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Famitsu shares a little bit on Pokken Tournament’s origins this week as part of an interview with Bandai Namco’s Katsuhiro Harada and Pokemon president Tsunekazu Ishihara.

According to Harada, he approached Ishihara with a different idea after receiving the offer to collaborate. Ishihara, however, already had his mind made up.

As noted by Harada:

“At first, I offered a collaboration with a different title, but when my messenger returned [from Pokémon Company], he said ‘Mr. Ishihara wants to collaborate with Tekken.’ Not only that, but [Mr. Ishihara] had already settled on a title — the entire office was dumbfounded.”

Ishihara also said:

“I figured that if we’re going to make this, I wanted to team up with some place that had the best technical skills, so I was glad we were able to ask a development team of such high pedigree.”

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Club Nintendo Europe has been updated with a new reward. For 5,000 points, you can get your hands on the Yoshi Plush Soft Toy.

Here’s the official description:

No-one could possibly resist this double-cute Yoshi soft toy, especially when it comes holding a life-size soft apple! This loveable little friend sports a plush, polyester finish that’s super-soft to the touch, while the apple features a custard-coloured, stitched vinyl base. Give Yoshi a home today! Approximately 19cm tall.

You can place an order for the reward here. More photos are posted in the gallery below.

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A few older physical rewards are back in stock on Club Nintendo. These include a 2-piece Animal Crossing: New Leaf poster set, a cloth Pikmin-themed tote bag, and two sets of Kirby patches. The Zelda: A Link Between Worlds poster set was also in stock for a shirt time, but has since sold out.

You can check out all of Club Nintendo’s rewards here.

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A big announcement from Capcom is being teased for the next issue of Famitsu. The magazine will have a 32-page special preview, which will include the reveal of Capcom’s project.

We could hear about the new game as early as Tuesday. Famitsu may share the news on its website ahead of the magazine’s release in a brief post, though leaks will definitely occur with more information during the day as well.

Separately from the Capcom news, we’re hearing that a 100-page Smash Bros. 3DS supplement feature and a Bandai Namco TGS feature will be in next week’s Famitsu.

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Bob Hoskins played Mario in the notorious Super Mario Bros. film from 1993. However, it sounds like Nintendo was originally seeking Danny DeVito for the role.

Take a look at this article from January 1991, which was shared by Console Wars author Blake J. Harris:

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In this episode of Around the Water Cooler, Scott looks towards his hopes for the future – F-Zero, Star Fox, and more. We also feature comments about the previous week’s Mario Kart topic.

To close things out, we want to hear from you about the following: What are your hopes for the future of Nintendo? Comment on YouTube or the main site, and you could be featured in the next episode!

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Square Enix has some doubts about localizing Dragon Quest VII for 3DS due to concerns about how it would sell and the high amount of text that would need to be translated. However, the company seems to be much more open to the idea of bringing the Rocket Slime games over.

Dragon Quest mobile producer Noriyoshi Fujimoto told Siliconera:

“You know, it’s funny, when we made Rocket Slime, we were targeting the game towards 8, 9, and 10-year-olds in Japan—but in the west, the average age of the person who bought Rocket Slime was 25! It seems like the grown-ups enjoyed the game and we were pleasantly surprised.”

“In terms of the Rocket Slime game… in Japan, there wasn’t a lot of feedback saying they wanted iteration, but in the western regions, especially North America, there are a lot of requests to see another Rocket Slime game. We’re curious to know, there are a lot of joking elements in it; did you enjoy the humor and the joke elements in it?”

“In Japan, we actually have a total of three titles in the Rocket Slime series. The western version was the second game. Compared to, say, a game like Dragon Quest VII, it’s less text to translate, so that’s not an impossible amount… so if [Rocket Slime 1] or [Rocket Slime 2] might be a great candidate…?”

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