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Nintendo worldwide sales has reached 45 million units according to their third fiscal quarter report, the video game company said that it had shipped nearly 45 million Wii's since its launch in November 2006. The Nintendo DS handheld on the other hand has sold 96 million units.

"This marks the fourth consecutive year that Nintendo Co., Ltd. has exceeded the previous results for the same nine month period," the company stated in its financial recap, quoted by IGN. "Nintendo will continue to pursue expansion of the gaming audience and provide products that offer unique entertainment that puts smiles on the faces of people of all ages and genders."

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata will be headlining the upcoming Games Developer Conference in March with a keynote address titled “Discovering New Development Opportunities.” We suppose that “Discovering a Gold Mine” would have been a bit tacky, eh?

Source: Tom's Guide

Nvidia has launched the GTX295 dual graphics card and has taken the performance crown back from AMD which was holding the lead for almost the last 6 months with its Radeon HD4870X2.

Nvidia's GTX295 is a dual-GPU graphics card with 1792 MegaBytes of DDR3 memory which is equivalent to two GTX260 card. The card is based on a new smaller die size of 55 nanometer which runs cooler and requires less power. The card costs 500 US dollars.

AMD has taken "the fastest graphic card" crown back from Intel with the launch of the Radeon HD5970


GTX295 Specifications:
RAM Size: 1792 MB GDDR3
Memory bus size: 2 x 448 bit
GPU frequency: 576 MHz
Memory frequency: 2000 MHz
Stream Processors: 480
Price: US $500

Review Links:
Guru3d - GeForce GTX 295 review | preview
TomsHardware - GeForce GTX 295 Performance: Previewed
TechSpot - Nvidia GeForce GTX 295 dual-GPU review
[H]Enthusiast - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 Preview
OverClockersClub - Nvidia GTX 295 Review

First of all wishing the readers and tech consumers a very Happy New Year 2009!

A lot of news, reviews and previews were seen throught this year. And also towards the end of this year the site underwent a theme change, giving it a more easy and white look over the old blogger theme. We will be improving the look of this site in the coming few months and will also continue providing interesting news, previews and prices that matter for the tech consumers. Suggestions and comments are always welcome.

The year 2008 was a year of faster processors, cheap graphics, portable netbooks, massive storage and more. Moving on to 2009 we will see more faster chips from Intel and AMD. Netbooks and Multi-touch screens will see a large growth with smaller and faster versions to release soon. In the networking market, the wireless products would be faster and have more coverage area with WiMAX adoption soon. USB will be faster with version 3 to be released. A lot more technological improvements for the tech consumers are upcoming for this year and this site will try its best to cover all this and more.

Thank You.