Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Global Wii sales have already passed the one million mark in the two weeks since its US launch, and it's onward to 2 million. A large part of the reason is that the new gaming device appears to have captured the imagination of a wider audience than traditional gamers. In fact, it may even become the first gaming device to be endorsed by personal trainers.
One of the attractions being touted by the Wii
advocates is the fact that it forces gamers to get up off their behinds
and to stand up and move to take part in the action.
Nintendo itself has played up this aspect of Wii in its marketing.
Official Nintendo sources have been talking about Wii as being the
ultimate physical work out. This also fits in nicely with Nintendo's
previously announced Brain Age for DS, which is designed to exercise
your brain. There is now an almost educational and socially responsible
aspect to Nintendo's gaming philosophy.
Armed with a motion sensitive "Wiimote" in one hand, which can be
connected by a cord to a Nunchuk controller in the other hand, players
can participate all sorts of motion sensitive simulated sports, such as
boxing, bowling, tennis, as well as pretend combat, such as sword
fights.
It is obviously no accident that the free games package Nintendo has
released with its console is a series of sports games that require
movement.
I have to admit to being one of the few skeptics who did not believe
that the gamble Nintendo took in dropping out of the games processing
power race would succeed against the might of Sony and the relative new
force in the gaming space Microsoft. Early indications are, however,
that Nintendo has indeed succeeded in widening the gaming market. More
than 1 million consoles sold in two weeks is nothing to sneeze at.
That said, it has become clear that the consoles race is a long
distance one rather than a sprint and Sony with its previous two
Playstation models has proven to be the best long distance runner. The
same is almost certainly likely to be true in that case of PS3.
David Bass
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