News// Japan Hardware: Xbox 360 On Level Playing Field

(2 Jul 2010) Microsoft’s console plays with the big boys.

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Nintendo Cutting DSi Prices In Japan, Europe

Nintendo announced its first price cuts for DSi and DSi XL hardware in Japan, and has adopted an open pricing system for DS Lites there, as well. Its also reducing the price of standard DSis in Europe. Nintendo DSi XLs, or DSi LLs as they’re known in Japan, will sell for ¥18,000 ($196) instead of ¥20,000 ($217) starting June 19th. The price reduction will coincide with the debut of three new …

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Analysis: The Great Handheld Battle Of 2010

Since our last report, Nintendo has announced that it will launch a successor to the Nintendo DS, currently called the Nintendo 3DS, before the end of its current fiscal year (ending March 2011). The new device will incorporate a screen technology that allows 3D effects with the naked eye and will be backward compatible with the existing Nintendo DS and Nintendo DSi. Should that device come to …

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Nintendo DSi XL review

Since Nintendo first asserted sole domination over the handheld gaming market with the release of the paperback-sized Game Boy in 1989, the company has striven time and again to make its pocket systems smaller, meeting fantastic financial success along the way. Nintendo did it with the Game Boy Pocket , the Advance SP , the Micro , the DS Lite and again ever so slightly with the DSi — the last …

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Japanese Hardware: DS Line Holds Top Slot As Rankings Stay Static (Gamasutra)

Hardware sales rankings were static week-on-week in Japan, as sales of Nintendo’s DS line of handhelds once again secured the top spot, with the PSP following in second, Media-Create said Friday. For the week ended February 14, the Nintendo DS line of hardware — which includes the DS Lite, DSi, and the DSi LL — sold 51,327 units, down only slightly from a total of 52,606 a week prior …

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Japanese Hardware: DS Line Leads Charts In Repeat Rankings (Gamasutra)

Hardware sales rankings were static week-on-week in Japan, as sales of Nintendo’s DS line of handhelds once again secured the top spot, with the PSP following in second, Media-Create said Friday. For the week ended February 7, the DS line of hardware, which includes the DS Lite, DSi, and the DSi LL, sold 52,606 units, down from a total of 66,457 a week prior, but it was still enough to outsell …

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