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- Selling Game Machines to Weight-Conscious Women
- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Why Nintendo was a Wii Bit Off Forecast
- 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...
- Blog posts 2007-12-21
- Is Nintendo About To Be Dethroned?
- 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...
- External links 2009-10-29
- Nintendo Keeps Rolling, But Bumpier Road Ahead
- 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] ...
- Blog posts 2009-01-29
- Media Roundup: Wii Sales Up, WaPo CEO Lands at Facebook, and More
- Five months after merger, CBS and CNET trim staff -- After purchasing CNET for $1.8 billion in July, CBS (this blog's parent company) has cut roughly 275 employees from a variety of media properties including last.fm, GameSpot, CBSNews.com and CBSSports.com. TechCrunch has the exact memo sent to employees. [Source: TechCrunch]...
- Blog posts 2008-12-12
- Gaming Roundup: PPV On The Wii; EA's Facebook 'Hell'
- —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...
- External links 2009-11-24
- The Revolution Of The Video Game: How Wii Is Changing The World Of Video Games
- The revolution of interactive video games actually started with an arcade game called "Dance Dance Revolution" or DDR. Nobody would have thought that a dance based arcade game would become popular, but it did. Now DDR is a staple for any arcade. Eventually the company came out with a DDR...
- White papers 2006-12-16
- Nintendo's Wii Video Gaming Console Stole The Show... And Then Some
- 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...
- White papers 2006-06-07
- Gaming Roundup: NatGeo; Music Mogul; Square Enix; Brash Gets Sued; Infogrames/Atari; Top 5 Of 08
- —National Geographic gets in game : National Geographic Ventures, the for-profit unit of National Geographic Society is launching a gaming division, and its first title is a free download called Herod's Lost Tomb. The game is accessible via PC, Mac and iPhone, with forthcoming titles being developed for the...
- External links 2008-11-19
- Can Even Microsoft Afford to Buy the Gaming Market?
- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- PS3, Xbox 360 Price Cuts Drive Sales?Will Nintendo Cave And Slash Wii Pricing, Too?
- 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....
- External links 2009-09-04
- How to Survive 18 Holes with Your Boss
- You don't have to be Tiger Woods to impress your boss on the golf course. Show that you're calm under pressure, confident at your level of play, and focused on having fun. Image Is Almost Everything ...
- Articles 2009-07-31
- Nintento cuts price of Wii for the first time
- 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...
- External links 2009-09-23
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- Attracting New Auidiences Key to Game Industry
- COLOGNE, Germany (Reuters) - Luring new audiences by moving away from traditional gaming consoles is more crucial than ever as the downturn curbs consumer spending in a sector once seen as recession-proof, analysts and executives said. The videogames sector at first looked set to ride out the recession as people...
- News items 2009-08-20
- Santa via Cisco, Mobile Innovations, OpenLogic, Pandora Media, Salesforce.com Japan, Vitech CRM, IPhone Jobs App
- The news as of the first coffee this morning, and the music is a scientific comparison of Robert Earl Keen's three live albums. Right now Live In Austin, Texas, the more acoustic country-fried one, is holding a slight edge over Live At The Ryman a decidedly more rocking show. No. 2...
- News items 2009-12-18
- Netflix Queues Up Sony's PlayStation 3
- Netflix's exclusive distribution deal with Microsoft Xbox 360 for game consoles is ending, as the movie-rental provider next month will let U.S. subscribers access its Internet-to-TV video-on-demand service through Sony PlayStation 3 gaming consoles. Sony has sold about 9 million PS3 systems in the U.S. to date, and Netflix had...
- News items 2009-10-28
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