Wiil Done!

What a start for Nintendo. You lot just love their shiny little white thing and can't get enough of it. You like to grab it and wave it around and show your friends and then they want to do it too! In fact, the Brits want to do it so much that it's been named the fastest selling console in UK history.

Chart Track have revealed from under their number covering boxers that the Nintendo Wii has sold over 1m units in just 38 weeks. Sony am cry as this edges their reigning champion the PS2 off its perch. This managed only 1 million sales in 50 weeks. Hah!

With profit made on every console sold, they're making lots of it!

It doesn't stop there however. Earlier this month that highly unreliable but much quoted number cruncher, VG Chartz (the 'z' makes it cool) has reported that the Wii is the bestest selling next-gen gaming console, media hub, internet friendly whatever back in August. So this is really just another medal on the military uniform for Nintendo as they do battle in these rather boring, bitchy console wars.

With news also in that the Wii yet again topes the US console chart Nintendo can afford to loosen their slacks, lean back in their chairs look under their their desks, smile and think of Monica.

Souce: RegHardware

Japanese Hardware sales, July 16th - July 22nd

Yes it's the weekly point and laugh at Microsoft time! That's right, kids. The Japanese hardware numbers are up. I wonder how many billion Wii's and DS' Nintendo have sold this week? Or maybe the PS3 has actually made some ground? Who knows?

Still, looking at Eastern sales that have no bearing on the Western gaming market is always fun, and laughing at the dire performance of the XBox 360 always brings apologists out of the woodwork from both sides of the console fence.

I know the suspense is killing you so here they are!

- DS Lite: 154,459 12,492 (8.80%)
- Wii: 86,786 23,068 (21.00%)
- PSP: 32,894 4,684 (12.46%)
- PS2: 14,059 1,718 (10.89%)
- PS3: 12,187 1,306 (9.68%)
- Xbox 360: 2,664 278 (9.45%)
- Game Boy Micro: 315 21 (7.14%)
- Gamecube: 131 25 (23.58%)
- GBA SP: 122 16 (11.59%)
- DS Phat: 45 30 (200.00%)
- GBA: 24 24 (N/A%)

What a surprise! No-one's buying anything over there apart from Nintendo products! Who'd've thunk it?

Tune in next week to marvel at more Nintendo sales figures!

Source: Media Create

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

THQ Announce De Blob for Nintendo Wii

Originally designed by some university design graduate students, THQ saw the potential and decided to make the game for the Nintendo Wii.

The idea of the game is that you have to paint the world with colour. The evil corporation, Ink Corp. has removed all the colour from the world and De Blob crash lands on earth in order to put the colour back where it belongs.

You can choose between four primary colours but you can combine these colours in order to make a whole array of nuances in order to complete the tasks set.

De Blob colours the world by bouncing into things. Everything you touch bursts back into colourful life. Although your progress in hindered by Inkies, who will try and attack you as you navigate throughout the world.

However if you can't actually wait that long, you can play the game on your PC. The official website is here.

A release date for the Nintendo Wii version is unknown, but what we do know is that we won't be seeing the game until 2008. Keep in touch and we'll let you know more as soon as we have it.