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Everybody’s favorite analyst Michael Pachter has weighed in on third-party support for Wii. Pachter believes that Nintendo will have a tough time wooing such developers/publishers, partially due to the console’s controller. He feels that “they have complicated game design for developers, who can’t figure out if the Wii U will ultimately support only one or multiple controllers.”

Pachter’s full response:

“Nintendo has to simply stop living in the past in 2012. They had a great deal of success since 1985 by making proprietary hardware and supporting it with proprietary software. They attracted third party support based upon the large installed base they generated for their hardware. They appear to me to be confident that ‘if they build it, third parties will support it’, but I don’t think that is the case for Wii U.

“By trying to be ‘different’ with the tablet controller, they have complicated game design for developers, who can’t figure out if the Wii U will ultimately support only one or multiple controllers. Nintendo made the device sufficiently different that they are all but assured of limited third party launch support, which ultimately will lead to modest hardware sales.

“They should stop relying upon the strategy that got them here, as it appears to no longer be working. I think their resolution should be to look outside of Nintendo for leadership in the areas of digital downloads, a user-friendly online interface and multiplayer gaming.”

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Zoom.in has published a new video interview with Shigeru Miyamoto, and it contains some juicy tidbits. He discusses the retirement situation (yet again), how he’s jealous about video game characters being able to outlive us, his lack of interest in making photo-realistic games, and the pressure he faces due to expectations.

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Cambridge, Mass. – January 6th, 2011 – Harmonix today announced that Hall & Oates will makes its debut on the Rock Band™ Music Store of downloadable content for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and Wii™.

Rock Band provides the deepest and best selection of artists, songs and albums through the Rock Band music platform, which features more than 900 artists and more than 3,000* tracks via disc and download purchase (complete list of tracks atwww.rockband.com/songs). Rock Band’s gigantic music library dwarfs that of any other rhythm video game on the market. More than 100 million songs have been sold through the Rock Band Music Store since its launch on Nov. 20, 2007.

Rock Band DLC Additions for Xbox 360, PlayStation®3 system and Wii™

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Nintendo of America has posted the English version of the first Super Mario 3D Land tips/tricks video. It’s essentially the same clip as the Japanese video, but it’s certainly worth watching it again!

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Ikari no Yousai 2 will be released in Japan on January 11 for 400 yen.

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Neo Geo

Sengoku 2 – 900 points

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European 3DS owners who registered two eligible products on Club Nintendo can obtain their free copy of 3D Classics: Kid Icarus. An email with a download code should arrive in your inbox shortly if it hasn’t already.

3D Classics: Kid Icarus will be offered at a later date to all eShop users. It’ll cost £5.40 / €6.00 once the Club Nintendo promotion ends.

Thanks to joclo for the tip!

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There are some new updates available for a variety of eShop downloads. 3DS users can download new versions of Super Mario Land, Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins, Pushmo, 3D Classics: Kirby’s Adventure, and Netflix.

There isn’t any sort of changelog, so it’s anybody’s guess what these updates actually do. However, I’m guessing that they’re relatively minor.

Thanks to Skawtz for the tip!