Reggie Fils-Aimé, president of Nintendo of America, has said it is up to third-party developers to bring mature titles to the Wii and DS and called on consumers to support the releases.

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Microsoft and Nintendo have been cleared of patent violation accusations related to Xbox 360, Wii and GameCube controllers.

The two console manufacturers had been sued by Fenner Investments. The Texas-based firm claimed that the platform holders infringed upon a patent it held related to connecting old controllers to new computers, reports Bloomberg.

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Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aimé has said that the company’s not yet “thinking seriously” about a Wii successor.

“… When the software developer comes forward with an idea that can’t be executed on the current platform, that’s when we start thinking seriously about the next system,” the executive told Forbes. “We’re not there yet, from a Wii perspective.”

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A new report from Strategy Analytics Connected Home Devices has predicted that PS3 will eventually become this generation’s bestselling home console.

Key to this will be the system’s lifespan – the report predicts that PS3 “will still be a commercial platform five years after the Wii has been replaced”.

It forecasts: “Lifetime PS3 sales are predicted to reach 127 million units, compared to 103 million Wii units.”

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Nintendo of America marketing boss Cammie Dunaway has said that it will be a challenge to match Wii’s 2009 sales performance during 2010.

“Certainly on the Wii, we are now in the fifth year. We have had extraordinary success,” the executive told GamesBeat.

She said that US Wii sales currently stand at 28 million units, tracking five million ahead of where PS2 was at the same point in its life cycle.

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Famitsu publisher Enterbrain has released Japanese lifetime sales data for each of the current generation home consoles.

As of February 28, Japanese Wii sales stood at 10,009,736 units. It took the console 170 weeks to clear the sales milestone, 39 weeks longer than it took Sony’s PS2.

Japanese PS3 sales were 4,766,408 units as of the end of February, while Xbox 360 had sold 1,235,049 units, according to the company (via Kotaku).

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Nintendo has announced that 76 Wii games and 108 DS titles have sold over one million copies.

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Nintendo’s US marketing boss, Cammie Dunaway, has said that the company won’t launch a Wii successor in the near future.

"I don’t think it will be any time soon," Dunaway told GameSpot in a video interview. “Even though our installed base is, at this point, five million households larger than the PS2 was at the same point in its lifecycle, it still has a lot of room to grow.

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Nintendo has confirmed “mid-year” release plans for two of Wii’s biggest titles, Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Metroid: Other M.

Super Mario Galaxy 2 is due to launch on May 23 in the US and on June 11 in the UK, while Metroid: Other M will launch June 27 in the States and during the third quarter of 2010 in the UK. 

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Mario‭ & ‬Sonic At The Olympic Winter Games has sold over six million copies, according to publisher Sega.

The Wii and DS title launched in October ‬2009,‭ ‬just in time for the Christmas shopping season and a couple of months before the‭ ‬XXI Olympic Winter Games,‭ which are currently being held in ‭‬Vancouver.

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