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נתונים רשמיים: הגיימקיוב מכר 10 וחצי מיליון יחידות בכל העולם.

As part of its financial report for 4/2003 to 10/2003, Nintendo has revealed some hard numbers for Game Boy Advance and GameCube sales. Remember to take frequent eye breaks when reading this story!

First, GameCube. Nintendo sold a total of 890,000 GCN systems worldwide throughout the period, with Japan contributing 200,000 and North America 550,000 to that total. This brings the GameCube to 10,450,000 total systems sold worldwide to date, with 5.76 million of that having come throughout the entire last year (4/2002 - 3/2003). For this year (4/2003 - 3/2004), Nintendo expects to sell a total of six million systems worldwide.

In software, the GameCube managed to sell 14.5 million units for the period, with 3.22 million coming from Japan (on 39 titles) and 8.08 million coming from North America (on 50 titles). The total pieces of GameCube software sold so far worldwide stands at 75.01 million units, with 13.62 million coming from Japan (across 138 titles) and 44.31 million from North America (on 251 titles). Nintendo's expectations for the year remain unchanged at fifty million pieces of software.

Game Boy Advance did a bit better than the Cube. For the period between April and October, Nintendo managed to sell 8.34 million GBA systems worldwide (of that, 6.93 million were of the GBASP variety). This includes 1.66 million systems in Japan (1.51 million GBASPs) and 4.28 million in North America (3.50 million GBASPs). The total number of Game Boy Advance units worldwide is 42.15 million with 9.04 million GBASP units included in the total. Nintendo expects to sell twenty million GBA systems this year (4/2003 to 3/2005) including 17 million GBASPs.

On the software front, the GBA saw a total of 29.91 million pieces of software. Of that 6.19 million came from Japan (68 titles) and 17.91 million came from North America (69 titles). The number of Game Boy Advance software sold so far stands at 138.81 million worldwide. Of that, 36.07 million is from Japan (441 titles) with 71.95 million coming from North America (439 titles). Nintendo expects to sell 60 million pieces of Game Boy Advance software throughout the year.

נינטנדו רשמו Trademarks חדשים, מביניהם - Family Computer, שזה די מוזר, כי זה השם היפני של ה-NES (פאמיקום). אולי הם רוצים לחזור לשם הנורא הזה במכשיר הבא שלהם?

על עוד רישומים של Square Enix וכדומה אפשר לקרוא בקטע הבא:

Some gaming websites in Japan have done a little digging over at the Industrial Property Digital Library and come up with a few new and mysterious trademarks recently registered by some of our favorite game makers.

From Nintendo are three new trademarks registered 9/3 of this year: Family Computer (written in Roman characters), Family Computer (written in Japanese characters) and "Origin Of Our TV Games." All three have pictures, with the first two being just text written in a black font. The third trademark has the top picture to the right of this story associated with it.

Family Computer, also known as Famicom, is the Japanese name of Nintendo's first console. The company may be re-registering the trademark, it could be considering the name for future use of another product.

In Square Enix land, the name "Sora to Umi to Daichi no Norowareshi Himegimi" was registered on 9/4. The name translates to "Sky, Sea, Earth and the Cursed Princess." It's unclear what this could be, although keep in mind that Square Enix deals with more than just console videogames.

Sega has a few new trademarks ranging from Digital Rex, the new development studio being headed up by former AM2 master Yu Suzuki to Puyo Puyo Fever. Causing the biggest stir is VS.NET, which was registered on 9/1 with cooperation from Amusement Vision. VF.NET is the name for the Virtua Fighter card system, prompting some speculation that Amusement Vision will be doing something similar with its Virtua Striker line of soccer games.

Konami registered a couple of things of importance. World Soccer Winning Eleven 7 International was registered on 8/27. Meanwhile, Ban Ou no Kiki wo Sukue was registered on 9/1 in cooperation with KCES.

We're sure that many of the registered trademarks are of little concern. But then again, perhaps one day we'll be talking it up about that new Square Enix game Sky, Sea, Earth and the Cursed Princess.

ה-Line-up של Capcom:

Capcom has revealed its planned game output for the year ending March of 2004. This includes games across all platforms, worldwide

The PS2 will get the brunt of the company's output, with 31 titles on the way totalling 7.60 million units sold. The 31 titles include games that have yet to be released anywhere in the world, titles that were released in Europe or America but have yet to come out in Japan and titles that are already out in Japan and will soon be released overseas. There may also be some unannounced titles.

GameCube will see 7 titles for a total of 2.20 million sales. This number does not include Resident Evil 4, as the game will not make it out this financial term.

At the bottom of the list are Xbox and Game Boy Advance. The GBA will see 9 titles totaling 2.04 million units. Meanwhile, Xbox will receive 5 titles from the company, totaling 800,000 units.

Specific numbers for individual games were given for just a couple of key titles. Capcom expects to sell 700,000 copies of Onimusha 3 this financial term. This number is just for Japan and just for the very beginning of the game's sales period. Resident Evil Outbreak, however, is expected to see 500,000 units sold. This seems to include worldwide totals, which would be a good number for an Online title.

המשחק Sphinx and the cursed mummy קיבל 8.5 ב-IGN:

Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy is a fun, challenging action- adventure that I can easily recommend. This is actually a fairly well balanced title that, like Zelda, serves up a semi-non-linear experience complete with huge worlds to explore, difficult and satisfying puzzles, entertaining weapon and item advancements, and more, and it's all very much on the same epic scale as Nintendo's franchise. Did I mention it's easy on the eyes?

There are some problems here, too. The game can start off a bit slow. There are some tedious fetch quests. The battle system, without a lock-on camera, feels malfunctioned. The level load times occasionally disrupt the action. And the glaring lack of voice dialogue definitely hurts overall presentation.

But all said and done the good far, far outweighs the bad and Sphinx is one of the better action-adventures you can pick up this holiday.

Recommended.

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