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Evolution of Nintendo DS and the future of higher sales Ea
EA has just revealed its financial data from the Q3 Christmas 2007 period (October to December), which the company shows more income than before.
When you break down the figures for handheld games, Nintendo DS was by far the most impressive artist, with sales up 122 percent from $ 55 million in Q3 2006 to $ 122 million.
EA launched only five DS games during that time, Boogie, Need for Speed ProStreet, EA Playground, The Sims 2 Castaway and The Simpsons Game, but DS sales still accounted for eight percent of EA's total turnover.
CEO of Nintendo, Satoru Iwata, has been talking about the DS, Nintendo's future plans for their games and the possibility that gambling services are not available to download to DS from public access point Wi-Fi throughout the country.
He said: "One of the proposed lifestyle that we would like to implement in the first half of this year is an experiment aimed at getting people to use their DSS in public spaces as part of a larger effort for the DS in a tool useful for people in their daily lives.
He continued, "is a portable platform, a single architecture that can receive anything given a wi-fi hot spot with over 20 million units in use in Japan and about the same amount in U.S. and Europe. I really think the idea of making a gaming machine it is also useful in their daily lives is a good and possible. We look forward to the results of the experiment, while we hope to increase the number of places you can use your DS in progressive steps. "
Like the PSP satellite navigation add-on and the new Skype capabilities, the DS has also already found applications in daily life – translation software is available for it and in Japan, the console has been used to give tourists information when visits to museums. Meanwhile, a recent trial in the U.S. allowed users in a baseball game to order food and watch the game on your DS.
In his interview, Mr. Iwata also speaks original idea not to do something different with both DS and Wii.
He continued, "we knew that if games appealed to fewer people, the future would be bleak. And with video games being demonized by the public, it was difficult to see how games could flourish all that. So we knew we had to change … Hear stories about customers who seemed to never touch a game around the shops for a copy of Brain Age is what encouraged us. "
The player must be quiet hard. Iwata followed this by saying that Nintendo will continue to contribute to the more experienced players, giving games like Zelda, and also the most difficult games again even though he thinks the benefit of securities pick-up-and-play is to allow players experience to play with newcomers – something the CEO said was missing in the market.
So the future looks bright DS for the casual gamer and the hardened Nintendo follower
Exactly what we will be able to download to our DS in the future that is useful remains to be seen. Money off coupons for Tesco? Maps? Hope Nintendo has something a bit more exciting up its sleeve, I'm sure he has!
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