WiiWare:
-Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (Capcom, 1000 points)
DSiWare:
-Electroplankton Beatnes (Nintendo, 200 points)
-Electroplankton Hanenbow (Nintendo, 200 points)
-Sudoku Sensei (Hudson Soft, 500 points)
Mass Effect 2 (360) – 10
Army of Two: The 40th Day (360) – 6
Dark Void (PS3) – 6
Alien Breed Evolution: Episode 1 (360) – 7
Darksiders (360) – 6
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories (Wii) – 8
Rogue Warrior (360) – 2
Tales of Monkey Island: Rise of the Pirate God (PC) – 8
Thanks to Jake for the news tip!
“Even though the Nintendo DS posted a record year in 2009, EEDAR expects Nintendo to make an official announcement on the DS2 within the next eight months.
Nintendo has always had a controlling stake in the handheld market, despite facing numerous competitors, and EEDAR believes one of the biggest reasons for Nintendo’s success in the handheld market is their ability to remove opportunity gaps for competitors to enter. Nintendo’s transition from the GBA to the DS, a year earlier than anticipated, was a brilliant strategy to remove any upper hand the Sony PSP could have by being first to market.
Piracy continues to be an issue, not just for Nintendo, but for its third-party publishers as well. Whilst the release of the DSi has slowed down piracy, that slow down will only be temporary as hackers have already managed to bypass the new security systems built into the hardware.
Additionally, many publishers including Sega, Capcom, and now UbiSoft have all expressed that they may be reducing their exposure to Nintendo’s consoles, which will likely lead to heavy declines in both hardware and software sales for the Nintendo DS.
We believe that due to the aging technology, the possibility of new competitors in 2011, a decline in publisher support and piracy, Nintendo will launch a successor to the DS within the next 15 months, and likely announce such in the next eight months.
Of course, this should not discourage anyone from buying new DS software, as any DS successor will most likely be backwards compatible.” – EEDAR analysis
The Nintendo DSi XL just received a confirmed European release date today and the system will also be launching in North America this year. I personally think that it’d be too soon for Nintendo to announce a true DS successor, but I wouldn’t necessarily be surprised. What do you guys think?
Wii Has the Best Month in Video Game History, Nintendo DS Has the Best Calendar Year of All Time
A holiday shopping frenzy helped both of Nintendo’s video game systems make history: Nintendo’s Wii™ home system sold more than 3.8 million units in December, a new all-time single-month U.S. sales record. The Nintendo DS™ Lite and Nintendo DSi™ hand-held systems combined to sell more than 3.3 million, the second biggest month in U.S. history.
Those strong December numbers helped propel the Nintendo DS franchise to more than 11.2 million sold in 2009, a new U.S. calendar-year sales record for any video game system – ever. The Wii console finished 2009 with 9.6 million sold. Of all the Wii consoles ever sold in the United States since its November 2006 launch, nearly one-fifth (18.7 percent) were sold during November and December 2009.
PSP – 145,682
Wii – 76,772
PS3 – 61,591
DSi – 50,178
DSi LL – 45,221
DS Lite – 10,067
Xbox 360 – 5,461
PS2 – 3,092
PSP go – 2,841
For comparison’s sake, here are the numbers from December 28, 2009 (last week).
Wii – 163,855
PSP – 132,911
PS3 – 114,368
DSi – 92,461
DSi LL – 70,643
DS Lite – 17,388
Xbox 360 – 6,878
PS2 – 4,023
PSP go – 3,903
Hardware
PlayStation 2 333.2K
PlayStation 3 1.36M
PSP 654.7K
Xbox 360 1.31M
Wii 3.81M
Nintendo DS 3.31M
Software
NEW SUPER MARIO BROS. WII WII NINTENDO OF AMERICA Nov-09 2.82M
WII FIT PLUS* WII NINTENDO OF AMERICA Oct-09 2.41M
WII SPORTS RESORT W/ WII MOTION PLUS* WII NINTENDO OF AMERICA Jul-09 1.79M
CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE 2* 360 ACTIVISION BLIZZARD Nov-09 1.63M
CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE 2* PS3 ACTIVISION BLIZZARD Nov-09 1.12M
WII PLAY W/ REMOTE WII NINTENDO OF AMERICA Feb-07 1.01M
MARIO KART W/ WHEEL WII NINTENDO OF AMERICA Apr-08 936.1K
ASSASSIN’S CREED II 360 UBISOFT Nov-09 783.1K
LEFT 4 DEAD 2 360 ELECTRONIC ARTS Nov-09 728.5K
MARIO & LUIGI: BOWSER’S INSIDE STORY NDS NINTENDO OF AMERICA Sep-09 656.7K
01. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
02. FIFA 10
03. Wii Sports Resort
04. Wii Fit
05. Wii Fit Plus
06. Assassin’s Creed II
07. Mario Kart Wii
08. Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Winter Games
09. Call Of Duty: World At War
10. FIFA 09
11. New Super Mario Bros. Wii
12. Wii Play
13. Professor Layton And The Curious Village
14. Forza Motorsport 3
15. Lego Batman: The Videogame
16. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
17. Need For Speed: Shift
18. Resident Evil 5
19. Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training
20. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games
