Their 2009 financial report gives cold hard data on their market domination.

Nintendo has revealed their sales data for the period from April 2009 through December 2009, including lifetime sales of many of their products.

The Nintendo Wii console has sold 67.45 million units worldwide since its 2006 launch. 17.05 million sales occurred between April and December 2009, with 1.76 million in sales coming from Japan, 8.48 million in sales coming from America, and 6.81 in sales coming from other territories. Nintendo has projected that they will sell 20 million Wii systems in the fiscal year from April 2009 through March 2010.

The Nintendo and Monster Games racer is finally coming to the PAL regions.

While North American Wii owners have been enjoying Excitebike: World Rally for several months now, Europeans have been anxiously awaiting the day when they could join in on all the fun. That day is rapidly approaching as World Rally is hitting the European WiiWare service as Excitebike: World Challenge on February 5.

Drawing on the retro appeal of the NES original, this newest Excitebike installment features 9 different locations, 16 different tracks, Wi-Fi play, and a track editor. It was developed by Monster Games, creators of Excite Truck and last year's Excitebots: Trick Racing.

The winner of the upcoming New Super Mario Bros. Wii tournament will receive a golden Mario trophy.

At the start of the year, Nintendo confirmed that they would be holding a special New Super Mario Bros. Wii tournament. The tournament consists of coin collecting battles and will tour Japan throughout the month of February. The player that collects the most coins will be crowned the best NSMB Wii player in Japan and receive a special Golden Mario Trophy.

The Shattered Memories developer speaks out on their role in the franchise, and the sales of third party games on Wii.

In an interview with the Official Nintendo Magazine, Silent Hill: Shattered Memories developer Climax says that they would be interested in making future Silent Hill games.

Game Director Mark Simmons commented on the possibility. "Absolutely. We've always loved working on the series. Since Origins we've spent a lot of time with the series. For us we feel we've put our stamp on the series with Shattered Memories so we'd love the opportunity to do another one. So everybody go and buy it!" said director Mark Simmons. Lead Designer Sam Barlow followed up with, "I think this is the first Silent Hill since one or two where people are saying it has its own identity and people are responding to it really well so it would be great to take that further."

The studio that brought us Izuna: Legend of The Unemployed Ninja are quietly working on a new title for the Nintendo DS.

On Ninja Studio's product page they have revealed that they are working on a new, top secret title for the DS.

Ninja Studio is known for their DS efforts which include Izuna: The Legend of the Unemployed Ninja and D3 Publisher's Tactic's Layer. Including this unannounced title, they have created six titles for Nintendo's handheld so far.

No release window for the game is known as of yet.

These titles are possible candidates for the "Everyone's Recommendation" series in Japan.

As announced last week, Nintendo will begin a new initiative called "Everyone's Recommendation Selection" in Japan. Nintendo will choose the highest ranking Wii titles according to the votes found on the Nintendo Channel's best games list. Website SiliconEra compiled a list of games fitting this description.

The first seven games include Marvelous and Vanillaware's Muramasa: The Demon Blade, SEGA/Platinum's 428, and Marvelous' Arc Rise Fantasia. Namco Bandai is the company with the most titles in the selection with four, including One Piece Unlimited Cruise Episode 1, Family Ski: World Ski and Snowboard, Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World, and Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3.

A report reveals that Nintendo was offered the opportunity to use Natal technology for Wii.

According to a report by European videogame news site CVG, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata was offered the opportunity to use the technology behind Microsoft's Project Natal on the Wii. Iwata turned it down.

The reason Iwata refused to accept the technology, despite being impressed by the demo created by 3DV Systems, was because he didn't believe they could release the peripheral at a mass-market price and couldn't see it as an add-on peripheral for Wii.

"3DV showed off a camera that detected motion in 3D, and had voice recognition - but Iwata-San was unconvinced he could sell it at a Nintendo price point. He also had some worries around latency during gameplay", CVG's insider at Nintendo explained.

The "evergreen", when it comes to Mario, is money.

Last week the NPD Group reported that New Super Mario Bros. Wii had surpassed the U.S. lifetime sales of its 3D brother Super Mario Galaxy. After roughly 45 days on the market, NSMB Wii had moved past Galaxy's 4.1 million copies sold with a tally of 4.2 million.

According to Nikkei (via Kotaku), the worldwide sales figure for NSMB Wii now stands at over 10 million copies. Sales in North America have reached 4.5 million, while the title has sold over 3 million copies in both Japan and Europe.

Despite the title selling a million copies on Wii, the president believes it could have sold better.

In a recent interview with Japanese website Mainichi.jp, Enterbrain President Hirokazu Hamamura expressed his disappointment over the sales of Capcom's Monster Hunter 3 in Japan. "I thought it would sell more. Crossing the million mark was the passing grade, though. On the Wii, which doesn't have games targeting core game fans, it made a strong effort against the 'hurdles' of being on a console and being a network game. However, I believe they wanted it to reach 1.5 million to 2 million copies."

Looks like Richter and Maria are coming across the pond.

Late last month, a Virtual Console release of Konami's TurboGrafx-16 CD-ROM classic Castlevania: Rondo of Blood made an appearance in the listings of the Australian OFLC ratings board. Fans of the series hoped that this event heralded an imminent North American release, and it seems that their prayers have been answered.

A recent listing on the ESRB website all but confirms the impending release of the title, presumably on the North American Virtual Console service. Castlevania: Rondo of Blood is given a Teen rating for "Animated Blood [and] Fantasy Violence".