gamesindustry.biz - 11/7/2008
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Q: At Games 3.0 you were on a panel discussing the challenges to the industry in the next 12 months - what's the biggest challenge as far as you're concerned? Darren Williams : The topic is really barriers to entry, which is one that I know is quite resonant today. It's finding a way of trying ...
gamasutra.com - 11/7/2008
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gamasutra.com —
divider November 6, 2008 Exclusive: PS3, Xbox 360,
Wii First/Third Party Game Attach Rate Exposed Exclusive: PS3,...
Xbox 360, Wii First/Third Party Game Attach Rate Exposed As part of today's in-depth analysis of new Nintendo-published graphs on the ...
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multiplayerblog.mtv.com - 11/13/2008
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multiplayerblog.mtv.com —
I got "Animal Crossing City Folk" for Wii
in the mail from Nintendo yesterday, along with a...
separate box containing the Wii Speak peripheral. As is so often the case, I discovered something interesting in the fine print. Here's a tip: if you're ...
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Wii Speak Channel Only For Wii Speak Purchasers, Don’t ...
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Sega: Wii Is "The Most Expensive Board Game On Earth" [Sega]
Kotaku —
... on Earth - it's the kind of thing that families will play at Christmas, and probably won't play again throughout the remainder of the year. So things like Wii Sports, Wii Fit to a certain extent, that's great. Great for Nintendo, maybe. And that's definitely a problem with the Wii, one that may start to rear its head 12-18 months down the line once a lot of these "new" gamers get sick of Wii Sports and Wii Fit. Wonder how companies like Sega (and Nintendo!) are going to overcome it. Darren Williams - Part One [GI.biz]
Wii is 'most expensive board game on Earth'
Joystiq [Nintendo] —
Filed under: InterviewsSo says Sega A&R man Darren Williams in an interview with GamesIndustry.biz, who also described the console as "the kind of thing that families will play at Christmas, and probably won't play again throughout the remainder of the year." Before we all fetch the pitchforks and start constructing crude Darren Williams effigies, perhaps it would do some good to calmly consider whether the man has a point. In this blogger's personal experience, a small number of families do only use the Wii sporadically, ...
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