Believe it or not, unlike the full-sized iPad, the Nano has a camera, can multi-task (if jailbroken), and can even be used to make phone calls! Unbelievable!
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The Wii is now the best selling Nintendo home console, while the DS is the firm’s top selling device of all time. The news comes in an event-filled week for the games industry, with Microsoft confirming a super-sized external drive for the Xbox 360 and a Zelda game for Wii now appearing a cert for this year.
While releasing its most recent financial figures, Nintendo announced the Wii has now sold $67.45 million, topping the $61.91 million of the NES. Meanwhile the $125.13 million DS sales to date take it past the $118.69 million recorded by the GameBoy.
What counts as the best-selling games device from any manufacturer is somewhat disputable. The DS sales figure includes both the DS Lite and the DSi. If you class that as merely editions of the same device, but count the Gameboy (and its color edition) separately from the Gameboy Advance, the DS takes the crown. If you instead count all three Gameboy devices as one product it has a distinct lead with total sales a hair under 200 million.
Despite the success, Nintendo took a bit of a knock for 2009, with its profits for the last nine months down more than 9%. That’s due mainly to a drop in sales of its consoles, despite price cuts, most notably selling 17 million Wiis in comparison to more than 20 million in the same period the previous year. That failure is only relative of course: the firm still made a profit of $1.3 million during the period.
And sales news isn’t gloomy everywhere: as a whole, the gaming industry took in $2 billion in Australia last year, a 4% increase which bucked a global trend. There doesn’t appear to be any particular reason why sales down under should perform so well, though it could be that gaming itself has become more popular and attracted first-time buyers.
In other news, a long-running question about when Legend of Zelda Wii will show up appears to have an answer. The online video show Ninty News, an official Nintendo production, lists the game in its preview of 2010 releases.
There’s also good news for Xbox 360 owners who want extra storage space but are screwdriver-averse. Microsoft has confirmed that the Japanese market is to get a 250GB external drive with a $172 price tag. It’s the first time such a large drive has been available from Microsoft as a standalone unit, though it was featured in some bundle deals. The firm says there are no plans to sell the drive outside of Japan, but it’s difficult to imagine it never making its way to other markets.
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As the saying goes, “There’s a flip side to everything,” and in the following video, Derek Sivers shows this is true in a few ways you might not expect.
Ask [GaS]: We’d love to hear other similar anecdotes from you guys, so if you’ve got any, feel free to share them with us in the comments section below.
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As I’m sure you all know, when things float in space, they keep on moving until something stops them. So after traveling many eons through various galaxies, the Star Wars opening script is finally getting stopped by the first object crossing its path: Earth.
My friends and I were bored one day during Christmas Break and decided to make a quick movie. We shot this in 30 minutes and only used 8 minutes of tape. I then proceeded to spend 3 and a half weeks putting in the visuals for the film. Special thanks to the Action Essentials 2 kit from Videocopilot.net, and Jason Lee for his Enterprise model.
[Via Gizmodo]
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Conversation in social media is supposed to be “open source,” right?
We’re supposed to gain energy and excitement from being open to the entire internet, to ideas that come to us from literally every corner of the globe.
But too often “social media” turns into a predictably closed circuit of the same people having the same conversation.
Finding your own tribe can be a wonderful thing. It can also make your blog unbearably boring.
The move from “wonderful” to “boring” happens when we fall into a pattern of always interacting with the same people, always talking about the same topics, and always reinforcing existing networks. There’s no growth, only stagnation.
I’ve seen this happen often with myself. I think that I’m growing and cultivating, but all I’m doing is reinforcing what’s already there.
So, here’s another idea.
Awesome things can happen when we consciously branch out beyond our habitual circles of association.
Instead of just aligning with people with the same skills and strengths as us, we can seek out those with different talents that complement our strengths.
Instead of reinforcing the same patterns of conversations, we can move beyond our comfort zones and make more meaningful connections. We can find new and interesting ways of approaching tired problems.
Instead of reenacting the same mental synapses, we can actually diverge and possibly . . . just maybe . . . innovate.
Who knows, maybe a lawyer could teach you how to build a better case for selling your product. Perhaps a teacher could help you communicate better with the beginners in your audience. Maybe a politician could teach you how to better dodge questions and avoid dealing with real issues.
OK, just kidding with that last one.
When we make a conscious effort to continually bring in fresh ideas and voices, we grow. We break the patterns that we’ve created. We move beyond plateaus to higher ground.
We can only change the game when we change the rules we play by.
And if we do, then just maybe, we can create something that’s really new. And isn’t that what we live for?
About the Author: Jonathan Mead is a writer, martial artist and trafficker of truth. He recently released a free ebook called The Zero Hour Workweek, aimed at helping people find freedom from the 9 to 5.
The lizard brain adores a deadline that slips, an item that doesn't ship and most of all, busywork.
These represent safety, because if you don't challenge the status quo, you can't be made fun of, can't fail, can't be laughed at. And so the resistance looks for ways to appear busy while not actually doing anything.
I'd like to posit that for idea workers, misusing Twitter, Facebook and various forms of digital networking are the ultimate expression of procrastination. You can be busy, very busy, forever. The more you do, the longer the queue gets. The bigger your circle, the more connections are available.
Laziness in a white collar job has nothing to do with avoiding hard physical labor. “Who wants to help me move this box!” Instead, it has to do with avoiding difficult (and apparently risky) intellectual labor.
"Honey, how was your day?"
"Oh, I was busy, incredibly busy."
"I get that you were busy. But did you do anything important?"
Busy does not equal important. Measured doesn't mean mattered.
When the resistance pushes you to do the quick reaction, the instant message, the 'ping-are-you-still-there', perhaps it pays to push in precisely the opposite direction. Perhaps it's time for the blank sheet of paper, the cancellation of a long-time money loser, the difficult conversation, the creative breakthrough...
Or you could check your email.
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