Animal Crossing: New Leaf version 1.5, fixes small issues
Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News | 0 comments
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.
Miyamoto – Nintendo felt strongly about paying just once for Mario Run, bringing back lapsed fans with mobile
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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Teslapunk hitting the European Wii U eShop next Thursday
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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:
#Teslapunk on #EU #WiiU #eShop https://t.co/CGXYSyKfeQ @klutzgames @GoNintendoTweet @NinEverything #indiegame #indie #indiedev #gamedev pic.twitter.com/TM3xgrqfQM
— Nintendo Hall (@NintendoHall) December 8, 2016
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Reggie – Mario Run won’t be on Switch but possibly Apple TV, NES games staying off mobile, more
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.
Mercenaries Saga 3 hitting the North American 3DS eShop next week
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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:
Now we got confirmation, Mercenaries Saga 3 will hitting on NA eShop Next week(15th Dec)! A new batch of screenshot releases, RT plz. pic.twitter.com/3mlROrg0dI
— CIRCLE Ent. (@CIRCLE_Ent) December 8, 2016
Zelda: Breath of The Wild – Link (Archer) and Link (Rider) amiibo packaging
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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.
Miyamoto says Super Mario Run was partially inspired by speedrunners, considered GPS for 3DS
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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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Video: Reggie on Super Mario Run, his favorite Mario game, more
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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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Another couple of off-screen Super Mario Run videos
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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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Amazon Books now selling the NES Classic Edition
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Amazon recently teased a couple of “exciting announcements” for the NES Classic Edition. One of these may not be so exciting after all.
Amazon Books have now started to sell the NES Classic Edition. This applies to locations in Seattle, Portland, and San Diego.
We were definitely hoping for bigger and better news (like an online restock) from Amazon. Hopefully that other announcement is a tad more interesting.