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Tenn. 3-year-old kills herself after mistaking handgun for Wii control
A 3-year-old Tennesse girl is dead after she apparently mistook a loaded pistol for a Wii video game controller.

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Wii game-gun mixup blamed in Tenn. child’s shooting death
NORENE, Tenn. —— A mix-up between a Wii game and a .

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PS3 could outsell Wii by 2013
MCV reports that Strategy Analytics analyst David Mercer predicts the PS3 will outsell the Wii by 2013. While he does leave some wiggle room in his forecast, “the signs are that the Wii has peaked in terms of console sales, and its installed base will begin to decline after 2011. Meanwhile, Sony’s PS3 and Microsoft’s [...]

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The A4 and the A8: secrets of the iPad’s brain
Most companies, when they go to the enormous expense of designing a complex chip, tell everyone about it. Even a company like Sun or IBM, whose chips are used only in their own computers, unveil the details of their new processors well before products based on those new parts come to market. This is true for game consoles, for SoCs of all flavors, for PC chips, and for most of the rest of the …

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Nintendo Reveals 76 Million-Unit Sellers On Wii
The Wii has 76 titles that have sold a million units or more worldwide, says Nintendo — and more than half of them are third-party games. 22 first-party titles and 54 third-party titles have hit the milestone, Nintendo business development head Dan Adelman said yesterday at the company’s Media Summit, as reported by consumer site VG247. Nintendo recently revealed, for example, that its fastest …

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Analyst: Industry To Grow 6.2 Percent Per Year Until 2013
Total software revenues in the United States and Europe will grow at a rate of approximately 6.2 percent per year through 2013, predicts Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter. Pachter’s model further estimates that unit sales – across consoles, handhelds, and personal computers – will grow by over 8 percent over the same period of time. These gains would follow the sharp contraction seen in 2009, when …

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