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You’ve played Nintendo games. Now get ready for a Nintendo television show, as the Japanese gaming giant have bought themselves a British gaming show.
With the gajillion titles of Brain Age and its sequel Nintendo has sold, you’d think pretty much everyone has played the game. You’re wrong.
Just as researchers in Scotland say Brain Age works, researchers in France say it doesn’t. According to data from University of Rennes, Brittany, Brain Age failed to show any significant jump in memory.
Famitsu Dot Com reports today that Nintendo has decided that today is the day to allow Famitsu Dot Com and only Famitsu Dot Com to reveal the release date of the first batch of DSi Ware titles.
Fans of our British sales charts will have some knowledge of the selling power of the Brain Training games, but really, they’ve only got part of the picture. They don’t know how well it’s been selling on the continent, and on the continent, it’s been selling like hotcakes hot crepes. According to chart trackers GfK, over the first six months of 2008, the original Brain Training was the top-selling game in Switzerland, Belgium and The Netherlands. Germany’s top-selling game over the same period was the sequel, More Brain Training. Spain’s #1 was Brain Training, while it’s #2 was…More Brain Training. Just so you know, the first Brain Training was released over two years ago, while in Europe, even the sequel’s been out for over a year. Egads.
For a game built upon endless repetition, Brain Training’s certainly making an impression on some people, because years on from release, the two games are still selling like fancy, heated cakes. So Nintendo are surely working on more, yes? Itprintsmoney.gif and all that? No. Having most likely noticed the fact people can’t tell the two games apart, and still buy more of the original than the sequel, it’s been announced by Nintendo (grain of salt notice: Nintendo Europe) that two will do, and they’ll just keep on selling them for millennia until our sun expands, killing us all in a blinding flash of white.
More Brain Training from Dr Kawashima [TVG, via Go Nintendo]
The BBC’s Watchdog program is upset with Brain Training. Very upset! Host Nicky Campbell has criticised the game and accused it of “discrimination”, after hearing testimony from folks who can’t be understood by the game thanks to their strong accents. That’d be northerners, Scots, Northern Irish, and Welsh, then. In other words, nearly half the population of the United Kingdom. My advice: learn to deal with the disappointment, and move on. Many Americans and Australians, and in particular New Zealanders and South Africans, are all in the same boat, and our lives aren’t lying in ruins just yet. Brain Training discriminates against Northerners, says Watchdog [CVG][Pic]
