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EAD Tokyo. Monolith Soft. Retro. These are just three first-party Nintendo studios that were absent from E3 this year.

Retro is particularly important, as they’ve worked on some of Nintendo’s most beloved franchises – Metroid and Donkey Kong. There was a lot of hope that the studio would be bringing a new Wii U game to E3 2012, but as we all know, that didn’t happen.

Reggie Fils-Aime was asked about the status of Retro in an interview with IGN, but the Nintendo of America president remained tight-lipped.

Fils-Aime said:

“… if I disclosed what Retro is doing, I would have the president of Retro literally calling me right now saying, ‘Reggie, what are you doing?’ We love that people are interested. We love surprising people. I remember getting the questions before we announced Donkey Kong Country Returns. And I loved unveiling that. So… Rest assured, the team is hard at work. But I’m not gonna tell you what they’re working on.”

And when asked if we’ll hear about Retro anytime soon, Fils-Aime said, “Um… Likely not.”

E3 2013, then? Please?

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Wii U Features New Attractions in Nintendo Land

Nintendo Land is a fun and lively theme park filled with 12 different attractions, each with its own take on a Nintendo franchise. Each attraction features unique and innovative game-play experiences made possible by the Wii U GamePad controller. Depending on the attraction, players can compete solo or against other players, or even team up to play
cooperatively. Up to five players can participate in dynamic multiplayer modes in select attractions.* The experiences change every time, depending on whether players are using the GamePad, holding a Wii Remote or just watching others play on the TV screen.

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The Return of an Army

Pikmin 3 is a fully reimagined, mass-action strategy title from the critically acclaimed Pikmin series. Players will discover a beautiful world filled with strange creatures and take command of a swarm of ant-like Pikmin trying to survive. The world is densely packed with treasures and enemies, which makes the game much more action focused and fills it with layers of potential strategies and paths, adding greater replayability to challenge modes.

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Okay, now it sounds like we have an absolute confirmation that Friend Codes won’t be on Wii U. I don’t know what happened during that analyst meeting, but it sounds pretty concrete that the console will be making use of accounts (of which twelve are supported), and that’s it.

Watch the video above for the discussion on Wii U’s online and Friend Codes talk, along with other topics.

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Some prospective Wii U buyers were hoping Nintendo would redesign the controller so that multi-touch functionality would be integrated. As we found out yesterday, however, nothing had changed.

You might be wondering why Nintendo went down this path. NOA Senior Director of Corporate Communications Charlie Scibetta explained the decision in an interview with GameTrailers.

Scibetta said:

“The new screen is not multi-touch. Well, with the DS certainly it’s not multi-touch and people have really enjoyed that interface and have found it sufficient for their needs for gaming. If you add something like multi-touch, you do up the cost, and so we’re trying to strike the right balance between the robust set of features and capabilities for the hardware, but also make it affordable to people.”

You can listen to Scibetta’s response in GameTrailers’ video interview here (3:50 mark).

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The first of many interviews to come from Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime…