The Play Nintendo YouTube account uploaded a new off-beat video today to promote Mario Party: Star Rush and the new Boo amiibo. Get a look at it below.

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Scans roundup – Momotaro Dentetsu 2017, Pokemon Sun/Moon

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This week’s Famitsu scans are now available. Highlighted games include Momotaro Dentetsu 2017: Tachiagare Nippon!! and Pokemon Sun/Moon (plus a Famicom Mini ad). Scans of both can be found below.

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Pokemon Sun/Moon devs on more expressive characters, inspiration behind Z-Moves, theme, and more

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Interviews with Pokemon Sun/Moon director Shigeru Ohmori and producer Junichi Masuda have been popping up left and right. Nintendo UK is throwing its hat into the ring with a discussion of its own. In Nintendo’s official interview, Ohmori and Masuda talked about featuring more expressive characters, what the inspiration was behind Z-Moves, the theme of relationships between people and Pokemon, and much more.

Head past the break for all of the comments from these two developers.

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Media Create sales (10/17/16 – 10/23/16)

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The latest Japanese hardware sales from Media Create are as follows:

PS4 – 27,069
New 3DS LL – 14,092
Vita – 8,853
2DS – 7,404
New 3DS – 2,700
Wii U – 1,919
PS3 – 763
Xbox One – 752
3DS – 370
3DS LL – 77

For comparison’s sake, here are the hardware numbers from last week:

PS4 – 30,154
New 3DS LL – 15,905
Vita – 8,772
2DS – 8,203
New 3DS – 2,983
Wii U – 2,430
PS3 – 814
3DS – 346
Xbox One – 323
3DS LL – 71
PS VR – 51,644

And here are the software charts:

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Nintendo to continue developing 3DS software

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Switch, Nintendo’s next major platform, is just on the horizon. The system is due out in less than half a year. With Switch though, Nintendo isn’t pulling all of its eggs in one basket – at least not yet.

President Tatsumi Kimishima mentioned during a press conference today that Switch and 3DS are entirely different. More importantly though, he said Nintendo will continue to develop software for 3DS.

Beginning next year, Poochy & Yoshi’s Woolly World, Mario Sports Superstars, Ever Oasis, Pikmin, and the localized version of Dragon Quest VIII will head to 3DS. It’s unclear what Nintendo has in store beyond this. We also don’t know how long 3DS development will continue.

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Saiki Kusuo no Psi-nan: Shijou Psi-dai no Psi-nan!? trailer, demo out in Japan

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A new trailer is live for Saiki Kusuo no Psi-nan: Shijou Psi-dai no Psi-nan!?, a soon-to-be-released Japanese 3DS game from Bandai Namco. Check it out below.

In other news, Saiki Kusuo no Psi-nan: Shijou Psi-dai no Psi-nan!? has received a demo in Japan. Five missions are included in total.

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Nintendo Q2 FY16 financial results

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Nintendo has reported its earnings release for the second quarter of fiscal year 2016.

First, here’s a look at hardware for the quarter:

Getting down to some of the nitty-gritty:

And some analysis and comments from Nintendo:

During the six months ended September 30, 2016, we saw strong trends for the global release of Kirby: Planet Robobot. On the hardware side, Nintendo 2DS saw sales growth. The release of the smart device application Pokémon GO led to increased sales of software in the Pokémon series released in the past and drove the Nintendo 3DS family hardware sales growth, particularly outside of Japan. The sales volume for hardware this period was 2.71 million units (19% increase on a year- on-year basis), while software held steady with the previous year at 19.23 million units sold.
For the Wii U console, we have decided to ship 0.8 million units this fiscal year, based on our forecasts of comprehensive demand for Nintendo hardware. Activity has conformed to our expectations from the start of the fiscal year, with hardware sales volume of 0.56 million units (53% decrease on a year-on-year basis). There were no hit titles this period to compare with Splatoon and Super Mario Maker last year, so the software sales were 8.3 million units (33% decrease on a year-on-year basis).

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Japanese 3DS themes (10/26/16)

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A couple of new 3DS themes are out now in Japan. Here’s the lineup:

– New Game! – Game Start! – 200 yen
– New Game! – Today’s Your Job – 200 yen
– New Game! bundle – 300 yen