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Go Nintendo Wii News: Konami updates TGS plans - more playable games, LovePlus stage show and more

2010-09-10T16:55:36-05:00

- Winning Eleven 2011 playable on PS3 and Xbox 360 (but not Wii or PS2)
- Zack to Ombra Maboroshi no Yuenchi (DS) playable
- Metal Fight Beyblade Big Bang Bladers (DS) playable
- Party Game Box 100 (Wii) playable
- Momotaro Dentetsu World (DS) playable
- LovePlus special stage featuring user component that allows LovePlus players to send love of the series/girls for display during the show
- top submissions have a chance to win some prizes
- LovePlus stage event will be broadcast live
- LovePlus merchandise to be sold, some items exclusive to TGS

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Go Nintendo Wii News: Games That Could Ruin Your Fall Semester

2010-09-10T11:58:30-05:00

I just know that Wii Party is going to become the go-to drinking game at a ton of colleges. Nintendo’s most family-friendly game of the year is going to be turned into the catalyst for some of the drunkest crowds yet. Perhaps Nintendo knows this secret, and that’s part of their madness!

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Nintendo Wii Fanboy: August NPD: It's another mad, mad, Madden year

2010-09-10T09:30:00-05:00

The sun will rise, the moon will set and it would be a sign of the end days if Madden didn't rule August software sales in the United States. The August NPDs are out and Madden NFL 11 sold over 1.8 million units in the month, a six percent increase over last year, with significant increases on PS3. Mafia 2, which Take-Two expects to be profitable, entered with a badda-boom and appears to have sold around 200K units during the month -- the title has been a chart topper in the UK since launch.

The Xbox 360 remains the top-selling console for a second month, but its sales did drop nearly 20 percent from July. The only hardware to see sales gains during the month was the PlayStation 3, which according to the NPD has now seen 13 consecutive months of year-over-year sales increases.

Overall, hardware and software sales were down both year-over-year and year-to-date. Sales for hardware, software and accessories combined was down 10 percent to $818.9M from last year and down 8 percent year-to-date to $8.31 billion. Consoles tried to make up for the sagging handheld market, as NPD analyst Anita Frazier notes, "The 360 and PS3 platforms both grew in dollar sales versus last year. In fact, the 360 platform contributed more than 1/3 of total new physical retail sales across hardware, software and accessories while the PS3 platform contributed over 1/4 of total dollar sales."

Oh yeah, one more thing: the top ten list of titles after the break only charts console and portable SKUs, so it's worth mentioning StarCraft 2 sold another 300K units in August, which would make it the second best-selling game for the month... if it were factored in. Frazer also stated, "PC games retail dollar sales saw a 35% increase over last August."

360: 357K, down 83K (-19.7%)
DS: 343K, down 55.3K (-13.9%)
Wii: 244K, down 9.7K (-3.8%)
PS3: 226K, up 11K (5.1%)
PSP: 79K, down 4.6K (-5.5%)

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Go Nintendo Wii News: NPD hardware/software sales - August

2010-09-10T08:41:00-05:00

Xbox 360 — 356,700
Nintendo DS — 342,700
Wii — 244,300
PlayStation 3 — 226,000
PSP — 79,400

Madden NFL 11 (Electronic Arts, Xbox 360) — 920,800
Madden NFL 11 (Electronic Arts, PlayStation 3) — 893,600
Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Nintendo, Wii) - 124,600
Mafia II (Take 2 Interactive, Xbox 360) — 121,600
New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo, DS) — 110,400
New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo)
Mafia II (Take 2 Interactive, PS3)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Activision Blizzard, Xbox 360)
NCAA Football 11 (Electronic Arts, Xbox 360)
Wii Fit Plus (Nintendo)

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