Nintendo Wii Reviews

Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Nintendo Co. , poised to overtake Sony Corp. as the world’s largest maker of home video-game machines, said sales of its Wii console doubled during the Black Friday shopping week, bucking a decline in U.S. consumer spending.

Filed under: Microsoft (MSFT), Sony Corp ADR (SNE), Technology I happened to be reading two articles on CIO.com yesterday concerning Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY) and its Wii distribution strategy. There was an older one from August discussing the reasons why the Wii has been in short supply. Was Nintendo purposely making the Wii a rare commodity? Were there indeed production problems? The second mentioned Nintendo's decision to increase the availability of the Wii so that as many consumers as possible

Filed under: Earnings reports, Microsoft (MSFT), Sony Corp ADR (SNE) Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY), which battles it out with Sony (NYSE: SNE) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) in the console wars, has two huge assets to its name: the Wii gaming system and the handheld Nintendo DS. Both of those products are powerhouses and have incredible brand equities. They drive earnings results. I think they're pretty neat, too. However, Nintendo may find itself having a little bit of trouble, at least in the short ter

Oct. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Nintendo Co. may add accessories to its top-selling Wii game console and upgrade the handheld DS player to maintain its lead over Sony Corp. and Microsoft Corp.

Week recap: PS3 Life; Xbox 360 boost; Wii Music September 22, 2008 – 7:59 am Sony this week released the Life with Playstation service to PS3 owners worldwide. The non-gaming service includes news and weather information from various content providers. Sony this week released an optional firmware update to PS3 owners. Firmware v2.43 is intended for the Japan region. Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 outsold Sony Corp.'s Playstation 3 in the latest Japan retail sales data. The Xbox 360 ranked N

Sept. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp. , trailing Nintendo Co. and Sony Corp. in the U.S. video-game market, cut the price of its Xbox 360 video-game consoles by as much as 29 percent.

Sales are improving in Japan for Sony Corp.'s PlayStation Portable handheld video game machine, and a beefed up version with a clearer display is expected to add momentum, a senior executive said Tuesday. The portable game machine faces tough competition from Nintendo DS – the handheld machine from the Japanese manufacturer of Pokemon and Super Mario games. Nintendo also has a big hit in the Wii home console that's battering Sony's PlayStation 3 in sales. The revamped PlayStation Portable with t