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Nintendo Direct today brought news about an upcoming Nintendo 3DS update which brings a unified accounts ID system as well as Miiverse to the console. Called Nintendo Network ID, users will have to ability to register the same ID on both the 3DS and the Wii U and combine their balance on both of them. They’ll also be able to purchase games from eShop on both the 3DS and the Wii U. Though this is a figurative baby step to enhanced unification between 3DS and the Wii U, Nintendo says that more of its services will use the Network ID in the future, but falls short of mentioning any names.

This particular Nintendo 3DS update will bring Miiverse as well. 3DS games are likely to get their own communities, and users’ activity on communities will be transferred once they’ve registered their Nintendo Network ID on the console. The company hasn’t said exactly revealed when we can expect this update to be released. Apparently the update is not quite ready for release at this point in time, even though that it has been announced. Nintendo has said that it plans on releasing the update later this year, possibly at some point in December.

Nintendo Network ID And Miiverse Coming To 3DS Soon original content from Ubergizmo.

Do you love anniversaries? There is definitely something about marking a particular event on the calendar, and for those who are avid fans of video games, you ought to take note that 2013 is the year where the humble NES from Nintendo (also known as the “Famicom” in Japan) has just turned 30 this year. I would like to think that this is a unique money making opportunity for Nintendo as well, as the gaming company will be introducing an album that will feature 26 of the best theme songs from classic games such as Super Mario Brothers, The Legend of Zelda and Metroid.

It will arrive in the form of a two-disc album as it hits the market this coming December 4th, which would definitely make it the perfect holiday gift for that particular hardcore gamer in your life, or you can always opt to pick it up yourself by enjoying the simple yet engaging 8-bit tunes of yesteryear. This is the first time that Nintendo is doing such a thing by rolling out a NES theme song anthology, where the songs have been recorded directly from the games in the “clearest possible” manner. So far, we do know that this classic collection of tunes will cost you $24 after conversion, which would be a small price to pay to walk down memory lane.

Nintendo To Release 2-Disc Album With Music From NES Classics original content from Ubergizmo.

This article was written on January 08, 2007 by CyberNet.

Sony originally forecasted that 400,000 PlayStation 3 consoles would be sold on launch day. Launch day came and went, and not even half of the projected amount were sold. It took two additional weeks after the launch for  Sony to meet its original goal of 400,000.  Between the launch, and the end of 2006, they were able to sell 1 million consoles, about half of their 2 million goal.  So, what does this mean for Sony?

Dave Karraker, spokesman for Sony was asked whether they were worried about this, and his response? “Are we worried about strong sales of the Wii or Xbox 360? Not really,” he said. “It was a great year for the industry overall. With the tide all ships rise.” They led the previous generation of game consoles with their PlayStation 1 and 2 with 70% of the global market.  Perhaps they think that there is plenty of time for them to catch up to the Xbox 360 and the Nintendo Wii (which was projected to sell 4 million by the end of 2006).

Despite there being a limited supply of consoles, stores have them in-stock! Sony says the limited supply is due to manufacturing problems with the blue laser diodes, a vital part of the Blu-ray disk drive, one reason the price of the PS3 is a bit overwhelming. In fact, even with the limited supply, one GameStop store(pictured above) has placed a sign in the window saying “We have PS3 systems in stock… Plenty of them!” Whether that picture is legit or not is another question, but it does raise a good point. By no means are the PS3′s flying off the shelves like the Wii did.

Obviously comparing the Wii with the PlayStation 3 isn’t exactly comparing apples to apples.  They’re very different with the PlayStation 3 loaded with next generation features, and a 20 or 60 GB hard drive. But, the point is that the Wii is clearly far more in demand than the PlayStation 3 is and it could be for a variety of reasons.  I don’t know that I’d want to be Sony right now, but the tide can always turn.  They plan to sell 6 million consoles by the end of March, a pretty hefty goal to fulfill with hundreds of PS3′s sitting on store shelves collecting dust at the moment.

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Earlier this year we saw the awesome oversized N64 pillow made by Donna Marie Evans. Donna was bombarded by requests for the pillow, but last month a customer asked her to make a controller pillow from an earlier Nintendo console. The result is this very huggable SNES controller pillow.

Donna said that this pillow was harder to make than the N64 one, partly because of the Super Nintendo phrase. She had to embroider it by hand because she doesn’t have a cutting edge embroidery machine. Contact her on deviantART if you want your own SNES pillow.