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Nintendo Wii Play
Original at myshoppingdeals.net
• Sun, Nov 1
If you were asked what the best selling game on Wii is, you might think of Mario Galaxy, Wii Fit or Super Smash Bros. Brawl. You may be surprised to learn that it’s actually a collection of 9 mediocre mini-games. The game is Nintendo Wii Play. If you don’t already know, the reason for Wii...
New Super Mario Bros. Nearing 20 Million In Sales [Nintendo]
Original at Kotaku
• Fri, Oct 30
By Stephen Totilo Other big-sellers on NIntendo's chart include Wii Sports (bundled with the Wii in North America and Europe) at 50,540,000, Wii Play at 23,430,000 and Wii Fit at 22,500,000. Hefty sales for all these games, and a sign that next month's New Super Mario Bros. Wii has a shot at some huge numbers.
Wii Play bundle bags a bestseller
Original at Independent
• Fri, Oct 23
Raise a glass to Nintendo – its ‘WiiPlay’ title has become the biggest-selling game of the 21st century. Related Stories Games review: EyePet Halo encyclopedia writes the book on Master Chief Games review: Brütal Legend Watch the box on the Xbox 360 Games review: GTA IV - The Ballad of Gay...
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Original at Megatokyo News
• Mon, Oct 19
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** Assortment Of Wii Games – Zelda, Metroid, And More!
Original at WASAlive ! wii games
• Sun, Oct 18
Hey, check out these auctions: NEW MARIO KART WITH WII WHEEL+2 GT PRO WHITE WII WHEEL US $69.95 (0 Bid) End Date: Sunday Oct-18-2009 16:52:46 PDT Buy It Now for only: US $76.99 Bid now | Buy it now | Add to watch list Nintendo Wii – Game console with Wii Play US $164.95 (1 Bid) End Date: Sunday...
Namco's Splatterhouse gets 2010 date
Original at CVG Online
• Wed, Oct 14
Retro remake out in Europe next year. Namco Bandai's confirmed that its retro remake of Splatterhouse will be out in Europe next year. Click here to read the full article Related Stories Wii Play America's best-selling title of the decade Wii accessories officially out of control First de...
News: Wii titles are biggest sellers this decade
Original at GamesIndustry.biz
• Wed, Oct 14
• 6 related articles
Three of the top five biggest selling games over the last decade are likely to be Wii ones, according to the latest US sales data from the NPD Group. The data puts Wii Play in first place as the single best selling SKU since 2000, with more than 11.1 million units of the Wii remote-bundled game so...
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Wii Fit may surpass San Andreas sales, Wii Play is top selling 'game' of the last 10 years
Original at Joystiq
• Tue, Oct 13
• 5 related articles
By Alexander Sliwinski Some out there are probably ready to argue that Wii Fit should not be counted among other games. Yeah, those folks are going to pitch a fit about the top seller: Wii Play. The controller-bundled "software" holds the crown, having reached 11.1 million sales. We can't wait to see how the Vitality...
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Your Amazing, Disturbing Wii Play Times [Wii]
Original at Kotaku
• Fri, Oct 9
By Stephen Totilo readers, you never let me down. I asked you yesterday to share your Wii playing history — as determined in the Nintendo Channel — and you provided the disturbing details. Blkpaladin (combining numbers from two Wiis played by multiple people in one home): Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess...
How To: Hot Software For Playing Backup Games On A Nintendo Wii
Original at freetoadvertise.biz
• Mon, Sep 28
HomeBreware - Unlock Your Nintendo Wii To Play Backup and Homebreware Games And Much More Without Voiding The Warranty. With this package you will learn how to unlock the following features on your Wii: Play N64, SNES, NES and Sega Genesis Games, as well as games from other consoles Homebr...
Wii Sports Resort - review
Original at Go Nintendo
• Sun, Jul 26
A portion of a Kotaku review… You’d think that Wii Sports and Wii Play would have exhausted the minigame catalog for the Wii, but these mostly new games are a worthwhile addition to anyone’s Wii. Even without the MotionPlus add-on, Wii Sports is a must-have, must-play for anyone wanting to...
Wii Sports Resort Review: More Motion in the Ocean
Original at Kotaku.com
• Sun, Jul 26
Packed with Nintendo's new MotionPlus add-on, Wii Sports Resort delivers a dozen new family-friendly, Mii-sporting games to Nintendo's Wii console. But is this one mini-game collection too many? First there was Wii Sports and then came Wii Play, which sweetened the deal with a free rem...
Wii Sports Resort Review: More Motion in the Ocean [Review]
Original at Kotaku
• Sun, Jul 26
By Brian Crecente With a dozen sports and a total of two dozen ways to play them, Wii Sports Resort pack in the play with mostly fun games. You'd think that Wii Sports and Wii Play would have exhausted the minigame catalog for the Wii, but these mostly new games are a worthwhile addition to anyone's Wii. Even with...
Top five best sellers for 2009 tracked for each console
Original at Joystiq
• Mon, Jul 20
By Griffin McElroy Finding it hard to get interested in the June NPDs? Perhaps a visual aide from the folks at Gamasutra will help boost your enthusiasm. They've compiled the sales figures from all of 2009's NPD charts to find the top five best-selling games of the year thus far on each of the three home console...
The Best-Selling Wii Games Of 2009 Didn't Come Out In 2009
Original at Kotaku.com
• Mon, Jul 20
if Wii "evergreen games" are Wii Fit and Wii Play this console is really messed up now... soccermom and brats killed the videogames stars 0xC001D00D
The Best-Selling Wii Games Of 2009 Didn't Come Out In 2009 [Oldies]
Original at Kotaku
• Mon, Jul 20
By Stephen Totilo Evergreen games are not unique to the Wii. In the previous hardware generation, the Grand Theft Auto games were monthly top-list entries on the PlayStation 2. Halo and Halo 2 consistently ranked among the best-selling games on the Xbox.
The Ten Most Avidly-Played Wii Games In America (As Of July 1)
Original at Kotaku.com
• Wed, Jul 1
Back after a two month absence, here is your list of the 10 Wii games that get the most play per user (disclaimers and explanation below). Wii Play and Tales of Symphonia are knocked out of the top 10. Make way for Rune Factory Frontier and Rock Band 2 in our (theoretically) monthly study of whic...
The Ten Most Avidly-Played Wii Games In America (As Of July 1) [Wii Stats Report]
Original at Kotaku
• Wed, Jul 1
By Stephen Totilo Make way for Rune Factory Frontier and Rock Band 2 in our (theoretically) monthly study of which Nintendo Wii games are getting played the most, per user. We'll have a closer look at the playing times of some other Wii games in the next couple of days.
Nyko's Wii Wand controller
Original at Destructoid
• Mon, Jun 15
Florida So while the Wii console itself only ships with a single Wii Remote, many games support up to four. Nintendo offers its own first-party options, selling the Wii Remote as a stand-alone peripheral or bundled with Wii Play. ...
How To: Unlock Your Wii To Play Copied Wii Games
Original at video.aol.de
• Sun, May 31
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How To: Unlock Your Wii To Play Copied Wii Games and backup without ...Original at it.truveo.com
• Sat, May 30
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How to Run Homebrew on Wii - Play Backup Wii Games without M
Original at digg.com
• Fri, May 15
Learn how to run homebrew on Wii so you can copy and play Wii games without a mod chip! No Zelda needed for this hack. Play copied, import, and ... feeds.digg.com
Exclusive Analysis: Console Tie Ratios Reveal Market Dynamics
Original at Gamasutra
• Tue, Apr 21
CA The Wii's tie ratio does not include Wii Sports, which is packaged with the system, so one might very well consider Wii owners as having more software on average than the numbers show. Furthermore, the Wii's tie ratio does include Wii Play, ...
Frankenreview: MadWorld [Round Up]
Original at Kotaku
• Mon, Mar 30
By Mike Fahey there's very little not to love about MadWorld. This is exactly the game the mature, hardcore Wii crowd has been craving, and it's just too bad that Nintendo is too busy making the next Wii Play, Wii Fit or Wii Music to put more resources into projects like this. In any case, kudos should be paid...
Too violent for the Wii ones?
Original at Chicago Sun-Times
• Wed, Mar 18
United States That's reflected in the kinds of games parents are buying. Half of the top ten best-selling games in 2008 had the all-ages E rating, and the top three games sold ("Wii Play," "Mario Kart" and "Wii Fit") were E-rated, according to the NPD, ...
How To: Homebrew Wii Play Homebrew, Backup and Imported Games on Wii
Original at uk.video.yahoo.com
• Wed, Mar 11
http://HomebrewareSale.com - Easy to follow video guide to unlocking your Wii. Play Homebrew, Backup games, Imported Games and DVD's today! http ... uk.video.yahoo.com
Wii Fit Target Of Class Action Lawsuit [Wii]
Original at Kotaku
• Mon, Feb 9
By Luke Plunkett Nintendo is contributing to the epidemic of obesity. Young and old are putting away their gym clothes and shying away from going outdoors to play sports, because the addictive appeal to the Wii game products. Just as the tobacco companies created such a false image of their products and hid...
BigAl Reviews: The Wii Part 1Original at YouTube
• Sun, Feb 8
By rss@youtube.com (BigAlTheRantMaster) I review The Wii, Wii Play, and Wii Sports in this one. Author: BigAlTheRantMaster Keywords: bigal reviews wii sports music play Added: February 8, 2009
How To: Homebrew Wii Play Homebrew, Backup and Imported Games on WiiOriginal at Dailymotion
• Thu, Jan 8
http://HomebrewareSale.com - Easy to follow video guide to unlocking your Wii. Play Homebrew, Backup games, Imported Games and DVD's today! http ... www.dailymotion.com
Do My Old Games Count For Club Nintendo?
Original at my.opera.com
• Wed, Dec 17
By spook81@gmail.com (.ed) Many games released prior to December 2008 can be registered; however, of those games, only select Wii, Wii Shop Channel games, Wii Channels, and Nintendo DS games will qualify for surveys. See the list of games that can be registered and qualify for surveys below:
Nintendo Responds To November NPD Sales, Seems Pleased [Corporate Gloating]
Original at Kotaku
• Thu, Dec 11
By Michael McWhertor About Nintendo: The worldwide pioneer in the creation of interactive entertainment, Nintendo Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, manufactures and markets hardware and software for its Wii™ and Nintendo DS™ systems. Since 1983, when it launched the Nintendo Entertainment System™, Nintendo ha...
November 2008 Video Game Sales From NPD Group
Original at Gaming Bits
• Thu, Dec 11
Top 10 Games (units sold) for November 2008: 1. Gears of War 2 (Xbox 360) - 1.56 million 3. Wii Play with Wii Remote (Wii) - 796K 4. Wii Fit - (Wii) - 697K 5. Mario Kart Wii with Wii Wheel (Wii) - 637K 7. Guitar Hero World Tour (Wii) - 475K 8. Left 4 Dead (Xbox 360) - 410K 10. Wii Music (Wii) - 297K
Sony 'Hasn't Fallen Behind' in Social Gaming
Original at NintendoDS Advanced
• Tue, Oct 28
With the likes of Guitar Hero and Rock Band grabbing headline after headline, and the Wii just being the Wii, the question is: Has Sony fallen behind in the arena of social gaming? They don't think so."I wouldn't say we fell behind. SingStar and Buzz and EyeToy are still hugely successful. "I p...
Wii Music Review: Jam With The Bland
Original at Kotaku
• Tue, Oct 21
By Michael McWhertor Now that we've played Wii Music for a serious length of time, has it started to make any sense? Read on to see what we loved and hated about our Wii Music jam sessions. Wii Music was developed and published by Nintendo, released on Oct. 21 for Wii. Retails for $49.99 USD. Unlocked all songs, stages a...
How To: Unlockables Cheats for Wii Play
Original at Nintendo WII Game Console
• Fri, Jul 18
You can use the Unlockables and cheat codes for Wii Play and make the play pretty good. You can follow the simple instructions and try to unlock the games. A simple unlockable is to use A and B together to change to a circular paddle ...
Nintendo Channel Reveals Hard Truths About Wii Play, Boom Blox, More [Crunch This]
Original at Kotaku
• Mon, Jun 23
By StephenTotilo As of last Monday the Wii's Nintendo Channel in the U.S. started spitting out usage stats for most Wii games. Anyone who opted in and let Nintendo snoop into their play history has been contributing to a public trove of great game usage data. And we can now use these numbers for speculation at coc...
WiiWare and Virtual Console Monday Releases For Wii (6/16/08, US)
Original at Gaming Bits
• Sun, Jun 15
Nintendo has announced the latest arrivals to the Wii Shop today. WiiWare games include Block Breaker Deluxe and Cocoto Fishing Master. On The Virtual Console there's the NEOGEO fighting game, Samurai Shodown. From Nintendo: WiiWare: Virtual Console:
[IGN] Mario Kart Wii Review
Original at Overclock.net
• Mon, Apr 21
By SZayat It's obvious now more than ever that Kart is an every-player's game, so while you've got a few options for the hardcore gamers, there's dozens more geared towards those in the Mario Party, Wii Sports, and Wii Play camp. ...
Videogame Sales For March 2008 From NPD Group
Original at Gaming Bits
• Thu, Apr 17
For March videogame hardware sales, Nintendo remains strong in the top two spots. The Wii ranks in at #1 and the Nintendo DS ranks in at #2. “Nintendo systems represented 58 percent of all video game hardware sold in March in the United States,” said Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America’s exe...
New York Times: 2007 Was A "Sea Change" In Gaming [Guitar Hero]
Original at Kotaku
• Fri, Feb 1
By Michael McWhertor The broadening of the video game market may seem like either old news or one in a series of many buzzwords to gamers, but the New York Times writes today that the numbers back it up. Citing NPD sales figures, the Times calls the make up of 2007's best selling titles "clear evidence of a sea chang...
Halo 3 is the best selling console game of 2007
Original at Geek.com
• Mon, Jan 21
By Doug Osborne Global marketing research company NPD Group released its sales figures for last year and Halo 3 was tops among all console video game sales for 2007. And even though Halo 3 was handicapped with a late release date of September 25, that didn’t stop Master Chief from taking the top slot by plas...
How To: Wii Play¿ for Nintendo Wii: Wii Play Once
Original at Epinions Recent Reviews for Wii Play¿ for Nintendo Wii
• Thu, Jan 10
rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author mr_mlk - Nine mini-games designed to teach you how to use the Wiimote, but given that the point of the Wiimote over a “traditional” controller is that is was intuitive you have to question this games reason for existence. Combine that with the simple unfortu...
Japan Sales: Wii Fit Bumps Other Wii Games Up
Original at Wired News
• Thu, Jan 3
By Chris Kohler 07. [WII] Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games (Nintendo) - 64,000 / 212,000 08. [WII] Wii Sports (Nintendo) - 55,000 / 2,341,000 09. [WII] Wii Play (Nintendo) - 55,000 / 1,921,000 10. [WII] Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon: the Labyrinth of Forgotten Time (Square-Enix) - 41,000 / NEW
Opinion: Editorial: Wii Christmas Buyer's Guide: South Africa edition
Original at EL33TONLINE
• Tue, Dec 4
Wii Play This is controller+game pack which is only R100 more than a standard Wii remote and offers some great mini-games for the price, so it hardly seems worthwhile buying a controller on its own instead of this pack. The best of the mini games are Shooting Range, where you aim at targets on...
WII-GAMES LIST: SUPER MARIO GALAXY IS IGN GOTY!!!Original at boardsus.playstation.com
• Tue, Nov 6
By Rowedahelicon edit] References^ a b Nintendo of America (October 11, 2007). Who's Making Games for Nintendo Systems? Everyone!. Press release. Retrieved on 2007-10-13.^ Partial list of upcoming Nintendo DS and Wii titles across Europe. Nintendo of Europe.^ a b E3 2007: Not Your Father's Mario Kart. IGN (20...
Podcast: $19.99 Wii PistolOriginal at Things That ... Make You Go Hmm
• Fri, Jul 20
By tdavid+hmmcast@gmail.com (TDavid) The light gun fits snugly in your hand and the nunchuck controller plugs into the bottom of the game. So far the only game in our libary it works good with is Wii Play and games where you can remap the controls. Tried using it with Resident Evil but you can’t remap the keys. I’m thinking it might wor...
Multi-tap: A Week In Comments (With Ban Info)
Original at Kotaku.com
• Fri, Jul 20
By Brian Ashcraft One upshot of all this, though, that's not really being explored by the press, is that all this developer attention you see being put on the Wii right now is probably going to backfire. Because developers are going to learn that all these casual gamers are not buying the Wii to play anything o...
Editorial: Next gen consoles - how are they really doing?
Original at EL33TONLINE
• Sun, Jun 10
Nintendo is smiling all the way to the bank with week upon week of outstanding Wii and DS sales around the globe. For instance, in Japan the Wii and DS are outselling the PS3 and PSP at a ration of 5 to 1. Nintendo's main challenge is producing sufficient stock to keep up with the unprecedented de...
Opinion: Editorial: Wii-modelling
Original at EL33TONLINE
• Thu, Mar 1
We hooked the Wii up and stared lovingly into the blue light which we had all been dreaming about for so long. We started with the essentials: a Wii, a Wii Remote, Wii Sports and The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. Needless to say there was much competition to be the one with the Wii Remote. Tr...
Wii Launch Australia: Wii Play Impressions
Original at Kotaku
• Wed, Dec 6
By Luke Plunkett Wii Play isn't really even that much of a game; it's more a seies of tutorials on how to use the Wii Remote, and it does its job well enough. It's a small collection of minigames, with the mechanics of each designed to teach you the various way the Wii Remote can be used to play games.