Since we’ve discussed why the PS3 is foundering it’s only fair we point out what the Wii has been doing well.
10. Brand Loyalty.
When it comes to video game companies, Nintendo boasts an incredible amount of longevity. Their first console, the Nintendo Entertainment System almost singlehandedly made home gaming popular and they’ve been going strong ever since. People have been buying Nintendo products for years. Sony hasn’t been in the games industry for quite as long and Microsoft is a relative newcomer to the console game.
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Korea has one of the biggest, if not the biggest competitive gaming leagues in the world. Not only do gamers reach a celebrity status, games are regularly televised across the country.
One of the gamers, 22-year old Jae Ho ‘Moon’ Jang, just signed a $470,000 dollar contract to play WarCraft 3 for the WeMade FOX team. Another famous FOX team player Yoon Yeol ‘NaDa’ Lee, got a similar deal (of $490,000) in 2007 to play StarCraft.
There’s no news on how long the contract will run, but since it’s usual for players to “retire” at the age of 23-24, Moon’s contract likely runs 2 years.
While ATI went and developed new GPUs, Nvidia has been renaming their line of graphics chips for six months now. Earlier this week, they renamed the 9800 GTX+ to GTS 250, and have been planning on renaming the 9800 GT to GTS 240. However, those plans now seem to be scrapped.
Nvidia originally wanted to “ease confusion” among its products by renaming much of its graphics chips, in reality however, it has only added to the confusion. The 9800 GT, which was supposed to be the GTS 240, has already been renamed once: it was the very successful 8800 GT chip.
Instead, it will still be called the 9800 GT. But in reality it’s the 8800 GT. Confused? So are we.
While we’ve unofficially known about this game ever since it was announced to support Wii’s MotionPlus technology, EA went ahead and took the invisible cover off the game.
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 is said to include the US Open, and a USGA championship along with real-time weather. And when we say real-time we really mean real time, the game has the ability to monitor current real-life weather conditions and depict them in the game.
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 will be out for pretty much every console you can think of sometime this year.
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It’s official, Guerilla Games’ Killzone 2 has officially surpassed the 1,000,000 units sold mark just 2 weeks after it hit store shelves.
And just for clarification, these 1,000,000 copies were sold in North America and Europe alone, other markets were not included in the statistic.
Also, for another fun fact, on Killzone 2‘s opening weekend a full 700,000 copies were sold. It’s no Halo 3, but Sony may be onto something.
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With the announcement of more DLC for Fable 2, developer Lionhead has now revealed that the popular Xbox 360 RPG has sold an impressive 2.6 million copies.
Since Microsoft announced that Fable 2 had sold 1.5 million copies in its first month — thereby becoming the fastest selling RPG on the Xbox 360 — the game has reached sales of 2.6 million, surpassing the sales of the original Fable, which has sold around 2.5 million units to date.
Mythic, developer of Warhammer Online, is shutting down 63 game servers — 43 servers in North America and another 20 in Europe — in an effort to move the online population of the game to more popular and populated servers.
Warhammer Online, an MMO based in the Warhammer universe, launched with over half a million new registrations in its first week. Since then, the online population has dwindled to around 300,000. Despite the closure of servers, Mythic and EA are both said to be committed to the game.
There will be no more Lord of The Rings games from EA, as they have now lost the license to make LOTR based games and content. The license has expired and has been reverted back to the original owners; New Line Cinema and Warner Brothers.
EA has made several LOTR based games, the latest of which was the mediocre Lord of The Rings: Conquest. According to Variety, EA was given the license until the end of 2008, but was extended by a few months in order to release LOTR: Conquest.
Lionhead has made a lot of money from Fable II and they seem to have no plans to stop any time soon. Details are scant at this point but the developer has announced that they are working on the next round of DLC for the sandbox RPG. They’ve announced that the team in Guildford is currently hard at work preparing the follow-up to the Knothole Island pack.
It was announced informally on their twitter page and then again on their blog, but the blog page is equally short on details regarding the content. They do give a lot of information about achievements; which ones are most common, least attained, etc.
