Saling The World: Wii Sports Resort Leads Worldwide Charts
Gamasutra’s weekly column, “Saling The World”, covers the top five sellers for every available platform in the United States, Japan, and Europe, providing an important update of sales patterns worldwide. This week’s charts, with data taken from July 30th, 2009, find Wii Sports Resort topping cross-platform sales in its first week of North American release, as Dragon Quest IX maintains its lead in Japan. Data for “Saling The World” comes courtesy of the public sales …
Would You Want the Chance to Punch-Out!! Princess Peach?
Recently, Kotaku had the chance to talk with the developers of Punch-Out!! for the Wii about a number of things pertaining to the title. It’s a rather lengthy piece (hence the delay in reporting it), and here are a few interesting tidbits of note.
We’ve heard before why Nintendo superstar Mario didn’t make a triumphant return to the WVBA ring as the referee, and we know about the final fighter (spoilers), but what about other famous Nintendo characters?
Music DLC Roundup For Week Of July 27
It’s time once again for this week’s music DLC roundup. For those of you out there looking to bust some noses (through the power of rock, of course), the Knuckle Sandwich pack for Guitar Hero: World Tour should do the trick, with songs from Dropkick Murphys, Against Me!, and Protest the Hero. Rock Band fans should be pleased to receive a little Weezer, Kiss and Blink-182 love, while Wii Rock Band players can now enjoy the ferocious stylings of Mötley Crüe, Rancid and Rise Against. Not much else to say except go forth and rock!
Knuckle Sandwich Track Pack
Protest the Hero - "Bloodmeat"
Dropkick Murphys - "I’m Shipping up to Boston"
Against Me! - "New Wave"
Price: 440 Microsoft points/$5.49 for pack, or 160 Microsoft points/200 Wii points/$1.99 per track
James Gang - "Funk #49" ($1.99)
Alien Ant Farm - “Smooth Criminal” ($1.99)
Xbox 360/PlayStation 3
Price: 440 Microsoft points/$5.49 per pack, or 160 Microsoft points/$1.99 per track
Weezer Pack 02
“My Name is Jonas”
“Pork and Beans”
“Undone – The Sweater Song”
Blink-182 Pack 01
“Down”
“Feeling This”
“The Rock Show”
KISS Pack 01
“100,000 Years (Live)”
“Deuce (Live)”
“Parasite (Live)”
Damone - “Out Here All Night” (160 Microsoft points/$1.99)
Wii
(200 Wii points each):
Kings of Leon - “Crawl”
Kings of Leon - “Molly’s Chambers”
Kings of Leon - “Sex on Fire”
Rancid - “Last One to Die”
Rancid - “Ruby Soho”
Rancid - “Time Bomb”
Rise Against - “Prayer of the Refugee”
Rise Against - “Re-Education (Through Labor)”
Rise Against - “Savior”
Lush - “Sweetness & Light”
Children of Bodom - “Are You Dead Yet”
Finley - “Tutto è Possibile
Mötley Crüe - “Don’t Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)”
Mötley Crüe - “Dr. Feelgood”
Mötley Crüe - “Kickstart My Heart”
Mötley Crüe - “Rattlesnake Shake”
Mötley Crüe - “Same Ol’ Situation (S.O.S)”
Mötley Crüe - “She Goes Down”
Mötley Crüe - “Slice Of Your Pie”
Mötley Crüe - “Sticky Sweet”
Mötley Crüe - “Time For Change”
Mötley Crüe - “Without You”
Platero y Tú - “Hay Poco Rock & Roll”
Squeeze - “Tempted”
Tokio Hotel - “Ready, Set, Go!”
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Today’s biggest news in one post
Below is the biggest stories today for the Wii.
Valve wonders how The Grinder is going to work on Wii
Chet Faliszek of Valve describes his concerns over the social online gaming conflicts The Grinder has to overcome. He states that for a game like that to succeed they would either need something like Xbox Live or Steam, and if they accomplish it, he will buy it himself to figure out how they did it.
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Guitar Hero 5 full track listing and rumors of Wii version receiving “amazing new features”
The following link includes the full track listing for Guitar Hero 5. The most interesting part of this is that on their Twitter they announced that the Wii will get even more features.
“Wow Wii!! Rumor is that there’s going to be some amazing new features for the Wii- What could they be?”
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Nintendo posts Q1 results showing a 61% drop in profits for the company
The report shows the Wii selling 2.2 million units in this quarter, as well as a 65% drop in Wii sales for America. Japan showing 60% and Europe 47% drop in sales.29 million Wii games were sold, showing a 20% drop in Wii game sales. Nintendo still thinks the forecast for the future is sunny.
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New Kirby Wii game still listed on Nintendo’s updated release schedule
As you can see Kirby Wii “Hoshi no Kirby (Wii)” is still being listed on Nintendo’s worldwide release schedule. Why have we not heard anything about this from Nintendo?
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Monster Hunter 3 may have problems with the game freezing
There has been a live feed from JustinTV showing gamers playing through Monster Hunter 3. Unfortunately the game keeps freezing on the japanese viewers and many are getting angry that the game might actually have a freezing problem. It is unaware if the copy they have is actually legal and that this may be the contributing factor. Regardless this is a problem that needs some attention if true. Lets all hope not.
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Wii Sports Resort Is Here! Are You Buying?
Nintendo on Thursday reported a decrease in sales and profit for its first fiscal quarter ended in June, as its software lineup for the most recent financial period had a tough time measuring up to last year’s lineup of Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Mario Kart Wii, and Wii Fit. Profits for the Kyoto, Japan-based company dropped 60.6 percent to ¥42.3 billion ($442.9 million), while sales dropped 40 percent to ¥253.5 billion ($2.65 billion). Aside from …
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