Thursday, June 4, 2009

Nintendo



Am I allowed to talk about Sony and Microsoft without talking about Nintendo? Probably not. The numbers suggest that in the past year, video game sales surpassed that of movies and music combined (yeah yeah, we know), TOYS (that's a new one) and HOME VIDEO (that's just crazy) and Nintendo, in their efforts to make games for everyone, is largely responsible for this.

At the expo, Nintendo had a large collection of new demos to play including 3 new Mario titles and a wall of machines setup with games that take advantage of Wii motion plus technology. That's right, the Wii has improved the sensitivity of the Wiimote with an add on sensor (you have probably seen in in the EA Tiger Woods commercial). The company is eager to have game developers take advantage of the new technology and it will be interesting to see how it changes the Wii game concepts. One thing is for sure, sports games are going to get a lot harder!

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