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Video game business grows 9 percent in December, up 19 percent for 2008
venturebeat.com - 1/16/2009
Video game business grows 9 percent in December, up 19 percent for 2008
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Video game sales grew 9 percent in the U.S. in December — relatively weak because of the slow economic environment, but growth earlier in the year was so strong that annual sales were up 19 percent at $21.3 billion, according to market researcher NPD Group. Nintendo shattered records ...
NPD: Nintendo Drives '08 Industry Sales Past $21 Billion
gamedaily.com - 1/16/2009
NPD: Nintendo Drives '08 Industry Sales Past $21 Billion
— gamedaily.com — As people flocked to stores buying Wiis, they also bought Wii Play, which became the best selling... title in '08. Five of the top 10 games for the year were from Nintendo. (more) NPD: Nintendo Drives '08 Industry Sales Past $21 Billion

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Nintendo Developing A Direction Sensing DS Card? (Update)
siliconera.com - 1/14/2009
Nintendo Developing A Direction Sensing DS Card? (Update)
— siliconera.com — . January 13, 2009 . 10:57pm dssense A curious trademark popped up in Japan’s trademark database one... registered by Nintendo for a “DS Houi Sensor Card”. Houi is Japanese for direction so the trademark is related to a DS card that can detect direction ... (more) Nintendo Developing A Direction Sensing DS Card? (Update)

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gamasutra.com - 1/16/2009
Nintendo Claims Credit For 99 Percent Of 2008 Revenue Growth
— gamasutra.com — divider January 16, 2009 Nintendo Claims Credit For 99 Percent Of 2008 Revenue Growth Nintendo Claims Credit... For 99 Percent Of 2008 Revenue Growth Nintendo celebrated record-setting U.S. hardware sales in December, selling a new monthly high of 2.15 ... (more) Nintendo Claims Credit For 99 Percent Of 2008 Revenue ...

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Linkpost | 1.16.2009
TechBlog — ... - It's a platform based on a combined Intel Atom processor and an nVidia GPU. Very tiny, very powerful, very cool. • Video game business grows 9 percent in December, up 19 percent for 2008 • ...

Economy Battered Game Companies, But Not Sales
paidContent — ... —Nintendo dominates : The company sold 2.15 million Wiis—taking the top spot in terms of consoles, and breaking a seven-year record with sales of the DS handheld. Consumers gobbled up 3.04 million of the devices in December, topping Sony's previous record of 2.7 million sales of the PS2 in 2002 (per VentureBeat). Nintendo even had the best-selling game of the month: Wii Play, which sold 1.4 million units. ...

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