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Nintendo characters are crossing over with a third-party toys-to-life game in Skylanders SuperChargers. So what about a Nintendo partnership with Disney?

Disney Interactive vice president of production John Vignocchi told IGN, “Hopefully, the day Mario meets Mickey Mouse is not that far away.”

John Blackburn, Disney Interactive’s Avalanche Software vice president and general manager, also joked that the dream team will happen whenever Disney CEO Bob Iger “buys Nintendo.”

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Update: Bumped to the top. Fully translated tweets:

[Iwata] Originally, the Media Briefings (press conferences) were attended not only by reporters but also by security analysts, distributors and game industry staff—but now that Internet broadcasting is commonplace, many videogame fans can now watch them, too.

[Iwata] On the other hand, the information sought by reporters present at the press conferences can vary greatly depending on their viewpoints. As a result, every year saw the difficulty of pleasing everyone increase. That’s when we settled for a new format to convey information. With the Nintendo Direct format, our E3 has greatly evolved in the last 2-3 years.

[Iwata] This is the back story as to how the Media Briefing changed into the Nintendo Digital Event. During the Digital Event broadcast, we also have distributors gather and open a conference specially dedicated to them.

[Iwata] During our financial results briefing on May 8th, we talked about how we won’t announce anything about the new NX hardware until next year, and how we don’t have plans to showcase our QoL (Quality of Life) business or smart device announcements at E3, which we at Nintendo consider a trade fair for console games. However, perhaps these statements may not reached out as far as we had hoped.

[Iwata] For this year’s Nintendo Digital Event, we will use the occasion to showcase Wii U and 3DS software that is expected to release this year and early next year. It will be voiced in English with Japanese subtitles. This year, I’d like to join you all in Japan to watch the broadcast together. (Note: The second half of that tweet obviously pertains only to Japan.)


Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has reconfirmed what fans should and shouldn’t expect from the Digital Event today. You know, just in case you needed a reminder.

Once again, Nintendo will be focusing on games launching through early 2016. This applies to both Wii U and 3DS.

As mentioned previously, there will be no talk about Nintendo’s next system known as the “NX”. There also won’t be any news about the Big N’s Quality of Life initiative or smart device games.

That’s it! Iwata will be watching along from Japan as the Nintendo Digital Event airs. He’ll probably be tweeting throughout the day as well.

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The official “Play Nintendo” YouTube account shared another recap video from the Nintendo World Championships 2015. You can take a look at it below.

2015 Nintendo World Champion John Numbers held an AmA (Ask me Anything) on the Nintendo subreddit. Here are a couple choice quotes:

On meeting Shigeru Miyamoto:

I was definitely starstruck seeing the man in person. I was very excited to shake his hand, and receive his autograph. I took an opportunity off-mic to thank him for all of the good experiences I’ve had with Nintendo games growing up.

On the event being 50% contestants who qualified and 50% invitees:

I had no problem with the invitees showing up. The speedrunners are all talented gamers, and I can understand them being allowed to appear onstage. Egoraptor too, and he actually did a lot better than anyone was expecting(including Ego himself), so kudos to his good work too.

On whether he’s actually going to use his signed 3DS:

I’m still trying to figure that out. If I do ever end up using it I’ll definitely be getting a super protective case for it. Can’t let a national treasure like that be damaged.

 

Check out the full AmA here.

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Odds are you’ve already seen the Nintendo World Championships by now, but in case you haven’t or if you just want to check out a couple of the show’s highlights, Nintendo uploaded three videos to their Youtube channel: one general highlight video and two about Super Mario Maker. Check them out past the break:


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