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This week’s North American Nintendo Downloads are as follows:

Wii U download

Rayman Legends Challenges App – free

3DS VC

Mega Man 4 – $4.99

3DS download

Crazy Construction – ?

DSiWare

Color Commando – ?

Wii Virtual Console

Sengoku – ?

Source: Nintendo PR

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If you’re reading this, chances are you’re an avid Nintendo fan – or a gaming fan, at the very least. That likely means you try watching the Nintendo Direct presentations live. Or perhaps you view them on YouTube a few hours later.

Not everyone operates this way. In fact, Satoru Iwata revealed during today’s investors meeting that more and more consumers are viewing the Nintendo Direct broadcasts through the eShop.

Iwata noted, “It is no exaggeration to say that the most preferred viewing option has now become the Nintendo eShop, and it is not uncommon to find that approximately 60 to 70 percent of total views come from the Nintendo eShop.” Iwata additionally stated that with recent shows, “it became common to see total views for a single video reach five hundred to six hundred thousand in a matter of about 10 days on the Nintendo eShop while they did not show apparent growth on YouTube”.

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Psychoz Interactive is now an official Wii U developer. Studio owner Georges Paz passed along the good news on Twitter yesterday, and also officially confirmed that Forgotten Memories will be coming to the eShop.

Paz wrote:

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Shin’en is planning two new games for the Wii U. While details about both are being kept under wraps, the studio’s Manfred Linzner has confirmed that one of these will incorporate online play. It’ll be Shin’en’s first title with network play, according to Linzner.

“We are working on two new Wii U games currently. One of them is our first game with network play.”

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Through a series of images posted on Facebook, Nintendo has officially confirmed the Wii U Virtual Console lineup for North America.

Eight games in total will be made available at launch. Six are from the NES catalog while two, F-Zero and Super Mario World, are from the SNES library.

Here’s the lineup in full:

NES

Balloon Fight
Donkey Kong Jr.
Excite Bike
Ice Climber
Kirby’s Adventure
Punch-Out!!

SNES

Super Mario World
F-Zero

A number of these games – such as Balloon Fight and Kirby’s Adventure – have already been made available through the Virtual Console Trial Campaign.

Nintendo hasn’t said when exactly the Wii U Virtual Console will be launching, but recent speculation has indicated that Friday will be the day.