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Nintendo has revealed global lifetime sales figures for first party Wii and DS titles that shifted over a million copies during the year ended March 31.

Topping the list is Wii Sports with 45.7 million copies sold, including those bundled with hardware. That total likely puts the game’s sales ahead of those of Super Mario Bros, which has long been considered the bestselling game in history with over 40 million sales. The 1985 NES classic was also bundled with hardware.

When approached, however, Nintendo UK said that it couldn’t confirm that sales of Wii Sports had overtaken those of Super Mario Bros.

Elsewhere in the data, Nintendo said that Wii Play sales are just 200,000 copies shy of 23 million units, followed by Wii Fit on 18.2 million and Mario Kart Wii on 15.4 million.

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Nintendo is to launch a television channel which is accessed through its Wii games console.

It will deliver video-on-demand to millions of households that have the device and an internet connection.

The plan is to generate more of its revenues from content - and the advertising that goes with it.

The service will be begin in Japan this spring but could be rolled out globally by the end of the year.

Some 40 million households throughout the world have a Wii and almost half (18m) are connected to the internet.

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Console related:

1. Press the home button on the main menu. Next, click on the controller image. You can adjust the Wii-mote volume and rumble functions.

2. Hold A and B down and you can move the windows on the main menu around.

3. Want your plain-looking Wii to have some style? Add a blue light around you CD drive anytime the console is on by doing the following:

Go to your email from the home menu, and add your personel computer email address to your address book. Wait ~1 hour for the email (mine took at least this long) Reply to the email from your computer. In a few minutes, you will have an email waiting for you on your Wii. Don’t read it! As long as it remains new, you have a pretty blue light!
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Electronic Arts has put an end to the ongoing speculation regarding the company’s own Wii Fit rival by unveiling the firm’s newest title, EA Sports Active.EA Sports Active, scheduled for release Spring 2009, will come bundled with a number of peripherals – or sports equipment – such as a set of two leg straps, a resistance band, as well as a health book. EA says the entire product will sell for $59.99.

EA’s fitness proposal is markedly different to Nintendo’s. Sports Active is designed to burn calories and build tone and strength. It does this with around 20 dynamic exercises, such as running, bicep curls, shoulder presses, cardio boxing and squats.

In line with EA’s purpose of aiming the product at the female market, the software itself will have its own personal trainer in the guise of a virtual Bob Greene (Oprah Winfrey’s personal trainer and exercise physiologist) who will offer feedback on the user’s performance.

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You know how the Wii controller works. You know what it can do. You’ve seen the press shots and read the games previews. But how does the controller actually feel?

No matter how many Wii game previews you read, finally getting your hands on the controller in December (or November, if you’re a super-keen importer) will be a totally new, slightly unusual feeling. But we analysed, poked, prodded and playtested the controller to death in a recent hands-on session with Wii to bring you these detailed impressions of exactly what the controller is like and how it performs.

Please note, Nintendo was quick to stress that the controllers we used were not final retail units, and so may still differ slightly from the end product you’ll be excitedly plucking off the shelves. But apart from a couple of the controllers still being hard-wired to the consoles (instead of being fully wireless), they felt pretty near to complete to us.

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Hardcore gamers are split on “Wii Music.”

It’s not “Rock Band” or “Guitar Hero” — it’s something entirely different. Given the accessibility of “Wii Music,” however, it seems especially designed to engage the younger crowd.

A few weeks ago, I was speaking with Nintendo Treehouse employee JC Rodrigo, who was demoing “Wii Music” all day. He’d recently attended the Austin City Limits music festival in Texas and spent several hours with kids checking out “Wii Music.”

What kind of music did kids create with their Wiimotes?

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Hot on the heals of news that Sony’s been idea-shopping its so-called “PS4″ to developers, the grapevine has it “from multiple sources” that Nintendo’s started talking up its official successor to the Wii. What They Play “parents guide to video games” co-founder John Davison says he’s heard it from several folks in the games dev and publishing biz that Nintendo’s started showing “what’s next” and buzz-calling it the “Wii HD,” though it’s apparently any one’s guess whether that would be the final name or not.

Think Game Boy to Game Boy Advance, says Davison, or “same candy shell, more powerful not-so-chewy center.”

Tasty bits:

- High definition visuals.

- Greater priority given to digitally distributed content.

- Local storage (for said digitally distributed content).

- A game link for the Virtual Boy.

One of those is only 99 percent false, while the other three fall somewhere in the “who knows, but let’s make a wish!” range.

Of course it’s always possible that Nintendo’s imminent press conference could include a wink or nod toward new hardware. Not likely, but possible. They’ve certainly got plenty of other dots to connect, like announcing their long rumored new Nintendo DS handheld, which an MCV source now “guarantees” is coming.

David Dickinson, eat your heart out. We’ve all heard about rare paintings, jewellery or ancient artefacts turning up at the local church jumble sale, but what about silicon-based entertainment?

Fact is, those old games your mum keeps telling you to chuck out could be worth a small fortune, and because Nintendo’s been in the business since the year dot, it’s your NES, SNES and import games that are most likely to be worth eBay gold.

We could’ve filled the entire list with antique Game & Watch titles alone (they’re manna from heaven for collectors), but for the sake of balance here’s a list of some of the most valuable games across Nintendo’s entire portfolio.

So before you throw out any ‘junk’ boxes from the loft, best check they don’t contain any of these 25 rare classics.
Harvest Moon (SNES, US) - £60The SNES version of Harvest Moon is still considered the best among fans of the whimsy-heavy farming/courting sim. It doesn’t come up very often on eBay, and when it does you can expect to pay at least £60 for a good boxed copy. The N64 version was released soon after, accounting for the SNES game’s initial lack of popularity.

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Playing with your head: some of Nintendo’s more imaginative fans have speculated that the next console will translate brain activity into movement.

Fans around the world are salivating over how far the concept of motion-sensitive accessories might go: a full body suit that would capture a player’s every movement is one suggestion, as is the possibility that Nintendo would dispense with the television as its chief means of displaying games and favour projecting everything on to the inside of a mask. There is even talk of a mind-controlled console that could take the form of a claw-like unit strapped to the head, which would translate brain activity into movement.

And amid the adulation, some gamers, too, are wondering whether the Wii has reached its limits. Its graphics are perfectly good, but the machine’s lack of computing horse-power is evident when its games are compared with those on the Playstation 3 or Xbox 360.