1UP.com has posted a number of videos and photos from the Leipzig Games Convention, which is being held from August 23rd to August 27th. Nintendo doesn’t have any public kiosks for the Wii, but will be showing it behind closed doors to industry insiders.
Nintendo’s “Brain Age” has earned Edge Magazine’s EIEF06 “Innovation in Gaming” award. Quoth magazine editor Margaret Johnson:
We’re delighted that Brain Training won – it’s a great ambassador for gaming and proves that the instincts for making rewarding and entertaining software that Nintendo has honed for decades can be applied in entirely unexpected ways.
Other contenders for the award included “Amped 3″ for XBOX 360, “Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King” for PS2, “Electroplankton” for DS, “Fahrenheit” for PC, PS2, and XBOX, “Guitar Hero” for PS2, and “Killer 7″ for GameCube and PS2.
The Yankee Group predicts that despite competition and a higher price for its own console, PlayStation 3 will still lead sales in North America, even if only by a narrow margin. Yankee Group predicts that market share for Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony will be 16%, 40%, and 44%, respectively, by 2011. The study also predicts that fewer consoles will be sold overall due to higher prices; what might the outcome be if the Wii launches for $170, far less than either Microsoft or Sony’s consoles?