Yeah, the US economy sucks and the dollar is 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 states that its really the weak dollar, and not production problems or component shortages, that is causing the Wii hardware shortage. Surprised?
Pachter says that Nintendo stands to gain more by selling the console in other countries, like Europe. In other words, the profit for Nintendo is worse when our dollars get changed into their yen. He goes on to say that supply levels in Europe are starting to normalize after being sent an excess. Perhaps Nintendo will send more our way when we have the ability to pony up a bit more cash. It sounds harsh, but can you blame them?
Pachter thinks that the Wii will become more plentiful in the US later in the year, according to The Dallas News.
America, high five on being second-class!
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Ubisoft is coming out with a new Wii game called Emergency Heroes. Emergency Heroes is set in an open world and it’s the players job to keep the city safe. 16 “next-generation” rescue cars will be available ranging from Cop automobiles, Fire trucks, and more. The game will support two player co-op and versus and will fully utilize the Wiimote. The game should be out sometime this May.
The premise sounds fun. Actually, the premise makes me think of Crackdown. Really, this kind of sounds like Crackdown to a degree. The high tech cars, the free-roaming environment, protecting the city and the upgrades all remind me of Crackdown. Now all this game needs is a bunch of stupid orbs hidden all around the city and we’re set. Oh and guns. Lots and lots of guns.
source Destructoid
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Wasn’t I just recently bemoaning my sad fate if the most recent entry in the Chocobo’s Dungeon series didn’t make it to the US? I choose to believe that Square heard my desperate plea, rather than the more likely explanation that the announcement of the US release of this title just occurred to coincide with my current post about it. After all, Square knows how to work their fans. Think about me worked, dammit.
The official press release confirms the game for a July 8th release at a price of $39.99. Just to remind you in case you forgot in the lapse between the Japanese release of this game and now: FFF Chocobo’s Dungeon is a Wii title which sends Choco and the ubiquitous Cid to a town where people are losing their memories. It’s also the game responsible for those character class Chocobo plushes, which sent many a fanboy and girl howling in search of their highest-limit credit cards. I can vouch for their awesomeness, however, as the full set is staring me down from the bookcase as I type this.
Leap at the link to read the full press release.
[Header photo by Rio McCarthy, Thanks Jonathan]
source Destructoid
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In a stunning move that caught the blogosphere off-guard, TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington announced Monday that his fast-growing blog empire is acquiring the venerable teen magazine and Web site Tiger Beat from the magazine’s parent company, Laufer Media.
Exact terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but Arrington made …
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The robotic stars of last year’s DARPA Urban Grand Challenge, an autonomous vehicle race, will have a rematch at the Toyota Grand Prix in Long Beach, Calif., later this month.
This time, their competition will be solely about speed.
“Boss,” an autonomous Chevy Tahoe from Carnegie Mellon University and
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Undertone Networks, one of the last independent on the internet advertising networks, stated Monday that it has taken its first round of private equity investment from JMI Equity, the firm that took DoubleClick private in 2005 and then sold to Google last year.
The 6-year-old Undertone would not disclose terms of the …
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IBM has been indefinitely barred from entering into new contracts with the U.S. federal government.
The General Services Administration’s Web site shows that IBM was added to a database of “excluded” contractors and subcontractors on March 27 by the Environmental Protection Bureau. Under reciprocity rules, other agencies honor …
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Layoffs hit close to home Monday at Dell, which said it will close its Austin, Texas, desktop manufacturing facility as part of an effort to trim billions in costs.
The Austin facility, which replaced a smaller facility in Austin, is where Dell fine-tuned its “build-to-order” strategy that allowed it to …
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The Panasonic SC-BT100 will cost just under $1,000.
(Credit: Panasonic)
Now that Blu-ray has secured its position as the one and only HD disc format, it’s only natural to see it becoming more of a standard feature on desktop Computers, laptops, camcorders, and–now–home theater systems. Samsung’s HT-BD2T …
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Intel is working on technology that would allow handheld Internet devices to wirelessly use huge screens.
Intel Mobile Internet Device could connect wirelessly to a huge screen.
All technology is a problem looking for a solution (or the converse). Intel is working on technology that would mitigate one of the …
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