Japanese Mario Party 9 commercials
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Mario Party 9 will be available in Japan on April 26.
March 2012 NPD: Software sales for Kid Icarus, Mario Party 9, more
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IGN has obtained various software sales data from Nintendo.
Kid Icarus: Uprising sold 135,000 units in its first month. Mario Party 9 was even more impressive, moving 230,000 copies on Wii.
Super Mario 3D Land tacked on another 100,000 sales while Mario Kart 7 picked up another 118,000 units. Life-to-date figures of these two titles in the U.S. stand at 1.98 million and 1.58 million respectively.
March 2012 NPD: Hardware sales
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A (mostly) full listing of U.S. hardware sales for the month of March can be found below. With the exception of the PlayStation 3 (which is a close approximation), all figures are official.
The results are as follows:
Xbox 360 – 371K (-14.3%)
PlayStation 3 – 337K (-7.7%)
Nintendo 3DS – 225K (-43.8%)
Nintendo Wii – 175K (-39.7%)
March 2012 NPD: Kid Icarus misses top 10, but still successful
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Kid Icarus: Uprising wasn’t in the top 10 NPD software rankings for March. That doesn’t mean the game didn’t sell well, though.
Analyst Anita Frazier said Uprising “would have been among the top selling individual SKUs for the month of March.”
Frazier wrote in the NPD report:
“In a list of the top 10 SKUs for the month (as opposed to top titles as listed here), 3DS Kids Icarus: Uprising would have been among the top selling individual SKUs for the month of March.”
We may get specific Kid Icarus: Uprising sales later today/tomorrow.
March 2012 NPD: Top 10 best-selling games in the U.S.
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NPD Group has released a listing of the top ten best-selling games in the U.S. for the month of March. The results can be found below.
Order Up moves from retail to the eShop
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Supervillain’s CCO/Co-Founder Chris Rausch has revealed that Order Up will no longer be hitting store shelves. Instead Ignition Entertainment will be publishing the game on the 3DS eShop.
Order Up will first receive a demo on the digital store. Soon after, the full game will be available.
As for why Order Up is now a digital title, Rausch explained:
“[Order Up] is now coming exclusively to the 3DS eShop as a download. The retail scene is brutal unfortunately, so there have been some changes in plan.”
The demo should be available in the near future according to Rausch:
“I think the demo is just ASAP after Nintendo approval, and the game would follow soon after.”
Ignition Entertainment hasn’t announced a final release date for Order Up.
Nintendo acquires Super Mario 4 domain
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Nintendo of America recently registered a domain for “supermario4.com”. The move was made last month.
I’m not quite ready to believe this is necessarily the name for a new Mario game – it could be nothing more than a protective measure – but we do know that there’s a new 2D sidescroller in the works for the 3DS. Eventually we’ll be seeing Mario on Wii U as well, so who knows.
Another Dynasty Warriors Vs. trailer
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No Link or Samus costume action in this trailer, but there is more hack-and-slash goodness.
Footage of this week’s European Nintendo Downloads (4/12/12)
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This week’s European Nintendo Downloads: The Legend of Zelda (3DS VC), Crystal Caverns of Amon-Ra (DSiWare), I Must Run! (DSiWare), and Super Street Fighter II The New Challengers (Wii VC).
Ubisoft dates E3 2012 media briefing
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Companies’ E3 2012 plans are becoming clearer as we head toward the expo’s start date.
Ubisoft has dated their own briefing for the show. As usual, they’ll be holding a conference on the Monday before E3. That just so happens to be June 4 this year. The proceedings will kick off at 3 PM PST / 6 PM EST.
According to Game Informer’s Jim Reilly:
“Ubisoft’s E3 media briefing is June 4 at 3PM PST”
Ubisoft will definitely be showing off Assassin’s Creed III and a bunch of other titles.
