Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch | 13 Comments

SiMPLiSTiC has plans to bring The Sacred Hero to Switch, the UK studio announced. It’s an upcoming RPG with songs from Ruven Wegner, who has created original takes on Zelda music.

Here’s a teaser:

It’ll be awhile before The Sacred Hero debuts – it won’t be ready until 2018.

Thanks to Ninwed for the tip.

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Update (12/8): The same update is now available in North America and Europe.

Original (11/22): Over in Japan, a new update is available for Animal Crossing: New Leaf. Version 1.5 arrived earlier today.

Today’s patch is small in nature, and is not up in either North America and Europe. It merely addresses an issue with error [004 – 6006] when players downloaded presents/campers. Nintendo also says that there are additional enhancements to improve the user experience.

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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Mobile, News | 2 Comments

During an interview with Financial Post, Shigeru Miyamoto touched on how Nintendo is handling pricing with Super Mario Run. He and the rest of the company “felt pretty strongly “that we needed to have a form of monetization where you would simply pay once and be able to play as much as you like.”

Miyamoto explained:

“When we first started talking about bringing Nintendo games and Mario to iPhone, we talked a lot about what we would do from a monetization standpoint and debated this even with Mr. Iwata back in those days (Satoru Iwata was CEO of Nintendo until his death in 2015).

Certainly there are a lot of different ways that you can monetize a game. In Japan there’s a mechanic that’s referred to as “gacha,” where you keep spending small amounts for a raffle or lottery to get rare items. There are other ways that you can charge people repeatedly to get money. And there are games that rely on a very small number of people who pay a lot of money and the rest of the players play for free.

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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U eShop | 0 comments

Teslapunk just arrived on the North American Wii U eShop today. In Europe, we now know that it’s due out next week – specifically December 15. The game will cost €9.99.

Here’s a look at the eShop listing:

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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, Mobile, News, Switch | 10 Comments

CNET is another publication to have put up an interview with Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime. Just as we’ve seen with these discussions, much of it is about Nintendo on mobile and Super Mario Run. Reggie confirmed that the mobile game won’t be on Switch, but won’t rule out Apple TV. On the other hand, NES games won’t be coming to smartphones.

You can read up on a roundup of Reggie’s comments below. Be sure to view CNET’s article CNET“>here as well.

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Circle Entertainment announced a North American release date for Mercenaries Saga 3 today. We’ll be seeing it very soon, as it’s scheduled for December 15.

Circle posted the news on Twitter a few hours ago and also shared some new screenshots:

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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, Images | 7 Comments

The CPSIA certificates are now up for the Link (Archer) and Link (Rider) amiibo. Both documents included the packaging for the figures. We’ve attached the two above.

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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, Mobile, News | 3 Comments

Super Mario Run was partially inspired by speedrunners, according to Shigeru Miyamoto. Miyamoto shared that noteworthy nugget of information with BuzzFeed.

The site reports:

“According to Miyamoto, part of the inspiration for Super Mario Run’s auto-running came from a surprising source: ‘super players.’ Watching online videos of these gamers’ astounding speed runs and other feats of gaming skill, Nintendo employees noticed that the gamers never let up on the D-Pad. Mario always kept running, and all of the skill came down to the incredible precision of the jumping. What if, the Nintendo braintrust reasoned, all players could have that experience? Ironically, the most skilled Super Mario players in the world may be partially responsible for introducing Mario to thousands and thousands of first-time players.”

BuzzFeed also reports that Nintendo “considered building GPS into its 3DS” at one point for a Pokemon GO-esque game. However, “Nintendo decided that it made more sense to put the game on millions of devices that already had satellite location tracking.”

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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, Mobile, Videos | 3 Comments

Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime took on some questions from fans that ties into his appearance on The Tonight Show. He commented on Super Mario Run, his favorite Mario title, and more. Hear Reggie’s full responses below.

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Over at Famitsu, two more off-screen videos showing more Super Mario Run gameplay are available. View them below.

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