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I do not have blogs for quite some time, then I will make a short summary of articles that marked me!

First, the CEO of Nintendo America, Reggie Fils Aime, was named by the magazine Advertizing Age "Grand Marketer of the Year." Their arguments for this appointment is that the leader has re thanks to the Nintendo Wii and DS, which are certainly innovative gameplay, like Apple at one time, with the world of computing.

Gabe Newell, Valve PGD, says that the PS3 is a waste of time, and that trying to program the Cell, PES ... we do not provide long-term benefits. According to him, it does nothing by trying to win the program, only a total hatred of its architecture that Sony has created. Previously, he had said that the console Sony was "a disaster on many levels." However, the Orange Box, after release on PC and 360, should arrive on PS3. However, this is not Valve who produce, but the teams which will EA of the conversion.

Speaking of the PS3, students of the University of Irvine have recently been rewarded for having responded brain function by combining only 3 consoles from Sony. Their aim was to resolve the problems which the brain is confronted every day. You understand that not all the brain that is emulated, but only a part!

Continuing on the momentum of the PS3 used for anything but to play the doctor in astrophysics Gaurav Khanna used 6 free PlayStation 3 by Sony to measure the type of waves that produces a supermassive black hole swallows when a star.

According to Gerhard Florin, vice president and general manager for international publishing at EA, consoles with a dedicated programming code are exceeded. Should he boxes with applications of streaming data, so the programming code is universal, carrying costs lower ... In sum, over consoles, but only computers, unaffordable.

Finally, some Japanese developers rebelled against Nintendo. According to them, the success of the Wii has only benefited Nintendo, and not to third-party developers. According to them, publishers have been forced to catch up because they did not listen and Nintendo forecasts sales of the console, and produce the games to go quickly, that have not sold. Others believe that the Wii will lose its popularity in a few months because it is a fad, and that people not only bought out of curiosity, and they have not actually used.

Speaking of the Wii, the latest figures from NPD show that sales of Xbox 360 dominated the U.S. market during the month of September flying Wii (ok few), beating the PS3 to 5 against 1. Revenues from the Xbox 360 games beat the revenue from games PS3 with a ratio of 8 against 1. It seems that Halo 3 is "system seller". Moreover, many American cinemas have attributed the decline in attendance at cinemas out of this game

Clearly, the game Manhunt 2 has no chance. This horror game uses the gameplay of the Nintendo Wii to immerse the player in a fairly unhealthy. So unhealthy that he had been banned in several countries. Then Take 2 Interactive asked developers to fix their game, to be validated by various agencies such as the ESRB.

After a few weeks, the game has been validated by the ERSB, with a nice logo 'M' for Mature. However, the British Board of Film Classification has once again refused Thursday

What do you think: too much violence, institutions that are too harsh ...? Express yourself!

It is freely entitled to say that when we see the peaks qu'atteignent actions Nintendo. Yesterday at the closing of trading, action s'échangeait to 556.93 dollars, an increase of 2.7%. This is its highest level ever.

It could be that Nintendo will become the new Apple games, creating new markets with the Wii and DS, as Apple has done with his Ipod. In any case what analysts think.

A council until this fall slightly

PS: look at the image, especially the chart!

Decidedly, it seems that the concept of Xbox Live Arcade is becoming increasingly popular. After Sony with its PlayStation Network, Nintendo has announced WiiWare, a similar concept.

Currently users of the Nintendo Wii can download games from Nintendo catalog mainly via the Virtual Console. The games are not new, these are just old titles that are slightly modified to be read by the console.

With Wiiware, the games will be created exclusively for the Nintendo Wii, like the Xbox Live Arcade or PSN. These securities may make the Big N console even more interesting, especially if they use the Wiimote. This Wiiware will be launched as a new string. According to the press release, the first games expected to arrive in early 2008.

After we must see what the developers and publishers decide to make this Wiiware.

The Nintendo Wii is being be down sharply by different developers and personalities of the gaming world.

First, the producer of Fifa, Tim Tschirner, has "unveiled" a small comparison between the Wii and the Xbox first name. "It's almost as powerful as the first Xbox. The video hardware unfortunately is not as strong. There is just 2-3 key things you can do on Xbox like shaders that you can not do on Wii ... Beyond that is roughly what the first Xbox. " But we must remember that the Xbox 1 was released a few years ago. We knew that the hardware of the Wii was not very technologically advanced, apart from its system of spatial recognition, which is very advanced, but not choose a graphics card that supports shader is strange.

The second person to review the Wii is Scott Steinberg, who is vice-president marketing for Sega U.S.. "I am a little worried about the amount of creative potential of Wii. I'm not sure he will always be on top in 2007 or 2008. The Wii will really start to be exceeded in 2-3 years when developers have drawn closer to the Xbox 360 and learned again and again over the Playstation 3. The potential of Playstation 3 is important. There is much to exploit it. What value developers and creative people able to take advantage of this movement of wrists in 2, 5 or 10 years? How can they imagine that productions are not too derivative, too mundane compared to what has already been done before? "

Without wishing to criticize the console too, because it plays well above, we must admit that Nintendo's strategy was strange, but worked well (see Sales Wii). Nintendo did not want to launch later in the race for next-generation hardware but a little more consistent would not have been refused, and would have slightly higher games even allow display HD politically correct.

We're used to seeing Sony in a difficult situation, both in Europe and USA, the price of the console, but also because of the low number of games available. But Sony just beating a new record in Japan.

According to Bloomberg, citing the magazine Famitsu, he sells 1 PlayStation 3 for 5 Wii in Japan! Indeed, it would have sold 251,794 Wii 50,000 PS3 against me during May.

The situation is similar for the PSP and Nintendo DS, with the same ratio: Nintendo DS 620,670 against 123,673 for the Sony PSP.

Here is a very good news for Nintendo: the site GamesIndustry, according to Nintendo releases, tells us that the profits of the Japanese firm rose 77% over the year 2006/2007, from 608 million to nearly 1.1 billion euros.

The firm says it has sold 23 million DS Lite, and 123 million DS Lite games, more than five games per console sold. They also sold 5.84 million Wii console lounge, with 29 million games sold, or nearly 5 games per console sold. For the year 2007/2008, they hope to sell 22 million DS, 130 million DS games, Wii 14 million and 55 million Wii games.