Nintendo selling 200K DS’s a week. 700K Wii’s a month.

GTA: Chinatown Wars headed to DS.

A new snowboarding game is coming out – Shaun White Snowboarding. Uses Wii Fit footpad.

A new Wii Sports Resort game where you can throw a disc to a dog, ride a jetski, or sword duel. Yes, you can sword duel on a beach. WIN!

Wii Speak is a community microphone that allows you to talk to other gamers.

Wii Music: Play 50 musical instruments with your Wii remotes and footpad. This isn’t Rock Band. Create your one music as you move the instruments including drums, piano, saxophone (by blowing into the speaker on the remote), guitar, etc.

Kotaku’s poll says that 2% of votes are Psyched, 81% Pissed, and 17% Satisfied with Nintendo’s conference. Wow. That’s harsh.

Color me bored. Wake me when she rolls over. This was a lackluster E3 for Nintendo. Wii Music is going to be a great casual game. The snowboarding game will be a good buy for anyone with Wii Fit. Other than that, I see nothing that is going to make me want to go out and buy a Wii. Parents will certainly buy Wii Music for their kids.

As I’ve been saying for a while, 3rd party developers aren’t going to want to develop for the Wii because of the niche motion controls. I think this may be a reason why we didn’t see more third party games during the Nintendo demo.

This is the reason I am planning on purchasing a Wii this month... Super Smash Bros. Brawl releases in the U.S. on the March 9th. As a big fan of the Smash Bros. series, I have been closely watching and anticipating this game. Regardless of the rating it would receive, I would most likely buy it simply because of what game it is, and it gives me a good excuse to get a Wii.

Fortunately, it looks like this game is a winner. IGN released their review on the game today, and I am pumped now more than ever.

You can check out the entire review here.

IGN's Rating

9.0 Presentation - An impressive lineup of stages and characters, including some from third parties. Amazing soundtrack. Gorgeous cut-scenes. Simple menus. Long front-load and lacking online options.

8.5 Graphics - Looks like an enhanced version of Melee. Improved character models and backgrounds. Everything runs in 480p, 16:9 and at 60 frames. Even so, the graphics definitely lack detail in areas.

10 Sound - One of the best soundtracks ever created. Sound effects, meanwhile, are perfectly punchy and well-suited to the characters and environments.

9.5 Gameplay - Tight control, more balanced character move sets, new final smashes and more. We're not particularly fond of the single-player mode, but multiplayer is so good we just don't care.

10 Lasting Appeal - Destined to be played for years thanks to spectacular offline and online multiplayer modes. One of the great four-player games of all time.

OVERALL
9.5 - Incredible
EDITOR'S CHOICE

I'm typing this as I'm watching Microsoft's E3 presentation.

The high school kids playing the HALO music was cool.

Peter Moore says this will be the biggest holiday season of all time for them. All games shown tonight launch this year.

Adults playing Rock Band didn't blow me away. Was kind of cool. Was kind of lame.

XBOX 360 sales figures are impressive. The Wii is (barely) out selling the XBOX 360 right now. However,

Total consoles sold (in millions)
5.6 - 360
2.8 - Wii
1.4 - PS3

Total since launch of Wii and PS3
2.7 - 360
2.8 - Wii
1.4 - PS3

XBOX 360 has sold more games since the launch of Wii and PS3 than SONY and Nintendo combined.

The Grim Wiiper Claims Life.

Although the Nintendo Wii has only been out a couple of months, it has managed to garner a tremendous amount of attention for the large number of injuries/accidents surrounding the console. The website Wii Have a Problem has taken it upon itself to document many of these accounts of property damage and bodily injury. Up to this point, however, most of these instances have been limited to bumps, scratches, black eyes, broken controllers - ya know, stuff you won't care about in a matter of weeks/months. Unfortunately, one California woman recently fared much worse. While participating in a radio show contest to see how long one could "hold their wee", while consuming water at regular intervals, she apparently gave herself water intoxication. She reported having a really bad headache, but did make it to her home where she was later found dead. She was trying to win the popular Nintendo gaming console for her 3 children.