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PaidContent
- 2009-11-24
—Wii Gets PPV in Japan: Nintendo has partnered with 12 media companies to launch pay-per-view streaming service on the Wii. The content includes episodes of Sesame Street, among other movies and TV shows; media partners include TV Asahi, NTV and NHK Enterprises. Shows range in price from 30 to...
Tags: Facebook, Nintendo Co. Ltd., Electronic Arts Inc., Hell, Nintendo Wii, Video On Demand (VoD), Branding, Tv & Home Theater, Games, TVs, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Entertainment, Gaming, Technologies / Formats, Broadband, Companies, Tameka Kee
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PaidContent
- 2009-10-29
It looks like Nintendo may finally be pulled of its perch as the No.1 videogame console company in the world. It announced April-to-September 2009 earnings, and part of the data the firm gave out is that it only sold 5.75 million units of its flagship Wii product. That compares...
Tags: Nintendo Co. Ltd., Nintendo Wii, Consumer Electronics, Financial Accounting, Personal Technology, Finance, 24/7 Wallstreet
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Financial Times
- 2009-09-23
Nintendo on Thursday announced the first price cut for its Wii games console following declining sales and price competition from Microsoft and Sony.The Japanese company said the price of the Wii would drop $50, or 20 per cent, to $199.99 in the US on Sunday. Its price is also...
Tags: Nintendo Co. Ltd., Console, Nintendo Wii, Sales Strategy, Games, Sales Force Management, Sales, Personal Technology, Company News, Marketing, Prices, Financial Times
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PaidContent
- 2009-09-04
Back-to-back $100 price drops from Sony and Microsoft for the PS3 and Xbox, respectively, pumped up sales of both consoles in just over a week. Sony (NYSE: SNE) sold just over 75,900 PS3s—more than double the number of units it sold the previous week—and up 16 percent vs....
Tags: Sony Corp., Nintendo Co. Ltd., Console, Sony PlayStation 3, Pricing Strategy, Microsoft Xbox 360, Microsoft Xbox, Nintendo Wii, Sales Strategy, Game Players, Sales Force Management, Games, Sales, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Entertainment, Gaming, Money, Companies, Microsoft, xBox, Sony, Tameka Kee
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BNET
- 2009-01-29
Nintendo's latest results show that it continues to dominate its gaming competition, in units. But net income is down and a modified forecast shows that even the Wii will face challenges. [caption id="attachment_711" align="alignright" width="240" caption="Nintendo goes Wii, Wii, Wii, all the way home"][/caption] ...
Tags: Nintendo Co. Ltd., Nintendo Wii, Games, Personal Technology, Erik Sherman
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BNET
- 2008-09-05
This is the day of the big discount: all of Microsoft's Xbox 360 units have officially dropped price by $50, giving the company the cheapest entry point for the would-be gamer. But this smacks of desperation in a whole lot of ways, for example, like this being the second price...
Tags: Nintendo Co. Ltd., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, Nintendo Wii, Games, Game Players, Sales Strategy, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Sales, Erik Sherman
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BNET
- 2008-05-06
The Nintendo Wii wants YOU!!! -- if you are overweight, a mom, a dad, older, or worried about your fading mental skills. In other words, if you are anyone but the traditional video gamer. Welcome to the world of Wii Fit, an $89 physical...
Tags: Marketing, Sean Silverthorne, Personal Technology, Corporate Communications, Games, Nintendo Wii, Video, Video Game, Nintendo Co. Ltd.
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- 2007-12-21
For the second holiday season in a row, Nintendo has botched forecasted demand for the Wii game system, leaving frustrated potential buyers clutching at -- well, nothing. Is it really this hard this hard to forecast? In a new blog on Harvard Business, Yossi Sheffi...
Tags: Sales Force Management, Nintendo Wii, Forecasting, Nintendo Co. Ltd., Point-of-sale, Productivity, Games, Sales, Personal Technology, Sean Silverthorne
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BNET
- 2006-06-07
Realizing that push-button control and improvements in visuals combined weren't goring to win former and non-gamers over to video games alone - or even non-traditional gamers, for that matter - Nintendo has come up with what could be the ultimate video game control mechanism: an easily-approachable, motion-sensitive wireless controller that...
Tags: Nintendo Co. Ltd., Console, Video Game, Nintendo Wii, Associated Content, Games, Corporate Communications, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Marketing, Home Entertainment
