Nintendo starts up “Camp Miiverse”
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Nintendo has opened a new “Camp Miiverse” community that allows fans to participate in gaming events spanning across the entire social media network over the next few weeks. Anyone and everyone is eligible to join so long as they have the games that will be played.
Here’s an overview of Camp Miiverse from Miiverse’ Tom:
And here’s a look at the first challenge:
This isn’t quite Camp Hyrule, but it’s nice to see Nintendo trying to bring back the online camp experience!
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Monster Hunter producer on his impression of American players
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Monster Hunter series producer Ryozo Tsujimoto dished on his impression of western players – primarily in America – as part of an interview with Siliconera.
Tsujimoto said that the original assumption was that they’d have a more aggressive playstyle. However, he learned that this wasn’t actually so and they were more careful like Japanese players.
Here’s Tsujimoto’s comments in full:
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Nintendo Minute – Evo 2014
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The Cat Mario Show episode 1
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Club Nintendo Japan adds Yoshi plush, Mario decoration tape
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A pair of new rewards have been added to the Japanese Club Nintendo website. A Yoshi plush is now available, along with a Mario decoration tape set (three different tapes). Pricing is set at 650 points and 200 points respectively.
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GameStop ad (7/16 – 7/22)
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This week’s GameStop ad has gone live. You can find it in full below.
Fatal Frame presentation guests include Shigeru Miyamoto
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On Thursday, a presentation will be held on Niconico for the new Fatal Frame Wii U game and related media efforts such as the upcoming movie. The event seems to be rather significant – as one would expect – given some of the guests attending.
Perhaps mostly importantly, Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto will be showing up for this week’s presentation. Other guests include staff from Kadokawa and Koei Tecmo, Keisuke Kikuchi (Fatal Frame series), Shin Kibayashi (the author of the manga), Mari Asato (movie director), Nakajo Ayami (actress) and Aoi Morikawa (actress).
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Half of Sonic’s lifetime sales have been in the US, 35% in Europe
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Peter Warman, CEO of video game research firm Newzoo, shared an overview of Sonic’s lifetime sales in different territories with Fortune.
The Blue Blur is most popular in the United States, which is where about half of the total sales have originated from. Europe makes up another 35 percent, with the remaining 15 percent of sales stemming from other countries like Japan.
As stated by Warman:
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Famicom celebrates its 31st birthday
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It was 31 years ago that Nintendo released the Famicom in Japan. The system launched on July 15, 1983. Of course, in other parts of the world, the Famicom is known as the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System).
Sony wants to bring some of the Wii audience over to PS4
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With the PlayStation 4, Sony is looking to bring in some of the consumers who previously purchased Wii.
That tidbit comes from Sony Computer Entertainment president Andrew House, who was speaking with Eurogamer. He told the site:
“Our big opportunity is to welcome back an audience much earlier in the lifecycle that possibly bought into the Wii previously. Whether it’s based on this is a really good all-round entertainment device for a family in addition to having great games, our consumer data suggests some of those people are already coming in now and that’s what’s contributing to the really great sales we’ve had.”
