The first-ever federal case lobbied against a console modder was dropped earlier last week when federal attorneys dismissed it after new testimony. Tony Rosario, an investigator for the Entertainment Software Association, testified that the accused – Matthew Crippen – was paid to install a mod-chip into an Xbox 360, and had seen him play a […]
Nintendo recently forecast an expected drop in this year’s company profits. While nowhere near a loss, the profit reduction is significant, with an estimated income of 230 billion yen ($2.43 billion) compared to fiscal 2009’s 279.1 billion yen ($2.95 billion.) Most analysts agree with the forecast, considering it would be the company’s first since 2004, […]
The unstoppable fiscal force of Nintendo’s Wii has pushed the little white machine past the 67 million mark for overall unit sales, the DS (125 million) now only a breath away from taking the top sales spot from the Playstation 2. The new record was only the silver lining in Nintendo’s financial cloud, as the […]