Game Group boosted by Nintendo’s Wii sales
Daily Telegraph - Well played: Nintendo s Wii is this season s must-have present with demand for the console and its games far outstripping supply Read more
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Boosted by price cuts and a shortage of the rival Wii console from Nintendo Co., sales of the PlayStation 3 video game console have improved after a fitful start last year: since Black Friday, Sony has been selling more than 200,000 PS3 units a week Read more
Bloomberg - Nintendo Co., maker of the Wii game console, fell 1.5 percent to 66,100 yen. The yen strengthened to as high as 110.63 versus the dollar from 111.81 at the close of trading in Tokyo yesterday. A stronger yen decreases the value of Read more
WinInfo - Nintendo’s cute and relatively inexpensive Wii console, with its innovative motion sensitive hand controllers and overly-simplistic games, has resonated far more with casual gamers and opened the market up to a much wider audience. By the end of the Read more
Globe and Mail - Sony Corp.: A price drop in the Playstation 3 puts the console on more equal footing with the Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii. Sony’s latest entrant has seen slow sales because of the high price and a dearth of exciting exclusive titles, two trends that Read more
Forbes - Majesco Entertainment Company (NASDAQ: COOL), an innovative provider of video games for the mass market, today announced Wonderworld Amusement Park for the Wii(TM) home video game system. Developed by Coyote Console, Wonderworld Amusement Park brings Read more
PC Advisor - Sony’s PlayStation 3 (PS3) will catch up with the Nintendo Wii in sales by 2011, according to analyst Piers Harding-Rolls. Harding-Rolls told the Economist the PS3 sales surge will be based on the console’s recent price cut and the availability of Read more
Daily Telegraph - 6 Your children are demanding a Nintendo Wii console, but they’ve vanished off the shelves. Do you: A Camp outside Toys ‘R’ Us until a new shipment comes in, and count yourself lucky. B Pay twice the retail price for one being sold on eBay, and hope Read more
Digital Spy - Launched December 2, 2005 in the UK, Microsoft was the first to market with its next-generation console system, released a full year ahead of Nintendo s Wii console and almost two years ahead of Sony s PS3. Having been around for longer, there s Read more
WTOP Radio - Anna Rollins, the center’s manager, said her 68-year-old mother took to playing Wii with Rollins’ teenagers who got the game last Christmas. She was inspired to bring the popular game console with motion-sensor remote to the center, guessing the Read more