Animal Crossing devs on the series’ modest beginnings, approach to making games, more
Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, DS, GameCube, News, Wii, Wii U | 12 Comments
Today, the Nintendo UK site issued a new interview with two of Animal Crossing’s primary developers. General producer Katsuya Eguchi and Animal Crossing series producer Hisashi Nogami fielded a number of questions.
The two devs weighed in on the Animal Crossing series as a whole, but more general topics as well. They were asked if they anticipated Animal Crossing becoming so popular, approach to making games, what they aim for when creating titles, and more.
We’ve picked out Eguchi and Nogami’s notable responses below.
Kirby: Planet Robobot gets more concept art, talk about the game’s music
Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News | 1 Comment
Nintendo updated the Japanese Kirby: Planet Robobot website once again today with more art. This time, we have a look at various mechanization gimmicks.
The site also contains some talk about the soundtrack. After initially hearing the Haltmann Works Company theme, director Shinya Kumazaki gave an order to composer Hirokazu Ando to “add more weight to make it feel like an evil giant corporation”, so he made a new version. However, it might have felt a bit too “heavy” when it was redone. From there, Ando received feedback to “make it feel more like a more unknown invader” for the final result.
Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Welcome amiibo overview trailer
Posted on 8 years ago by Matt(@OnePunchMaz) in 3DS, Videos | 2 Comments
Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Welcome amiibo is out in Europe today, and for that occasion, Nintendo has released an overview trailer that, well, gives an overview on everything that’s new in this update. Give it a watch:
Media Create software sales (11/14/16 – 11/20/16) – Top 50
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This week’s expanded Japanese software sales are as follows:
01./00. [3DS] Pokemon Sun / Moon
02./00. [3DS] Pokemon Sun / Moon Dual Pack {Pokemon Sun \ Pokemon Moon}
03./05. [PS4] Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare #
04./02. [PS4] Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star #
05./01. [PSV] Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star #
06./09. [PS4] Battlefield 1
07./04. [PS4] The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – Special Edition
08./08. [PS4] Dragon Ball: Xenoverse 2
09./12. [3DS] Mario Party: Star Rush
10./07. [3DS] Beyblade Burst
11./17. [WIU] Minecraft: Wii U Edition
12./13. [3DS] Monster Hunter Stories #
13./18. [PSV] Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition
14./10. [PS4] Titanfall 2
15./03. [3DS] PriPara Mezameyo! Megami no Dress Design #
16./15. [PSV] Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization #
17./11. [PSV] World of Final Fantasy #
18./14. [PS4] Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization #
19./00. [PSV] Hakuoki: Yuugi Roku – Taishitachi no Daienkai #
20./24. [3DS] Kirby: Planet Robobot
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Pokemon Sun/Moon – Japanese split for the two versions, sales for the special New 3DS XL designs, more
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Media Create reported that Pokemon Sun and Pokemon Moon sold 1.591 million copies in its first three days in Japan. Additional information from the sales tracker reveals that Sun sold 808,000 copies while Moon was at 783,000 units.
If you count the Double Pack which also sold 151,000 units (containing two games in each), the overall total is 1.893 million. That puts Pokemon Sun/Moon at the same scale as X/Y, which sold 1.867 million in first week without the Double Pack. Both also have the relatively same sell-through rate of about 80 percent.
More: Media Create, Pokemon Moon, Pokemon Sun, sales
Another 3 hours of Dragon Ball Fusions footage
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Yesterday, GameXplain held a live stream for Dragon Ball Fusions that spanned three hours. Get a look at the full archived version below.
Puyo Puyo Chronicle: more characters and their skills revealed
Posted on 8 years ago by Matt(@OnePunchMaz) in 3DS, News | 0 comments
Once again, some more characters from the upcoming Puyo Puyo Chronicle and their Auto and Special Skills have been revealed via 4Gamer (credit to Perfectly Nintendo for the translation):
Rafine
A confident and snobby girl from a wealthy family who studies at the Magic School in Primp Town. Despite that, she’s not really that good at magic – martial arts is her specialty.
Auto Skill: Filled with confidence (increases HP)
Special Skill: Etincelle (changes the color of a column of Puyo to yellow)
Yu-chan & Rei-kun
A sibling pair – and both of them are ghosts. Yu-chan is bright and intelligent, whereas Rei-kun is silent and backs her up in whatever she says and does. They like to talk in puns and riddles.
Auto Skill: Beyond the Veil (increases Recovery)
Special Skill: Silent Step (lowers the defense of all opponents)
Head past the break for more characters!
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Total software sales for 3DS reach 100 million in Japan
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With the release of Pokemon Sun & Moon, the Nintendo 3DS has reached a pretty important milestone in Japan: on Nintendo’s home turf, 3DS software sales now top 100 million. According to Famitsu, the 3DS is only the third platform to reach that number in the last 20 years, after the Nintendo DS and the PlayStation 2.
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Puyo Puyo Chronicle footage covers more of the game’s modes
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SEGA prepared another new Puyo Puyo Chronicle gameplay video that covers some of the game’s modes. Single-player, group play, and online are all highlighted. View the video below.
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Media Create sales (11/14/16 – 11/20/16)
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Update (11/24): Bumped to the top. The Japanese holiday is over, and the official Media Create data is in (and is now replaced in this post).
Original (11/23): The latest Japanese hardware sales from Media Create are as follows:
New 3DS LL – 81,044
PS4 – 25,605
2DS – 17,769
PS4 Pro – 12,421
Vita – 9,191
New 3DS – 8,193
Wii U – 3,251
PS3 – 625
3DS – 529
Xbox One – 186
3DS LL – 96
For comparison’s sake, here are the hardware numbers from last week:
PS4 – 92,344
New 3DS LL – 20,345
Vita – 10,410
2DS – 7,972
New 3DS – 3,603
Wii U – 2,756
PS3 – 611
3DS – 324
Xbox One – 171
3DS LL – 57
And here are the software charts:
