Japan: Nintendo edges Sony in tight 2010 sales race

DS and Wii top PSP and PS3, Pokemon beats Monster Hunter on software chart

 

 Nintendo defeated Sony in a close-fought hardware and software sales race in Japan last year, according to data released by Famitsu publisher Enterbrain.

 

DS was the lead hardware platform in 2010, beating PSP by 70,000 units, while Wii sales were 170,000 greater than PS3's, Andriasang reports.

Hardware sales Dec 28, 2009 - Dec 26, 2010 (lifetime sales)

DS: 2,963,709 (32,124,298)

PSP: 2,890,476 (16,276,931)

Wii: 1,728,293 (11,230,292)

PS3: 1,558,480 (5,949,887)

Xbox 360: 208,790 (1,406,663)

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Pokemon Black & White was the top selling game of the year, shifting just shy of five million copies following its September launch.

Second on the chart was Monster Hunter Portable 3rd, which managed to move around 3.5 million units despite not releasing until early December.

 Software program product sales as well as launch times
Pokemon Dark and White-colored (Pokemon, DS, 9/18/2010): four, 914, 813

Beast Seeker Transportable third (Capcom, SONY PSP, 12/1/2010): three, 480, 989

Brand new Extremely Mario Bros. (Nintendo, Nintendo wii, 12/3/2009): one, 599, 845 (4, 084, 995)

Nintendo wii Celebration (Nintendo, Nintendo wii, 7/8/2010): one, 539, 228

Monster Mission VI (Square Enix, DS, 1/28/2010): one, 297, 344

Monster Mission Creatures Joker two (Square Enix, DS, 4/28/2010): one, 276, 303

Buddy Selection (Nintendo, DS, 6/18/2009): one, 196, 148 (3, 508, 096)

Extremely Mario Universe two (Nintendo, Nintendo wii, 5/27/2010): nine hundred, 539

Inazuma 11 three Spark/Bomber (Level-5, DS, 7/1/2010): 890, 440

Nintendo wii Suit İn addition (Nintendo, Nintendo wii, 10/1/2009): 849, 664 (2, 148, 197)

Enterbrain stated the entire Japan video games marketplace shrunk through 9 % year-over-year because equipment product sales decreased eighteen. nine % this year in order to a hundred seventy five. fifty nine billion dollars yen (£1. 36b) as well as software program product sales dropped second . five % in order to 318. '08 billion dollars yen (£2. 47b).

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DSiWare Zelda: Four Swords is a GBA port

Original portable Four Swords coming to DSiWare, GameCube version hopes stumped

 Nintendo announced during its E3 press conference last week that it would be giving away Legend of Zelda: Four Swords for free via DSiWare later this year. But which version?

 

The platform holder has confirmed this week that gamers can look forward to the original GBA version of Four Swords, which released as a bonus feature on the Game Boy Advance port of Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.

Disappointed slightly? Avid fans may be, because that version was later followed by a far superior GameCube version, which expanded the four-player concept to a full-fat quest with some really excellent puzzles and dungeons.

Amazed? Avoid getting. It can make complete feeling which DSiWare might obtain the smaller sized smaller video game initially made for the portable anyhow, rather than out-and-out store system launch that could need considerable re-working to create suit as well as practical within the DS displays.

Nevertheless, weight loss grumble if it's totally free, correct? Search for this upon DSiWare (playable to both the Nintendo dsi as well as 3DS) within Sept.

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World Rally Championship 3 dated

Officially licensed game arriving in stores this October

 WRC3, the third edition of the official FIA World Rally Championship series, will launch on October 12 in the UK.

 

Announced in April, the Xbox 360, PS3, Vita and PC game has been developed by Milestone Studios, which also made 2011's WRC2 and SBK Generations.

After a hands-on treatment last month, we all said in our WRC3 critique: "Dirt has the better tiny games, Forza the particular detail regarding managing and also Shift the sensation of being inside a steel beast roaring alongside from 130mph, but this is the go-to game regarding point-to-point.

"As an effect, it's going to be indispensable to be able to rally nuts thinking about the more one excitement regarding taking a car directly into nature and also taking over the particular countryside one particular hairpin at any given time. "

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MotorStorm, SOCOM titles lose online support

Sony shuts down services for four more titles

 Sony has name four titles that will soon lose support for online features.

 

MotorStorm Pacific Rift - the second entry in the racing series on PS3 - will lose its online support on October 1, along with MotorStorm Arctic Edge and SOCOM: Fireteam Bravo 3 on PSP.

 The particular PSP version of The Attention regarding Judgement Stories may also go offline-only from August 31.

As usual, the particular offline experiences in these headings goes unaffected.

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No violence against women in God of War: Ascension, says dev

"The team's pulled away from some of that"

 Sony Santa Monica design manager David Hewitt has said in an interview that God of War: Ascension will not feature violence against women.

Following criticism that Ascension's E3 trailer was needlessly violent, Hewitt has opened up about the violence in God of War.

"There are some things we've pulled back from," Hewitt said. "I think where this has been an issue is with violence against women - the team's pulled back from some of that and assessed that a little more carefully.

 "There are usually particular things that bring another sort of resonance that individuals don't need to get directly into. This isn't about statement-making because consider. It's about fleshing out this character. "

During the interview together with IGN Hewitt goes on to be able to persist that Kratos doesn't relish the particular violence he or she dishes out there. "He's searching for revenge and also your dog is following his or her best objective and he may tear by means of opponents : grab these in half : since quickly since he can.

"There's not any sort of savoring the minute. There's nothing relating to this that your dog is savoring. "

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Halo 4 beats Black Ops 2 in 'most anticipated' list - Nielson

Xbox gamers apparently more excited for Master Chief than CoD

 Could Call of Duty's dominance of the FPS market be waning? Possibly, according to a recent survey which names Halo 4 as 2012's most highly anticipated game on Xbox 360 above the mighty Black Ops 2.

 

The results of the Nielson survey says that Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 is the most anticipated game on PS3, but not on Microsoft's console, on which Halo 4 takes the top spot forcing Activision's FPS powerhouse to settle for second.

From there on it's the usual suspects on both platforms; Assassin's Creed 3, Madden NFL 13, Darksiders 2 and Resident Evil 6 fill the upper slots as you would expect.

 Nielsen collated the outcomes through the study solutions associated with four, 823 men and feminine "active gamers" between age groups seven in order to fifty four gathered through the entire 30 days associated with 06 -- in order to match along with video game statement in E3.

5k individuals is actually barely probably the most all-encompassing number, however sufficient to obtain a common place from the property.

Nintendo wii players identified Simply Dancing four being a the majority of expected, however they avoid precisely possess a lot to select

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Nintendo flaunts 3DS XL's new anti-glare upgrade

A lesser-known upgrade improves 3DS XL's daytime play

 All the fuss over 3DS XL's big screens caused Nintendo to neglect mentioning one other notable upgrade - special anti-glare treatment.

 

 Nintendo says the the 3DS XL has the least reflective handheld screen in Nintendo history, and that's thanks to an additional anti-glare treatment that's been applied to its LCD screens.

Nintendo's Takeshi Murakami explains, "On a LCD screen there are basically three reflective layers, which all of them reflects and cause glare. So this time, we specially treated all the layers. Reflectivity on the Nintendo 3DS was about 12%, but we decreased that to about 3%."

Anti-glare technology has existed for a long time, so just why offers Manufacturers just decided to include this right now? Easy -- it had been costly, however is currently inexpensive sufficient because of improvements within technologies as well as production procedures.

Manufacturers manager Iwata stated, "Anti-reflection has become a subject each time because the Gba program, most of times there were to provide upward due to the price. inch
Murakami chimed within, "The period lastly arrived! With regards to anti-reflection, this product is better than almost all earlier Manufacturers video game techniques. inch

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