Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 Joins the Rest of EA's iPhone Sale Lineup

Electronic Arts (among others) is having a big iPhone game sale through the Holidays and pretty much everything in their catalog is on big time sale- like .99 big time.

One of the few excepted was the recently released Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, which was going for $6.99- but no longer says the mighty EA! The classic fighter is now just a sweet 99. Now, you may remember that we complained a little about the first MK on the iOS being MK3 and not MK2 or even the original. But at .99, if you're any kind of Mortal Kombatant, it's almost a no-brainer kind of thing.

Almost.

Direct 2 Drive: 1 in 5 Orders Through December 31st Will be Free

This is maybe the most amazing sales promo ever, direct to PC online retailer D2D is offering a completely free order to every one in five customers through December 31st, right before the ball drops:

The D2D Gives Back 2010 event is an unprecedented promotion featuring free checkouts for 1-in-5 credit card customers worldwide. Customers that make a purchase of any of the 2,500 games available on Direct2Drive have the chance to walk away with their entire order for free, regardless of size or cost. Winners are notified immediately during the checkout process. Total winners to date will be highlighted in real-time via the "D2D Gives Back 2010" ticker located on the site's homepage. "D2D Gives Back 2010" is now live and will run worldwide through 11:59 pm PST on December 31, 2010.

So... who's buyin'? Read on for the full release-

EA Game Library for the iPhone/iPod Touch Goes on Sale

Celebrate the 4th with EA! And cheap games! for your iDevice!

Actually there are some pretty good deals to be had, check em... and see.

http://www.ea.com/iphone

Shock! Nintendo leads US hardware sales for April

Number one in the month, as usual, is Nintendo. Most of the sales figures do go the way of the DS hardware family though.

• DS sales : 440,000 units
• Wii sales : 277,000 units

The Wii's figures are still impressive, just no where near the DS totals. It really does print money.
Overall sales were down quite a bit though from April of last year- down about a $100,000. That's a lot.

Nintendo looks pretty good in red & green

Mainly because they had a merry little Christmas for themselves.

Sales figures (mainly guesses) anyone?

• Although official U.S. sales data for December and all of 2009 will be announced by the NPD Group on Jan. 14, it appears that U.S. consumers responded enthusiastically to Nintendo’s Wii^™ home console in December. Nintendo estimates that December sales in the United States will exceed 3 million units.
• Nintendo estimates that the portable Nintendo DS^™ lineup, including the Nintendo DSi^™ video game system, set a new all-time calendar-year U.S. sales record for any console or hand-held system.
• Nintendo software also continued to perform well. Although the NPD Group will provide the full sales numbers for each game, Nintendo estimates that lifetime U.S. sales of New Super Mario Bros.^™ Wii are approaching 4 million. The game, which is the first Super Mario Bros. game to include simultaneous four-player action, launched in the United States on Nov. 15. 

Impressive! Or not, your call...

Nintendo tops the sales charts

Start Transmission

Nintendo’s Wii^™ and Nintendo DS^™ systems claimed the top hardware sales positions for October, making them well-positioned to become one of the must-have holiday gifts for the fourth consecutive year. U.S. shoppers snapped up nearly 507,000 Wii systems in October, bringing lifetime sales to more than 22 million, according to the independent NPD Group, which tracks video game sales in the United States. Wii sales spiked more than 9.5 percent over September, a remarkable result, considering that September was a five-week reporting month for NPD, while October included just four weeks. Consumers were attracted by top software like Wii Sports Resort^™ and Wii Fit^™ Plus, as well as the system’s new suggested retail price of $199.99.
Nintendo’s hand-helds, Nintendo DSi^™ and Nintendo DS Lite, combined to sell more than 457,000 units, and placed second in overall video game hardware sales. The Nintendo DS franchise has sold through nearly 34 million units in the United States since its 2004 launch and is poised to surpass the all-time single-year U.S. hardware sales record, set in 2008 by the Wii console, with more than 10 million units sold.
“Nintendo’s year-to-date share of total game sales and total industry revenues are up over the same period last year,” said Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America’s executive vice president of Sales & Marketing. “We are very appreciative of the continued, strong consumer response to both of our systems as we head into the holidays, and are excited to bring to them our key games, like New Super Mario Bros Wii, which launches this Sunday, and The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, which launches Dec. 7.”
Four games published for Nintendo systems finished in the top 10 best-sellers of October in the United States. These include Wii Fit Plus at No. 5 with nearly 232,000 sold, Wii Fit Plus (with the Wii Balance Board^™ accessory) at No. 6 with more than 209,000 sold, Wii Sports Resort with two Wii MotionPlus^™ accessories at No. 8 with nearly 179,000 sold and Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days for Nintendo DS and Nintendo DSi at No. 10 with more than 169,000 sold.
Along with Wii Sports Resort, which launched in July, games such as Wii Fit, Mario Kart^™ Wii, Wii Play^™, Pokémon^™ Platinum Version and Mario Kart DS currently sit in the top 10 best-sellers for all of 2009.

Stop Transmission

A little bit surprising considering that the Wii has really slowed dow in sales. Whats not surprising at all is the continued success of the DS line. The thing's a  juggernaut and cannot be beat for sheer entertainment and variety of software. It's a shame that the PSP Go was such a massive failure, it would have been good to see some competition in the mobile market. Now we'll have to wait and see what happens with the rumored next-gen PSP and DS.