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In-Depth: Koei President Matsubara Explains Third-Party Challenges In Japan

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2008-09-11 16:00:33 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
Somewhat lost in big sister site Gamasutra 's news the other day was a rare Brandon Sheffield-authored interview with the president of Koei , still a surprisingly powerful publisher in Japan. Some interesting perspectives on the Western-Japanese crossover here To the surprise of many, Tecmo last week rejected a friendly takeover offer from...
 
Tags: market, still-solid ps2 market, generation market, western market harder, success, japanese success, japanese, japanese developers, asian market
 
 
 
 
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Microsoft's Spin on the NPD: GTA Sells Better on 360; More Third Party Dollars Generated

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2008-06-13 04:43:08 by Chris in Gaming Today
While Im always interested in seeing each months NPD results, what I perhaps like even more is getting to see each hardware manufacturers spin on the numbers. Although, really, Nintendo doesnt need any spin with numbers like these Microsofts spin on the May numbers hones in on the number of copies GTA IV sold on Xbox 360 versus the other...
 
Tags: spin, software attach, software, xbox, games, sony spin, games outsell, microsoft, record software attach
 
 
 
 
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Nintendo of Europe warns users about third-party chargers

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2008-07-30 20:18:17 by Sally B. in Nintendo DS
Alarmed with the proliferation of third-party power supplies for the DS handheld, Nintendo finally sent out a press release warning consumers about the dangers of using third-party DS chargers There is also the possibility of chargers being swapped with third-party products upon importing DS consoles from countries outside the European Economic...
 
Tags: third-party, third-party power supplies, chargers, third-party counterparts, unsafe gadget chargers, nintendo, third-party products, limited-edition consoles, consoles
 
 
 
 
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Nintendo - Third-party games sell well on Wii; Microsoft - No they dont

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2008-08-11 15:57:28 by Chris Schilling in Wii Wii
Desperate to scotch the myth that third-party games dont sell on Wii, Nintendo has released a set of figures and graphs (which theyre getting rather fond of recently) showing that they do Though the percentage pales into comparison with the equivalent amount on Xbox 360 and PS3 (representing 56% of total sales, compared with 84% and82%...
 
Tags: wii, million, million software sales, wii sales, microsoft, sales, total figures, total, games
 
 
 
 
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Third-party Wii titles suffer under First-party dominance

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2008-01-04 02:42:54 by AngstAndAvarice in That VideoGame Blog
Several weeks ago, we ran an interview with Jeff Bell, head of the Microsoft Games division in which he criticized Nintendo for the success of their first-party titles for the Wii. Cinemablend.coms Jonathan Stulce has written a stirring Op/Ed piece entitled You Failed The Wii about the consumers responsibility to go out and support the good...
 
Tags: wii, wii title, party support, wii library, support, zack, title, wiki, video games
 
 
 
 
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Nintendo releases third-party sales chart, NPD clarifies some details

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2008-08-09 00:00:00 by Alexander Sliwinski in Joystiq
Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3 , Nintendo Wii , Microsoft Xbox 360 , Business Nintendo has sent GameDaily a second chart to set the " record straight " that third-party titles do sell on the Wii -- when comparing all consoles for the first 19 months. We contacted NPD to get a little more objective perspective on the matter and the company...
 
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Another Nintendo myth debunked: Wii sold the most third party games in first 20 months

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2008-08-11 06:48:33 by HASH0x8bd966c in Infendo - Nintendo blog
Today, we learn that the venerable Wii, supposed anathema to third party publishers the world over, has in fact sold more third party software in its first 20 months than either the PS3 or the Xbox 360 The news was first pushed out by Nintendo, and was rightfully criticized as company spin. Then, GameDaily did a little legitimate journalism and...
 
Tags: party, wii, third-party software, party ratio shoots, wii music, party software, remove wii play, million units, units
 
 
 
 
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Nintendo lying about third party dominance? Microsoft would argue so

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2008-08-11 05:39:00 by HASH0x8b4e958 in Destructoid - Hardcore video game blog
Last week we posted a story where Nintendo refuted claims that its third party games weren't selling by producing a colorful little chart that was apparent proof of its dominance in software sales. Microsoft, however, has some fancy figures of its own which fly in the face of Nintendo's claims Here are the sparkling NPD figures, as taken from...
 
Tags: units, solid figures, figures, fancy figures, wii, nintendo, xbox, npd figures, party game story
 
 
 
 
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NPD reinforces claim that third-party titles do in fact sell well on Wii

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2008-08-14 16:00:45 by Se Ajala in That VideoGame Blog
Nintendo tried to put a stop to the supposition that third-party titles werent selling on the Wii recently by putting out a graph that showed that the sales for third-party titles on the Wii were actually selling better as of late than their competitors Microsoft, Sony, and a couple of fortune tellers analysts got involved and tried to take a...
 
Tags: wii, third-party titles, wii recently, npd, million units, sales, fortune tellers analysts, nintys sales, include europe