The temporary resurgence of the PlayStation 3 looks to be well and truly over as the hot-selling Nintendo Wii continues its drive to fully conquer the gaming hardware charts by lodging yet another month of impressive sales numbers.

More specifically, according to Japanese videogame magazine publisher Enterbrain, which publishes leading games magazine Famitsu, March saw Sony’s powerhouse console left in the retail shadows to a ratio of 3-to-1 by the diminutive and apparently muscle-free Nintendo Wii.

According to Enterbrain’s figures for the Japanese region, Nintendo managed to sell a solid 265,542 units of the innovative and demographic-busting Wii in the month of March, while Sony only saw a modest 81,579 units of its growling PS3 leave store shelves over the same period.

Both the Wii and the PlayStation continued their combined regional dominance over Microsoft’s ailing Xbox 360 console, which limped in (once again) as the month’s poorest hardware performer with a meagre 13,127 unit sales.

Doubtless surprising power-hungry fanboys and industry sceptics alike with its ability to hold consumer attention for such a long period of time, the innovative, motion-sensing and user-friendly Nintendo Wii has almost effortlessly swallowed up the global home console competition since its release at the tail end of 2006. This has come about, in the main, because of the console appealing to a much wider audience than its more expensive hardcore gaming rivals.

March wasn’t all good news for Nintendo though, with Enterbrain’s figures also revealing that the Nintendo DS handheld (the world’s most popular games console) was overtaken in monthly sales by Sony’s PlayStation Portable — something that hasn’t happened in half a year.

On the handheld scene, Nintendo sold a steady 255,124 units of the touch-screen DS, while Sony surged forward with 415,415 unit sales of the widescreen PlayStation Portable. The PSP’s sudden sales leap was probably fuelled by the software arrival of Monster Hunter Freedom 2G, which emerged as the top-selling game during March.

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Trusted Reviews says they’ve got a “rock solid source” who claims Microsoft will dump the standard 20GB hard drive that’s now included in the Xbox 360 Premium (which they’ve since just dubbed Xbox 360) for 60GB drive as early as Q2 of this year. This rumor makes sense if Microsoft’s planning on hitting drive-heavy applications such as movie streaming or IPTV, since an HD movie can take up a huge percentage of that small 20GB drive as it is now. Of course, all of this is just a rumor, and if you really wanted a larger hard drive on your 360, you can always just go out and buy one of their 120GB units now.

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ASUS showed off a new version of its very popular Eee PC at CeBIT called the EeePC 900. The Eee 900 has a 8.9-inch display and uses an Intel mobile chipset and CPU. The 701 runs Linux OS, but can run Windows XP as well.

Communication options for the 701 include 10/100 Ethernet and a 56K modem. Integrated Wi-Fi 802.11b/g is included as well. Internal memory for the system is 1GB DDR2-400 and graphics are handled by Intel UMA.
Storage capacity for the Eee900 is up to 12GB of flash and the system includes an integrated 300k webcam. Audio from the new machine is Hi-Definition Audio CODEC and the machine has built-in speakers and a mic. The new Eee systems will be available in the UK and other select countries this year at 399 Euro each. Whether or not the U.S. is one of the select countries that will see this version of the Eee is unknown.

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MSI solar powered “MP3 Mega Player 540″ The player has a solar panel on the back to recharge its lithium-ion battery. The question here is whether that small solar panel will catch enough rays to do any serious charging. The player also sports a 4GB storage capacity, an FM radio and a photo browser.

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After hybrid cars this is probably one of the best ideas I’ve ever seen.
A new concept car designed by Nissan has a built-in breathalyser test. They are testing alcohol detector sensors using odor and sweat, the system will look the ignition if it is necessary also it will have a voice alarm.

“We’ve placed odor detectors and a sweat sensor on the gear shift. But for example if the gear-shift sensor was bypassed by a passenger using it instead of the driver, the facial recognition system would be used,” Kazuhiro Doi, Nissan General manager said.

Rest of the story here.

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Sony and Square Enix celebrate 10 years of Final Fantasy with a special edition FFVII Sony PSP console and game bundle.
The FFVII Sony PSP bundle featuring a custom PSP console can be pre-ordered now in Japan from Sony for 25,889 Yen (~$219).
Shipping date of the Final Fantasy special edition PSP is September 13th.
The FFVII bundle features the new slim silver PSP with Final Fantasy logo and graphics on the back. (Read on …)

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Apple is planning to start selling the iPhone by September 2007 in Europe. Apple expects to sell one million units between sales in the United States and Europe. Company executives said that, in contrast, it took seven quarters to sell one million iPods.

This video is crazy…

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If you are looking for an MP3 player that is a little different…. If you love PEZ… If you like the idea of a stay-at-home dad, working out of his basement, taking on the giants of Cupertino, Tokyo, and Seoul… If you love independent music, podcasts, blogs, maverick ideas, and doing it yourself… This is the MP3 player for you.

Via: http://www.pezmp3.com/

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According to game magazine publisher Enterbrain Nintendo has sold over 3 million Wii units, that is over 3 times the PS3 from Sony, Xbox is still missing in Japan. With basic principles Nintendo has taken over again the video game world: Low price, and good marketing.

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Here is a little video to enjoy

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WiFi capabilities are now one of the many features on the Blackberry, calls can be made over the connection and UMA (Unlicensed Mobile Access) support means that if you stray out of range, the call will switch seamlessly to the GSM network. (Read on …)

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FIC has announced an on-sale date for its Neo1973, expected to be the first low-cost, high-volume phone with a user-modifiable Linux-based operating system. Additionally, the OpenMoko project building open-source software for the phone has published a wealth of technical resources.

This is the true iPhone competitor, the downside is that only linux developers will be able to create applications or not???

more info here

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Many (hundreds) of thousands love the new iPhone, but with mass lovin’ comes the obligatory list of bugs. As such, the first lengthy and comprehensive bug list from poking and prodding that iPhone screen into submission during the wee hours of the night has been released. There are 68 reproducible bugs on the list so far, with each bug having been confirmed on two separate iPhones. Of course, the list’s ‘reproducible’ status for each bug comes with a disclaimer that some obscure steps normal iPhone users may never uncover were used in unearthing some of them. We’re hard-pressed to find our favorite bugs (or bug categories), so check out the complete list here and if you dare, start mad-swiping that iPhone screen if you feel lucky.

Via:Engadget

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Rechargeable batteries are the brawn behind the brains of today’s portable electronic devices. But unless a cell phone dies in the middle of a call, or you are trying to determine which of your six charging devices to stuff into a suitcase before a flight, you might not give batteries much thought.

Cnet News has a full list on tips on how to get the most on battery life.

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New new Mac Pro with two ( 2GHz, 2.66GHz, or 3GHz ) Dual-Core Intel Xeon 5100 series processors it’s the fastest computer Apple has built.

Quote:

“The brilliantly redesigned Mac Pro enclosure accommodates up to four drives and 2TB of storage; offers 8 DIMM slots to fill with up to 16GB of RAM; provides up to two SuperDrives. You also have four PCI Express slots, and more I/O ports — including two additional ports up front.”

I think there is nothing else to be said, any comments?

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