Xbox Live's Major Nelson : Show #208 The one about CES and Crackdown

This week’s show:
CES
Xbox news
Interview: BIGVIP on Xbox 360 IPTV
Interview: Dave Jones, ‘Crackdown’ designer
Interview: World Series of Video Games particpants
Name the Game
Gadgets
…and much more!

Xbox Live's Major Nelson

Xbox 360 HD-DVD: 92K Sold

Research firm NPD Group tells Next-Gen that the Xbox 360 HD-DVD movie player add-on has sold about 92,000 units in the US since its mid-November launch last year. According to NPD’s figures, the hardware sold 42,000 units in November and 50,000 in December.

Next Generation

Extensive hands on video of Xbox 360 IPTV with a Microsoft representative

In case you missed it, this is a pretty thorough video covering what we should expect from Microsoft's IPTV service to be delivered through Xbox 360.

Mad Catz readying its own Wiimote / nunchuck?

If you've managed to secure yourself a Nintendo Wii, and have managed to stay relatively safe while playing, you still might be leading a fruitless search to find yourself a few extra Wiimotes. Oddly enough, some parts of the country are still facing Wiimote shortages, while locales like the Nintendo World store in NYC has just under a gazillion or so. Nevertheless, it looks like Mad Catz just might readying a rescue effort, as a cameraphone-packin' Wal-Mart employee happened to snap a few pics of what appears (fairly clearly) to be a third-party Wiimote / nunchuck combo. Of course, we've no way of verifying Mad Catz's plans, nor any way to tell if these shots foretell the future, but this definitely wouldn't mark the first time a Mad Catz peripheral got leaked way before its supposed release date. Be sure to hit the read link for the full rundown of sneak peeks.

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