Posts Tagged ‘ wii ’

Wii fitness games don’t encourage exercise

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Micorsoft’s Xbox Kinect, PlayStation’s Move, and Nintendo’s Wii, they all make family fitness and health their primary selling point. But do these fitness video games encourage exercise and activity in children well after the console has gone to sleep? A study conducted at Baylor College of Medicine answers just that question. The study consisted...

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Retro City Rampage running wild on Xbox, Wii, PS3, Vita, and PC in May

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Vblank Entertainment's long -awaited, open-world 8-bit parody crime game, Retro City Rampage , will finally be let loose in May, creator Brian Provinciano told Joystiq. It'll be rampaging across a few new platforms — in addition to the known XBLA and WiiWare versions, Provinciano announced plans on the PlayStation Blog to release the game...

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Wii video streaming pilot was unsuccessful

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Nintendo's pilot project of offering video streaming through the Wii console has come to an end. read more (read the story…)

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Technik: Mehr als zocken: Spielkonsolen als Medienplayer – n-tv.de – n-tv.de

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Xbox 360, Playstation 3 und Wii sind zumindest zum Teil auch Entertainmentzentralen … Die Playstation 3 kann darüber hinaus als einzige Konsole auch Blu-ray-Discs … (more here…)

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56% of US households have current-gen consoles – Nielsen

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New data from audience measurement firm indicates Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii in more than half of nation's homes; 39 percent own an iOS device. (read the story…)

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Nielsen study finds 56% of US households have Xbox 360, PS3 or Wii

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Remember the days when you and a group of friends all had to go to the same house because only one of you had a video game console? And if you were lucky enough to be that one friend, you never had to worry about losing your popularity. Now, however, it’s a much different...

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Xbox 360 The Best-Selling Console In 2011

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The Xbox 360 was the best-selling gaming console in 2011, according to data compiled in a new report. According to GeekWire.com, which collected data from public earnings reports, says Microsoft sold more Xbox 360 consoles than the Nintendo Wii and PlayStation 3 for the calendar year. This marks the first time the Xbox 360...

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Team Ninja: Wii U Development Like PS3, Xbox 360

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Creating a new generation of gaming hardware is a complicated process, and the system inevitably goes through many phases along the way. According to Team Ninja developer Yosuke Hayashi, this is especially true of Nintendo's new home console, Wii U. Nintendo has expressed its intention to reveal the console in its final form at...

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Wii U hardware "changing constantly" says Team Ninja

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Technical specifications for Nintendo's next-gen Wii U console are still in flux, according to Dead or Alive 5 developer Team Ninja. Wii U game development is "very easy" and "almost exactly like on the PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360", Team Ninja revealed to NGamer magazine (thanks, Gamefront.de ) in an interview discussing the Wii...

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CES 2012: Nintendo's Wii U and Zelda in HD, hands-on [Video]

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The most interesting and impressive gadget I saw at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show this week was Nintendo's next video game console — the Wii U. It was also one of the riskiest products, outside of Nokia's new Windows Phone handsets, I saw too. (read the story…)

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