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Nintendo: Greenpeace Urges Console Manufactures To Clean Up Their Act

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Greenpeace has decided enough is enough and has informed console manufactures to stop the use of hazardous chemicals in their game consoles. The environmental group claims console manufacturers have so far failed to reduce the toxic contents of their products

Game consoles manufacturers are lagging way behind the makers of mobile phones and PCs who have been reducing the toxic load of their products over the past year. Game consoles contain many of the same components as PCs so manufacturers can do a lot more.

- Zeina Al Hajj, Greenpeace International toxics campaigner

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Nintendo Wii: Nintendo Cautious About Project Natal

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Nintendo has admitted that it needs to continue making the Wii as immersive  as possible to keep up with future competition.

President of Nintendo America, Reggie Fils-Amie, believes that Nintendo will “have to move on” to the next level if it wishes to compete against both Microsoft’s and Sony’s forthcoming motion sensing peripherals.

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Nintendo: Nintendo DSi Continues Strong Sales According to NPD

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Whilst the Nintendo DSi continues to take American consumers by storm, other gaming formats aren’t fairing quite so well.

According to Aprils NPD figures the recently released Nintendo DSi is still truly captivating American audiences, whilst the Wii, Xbox 360 and particularly the PS3 are having a fairly difficult time. To put things into perspective last April saw the Nintendo Wii sell in excess of 714,200 consoles, this year however sees it only managing to shift a mere 340,000 units.

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Nintendo: Reggie Fils-Aime Says “It’s Hard To Say Something Nice About The PlayStation 3

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Nintendo of America President, Reggie Fils-Aime, openly stated that “it’s hard to say something nice about the PS3″ when he was quizzed about Nintendo’s relentless competitors.

Whilst he wasn’t altogether too enamoured with the PlayStation 3, Reggie did however cite Xbox Live as an online platform that concerns both him and his companions over at Nintendo.

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Nintendo Wii: Wii Fit Sales Surpass Halo 3 In United States

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Wii Fit sales have surpassed those of long-running king Halo 3 on the Xbox 360.

Shifting an unprecedented 6 million units in the United States alone, the game has overtaken Halo 3’s reign of 5.9 million units sold. Equally impressive is the fact that Halo 3 has been available for purchase since September 2007, whilst Wii Fit was only released onto the gaming market, May 2008.

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Nintendo Wii: January Hardware Sales Drop Dramatically

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During the predominantly bleak month of January, hardware sales for all three console manufactures plummeted by a whopping 23 percent in Japan.

Although the appeal of the current crop of consoles continues to remains steadfast amongst consumers, Japan itself has seen a significant drop in shoppers looking to purchase luxury electronic items due in no small part to the current economic climate.

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Nintendo Wii: Microsoft Claims Wii Isn’t Even Online

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Chris Lewis, Vice-President of the Interactive Entertainment Business for Microsoft recently obliged to an interview with revered gaming publication Edge. In the damming interview Lewis harshly criticised Nintendo’s current online infrastructure, and also reiterated that he believes Microsoft occupies a different space to the Kyoto based company.

Nintendo occupies a different space to us in that regard as well, in that [the Wii] isn’t an online connected platform, it isn’t high definition, it doesn’t offer the scalability we offer in the SKU lineup and the storage ability. … I certainly think we do have an appetite for getting into those broad family genres, and that part of the strategy will continue to be so, but I think we clearly want to appeal to all tastes. Our aspiration is to win overall, and to do that we need to continue to bring content to all the different genres in the market, with Xbox Live at the heart of that.

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Nintendo: Microsoft Admits It Doesn’t Pay to Bash Nintendo

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The VP for business development in Microsoft’s game division, Shane Kim, had some choice words to say about its competitors, namely the seemingly impenetrable Nintendo.

Kim openly stated at the University of California’s Play conference that “It never pays to bash Nintendo. Rather, he said he loved Nintendo because it’s broadening the audience and is showing Microsoft what it needs to accomplish.”

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Nintendo Wii: Wii Fit Set To Outsell GTA IV This Year

Wii Fit is primed to outsell one of the gaming industry’s largest franchise, Grand Theft Auto IV. Wii Fit sales are currently at 8.7 million units sold worldwide, whilst Grand Theft Auto  IV which is multi-format, has sold an estimated 10.6 million copies.

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Nintendo Wii: Sony Despises Wii Wants Xbox 360 To Succeed In Japan

Sony’s president of Worldwide Studios, Shuhei Yoshida has informed Eurogamer that he would prefer Japanese gamers to show more interest in so called ‘next gen’ gaming rather than the novelty products showcased for Wii.

If it continues that way forever, it’s not a good thing for us. But I’m saying what Microsoft is offering and what we are offering are closer, compared to what other platforms are offering. Because of that commonality, the new games coming out on 360 and PS3 help to get consumers more interested in this generation of gaming.

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