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More news coming out of Nintendo’s 1st quarter financials, it looks like Captain Toad Treasure Tracker has been delayed to January 2015 in Europe. It looks as if the North American and Japanese releases are still on track for later this year however.

Nintendo’s financials for Q1 2014 have been released (that is, for April – June), here are a look at some of the highlights to come out of that press release:

  • Revenue: 74.70B yen (-8.4% year over year)
  • Opt income: -9.47B yen
  • Net income: -9.92B yen

Hardware + Software Sales

  • Wii U unit sales (hardware): 0.51 million
    Financial year – 0.40 million
    Lifetime to date – 6.68 million
  • Wii U unit sales (software): 4.39 million
    Financial year – 4.39 million
    Lifetime to date – 36.67 million
    * Mario Kart 8 sold 2.82 million copies worldwide in its first month on sale.
  • 3DS unit sales (hardware): 0.82 million
    Financial year – 0.82 million
    Lifetime to date – 44.14 million
  • 3DS unit sales (software): 8.57 million
    Financial year – 8.57 million
    Lifetime to date – 171.49 million
  • Wii unit sales (hardware): 0.09 million
    Financial year: 0.09 million
    Lifetime to date: 101.15 million
  • Wii unit sales (software): 1.60 million
    Financial year: 1.60 million
    Lifetime to date: 896.82 million
  • DS unit sales (hardware): 0.06 million
    Financial year: 0.13 million
    Lifetime to date: 153.99 million
  • DS unit sales (software): 2.15 million
  • Financial year: 10.29 million
    Lifetime to date: 938.93 million

Financial Year 2014/2015 Forecast

  • 3DS hardware – 12 million
    3DS software – 67 million
  • Wii U hardware – 3.6 million
    Wii U software – 20 million
  • Wii hardware – 0.5 million
    Wii software – 9 million

For a look at how these numbers compare to previous quarters, check out this thread

Everything about today’s screenshot is just downright creepy. Sakurai details a Galaga inspired item that will make an appearance in the game:

Square Enix has released the latest batch of downloadable tracks for Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call.

Here’s the full roundup of the game’s latest DLC:

Songs

FINAL FANTASY TACTICS???????BMS
FINAL FANTASY Type-0????????BMS
FINAL FANTASY VII???????????????FMS
FINAL FANTASY XI?A New Horizon -Tavnazian Archipelago?FMS

Pricing is once again set at 150 yen for each download.

Sakurai doesn’t toy with our heartstrings quite so much today, giving us a look at some fresh 3DS stages:

He continues with a callback to another entry in the Paper Mario series:

 

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Since the stage is paper, it transforms when it folds over and opens up again. This ship is the S.S. Flavion from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door.

The latest Wii U/3DS-specific UK software sales are as follows:

Wii U:

  1. Mario Kart 8 – Nintendo
  2. Super Mario 3D World – Nintendo
  3. New Super Mario Bros. U – Nintendo
  4. Donkey Kong Country Returns: Tropical Freeze – Retro Studios
  5. New Super Luigi U – Nintendo
  6. Fifa 13 – EA Canada
  7. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker – Nintendo
  8. The Lego Movie Videogame – Traveller’s Tales
  9. Mass Effect 3 – Straight Right
  10. Rayman Legends – Ubisoft (France)

3DS

  1. Tomodachi Life – Nintendo
  2. Pokemon X – Game Freak
  3. Pokemon Y – Game Freak
  4. Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Nintendo
  5. Kirby: Triple Deluxe – Hal Laboratory
  6. Mario Kart 7 – Retro Studios / Nintendo
  7. How to Train Your Dragon 2 – Torus Games
  8. The Lego Movie Videogame – Traveller’s Tales
  9. Frozen: Olaf’s Quest – 1st Playable
  10. New Super Mario Bros 2 – Nintendo

This week’s UK software sales are as follows:

Individual Formats

All Formats

Square-Enix announced today on Twitter that Bravely Default has shipped 1 million units, with roughly 40% of the sales coming from Japan and 60% from the West. We knew that the game was considered a success by the company as the numbers it did were enough for the inception of it’s sequel which is currently in development.


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