One million Wii sales a month totally possible -- Pachter (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News, SalesIt's NPD week, and that can mean only one thing, folks: it's Pachter time. Everybody's favorite silver-haired analyst makes a habit of estimating console sales in the U.S. on a monthly basis -- it's his job or something -- and this month is no different.
Long Mario scarf is long (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Fan stuffClick for more images of the scarf
Atlanta knitter Cassie (that'll be her boyfriend, Jason, pictured) is currently slaving away on what is likely to be the greatest scarf of all time -- a wool-based reproduction of the iconic World 1-1 from Super Mario Bros.
Washable Balance Board covers repel your grubby feet (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Imports, Peripherals
Fact: feet are disgusting. Also a fact: the Wii Balance Board is very, very white. What price will you pay to keep it that way, and prevent mucky feet from tarnishing its perfect surface?Linx Products hopes that you'll pay ¥1,554 (around $14).
Wii Fanboy Review: Strong Bad Episode 1: Homestar Ruiner (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Reviews, WiiWareClick for full-sized image
When booting up my review copy of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, I thought about how long it had actually been since I took a trip around the Homestar website (plug). Sad to say, it had been years. So, I was curious to see where these characters had gone in the long time since I laughed at their antics.
Sonic's Shoes Unleashed (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Imports, Screens
The real attraction to these Sonic Unleashed scans is what seem to be tiny screens of the Wii version in action, including a couple we've seen and many we haven't. But we found two somewhat ancillary news bits related to these scans too distracting to ignore.
Wii Warm Up: Mario & Sonic at the thing that is happening right now (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Wii Warm Up
When Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games came out last year, there were no current Olympic Games for the pair to be at. The game was still branded with the Beijing Olympics logo, despite Beijing not yet having even a single Olympic. Even with the weird timing, the game did just fine; we expect that with the Olympics in full swing, sales will pick up even more.
VC Monday Madness: Break In and Star Parodier (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: VC Monday MadnessWith the Wii bursting at the seams with content this week, we've got two new Virtual Console games, imports, to check out. Up on the block is Break In and Star Parodier, both for the Turbografx16 (Star Parodier is a CD-ROM title, though). Hit up the video above to check out some footage and commentary, then head past the break for a little more.
Miyamoto's hobbies are now trade secrets (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: NewsAccording to the Times, mysterious "sources" inside Nintendo report that the company has banned its most famous producer from speaking about his hobbies. This makes sense given that Shigeru Miyamoto often claims to draw direct inspiration for his games from the activities he does on his time off.
Retail and download releases for the week of August 11th (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Virtual Console, WiiWareThis week brings lots of content to the Wii. We've got a pair of new Virtual Console games, some fresh WiiWare action and even some retail game love, for good measure. If you're looking for something new to enjoy on your Wii, then you're certainly in luck.
A trio of Mega Man bosses are detailed (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Screens, WiiWare
One of the key aspects to those Mega Man games are boss fights. No, not boss battles, but boss fights. Thanks to IGN, we get an early peek at three of the bosses that our little robotic boy in blue will have to face in his latest adventure, Mega Man 9.
Former Sony boss predicts Sony and Nintendo tie at end of current gen (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: NewsIf one was to make an estimation as to the end of the console race today, it would appear Nintendo has things on lock. But, the future isn't always certain, so some folks don't mind coming up with their own guesses as to where we're headed in the years to come.
This week's Nintendo Channel videos burninate your retinas (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News, VideoThis week's videos have some choice snippets that you should watch. For those of you who got a kick out of last week's Madden 09 All-Play videos, there are some more of those up for grabs. The best of the best has to be what we embedded above, though.
Top 5: Upcoming Original IPs from Third Parties (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Top Five
Man, there are those who really love to complain. After viewing Zero Punctuation's latest video, I've decided that the old phrase distributed liberally by parents and teachers is indeed very true: "you can't please everyone." Nintendo themselves must have felt this pretty hard after their E3 showing was widely perceived as sub-par.
Robots start going wild for Mega Man 9 videos (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Video, WiiWareIt is the year 20XX, and the world watches these awesome Mega Man 9 clips. They're a combination of stuff we've seen before -- the amazing intro and the E3 Plug Man levels -- and stuff that hasn't gotten much exposure on video, specifically the Concrete Man demo level (featuring robot elephants that are brutally serious business).
Microsoft: Wii third-party sales 'not a pretty story' (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News
Despite NoA's VP, Denise Kaigler, showing us all a graph with some lines on it, group manager of corporate PR at Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business, David Dennis, wants us all to know that the information presented in Kaigler's little chart is wrong.
LEGO Kong rolls and clanks his way into our hearts (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Fan stuff
At this point, we're already convinced that you can make anything out of LEGO. Gaming icons? No problem. Game rooms? Easy. Hardware? We can do it. The games themselves? Anything is possible, including, apparently, a working replica of a classic, recreated brick by brick.
