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Submitted by Jon Wilcox on November 27 2007 - 20:40

Wii may be top of the hardware sales, but Nintendo makes a less than impressive debut on Greenpeace's Guide to Greener Electronics...

Global campaigning organisation Greenpeace has today released the latest version of its 'Guide to Greener Electronics', which has seen Microsoft and Nintendo join the list of manufacturers including Sony, Philips, and Dell.

Unfortunately for Messrs. Gates and Iwata, both Microsoft and Nintendo failed to make impressive debuts. Marked out of ten (where the higher the number, the greener the company on recycling and use of toxic materials), Microsoft managed to clamber up to a score of 2.7...whilst Nintendo achieved a record for the guide by attaining the first zero.

According to the guide, Microsoft's long timetable to reduce toxic chemicals by 2011, and poor voluntary take back policies helped deliver its low score, whilst Nintendo achieved 'Bad' scores across the board.

In a statement to the Associated Press, Microsoft representatives commented: "In our consumer electronics business, we comply with and exceed all environmental guidelines and regulations."

But what about Sony? It seems that in the fifteen months since Greenpeace started its 'Guide', the corporation has lifted its score from 5 to 7.3, thanks to a reduction of PVC in its manufacturing and improvements in recycling.

Greenpeace's next report is due in the New Year.

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By: h7pe

Added:Thu 29th Oct 2009 21:03, Post No: 343

Score: -1

It doesn't matter how good the Wii console is, all the games are rubbish.

family bowling

Family fishing

Family execise

Family necrophilia

There is no point improving the console unless they sort the games out


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By: Anonymous

Added:Wed 21st Oct 2009 17:31, Post No: 342

Score: 0

Breaking News: Shigeru Miyamoto speculates that the next generation Wii will be more advanced.


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By: Anonymous

Added:Sat 17th Oct 2009 16:06, Post No: 341

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Yeah, apparently Ninty are working on a new console with graphics to match PS3/60, and motion controllers/games are being created by PS3/60, so its all gonna be good in the end eh! :)


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By: Anonymous

Added:Fri 16th Oct 2009 10:58, Post No: 340

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I really would like to see a Nintendo console with HD support.  It's the standard, they really do need to catch up.


By: Arc1991

Added:Fri 14th Aug 2009 23:13, Post No: 339

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if the sites so annoying dont use it =S simple


By: SegaBoy

Added:Thu 30th Jul 2009 15:18, Post No: 338

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What Bing popups - are you on about MS search engine?  If you're on about the textual ads, just avoid hovering your cursor above em - simple.

Information doesn't drop from the trees I'm afraid...


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By: Anonymous

Added:Thu 30th Jul 2009 15:10, Post No: 337

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This site is so annoying with the stupid bing popups, they detract from me being able to read these articles... 


By: SegaBoy

Added:Thu 30th Jul 2009 12:26, Post No: 336

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Just outputting to HD won't be enough - there will have to be increases to the Wii's GPU and memory to make the visuals look sufficiently better.  the Wii HD is just a pipedream invented by an anlyst that doesn't actually get that many things right...


By: Arc1991

Added:Sun 12th Jul 2009 23:25, Post No: 335

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post 334 the good thing will be there will be better graphics? its the only system now to not have HD (or blu-ray but technicaly tht is still HD) 

it means we dont have to see the characters fuzzy anymore its better on the eyes =)


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By: Anonymous

Added:Wed 17th Jun 2009 21:03, Post No: 334

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i hope wii HD dosent exist i mean seriously what good is a wii with the only new thing about it is High Def think about it...


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