Scans roundup – Champion Jockey Special, Implosion, Great Ace Attorney 2, Hey! Pikmin, more
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This week’s Famitsu scans are now available. Highlights include Champion Jockey Special, Implosion, Etrian Mystery Dungeon 2, The Great Ace Attorney 2, Hey! Pikmin, Ever Oasis, and Pokken Tournament Deluxe. Scans of all games are below.
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Japanese Layton’s Mystery Journey boxart, new screenshots and art
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Amazon starts pre-orders for new Switch games
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Update (6/14): Nintendo-related E3 games are up on Amazon Canada.
Original (6/13): Amazon has started taking pre-orders for the new Switch games announced today. These include Metroid Prime 4, Kirby, and Yoshi. Reserve them here.
New Zelda: Breath of the Wild amiibo back up for pre-order at Best Buy
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Best Buy began to take pre-orders for the new Zelda: Breath of the Wild amiibo yesterday, but they quickly became unavailable. Now they’re up on the retailer’s site once again. You can pre-order the various figures here.
Screenshots of this week’s European Nintendo Downloads (6/15/17)
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Check out some screenshots of this week’s Nintendo Downloads in Europe:
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Nintendo Download (6/15/17, Europe) – ARMS, Mighty Gunvolt Burst, Devilish Brain Training demo
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This week’s European Nintendo Downloads are as follows:
Switch Retail
ARMS – €59.99 / £49.99 (available Friday)
Switch Download
Mighty Gunvolt Burst – €9.99 / £8.99
ACA NeoGeo Sengoku – €6.99 / £6.29
Super Mario Odyssey will support all current amiibo
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Nintendo’s fact sheet for Super Mario Odyssey mentioned that “some” previously released amiibo will be compatible with Super Mario Odyssey. However, the new developer diary confirms that all will work with the game in one form or another. Nintendo is also preparing special Super Mario Odyssey amiibo with Mario, Princess Peach, and Bowser in their wedding outfits.
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Koopa Troopa, Goomba amiibo packaging
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Amazon has posted the packaging for the new Koopa Troopa and Goomba amiibo being added to the Super Mario series line. View both of the images above.
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Media Create sales (6/5/17 – 6/11/17)
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The latest Japanese hardware sales from Media Create are as follows:
Switch – 27,291
PS4 – 14,595
New 3DS LL – 11,442
PS4 Pro – 4,546
Vita – 4,063
2DS – 2,752
New 3DS – 917
PS3 – 392
Xbox One – 255
Wii U – 166
For comparison’s sake, here are the hardware numbers from last week:
Switch – 23,524
PS4 – 15,854
New 3DS LL – 12,676
PS4 Pro – 5,492
Vita – 4,454
2DS – 2,904
New 3DS – 915
PS3 – 714
Wii U – 221
Xbox One – 167
And here are the software charts:
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Director on Super Mario Odyssey – throwable cap planned from the start, more
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This information comes from Super Mario Odyssey director Kenta Motokura…
On how a throwable cap was integral from the start…
“As far as the hat action goes it was included in one of the prototypes the staff had come up with. It was part of the game right from the beginning. We have several different themes that arose from those prototypes, and one of those was focusing on the Joy-Con [motion controls].”
On how it’s not always clear what you can interact with, which is intentional…
“Because throwing the cap is a new action, we want players to feel empowered or encouraged to go ahead and try this action wherever they feel it might work. There are certain topographical hints near areas where you’re going to be looking, and you might say ‘That looks like some place my hat might reach or might attach to.’ So there are some hidden elements like that, that players will start to get used to.”
“The game’s structure isn’t designed so that you have side quests, it’s more that as you’re traveling around the different kingdoms or areas, you’ll find something that attracts your attention and there may be some sort of a quest around that, but it’s all about going and finding and collecting the Power Moons. You need a certain number of Moons to unlock a new kingdom, so some of these what we might consider side quests, are solving some issue within a kingdom, but the real goal of that is to provide you with enough Power Moons to move on with the main storyline.”
