“I think that they may see sales suffer, and certainly will see sales down year-over-year. So we have to see if they cut, unbundle and cut, or rebundle (with Wii Sports Resort plus Wii Motion Plus). They’re hard to figure out.” – Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter
“(Nintendo is) struggling to keep the Wii relevant.” – Kaufman Bros. Todd Mitchell
“While the target audience for the two platforms varies greatly, some consumers will face a tough decision to purchase the Wii with outdated processing power or the PlayStation 3 with a built-in Blu-Ray player.” – Jesse Divnich, EEDAR
I personally feel that some sort of price balance is needed to keep the Wii selling as well as it has been. Be that a price cut or a new bundle, something is going to happen to make more people purchase the system other than just new software.
Out of all the info that came out of this year’s GamesCom, one recently revealed detail will have many people heaving a sigh of disappointment.
“I got confirmation at Cologne’s Gamescom that Beyond Good & Evil 2 is on hold for now. No idea if it’s def or temporary but it sucks.”
This is a huge let-down for fans of the series, without a doubt. I can’t say that I was looking forward to the game, as I’ve yet to play an installment of the franchise, but for those that were this is an unfortunate piece of news.
Even though The Conduit has suffered from a few online glitches and hackers, the system in place is still quite favorable for online gaming for Wii. Unfortunately, there aren’t many other FPS titles to choose from when it comes to playing with others through the Internet. Perhaps Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare will change that situation, though. Daniel Suarez, Activision’s Executive Producer for Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Wii, stated at GamesCom that the company is developing what will “be probably the best multiplayer first-person shooter coming to the Wii.”
“And what Treyarch has done is they’ve ported this game to the Wii, really leveraging the great component of the system, the controls, and really delivering what we consider to be probably the best multiplayer first-person shooter coming to the Wii.”
Thanks to julio for the news tip!
Trade fair and event highlight of the interactive entertainment industry at Koelnmesse goes straight to the top as the world’s largest games fair. New level of visitor numbers and internationality. Industry, specialist and private visitors enthused by the trade fair and festival
The premiere of the new leading trade fair for interactive entertainment and games – gamescom – has been a complete success. 245,000 visitors came to the Koelnmesse site from 19 – 23 August to experience and try out game novelties provided by 458 exhibiting companies from 31 countries. Straight away this makes gamescom the largest games fair in the world and with a ratio of around 44 percent, internationally extremely successful. After five intensive trade fair days, event organiser Koelnmesse and its conceptual sponsor, the German Association of Interactive Entertainment Software (Bundesverband Interaktive Unterhaltungssoftware – BIU) were very pleased with the result.
At this year’s GamesCom, Tatsunoko vs. Capcom producer Ryota Niitsuma teased 4 new additions to the game’s roster in time for the North American/PAL release. No word yet on what those characters might be, but I don’t think I’m the only one hoping the game gets a little Phoenix Wright icing to top of what looks like a very delicious gaming cake.
Tokyo Games Show will be held this September. The game is slated for release this winter.
WiiWare
Mr. Driller W – 126 blocks
VC
Super Empire Strikes Back – 28 blocks
DSiWare
Pop+ Solo – 24 blocks
