Metroid: Other M
FlingSmash

DS:
June 25th – Dragon Quest 9: Sentinels of the Starry Skies

July:
16 – Toy Story 3
29 – MegaMan Zero Collection

September:
09 – MySims SkyHeroes
23 – Sports Collection

We’ll have to see if these dates stick, though I’m not surprised about PokePark. I’m expecting Nintendo of America to announce that the game will be coming to the states at E3 next month.

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This information comes from Nintendo’s latest fiscal year earnings release…

LTD hardware sales:

Wii hardware – 70.93m
Wii software – 544.83m
DS hardware – 128.89m
DS software – 718.50m

LTD software sales

Wii Sports Resort – 16.14m
New Super Mario Bros. Wii – 14.70m
Wii Fit Plus – 12.65
Pokemon HeartGold/SoulSilver – 8.40m
The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks – 2.61m
Tomodachi Collection – 3.20m

Fiscal-year forecast

Wii hardware – 18m
Wii software – 165m
DS hardware – 30m
DS software – 150m

Net sales – 1,434,365 million Yen
Operating income – 356,567 million Yen
Net income – 228,635 million Yen

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