| June 28-29/2005 - Revisionist Theories! QOTU: "Chevelle is really Hanson in DISQUISE." How goes the industry? Well, NeoSpong announced World Reborn: Unification for the Nintendo DS. It is an online shooter that is worth checking out. The latest issue of Nintendo Power had some more interesting information in the form of a list of ONLINE DS games. There's apparently another Bomberman coming out for the DS this year that is ONLINE. That is sexy. But the majority of this article is to inform you that I did a few changes around here. For one, I combined the "Import" section of our main reviews section back into the rest of the pages. So, if you are looking for a review of an import GB game like Puchi Carat, it will be under with other games that start with the letter P instead of a disorganized "imports" section. Also, general updating in the information section of that area. I also added three reviews to the Reviews section: Wario Ware Twisted!, Archer MacLean's 3D Pool, and Lumins (PSP). I will add more later on. Click HERE to get to those reviews. I also did some further editing to our Game Boy Micro coverage in the E32005/A-Kon 16 coverage. Is it hot? Why yes it is! I would say that what we have here is the DEFINITIVE page for the Nintendo Game Boy Micro. So, hop to it! New reviews, articles, and a Viral Speak by the end of the week, people! -  -  |
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| June 21 - 24/2005 - Annoying Things, Romance, and more! QOTU: "I intend to spoil it." Hey! A new article is up! It's in the A-Kon/E3 2005 section and you better read it for it is GOOD for you. That said, the latest Media Create data for June 13 through 19 is in and it looks like the Nintendo DS has broken 1,000,000 in sales in Japan in 2005! DS Brain Training was #2 in sales this week, up from #4 last week. The Nintendo DS was the number one selling unit again. Here are the raw numbers. DS 31,376 PS2 25,526 PSP 20,416 GBASP 9,727 GC 2,183 GBA 475 Xbox 150 Add that total in with the previous weeks total of units for the entire year: 972,202 Total sales of DS units in Japan for 2005 alone: 1,003,578 Total sales of the DS in Japan to date: 2,495,909 Oh, a controversy over sales of UMDs has erupted. Well, Sony said they shipped over 110,000 units of movies like House of Flying Daggers and Resident Evil: Apocalypse, they also claim to have sold 200,000 units of those movies. The math does not add up. What happened was that Reuters said that over 100,000 UMD movies have been sold worldwide. Depending on which "Sony Expert" you ask, over a half million to 2 million UMD movies have shipped worldwide. I think Sony just refuses to own up to the real sales data and continues to cling to overly optomistic shipped data instead of sell-through data. Judging by the amount of UMD movies still on retailer shelves, I think that the Reuter's number means that Sony has sold over 100,000 units and a little under 200,000 units worldwide. So, do I think that the UMD is a failure? Eh. It's a cheap way to resell movies that stopped making money. Kind of liking releasing VHS these days. It's for people who have the wrong technology to fully enjoy a movie. It gives people that air of "difference" which is why people pay more for vinyl: They enjoy getting ripped off it if makes them feel better about their lives. Technically, shipping an item means it has been sold to the store. The store buys it and sells it. When the store sells it, this is a sell-through. Sell-throughs matter, because you can ship a million units and have 98% of the returned to you for not selling through. See how that works? Interesting stuff. The schedule is slowly working its way back to normality. After a quick review of our other e-mails, I discovered a large amount of reviews that were not on the site yet. Those will be up on Thursday. But first, quick news. 1. The Annoying Thing from the commercial in Europe is getting its own game. I got a long two page press release on it in my inbox, apparently there will be console racing games for it and a platformer for it. The creature looks like it was left out of Oddworld. That is the game the developers of the GBA game should strive to be like. 2. Romance of the Three Kingdoms III is coming to the Nintendo DS with new content, touch controls, etc. Romance of the Three Kingdoms is an epic game series and there are two of them on the old Game Boy. Should be good for those of us who enjoy strategy games. And that's it. IF YOU CAME HERE FROM THE A-KON CONVENTION TO SEE THE PICTURES WE TOOK, JUST CLICK THIS LARGE AND ALL CAPS SENTENCE TO JUMP STRAIGHT TO THE WELL WHERE THE PICTURES BE! - -
(E3/A-Kon) June 17/2005 - They moved! I swear! QOTU: "Just another reason why we aren't on IGN anymore, right?" Hey! New articles are coming, in fact: Hbomb has a new article up right now as we work our way back into something resembling a schedule! A few bits of news: Nintendogs in the US on August 22nd with three new breeds of puppy goodness. Yeah, a Husky, a Golden Retriever, and a Boxer. There will be three versions, so just buy them all. Oh! A treat for PSP owners! One of the titles that Sony will be launching with the PSP in Europe is the movie: "You Got Served." If you waste your money on that unit, that's all you have to know. Oh! The new sales data for Japan is out. This sales data is from MediaCreate and covers June 6 to June 12, 2005. The software sales have Brain Training for the DS at #4. Nintendogs has taken 9, 11, and 12 respectively. The #5 game is a GBA RPG game with a long Japanese name. Here are the console charts everyone wants! DS 32,765 PS2 27,741 PSP 21,476 GBASP 8,522 GC 2,558 GBA 623 Xbox 131 There you go! Another week of DS dominance as sales fell for all the systems. Year to date sales! NDS = 972,202 PSP = 936,892 The Nintendo DS is beating it by 35,310 units. If sales rise or continue to be steady next week, the DS will bust the one million mark for 2005. Good thing Advance Wars 3 is coming soon! That game got a 34 out of 40 in the recent Famitsu. That means it got Gold. Don't worry PSP owners! The system is getting Coded Arms and Panic Bomber. Coded Arms is a tedious FPS game that everyone seems to want to love despite the boringness of it. Panic Bomber is a port of the Virtual Boy title, but this time in color on a different failing system. Yes, I went there. But what can I say? Call it as it is.. IF YOU CAME HERE FROM THE A-KON CONVENTION TO SEE THE PICTURES WE TOOK, JUST CLICK THIS LARGE AND ALL CAPS SENTENCE TO JUMP STRAIGHT TO THE WELL WHERE THE PICTURES BE! Give? - -
(E3/A-Kon) June 8/2005 - Twirped. QOTU: "Now you can rub away the Tamagotchi mess." It's time to list a few recently announced good things. The Nintendo DS is getting a Tamagotchi game in September as well as a Power Pro Baseball game and a Winning Eleven game. Nice. A red DS will debut in August for the debut of that Jump! Smash game. You know, the Smash Bros like game that features characters from Naruto, One Piece, Dragon Ball Z, Bleach, and others. Neat. Oh! I finally uploaded two more articles for our A-Kon coverage! This brings the amount of A-Kon articles up to four. There will be some more E3 articles up soon as well as the last bits of Don't Panic. Then I will start on a special project that you will all love: Another Misty Story 2: Feeling Misty. Trust me, you'll like it. Oh, Lunar DS has been named Lunar: Dragon Song in the USA. Don't worry, this game is a prequel and not a port. Rejoice! Click on the blue windfish whale image to the right of this article to go to where the articles are. IF YOU CAME HERE FROM THE A-KON CONVENTION TO SEE THE PICTURES WE TOOK, JUST CLICK THIS LARGE AND ALL CAPS SENTENCE TO JUMP STRAIGHT TO THE WELL WHERE THE PICTURES BE! Give? - -
(E3/A-Kon) June 6/2005 - Back in the Saddle. QOTU: "I PRETZEL WORLD." I am back from A-Kon. I was stuck without internet connection for the longest time at the convention. Oddly, I was able to dodge falling glass things, snatch out over 150+ pictures of people and things with Squishy, and write some articles. When I came back to the internet, I discovered that NOTHING HAS HAPPENED AT ALL. Well, the sales data from Media Create came in for the week of May 23 to 29, 2005. Apparently, puppies were put aside for GIANT ROBOTS, and brain tricks. What you say? Know this what you desire? SD Gundam G Generation DS came out, sold 53,484 titles, and DS Brain Training did well too, selling 47,861 units. Learn you shall. The DS was once again the top selling system on the charts and has now defeated the PSP in terms of 2005 sales in Japan. If continue, this does. An absolute b*tch of Sony has Nintendo made. No reason for that Yoda speak. Kyle Herbert! You are no Jedi. Articles for A-Kon will be up soon. For now, enjoy 20 megs or so of pure Squishy A-Kon picture MAYHEM. Cosplay in all its glory! Yes. Glory. Love pictures. Oh, some of these pictures are so incredibly awesome that you will weep at their awesomeness. Others may make you whimper slightly. IF YOU CAME HERE FROM THE CONVENTION TO SEE THE PICTURES WE TOOK, JUST CLICK THIS LARGE AND ALL CAPS SENTENCE TO JUMP STRAIGHT TO THE WELL WHERE THE PICTURES BE! Give? - - (E3/A-Kon) May 27 - June 5/2005 - Playing for keeps. QOTU: "This whole blink out of existence thing. Do that often?" Added early A-KON stuff to the coverage! YAY! Alien Hominid is apparently set to debut on the GBA soon in Europe. Those Europeans got Comix Zone on the GBA and now THIS? Gah. I say we invade. To quote my favorite Satoru Iwata saying: "End I lave it!" Rejoice! The latest chapter of DON'T PANIC is up! As well as some slight re-edits of the previous chapters for clarity and the adding of content. For those counting, only three more chapters remain in this series. They are as follows:
Each of those aforementioned articles goes into subjects like cosplay/furries, swag collecting tips, and general information about general things. Yes, I assure you that I will not be kind. I also assure you that you will learn things you did not know before hand! More articles and lots of game impressions will be up soon. We may take forever, but we have the best and most honest coverage of the conventions. After all, we are not advertising ourselves or our site inside any of these games. We are going to give you honest, if not a little mean, assessments. We love Nintendo, but we are not above constructive criticism. Other companies though.. are fair game. Rawr. That said, The Sony article has been expanded. Movie and Audio files for E3 2005 have been removed. If you missed them, please feel free to e-mail us for them. They will be available on our first "bootleg" disc. Please stay tuned for details on that at a future time. Oh, the Nintendo DS was the second best selling system the week after Golden Week. For one week, PS2 was beating it. Then it rose again to #1 from May 15 to 22, 2005. Nintendo released their "Brain Training" educational title just in time for testing periods and it was the #2 selling title in that week selling 42,509 copies. That is insane. It is like someone releasing a Cliff's Notes software game. I can see why people would buy the studying aid; but I thought it would not sell as well as it did. Nintendogs is still selling well. The current console sales for that week look like this.
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