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BKK2 on 09 April 2009

Nintendo to launch Wii Sports Resort in June

Thu Apr 9, 2009 12:55am EDT

* Wii Sports Resort to debut in June in Japan, July overseas

* Shares down 2.8 pct, little moved by news

TOKYO, April 9 (Reuters) - Japan's Nintendo Co (7974.OS), which competes with Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) and Sony Corp (6758.T) in the global video game market, said on Thursday it would launch its "Wii Sports Resort" software in June in Japan.

Wii Sports Resort follows its popular "Wii Sports" game, which helped drive sales of its Wii game console as users can play baseball, tennis and other sports using its motion-sensing controller.

Wii Sports Resort, which lets users throw a frisbee to a virtual dog or duel one another with swords, will hit overseas markets in July, Nintendo said.

Nintendo's Wii game console far outsells Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3, and its DS, which competes with Sony's PlayStation Portable, dominates the handheld video game market.

Nintendo shares were down 2.8 percent at 27,940 yen, little moved by the news. The benchmark Nikkei average .N225 gained 2.9 percent. (Reporting by Kiyoshi Takenaka; Editing by Chris Gallagher)

Reuters


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RCTjunkie on 09 April 2009

THAT'S NOT SPRING!!!! >:(



WHO IS JESUS REALLY?

Gnac on 09 April 2009

Nice mention of MotionPlus there, Reuters.



WHERE IS MY KORORINPA 3

Valkyria00 on 09 April 2009

Arent the EA games gonna be release like in June? Im not sure.

Anyways cool a fucking final date basically. Cant wait for Zelda Wii WM+.



wfz on 09 April 2009

Great, July sounds better than the Holiday season. This game should be quite fun.



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Orca_Azure on 09 April 2009

Nintendo is going to steal summer from deh kiddies!



SciFiBoy on 09 April 2009

cool, July it is for me then, ill pre-order when i can.



saicho on 09 April 2009

at least now we can all end the speculation on when it will be released



MikeB predicts that the PS3 will sell about 140 million units by the end of 2016 and triple the amount of 360s in the long run.

megaman79 on 09 April 2009

ehhhhh, and Nintendo stock hits a six month high on casual gamer confidence in the market



“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.