Wii has now sold 3m units in Japan alone

According to a new report Nintendo are sitting on a huge pile of money. Having already announced that they are actually earning on every console sold, the report now states that they have sold over three million units in their home territory, Japan.

This new information has been extracted from reuters who cite Famitsu publisher Enterbrain which said that since the Wii's début on December 2nd the console has sold over 3.01 million units. Which is quite a lot in old money.

The Nintendo Wii: doing rather well it seems!

They go on to explain the in the same time-frame, although released a month earlier on November 11th, Sony's PS3 has sold only 1.01 million units. This was also compared to the 360 total sales of 420,705k consoles.

However, just to put thing into perspective it announces that the Nintendo DS has sold 18m units in Japan alone. Nintendo executives were too busy counting to comment.

Source: Next-Gen.biz

120GB PS3 for Europe?

During an interview with Norwegian newspaper, Dagbladet, SCEEs President David Reeves reinforced his stance on how the 80GB PS3 simply wasn't worth bringing to Europe.

"[Unlike the US and S.Korea] going up 20GB is not worth it." He stated. Although this still leaves Playstation owners wondering why, David Reeves did leave a footnote to his sentence. "...if you double it, it's worth it. So maybe you'll see something a bit later."

So does this mean that Europe will get an exclusive machine that the US and S.Korea won't? Or does he simply mean that when Sony decide on a 120GB model for all regions, "the most important region in the world", Europe won't be left out of the loop this time.

The 80GB PS3 should be available in the aforementioned regions from around August, come bundled with the hugely successful first-party title Motorstorm and retail for around $599.

Here, have a picture!

Sony's New 80GB PS3 bundled with Motorstorm

Source: Engadget

No on-line Co-Op for Halo 3

Bungie's PR Superstar Frankie O'Conner has revealed that sadly on-line co-op will not be an initial feature of Halo 3. The game is due to be released in September and Bungie's media mogul said:

"'We're not dumb,' says Bungie's Frank O'Connor. 'We know that people want it and we're trying to make it happen. I think the biggest problem for us for online co-op is that we have a situation where you can be in a Warthog with five troops, almost a mile away from the other player. That's a significant challenge. And there's lots of design things you could do to prevent that from happening, but they would make it not feel like Halo any more. If we can make it happen in a way that works well, we will - and if it works badly, we won't.'"

So close yet so far

So, those of you who were planning on sitting down with a friend over XBox Live and enjoying Halo together on release day will either have to save up for that air fare, or simply play alone alongside the Arbiter, crying softly to yourselves.

Source: Snatched from the pages of EGM