Wow. The numbers are coming in from NPD with Nintendo way on top for both hardware and software. A total of over 850,000 units of DS, Wii and other hardware as well as over 1.1 million copies of games when counting the top 5 games of all systems from the month. This is especially interesting because compared to May 2006 numbers, hardware and software are up almost 70% and 50% respectively for the usually slow-for-video-game middle part of the year.

I suppose Nintendo has been getting more and more sales in the recent months, but now they’re starting to put up press releases like this…

Oh, my! All this attention is enough to make a girl blush!

As a princess I’m used to being adored, but this is just too much! I know I’m probably sounding like a broken record, but once again my friends at the NPD Group are telling me that Wii and Nintendo DS finished May as the most popular systems in the United States.

Thanks to everyone for your wonderful support! Nintendo couldn’t have made it back to the top without you. You’re all Mario-caliber heroes in my book.

Peach’s reaction to insanely strong video game sales

Source: NeoGAF and GoNintendo

It’s been a few days since starting at Mozilla, and I’ve looked through various RFCs to find the related work and analyze the structure for writing my own for the project. I’ve been making good progress and posting my findings on the Mozilla newsgroups such as mozilla.dev.apps.firefox [groups.google.com].

I’m still matching up aliases to names and names to faces (and trying to figure out if I should call people by their IRC aliases or their names), but people have been good in introducing themselves - helping me to make the connections between them and the features they’ve worked on for Mozilla/Firefox/Gecko.

So as a little present to them for the summer, I’ve set up my Nintendo Wii with controllers and games on the first floor of building K. (As a reminder for myself, so that I don’t forget by the end of the summer: 4 controllers + 1 nunchuk, Wii Sports, Trauma Center, Zelda: Twilight Princess, Super Paper Mario, Wii Play, Super Monkey Ball.) And I just happen to conveniently move out of building K to building S this same day, so I won’t get distracted to play some games during the day.

First large-scale Wii ad - Times Square, NY