NEWS: High Voltage Betting That 'a Hardcore Market Exists' on Wii (Nintendo World Report)
CEO and Lead Designer believe that ports, and publishers who had "written off" the Wii, are to blame for the lackluster performance of "hardcore" games on Nintendo's console.
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Videogame sales hit record high thanks to Nintendo Wii (Daily Telegraph)
Video game sales in Britain have hit a record high as the popularity of the familyfriendly Nintendo Wii makes up a quarter of all sales.
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Hospital using Wii Fit to help amputees (Computer Active)
A hospital in Leeds is using Nintendo’s Wii games console to help patients who have had legs amputated get used to using prosthetic limbs. Seacroft Hospital is using the Wii Fit balance board , which reads real-life movements and mimics them on screen, to help patients with rehabilitation and physical therapy.
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DVD Duplication Leader Duplium Corporation Announces It Has Expanded Its Fully Automated Nintendo Wii Assembly Capacity (Centre Daily Times)
Duplium Corporation, North America's largest Nintendo Certified assembly and print facility, announced yesterday it has expanded its fully automated Nintendo Wii assembly capacity, and its semi automated Nintendo DS assembly capacity.
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'Wii Fit' sales top 3 million mark (The Japan Times)
Sales of Nintendo Co.'s "Wii Fit" game exceeded 3 million units in Japan since its debut in December 2007, becoming the second game for the Wii console to surpass that milestone, Enterbrain Inc. said Wednesday. Cumulative domestic sales of the game reached 3.04 million units from Dec. 1, 2007, to Jan. 4, the Tokyo-based video-game researcher said. The "Wii Sports" software released in Japan at ...
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