Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News, Wii U | 36 Comments

Update: Bumped to the top. Also wanted to throw in that Splatoon has seen one of the highest sell-through rates for any game in Japan. There could be more, but we’re only aware of two titles with a sell-through rate of 97 percent. Those are Pokemon Diamond (97.12 percent) and Gundam True Odyssey (97.2 percent). Splatoon outperformed both of these titles.

During its first week in Japan, Splatoon sold 145,000 copies. Media Create has now shared a follow-up report on the game’s sales as well as related amiibo.

In terms of the best opening weeks on Wii U, Splatoon is only behind the Mario series and Super Smash Bros. Media Create points out that this is a favorable start for a brand new title.

We previously heard earlier in the week that the game was selling through roughly 90 percent of its stock. However, Media Create reveals that the percentage actually finished at 97.33 percent, with a lot of stores being sold out since release date.

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Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, Rumors | 2 Comments

PoPoLoCrois Farm Story could be heading west, judging by a new Twitter tease posted by XSEED.

About an hour ago, the company posted the following:

The eyes in the video clip definitely match up with what’s shown in the art above. I’d say this is very likely teasing a localization of PoPoLoCrois Farm Story. And that wouldn’t be surprising, as XSEED is basically Marvelous’ North American branch.

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Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, Videos | 1 Comment

Bandai Namco released a second official trailer for Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butoden. We’ve attached it below.

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Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News | 1 Comment

Collectible Badge Center has been updated with eight new panels of badges. These include ones based on Zelda as well as Animal Crossing. Images of each can be found below, and I’m sure a video will be surfacing soon showing them off as well!

Thanks to Jake for the tip.

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Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Videos, Wii U eShop | 0 comments

Cube Blitz was another Wii U eShop game that launched on the North American Wii U eShop today. You can get a brief look at it in the video below.

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Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 57 Comments

Yesterday, Mighty No. 9 publisher Deep Silver announced that the title would be receiving a collector’s edition. Gamers can purchase the “Signature Edition“, which comes with a physical copy, new DLC, a foil signature and a posable Beck statue.

I’d been trying to find out if the package would be available on Wii U, but hadn’t received any sort of response. Although we now finally have an answer, it’s unfortunately not good news. Deep Silver has confirmed via Twitter that the Mighty No. 9 Signature Edition is only on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

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Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS eShop, News | 1 Comment

Update: The OlliOlli update should also be available in North America (thanks omartin94). I wouldn’t be surprised if the same goes for Titan Attacks as well.

Curve Digital has released updates for the 3DS edition of OlliOlli and Titan Attacks in Europe (18 blocks each). Both titles have received patches bringing them up to version 1.1

We’re not quite sure what these updates do at present, but they’re likely bug fixes. If anyone can confirm that the patches are live in North America, that’d be swell!

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Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Videos, Wii U eShop | 4 Comments

The Stonecutter landed on the North American Wii U eShop today. Check out some footage from the game below.

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Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, Rumors | 28 Comments

Reddit user ZoomBoppo has expended a huge amount of effort into finding the “secrets” within amiibo. After going through the figures’ code in-depth, he was able to determine some potentially interesting findings.

Here’s a quick roundup:

– It’s very likely ZSS and Dr. Mario will work the same as Samus and Mario respectively in games like Mario Kart 8 and Ace Combat, with Dr. Mario being usable in Mario Party 10.
– There may be a Rosalina amiibo without Luma, likely for the Super Mario series.
– Space is reserved for every Pokemon, which could mean anything.
– Mii Fighters are coming.
– It’s likely there are 2 more Mario-series amiibo yet to be announced.
– There are two amiibo series in limbo. They could either be YWW and AC, or two completely unannounced ones.

If you’d like to take a peak at the huge amount of work that went into these findings, you can check out the Reddit page here. Just keep in mind that nothing is confirmed until Nintendo makes announcements.

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Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U eShop | 1 Comment

Form Up Studios LLC has announced that N.E.O. – Near Earth Objects is coming to Wii U.

Near Earth Objects is a neo-retro arcade-style shooter. It features a ’90s Euro/rave-inspired soundtrack, more than 120 waves of space shootables, and graphics that pay tribute to old CGA games.

Near Earth Objects is launching on the Wii U eShop later this year. Check out a trailer below.

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