Kid uses Nintendo DS to rescue his family
Those parents who don’t let their kids play videogames are dumb. Because a Nintendo DS can actually be a lifesaver in the right circumstances.
According to the Herald Sun, Christopher Miszkowiec is an ordinary 7-year-old boy who managed to do something extraordinary in July of this year. With the help of his beloved DS.
Miszkowiec and his family were driving on a road in Victoria, Australia late at night when the car struck a kangaroo, flipped, rolled several times, and came to rest in some bushland. Christopher got out the car, unbuckled his brother’s seatbelt, and then freed his mother from the seat where she had fallen unconscious. In order to see what he was doing, he used the light from the screen of his Nintendo DS.
The young Miszkowiec has since been honored for his actions, and his mother has vowed to let him use his DS whenever and wherever he wants, whereas before she would stop him using it too much. Now all that’s left is for Nintendo to supply Christopher with a new handheld every time they release one.
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October 30th, 2010
Brilliant, that kid.
October 30th, 2010
Takes an Aussie
November 1st, 2010
Nintendo Falls Apart
Nintendo has found out what it is like to be Sony (NYSE: SNE). The powerful Japanese inventor of the Wii now finds the sales of its console in free fall much as Sony did with its PS3 three years ago.
Nintendo posted a first half loss, which is shocking given how high the company has ridden for so long. There was a time two years ago when it had the second highest market cap of any public company in Japan behind Toyota.
Nintendo had a net loss of 2 billion yen ($24.7 million) for the six months which ended September 30. This compares with a net profit of 69.5 billion yen for the same period in 2009. Nintendo’s sales for the first half of its financial year were down 34% to 363.16 billion yen.
Nintendo’s prospects have been hurt by the yen, but more importantly its Wii and DS products are aged. They were once at the cutting edge of gaming and handily outsold rival Xbox 360 consoles from Microsoft and the PS3.
It took more than two years, but the two rival companies dropped prices and added features. The new Microsoft Kinect is aimed at the heart of Nintendo’s market for motion-sensing games.
Both Sony and Microsoft have already added functions that allow broadband streaming of content, DVD playback, and the ability to play games with others over the internet. The Wii has not become more like the Xbox 360 and PS3. Those consoles have become more like the Wii.
Nintendo blamed its poor earnings on a drop in demand for its Wii console and a delay of its new 3D machine. But, the problem is more complex than that. Nintendo elected to sit on its lead and largely ignored the fact that its rivals had benchmarked Wii functions and had begun to add them to their own products.
Nintendo is an example of everything that a company like Apple is not. Apple rode the success of its iPod multimedia player to the iPhone, iPad, and better sales of its Mac computer. It used it strong brand to launch consumer electronics products and handsets one after another.
Nintendo built a brand which could not be rivaled in the game and entertainment electronics business. It then proceeded to do absolutely nothing with that advantage.
Douglas A. McIntyre
Only yesterday it seems like Nintendo was invincible and printing money and now they are in the red?!
Well, what goes up must come down sooner or later.
Wii & DS aged so suddenly!?
I guess the same will go for the Xbox360′s DVD tray.
Object Lesson 101: future Proof your console like the PS2 & PS3.
November 1st, 2010
Wii and DS have both made more than enough money to take them through to their next gen iterations.
The same goes for 360.
November 1st, 2010
My major problem with Wii is it still hasn’t incorporated a form of achievements.
With 360, XBL/Gold is heinously inferior to PSN/PSN Plus.
Blu-ray/future proofing is nice, but nothing nearly as important to me as the above features.
November 1st, 2010
its good to hear Sony computer entertainment is making profit now. that can only be good for us gamers.
November 1st, 2010
“Nintendo is an example of everything that a company like Apple is not. Apple rode the success of its iPod multimedia player to the iPhone, iPad, and better sales of its Mac computer. It used it strong brand to launch consumer electronics products and handsets one after another.”
That’s an interesting analogy. I pretty much agree with it.
What ever happens for the rest of this gen, Nintendo is good. They’ve been selling Wiis for profit since day 1. Plus the return on investment for games like New Super Mario Wii, is probably through the roof.
I think it’s the next round that they’re going to take a big hit.
November 1st, 2010
Ahh how I wish Nintendo would just drop making consoles.
Each generation I have to buy a Nintendo to play Zelda. And I can’t imagine the next Nintendo machine is really going to make me happy (just as the wii hasn’t).