In North America, over 600,000 Nintendo Wiis were sold, which is pretty much all of the consoles. This translated to about $190 Million of profit for Nintendo.
You know, this is rather funny. Most consoles don’t turn profitable until late in their lifetime or not at all (see Xbox with minus $4 Billion), and here is Nintendo with the Wii, which has already generated almost $200 Million at launch only in North America. Insanity.
[i]Editor’s Note: I am researching the $190M figure as it was sourced from a Hungarian gaming site.
Update: It appears that $190M of profit figure factors in consoles, accessories, and games. So it’s safe to say that all $190M is NOT all going to Nintendo.[/i]
Though critically bashed, Red Steel was extremely successful at the cash registers (second after Zelda). Seeing this, Ubisoft is making a sequel to the game, once again for the Nintendo Wii. They hope to include an online multiplayer this time around too. Expect a review of the first game soon.
While there literally are not 1 million Al Pacino/Tony Montana wannabes running around, over 1 million copies of the game Scarface: The World Is Yours was sold worldwide, to everyone’s surprise. The game was released in October, 2006. Expect a review of the game soon on Snackbar.
Lost Planet is Capcom’s upcoming game that looks incredibly awesome. Apparently there were some issues with text for SDTV users and Capcom has sent word that a fix has been implemented. In particular, during “Elimination” mode of the MP portion of the game where players’ scores are displayed at the top left of the screen, it was very difficult to read.
The final version of the game will detect if you are playing on an SDTV and adjust the text size.
Capcom also mentioned that they have taken some steps to make objectives more easily understood by delivering them as both voice over and text. Objectives now show up from the in-game PDA via the pause menu. Here are a few images that show the before and after text on an SDTV.
Before:
After:
Microsoft send word last night that Texas Hold ’em would be getting an update tomorrow for XLA Wednesday. Here are the updated features:
[b]Gameplay has been sped up[/b]
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[*]Post the blind and play right away! – Players can now, if they wish, start playing immediately when joining a table by posting the big blind, rather than having to wait for the blind to come to them.
[*]New A
