Kanada San nos da información sobre el nuevo título de Trauma Team de Atlus

La famosa serie Trauma Center, da un nuevo giro, y nos ofrece ahora "especialidades" médicas para que podamos explorar nuestros conocimientos. Les dejo la liga para que lean más acerca de este interesante título. http://www.atlus.com/traumateam/featurettes.html

Fuente: Atlus.

There Are Over 100 Million Miis In Japan And America

When the Nintendo Wii launched in 2006, it wasn't only the motion controller that was revolutionary. The ability to make your own cute avatar called a Mii shook up console gaming.

At a Nintendo seminar, company president Satoru Iwata revealed that between the United States and Japan, one hundred million players have their own Miis. In Japan, the number of Miis made exceeds 20 million. Nintendo has yet officially announced it, Iwata told the seminar, but the number for the United States is over 80 million strong.

Factoring in the consoles with multiple or quickly erased Miis as well as Miis from Europe and the rest of the globe and Miis that live on consoles not connected to the internet, and the number is probably higher. Maybe a gajillion Miis.

Source: Kotaku.

Capcom se retracta de sus declaraciones respecto al Wii

El día de ayer, El Sr. Antoine Seux, de Capcom Francia hizo algunas declaraciones en las que encasillaba a la consola muy lejos del Hardcore gaming, convirtiéndola en una consola más familiar. Finalmente, comentó que el futuro de la industria estaba más en las plataformas de Microsoft y Sony.

El día de hoy, Capcom hizo la siguiente declaración:

“En virtud de los comentarios realizados en una entrevista francesa, Capcom quiere aclarar que se encuentra abocado al desarrollo multiplataforma”.

Fuente: Atomix / Kotaku

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El sitio Gamepro publicó esta foto de un interesante sweater de Súper Mario Bros, dentro de la sección "La esposa del Nerd" les dejo una imágen.

Iwata: The Wii has recovered

In the wake of a holiday sales surge, Nintendo president declares an end to the console's dry spell.

In October, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata declared that after three years of booming sales, the Wii had finally stalled. In the wake of a December that saw 3 million Wii systems sold, the Nintendo executive told Reuters the console was back on track.

Iwata said Nintendo's console has Wii-bounded on its way to a full Wii-covery.

"I think it's now safe to say the Wii has recovered from slowdown," Iwata told the news agency. He added, "But I'm not sure if it's prudent to use words like revival and recovery lightly before making absolutely certain we can maintain this momentum. So, I steer clear of such words today."

As for what prompted the resurgence, Iwata chalked it up to a number of factors. He said the company's software lineup toward the end of the year--spearheaded by the 4 million-selling New Super Mario Bros. Wii--was notably stronger. The system's $50 September price drop played a part as well, according to Iwata.

The executive also clarified a statement from yesterday's Nintendo holiday sales update. The company had said 2009 saw the DS set an "all-time calendar-year US sales record for any console or handheld system," but neglected to say what that record was. Iwata told Reuters that Nintendo believes the DS likely sold more than 10 million units in the US in 2009.

Source: Gamespot.

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Les dejo el video publicitario del nuevo juego de Zoink, Wiiwaa!!

Wii games get bargain sooner!!!

EEDAR's Jesse Divnich finds games for Nintendo's system more likely to get deeply discounted in first three months of release than titles for Xbox 360, PS3.
Earlier this week, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime criticized third-party publishers for not putting their best content on the Wii. A report released yesterday from Electronic Entertainment Design and Research analyst Jesse Divnich might shed some light on one reason third parties aren't wholeheartedly embracing the system.
According to Divnich, Wii games are subject to "early price protection"--deep discounts at stores for which the publisher actually pays--at a rate double that of Xbox 360 games and 66 percent higher than PlayStation 3 titles. Divnich considers early price protection to be when a game's average selling price drops by more than 20 percent within the first three months of launch.
When a game ships to stores but doesn't sell, retailers eager to get rid of the stock will work with the publisher to find a lower price point to sell the game at. After the new price is determined, the publisher then credits the retailer for part of the cost of each remaining copy with the new lower price. Publishers generally engage in price protection because retailers would be excessively conservative in ordering games without it, lest they be saddled with warehouses full of a poorly performing game.
Roughly 7.5 percent of Xbox 360 games and 9.1 percent of PS3 games go into price protection in their first three months, according to Divnich. Meanwhile, 15.1 percent of Wii games have publisher-supported price drops in the first three months.
"This disparity on the Wii reinforces concerns that the market has had with third-party publishers developing successful titles on the Wii," Divnich noted in his report, adding, "Because of the highly competitive and unpredictable mainstream and casual markets, EEDAR believes retailers and publishers are overly aggressive on expectations for Wii games."
Divnich points to a number of factors that could be playing into that accelerated rate of early price protection. For instance, while publishers typically make sure not to release their top-tier hardcore-focused games against competition outside the holiday season, they seem to have no problem releasing the casual games that make up much of the Wii catalog against other casual games aiming for the same audience. Furthermore, with profit margins anecdotally said to be significantly higher on casual titles, publishers wind up taking smaller losses when similar-sized price cuts are made.

Source: GameSpot.