Well, I have to wake up early for work tomorrow, and its almost 3 AM, so I guess I should hit the hay. I will leave you with one more quick update.

Japanese Game Sales

News from Kotaku:

Brian Farrell, president and CEO of THQ, recently said in a conference call that ‘Drawn To Life” would be coming to the Wii. It was such a success for the DS, selling hundreds of thousands worldwide, that they want to bring it to the Wii. Aside from that, no real details on the game.

Article Here: Drawn to Life Wii

News From Gamepolitics:

According to the BBC the DS game Brain Training (known as Brain Age here in the states) is clearly discriminating against certain U.K. Accents. In what is probably one of the most ridiculous reports I have heard of in a long time, the BBC program ‘Watchdog‘, devoted 5 minutes to this segment.

In a quote from the original article one complaint says, “I don’t know what’s wrong with the way I say ‘blue’. I can say it as many different ways that I could try and it just really wouldn’t pick it up.”

So let me get this straight. A Nintendo DS and a $20 dollar piece of software is discriminating against you? Maybe you didn’t know about some of the limitations of speech recognition software on something with the limitations of the DS. It will have it’s flaws.

This must also explain why they have to wait so long for games over there.

Remember when must Windows Vista discriminated against an American accent? Vista Oops

Read full article here: DS Discrimination

News From JoyStiq:

Looks like DS owners in Europe may soon be able to buy novels for their handheld.  There are no real details about it right now, but according to the rumor it may allow users to read over 100 complete books.

I don’t know how well Ebooks are doing, but I don’t see this working out a whole lot better than that.  You would have to turn pages too often on the DS.  At least the Ebooks allow for a full size page to be shown at a time.

Full Article Here: Novels On DS 

News from GamePolitics:

According to an anonymous spokesperson for the ELSPA, John Hillier’s quote about 90% of American DS gamers playing pirated software is completely wrong. In fact, the ELSPA doesn’t comment on anything outside of the UK. The article came from ‘The Sunday Post’ who got the information from a website in Singapore:

“The quotes from The Sunday Post were ascribed to his name from another article which originates from a website in Singapore. This, it appears, is where The Sunday Post first found out about the supposed R4 situation and for some reason unknown to John have quoted him on what this article said”

Article Here: 90%?! 

This explains things. Sorry Mr. Hillier.

Article From Kotaku:

According to John Hillier of The Entertainment & Leisure Software Publishers Association’s Intellectual Property Crime Unit (Man, that name is a mouthful) 90% of American DS owners are playing pirated games.

Where does he get his numbers?  How does the DS survive?  What is this R4 he mentions? This must explain ‘Cooking Mama’s’ sales.

Full Article Here: Damn, that’s a lot of games.