gigaom.com - 10/22/2008
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The market for video games is changing profoundly, and a comparison of two prominent titles’ recent sales figures shows just how much: Wii Fit, a game largely marketed to women , is outpacing the latest installment of one of the industry’s biggest franchises, Grand Theft Auto.
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latimes.com - 10/27/2008
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latimes.com —
Sales of the Wii Fit exercise game, launched
in May, are on track to surpass those of...
one of 2008's bestselling titles, Grand Theft Auto IV, by the end of the year, according to projections by Wedbush Morgan Securities. All that has driven up the ...
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Nintendo moves right along - Los Angeles Times
gamespot.com - 10/30/2008
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gamespot.com —
Source: Muscle-obsessed monthly Men's Fitness , of all
places. What we heard: Last week, gamers perusing newsstands...
were flummoxed to find the Take-Two Interactive chairman Strauss Zelnick plastered on the cover of Men's Fitness . Typically the domain ...
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EA Sports looking to outsweat Wii Fit? - GameSpot Rumor ...
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Wii Fit set to outpace Grand Theft Auto IV -- gamer geeks weep, gnash teeth
Engadget —
... Unafraid to incite elitist gamer geek unrest, respected video game industry analyst Michael Pachter has supported a prediction by GigaOM that Wii Fit will outsell Grand Theft Auto IV this year. Yeah, you read right: the latest entry into what is arguably ...
Linkpost | 10.22.2008
TechBlog —
... and Apple Quarterly Earnings- 6.9 Million iPhones Sold, "More Phones Than RIM" • Wii Fit on Track to Outsell GTA IV This Year - Exercise beats out carjackings. Posted by Dwight at October 22, 2008 05:45 AM Comments Post a comment Please use a valid e-mail address . We don't harvest addresses, you will not be spammed and your address will not be publicly visible. But if I have a question about your comment, I need to be able to contact you. Thank you. URL: Remember Me? Yes No Comments: (you may use HTML tags for style) E-mail this entry Email this entry to: Your ...
Can OnLive Really Overturn the Gaming Industry? [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... . McGarvey suggested the Wii’s lead is mainly a function of its cheaper price and the novelty of its game controls, but I believe there’s a relatively limited audience of people who actually want next-gen 3D games. (Case in point: While both games were launched at roughly the same time, Wii Fit has outsold Grand Theft Auto IV, and still remains a top seller long after GTA IV has all but dropped off the chart.) OnLive may simply capture the next-gen market away from the 360 and PS3, but remain eclipsed by the all-games-for-all-people ...
The New Vertical: Technology to Shed Unwanted Pounds [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... Nintendo says the technology fitness craze began three years ago, with the release of Wii. “The active gaming movement has really taken off ever since the Wii Remote got people up off the couch and moving around,” says Amber McCollum, director of trend marketing at Nintendo. “Of course, the amount of activity depends on the game, but the choice is no longer between being active or playing video games, because now players can do both.” ...
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Wii Fit ... into Wal-Mart's clothing department?
nintendowiifanboy.com 12/31/2008 — Nintendo, evidently desperate to sell Wii Fit to every person on Earth who owns a television, has started installing Wii Fit ads in the women's clothing department of Wal-Mart stores. Well, actually, all we know is that it looks like they've ...
Wii Fit and Arduino bring wooden Labyrinth game to robotic life
engadget.com 1/13/2009 —
Ah, yes. Nothing like some robotics to shake all that pesky quaintness out of a well-loved, time-tested game. In this case, some folks from the Cowtown Computer Congress a couple of servos and the ever so useful Arduino to connect a wooden ...
EA's Answer To Wii Fit Confirmed For May
businessinsider.com 2/19/2009 —
Over the holidays, we noted pretty much the only highly-desired hard-to-find items where Amazon's (AMZN) Kindle and Nintendo's (NTDOY) Wii Fit.
But competition is finally coming to the Wii Fit: Electronic Arts' (ERTS) Wii Fit clone " EA Sports ...
Wii Fit Plus coming October 4th, priced at $20
crunchgear.com 9/1/2009 —
Nintendo has officially announced Wii Fit Plus, a somewhat incremental upgrade to its wildly-popular Wii Fit exercise program. The price of the Wii Fit bundle, which will include the new Wii Fit Plus along with the Balance Board apparatus, will ...
Wii Fit Plus now available
slashgear.com 10/5/2009 — Yesterday marked the official launch of Wii Fit Plus. The original Wii Fit sat at the top of many game charts for a long time and the systems were very hard to find in stores. Wii Fit Plus is likely to be one of the most popular Wii titles for the ...
Wii Fit? More Like Weight Fat [Japan]
kotaku.com 3/5/2009 — Found in an arcade crane game machine by CheapyD from website CheapAssGamer. This is "Weight Fat." This is not a video game, but a body mass checking device in a familiar package.
The box totally...
massage your feet while you play wii fit
technabob.com 1/21/2009 — So now that the new year has passed, are you finally carrying out your resolution to get in shape by playing Wii Fit ? Well just because you’re gonna spend countless hours standing on that Balance Board doesn’t mean that your feet have to ...
THQ Announces SpongeBob SquarePants Game —
I4U News 10/20/2008
THQ has released a new video game based on SpongeBob SquarePants that features Nicktoons: Globs of Doom. The game is available on the PS2, Wii, and Nintendo DS. The game has shipped approximately 4.5 million units worldwide.
Rated E for Everyone ...
GoLive2 Introduces Stix-Compatible MMO Racing Game —
I4U News 10/21/2008
GoLive2 is the maker and seller of the Wii-like Stix controllers for PC. I tested the Stix 200 and found that accuracy was a big issue for the control system. GoLive2 has announced a new MMO racing title for the Stix controllers called GoLive2 ...
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