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Wii shortages due to weak dollar?

2008-03-31 11:59:00 by Destructoid.com in Destructoid - Hardcore video game blog
 
...weak. As gamers (and poor people) we don't like to hear about that. It makes regularly purchasing $60 videogames with a clear conscience a bit more difficult. If you're anything like me, you try to pretend that you don't know about it. Ignorance is bliss, right Our buddy Michael Pachter brings it back up, though. The Wedbush Morgan analyst...
 
Tags: dollar, wii, weak dollar, weak, nintendo stands, wii hardware shortage, nintendo, wedbush morgan analyst, bit
 
 
 
 
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Is Wii Shortage Related to Weak U.S. Dollar?

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2008-04-02 14:05:50 by GamePolitics in GamePolitics.com
...weak U.S. dollar was the main culprit With a weak dollar, foreign companies that sell their goods in the U.S. for dollars and then convert those dollars to their native currencies get a smaller profit than if they sell their products in countries with strong currencies of their own (such as Europe with the euro). In other words, Nintendo...
 
Tags: dollar, wii, weak, excess wii consoles, weak dollar, godinez, victor godinez, bigger profit, profit
 
 
 
 
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LA Times: game narratives too 'weak' for movies, Uwe Boll agrees

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2008-01-25 00:00:00 by James Ransom-Wiley in Joystiq
...weak narratives" haven't transitioned to the big screen as well as comics - a sentiment echoed by Uwe Boll during a recent Fox News interview; the infamous director declares, "A lot of video games have no story." (Yeah, especially light gun games.) But even something as intricately devised as the Halo universe doesn't seem to hold much...
 
Tags: games, avoid video games, light gun games, video games, uwe boll, hollywood, infamous director declares, would-be fortune-seekers, strong narratives
 
 
 
 
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Pachter: Weak dollar to blame for US Wii shortage

2008-03-29 13:08:24 by patlike in videogaming247
 
Wedbush Morgans Michael Pachter has pinned Americas Wii shortage on the weak US dollar, it says here. Pachter reckons Nintendos been keeping US shipments down to take advantage of stronger currencies in Europe by diverting stock to the Continent. The analyst said that he expects American hardware levels to return to normal later this year, now that
 
Tags: americas wii shortage, pachter reckons nintendos, stronger currencies, weak, dollar, normal, advantage, analyst, stock
 
 
 
 
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Analyst - Nintendo shipped low amounts of Wii Fit due to weak dollar, and the always-fat American

2008-06-01 04:13:44 by RawmeatCowboy in GoNintendo
 
...weak dollar. Were seeing companies ignore their largest market simply because they can make a greater profit elsewhere. (Nintendo) know that Americans will be just as fat a few months from now when [it] will have more units available. - Wedbush Morgan analyst, Michael Pachter Mr. Pachter seems to be getting a little crass with his statements...
 
Tags: fat, fat american, weak dollar, michael pachter, pachter, wedbush morgan analyst, market simply, nintendo, companies ignore
 
 
 
 
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Pachter: Unbalanced Wii Fit shipments due to weak dollar

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2008-06-01 12:00:00 by JC Fletcher in Nintendo Wii Fanboy
...weak dollar. We're seeing companies ignore their largest market simply because they can make a greater profit elsewhere." Then -- seemingly to make sure blogs quoted him -- Pachter added, "They know that Americans will be just as fat a few months from now." The article states that about 500,000 Wii Fit s were shipped to the U.S., versus "as...
 
Tags: wii fit, wii fit units, dollar, weak dollar, exorbitant game prices, europe, north american supply, market simply, european gamers
 
 
 
 
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making room for the little guy

2008-03-19 17:28:00 by Aaron Miller in Anyway Games
 
...weak characters helping powerful characters to conquer a shared encounter Let's face it... Frodo was a child playing a man's game. He was tiny. He was weak. He was inexperienced. And yet, he participated in combat with trained badasses like Aragorn and Legolas; and yet, he was a hero A player doesn't have to be capable of single-handedly...
 
Tags: weak, dark elf beastmaster, powerful, enable true individuality, play characters, powerful characters, elf, individuality, weak characters
 
 
 
 
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Account hacked in WoW

2008-05-07 11:55:00 by Tobold in Tobold's MMORPG Blog
 
...weak password. I once met a guy in Everquest, who told me he had been hacked. After grilling him on how that could be possible, he admitted that his account name, his password, and his main character's name were all the same. Doh! Other weak passwords are "password" and all names. While brute force programs don't work, a program that just...
 
Tags: strong, strong passwords, strong password, password, weak password, account, popular weak passwords, password list, weak passwords
 
 
 
 
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Tobold's MMORPG Blog: Account hacked in WoW

2008-05-07 08:23:29 by Editor in VirginWorlds MMO News
 
...weak password. I once met a guy in Everquest, who told me he had been hacked. After grilling him on how that could be possible, he admitted that his account name, his password, and his main character's name were all the same. Doh! Other weak passwords are "password" and all names. While brute force programs don't work, a program that just...
 
Tags: strong, strong passwords, strong password, password, weak password, account, popular weak passwords, password list, weak passwords
 
 
 
 
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Advanced Talisman Making in WAR

2008-10-07 10:26:00 by Tobold in Tobold's MMORPG Blog