| April 13/2005 - Easy to Ignore QOTU: "So. Pomeranians are delicious anyways." Today, Activision had a few game titles leaked by EB Games. The games leaked are as follows.
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| April 12/2005 - Melting Alone QOTU: "Change. BAD! Redundancy. GOOD! And there we have it." How is the news? Lightly boring! But you do have a brand new S.S.U. to obsess over! I guess I should explain that I slightly altered the main page. But, I figured everyone noticed. The idea is to make the website's main page match more of the website. In other words, consistentancy for everyone! I also intend to convert our older newsity into PDF in the future as I make everything "conform" to this standard. The reason for the PDF switch would be security, and space saving. The only thing I dislike about this new look is that I still hate the ad banner. But, eh. What can I say? Please comment in Viral Speak about what you think of the change. This *should* fix those weird spacing problems that Windows IE users were getting. If it does not, please change your browser to something that does not suck. While larger screen resolution users will lost in get endless BLUE, I don't mind. Will this site still load quickly? *checks*It should. I can change that color every single month if I like, at WHIM. The Dancing Virii and Plymouth? The Virii dance upon the outside links! Yes they dance! Scroll down and see. Oh, do try out that Viral Speak Box. It works. At least it should. Anyhow, it will be under the most recent Newsity entry. So, COMMENT! Like it? Gimme a treat? Woof! Woof! Enjoy! -PAW- |
| April 11/2005 - A Million Parachutes QOTU: "Tonight, it seems like ages ago." Is there much news running around recently? Yes and no. The big announcements are usually about the Xbox 360, or the PS3. I cover HANDHELD games. Anyhow, SSX4 was recently announced for all three home consoles, the Nintendo DS and the PSP. In this game you can ski as well as snowboard and all versions are set to have a Create a Character option. SSX4 will be out this winter apparently, from EA. Oh, EA bought up the rights to College Football. Resume not caring anytime now. Konami recently acquired Hudson Soft. Thus, Bomberman is now a Konami property. Interesting. Maybe Konami will bring back Adventure Island? I would not mind that at all. Konami owns 54% of the ailing company. Should be interesting to see what happens now. Other than that, one new review. Go get it! -PAW- |
| April 6,7,8/2005 - Bouquet QOTU: "Life can be solved by trapping enemies in bubbles." I discovered that Yoshi's Touch N Go is indeed addictive. So, no reviews made it up. Sorry. In other news though, a bit about Viewtiful Joe for the DS was announced. It will have a weird new SPLIT! effect where you can draw a line on the screen to slice on-screen objects in half. Other than that, it's all the Viewtiful Joe we love and know. The top screen is used for close-ups of the action and for displaying "hints" at what to split. I wonder if that can be turned off. Now for SALES DATA! The Nintendo DS was the top selling system last time, but this time is different. Who knocked the DS out of the top spot? The power of Tekken 5 has propelled the PS2 to the top spot, narrowly knocking out the Dual Screen Duelist. The sales for March 28 to April 3, 2005 PS2 = 44,117 (UP 3,719) DS = 43,023 (DOWN 13,802) PSP = 33,911 (DOWN 9,132) GBA SP = 17,710 (UP 2,086 GameCube = 3,754 (DOWN 814) GBA = 1,074 (UP 421) Xbox = 335 (DOWN 71) This data is provided by Media Create. Kirby kept onto spot #3 while Tekken 5 enjoyed spot #1 in software sales. Tekken 5 is new this week and has some fairly strong sales. The next chart from Media Create should include ElectroPlankton. I am interested in seeing how that sells. The PS2 beat the Nintendo DS in sales by 1,094 units. The Nintendo DS clocked the PSP by only 9,112 units. 16,201 units separated the PSP from the GBA SP. Total handheld sales for that week are as follows. Nintendo = 60,807 Sony = 33,911 TOTALS = 94,718 Nintendo still holds steady at owning about 60.4% of the handheld market in Japan. Well, that is about it for now! -PAW- |
| April 04 - 06/2005 - Spotlight QOTU: "I'll just gnaw on this hand Nintendo sent me. It helps to pass the time." Well, last month was a MONTH of Foreigner References. This month, the references are easier. So, here is some news for those who read us on a regular basis! 1. New columns from Hbomb and Don. 2. Nintendo Power made my day by excluding an * next to the US name for Another Code. The latest Nintendo Power Issue had a list of games that were coming out for the Nintendo DS. The list had an asterisk by each game NOT CURRENTLY SLATED for US release. Another Code was one of the games that did not have an asterisk beside it.. It also had a specific highlight on it and a picture of Ashley. While everyone raved on about Katamari Damacy and all the other new games, Another Code was quietly confirmed. 3. Midway is set to announce about TEN DS titles at E3. So far, the names being tossed around are ports of Wipeout 64, Spy Hunter 2, and Gauntlet Legends: Dark Legacy. Arcade Treasures games, a Mortal Kombat game, and other titles are expected. We'll see at E3. 4. Nintendo is set to announce 10 new GBA games at E3 for release later this year. One of which is F-Zero 3, also it looks like Nintendo will be publishing Tales of Phantasia for GBA themselves. Awaiting confirmation on that myself, but considering Nintendo is publishing Soul Calibur for DS themselves, it looks like that will happen. Quick side note for those who want to know, the April Fools jokes were the bit about Atlus and the bit about Majesco. Although, the Majesco one is grounded in a few interesting facts. The DS sales data is completely true. It also makes me wonder a bit on what games like NINTENDOGS, Electroplankton, and future titles like Pokemon Diamond/Pearl will do to the DS sales in Japan. If two new color variations do that for the unit, than the PSP does not have as strong a grip as Sony thinks. It looks like the online play in Diamond/Pearl, and solid games like Final Fantasy 3 could be enough to keep the Nintendo DS a high profile system in Japan for a long time. Oh, umm.. online play in Pearl/Diamond.. umm.. you didn't read that. That's it, there's begging, and THIS is silly. Later people! -PAW- |
| April 01/2005 - Drifting QOTU: "These Forks be Grand." Well, it's a Thursday through Saturday update. Gonna add the reviews in a bit. But first, a new Philip Rational. Yup. As for news? Nintendo has a contest going on and I had to enter it. They give you a free HAND jobbie thingie. I mean, wow. Is that not cool or what? A FREE HAND! It can do all sorts of hand things with its fingers. You can use the fingers to touch, pet, poke, probe, and generally explore... items, places, people, pets, and food. Thank you, Nintendo. Touching IS good. Thankfully for everyone, there is good news and unusual news too! The latest (21-27th of March) Media Create sales data places Kirby's new DS game in the #3 position at 75,365 units sold. Also out is Egg Monster Hero at #6 and Harvest Moon continues to sell well at #9. The two new colors of the DS also debuted this last week and that has done something to sales of DS units in Japan. The GBA had no top ten game titles. Here are the portables in terms of sales. I have combined the GBA and GBA SP unit sales. 1. DS - 55,825 2. PSP - 43,043 3. GBA&SP - 15,557 Not bad, that makes that weeks handheld sales. 1. Nintendo - 71,382 2. Sony - 43,043 Total Handheld Systems sold that week = 114,425 Using rough math, meaning sleepy math and a calculator, Nintendo owns 62% of the handheld market and Sony owns 38% of the handheld market in Japan. Of course that is of total sold units, for that week. Yes, Nintendo is "losing" soooo badly that you must sign up for this to console me for my sadness. Cheer up though, Atlus has revealed SBK, a BRAND NEW -not a port- version of Snowboard Kids with new and old tracks, plus new and old characters. The new look is much sleeker and more "Maria Bogner" meets Snowboarding meets Anime than the big noses of the past. The current name being thrown for the new game is SBK: eXpresseD. Also considered is SBK: thunDer Summit and SBK: Deep froSt. One of the interesting things right now is that there are a grand total of three hidden characters to unlock that are NOT from Atlus. We've all seen Cloud in Final Fantasy 7 Snowboarding for mobile phones, and Atlus has secured permission from SquareEnix to use Yuna, a Moogle, and Sephiroth in SBK for the Nintendo DS. They will be redrawn to match the style used in SBK. Sadly, no Cloud is available; but a create a kid mode is available that uses the touch screen for touching up boards, and character looks. So, you can create Cloud if you like. Sephiroth's character model is based on the original FF7 style and not the Kingdom Hearts Style. Yuna is based off of her FFX2 style. The Moogle is similar to the style used in Kingdom Hearts. The game is eXpecteD to hit the slopes this November. More will be shown at E3. If that did not cure the winter blues, pay close attention to what I am going to tell you about the latest bit to pass through my sources from Majesco: DS MOVIE Cards are in a testing phase so far and it looks like the bottom screen will be used for player controls, while the top screen will display the movie in full screen. The first ones being tested are a compilation of new Spongebob Squarepants episodes (5 episodes), a compilation of Pokemon Advance Generation episodes (4 episodes) and a sample of the Powerpuff Girls Movie. The picture quality is greatly improved in the new DS Movie Cards in comparison to the old GBA Video Paks and is noticeably on par with UMD movies. The increased episode count is good stuff. Although 2 episode DS Movie Cards are being considered as a sub-$10 item. Well, enjoy the editorial, I'll add reviews soon, and the next Viral Speak will be soon as well! Enjoy! -PAW- |
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