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| December 2005 Quote Of The Whenever: "Tree = Aggro." 12.25 - Merry Christmas! - Well, here is a quick gift! Enjoy the niceness of a new -rather long- editorial from the staff here at DMG Ice! 
12.23 - Roasting - The latest Media Create stats are in for the week of December 12 to December 18. Here are the hardware sales in Japan.
12.21 - We're alive. - And we're so gosu that we are going to update on Christmas with the cover content we mentioned. A few things to note, apparently Yggdra Union -a tactical RPG- for the Game Boy Micro comes out in Japan in March 23rd, 2006. If everything goes as planned, we may have it in the USA around September 2006. The USA is getting Pokemon Trozei (Pokemon Touroze in Japan) this March. However, I think I may be too busy playing Tales of Phantasia that month on the Game Boy Micro. Sony is expected to release Firmware 3.0 before the end of February. Apparently they are considering adding a seperate section for TXT and PDF format file reading plus a few browser fixes. Should be interesting to see how that turns out. Also of note, the next Pokemon movie: Pokemon Ranger and the Prince of the Sea (Not Tennis) already has a trailer up. The movie will be out in Japan July 2006 and direct to video in the USA in time for Christmas 2006. Speaking of Pokemon; there is a story making its way along the blog circuit of "new journalists" purporting that Nintendo threatened legal action on the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Research Institute. This story is both incorrect, and malicious in intent. The idea of the article is to paint Nintendo as being a "bad" company that does not care about Cancer Research. The truth is that no legal action or threat of legal action took place from when the oncogene Zbtb7 was found and nicknamed in late December 2004, and then renamed to a proper final name in January 2005. The Associated Press reported on the oncogene back in late January 2005, AFTER the oncogene was renamed. The AP story also failed to differentiate between oncogenes and normal genes. Here is the original press release from the research center. Just another example of the mainstream press gunning for the video game industry in as thin a way as possible. 12.14 - Maybe you'll like this! - Three new reviews! Shantae for GBC, Earthworm Jim for GBA, and the UMD Movie Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex Volume 1 for the PSP. Read them here! 12.14 - How to fail in Japan - Just call yourself Xbox. The Xbox 360, according to Media Create, has sold about 30,000 units since it launched. Considering the Nintendo DS has been selling 130,000+ the last two weeks, that says something about the Xbox launch. Maybe this is more proof that portables matter more than console. At least in Japan, anyways. Here in the USA, the NPD TRSTS sales stats are out for November and they seem a bit odd. The reason for this is because they came out, then were retracted, then put out again and then they're different everywhere. I have three press releases with the data. So, I'll go with the most recent ones. Here are the hardware sales in November, according to the NPD TRSTS which does not include major retailers like Toys R US, and sometimes includes Wal-Mart. USA Sales Data from the NPD TRSTS. (Not accurate though.) GBA = 819,733 PS2 = 535,000 NDS = 369,012 PSP = 353,434 Xbox 360 = 325,902 NGC = 272,010 Xbox = 197,000 Apparently, the Game Boy Advance/SP/Micro sells well! What can we say? Just that portables matter. The Nintendo DS defeated the PSP during the launch month of Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories. But not from sales of Mario Kart DS. So, I guess the Nintendo DS beat it on the sales of more than one game. Also, there are a lot of first run DS games like Super Mario 64 DS going for pretty inexpensive. 12.13 - Ireland is full of snakes. - Secretly, anyways. Vic Ireland announced that Working Designs, a game publisher that acts a bit like an anime company when it comes to extras and over-use of pop culture references in their translations, has closed down. Apparently their games go to 11, and their company goes to Chapter 11. Since Ireland himself has never done anything for portables, or said anything nice about them; I am under no obligation to say anything nice about them. The sad thing is that they never made anything for portables. Maybe they would still be around if they had. Let that be a lesson to all companies that underestimate the importance of portables. 12.09 - Eventually! - According to Media Create, here are the sales stats for the week of November 28 to December 4, 2005. These are just the hardware ones. the Nintendo DS has been doing well. On the software side, Animal Crossing sold 130,355 units for a total of 455,821 units in less than two weeks of availability. Sleeper hit, indeed.
12.01 - Random Jim Croce Cat Stevens Reference - Oh, baby, baby. It's a Wild World. And it's hard to get by, on just a smile, girl! I had to reference that artist. You know, before he became an idiot. That said, the big news is that Animal Crossing: Wild World launched in Japan and sold over 325,466 copies in its first week of availability. That is not sane, considering that combined hardware sales the previous week weren't even that high. So, how many Nintendo DS units were sold that week? We will find out soon. On the other side of the aisle, Sony released Update 2.60 for the Play Station Portable. This adds a few small features, but the big deal is the new RSS feed reader. If DMG Ice were running on PHP, we'd have an RSS Feed. But, since most of the PHP sites I go to spend 85% of their time not working properly or loading slowly, an RSS Feed for DMG Ice may be a little ways off. But, thought I would mention that PSP owners can now have something to read feeds and such from. That said, Animal Crossing hits our shores next week. Then the week after that, we get Final Fantasy IV for the Game Boy Advance. PSP fans get Popolocrois in December and they best buy it. Popolocrois is 100% a much better game than Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories. I also decorated for Christmas and changed Adam's name into a Tenda symbol. Unless he would rather be something other than a Tenda. Editors note: Thanks for all the responses correcting me. My bad.  |
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