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CES 2007: Gaming Roundup
jasoncart writes "Traditionally, gaming's calendar year of expos, conventions, and trade shows doesn't generally kick off in earnest until March's fanfare arrival of the Game Developer's Conference (GDC) in San Francisco, which thus opens the floodgates for a host of industry platform events. However, before July's new-fangled E3 Media and Business Summit (the now scaled back, renamed, and invitation-only E3 of legend) shifts into view alongside August's Penny Arcade Expo (PAX), September's Tokyo Game Show (TGS), and the newly announced and ESA-endorsed Entertainment for All Expo in October (previously known as the Gamepro Expo), it falls to January's annual Consumer Electronics Show to whet our collective appetites-at least where related hardware is concerned."
The news everyone is talking about right now is Nintendo getting caught lying big time about Wii shipments and sales. Nintendo tried to claim almost a million more Wiis were sold in November/December than can be accounted for. Unless Nintendo can come up with an explanation of where all those missing Wiis are the Wii is actually selling a lower than the GameCube's first couple months on the market.
Ouch.
With people seeing Wiis already sitting unsold on store shelves one has to wonder of the Wii hype has already run its course.