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This information comes from Shigeru Miyamoto…

On whether Super Mario Odyssey was influenced by Zelda: Breath of the Wild…

Miyamoto: I think starting with myself, there is an underlying philosophy that goes across Nintendo. For example, the Mario team and the Zelda team are in two different places – one is in Kyoto, one is in Tokyo – so they don’t have direct communication. But the people who are leading that and organizing that have this underlying philosophy that they have a pretty direct connection with myself.

In terms of Breath of the Wild and Odyssey, honestly if we were to have waited until the success of Breath of the Wild to make Odyssey it would have been too late. So it’s not that they influenced each other. I think what I did with both teams was when I touched any of the prototypes or tests that they would bring me, I would try to make sure that it feels good, and that it feels good being in that world, and that’s what I did for both teams. That was my role.

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This information comes from Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime…

On Virtual Console for Switch…

“We know that our fans, our players, want access to all of our digital content, we know that. What we’re working through is, ‘okay, what’s going to be the best way to make that happen, to make that available?’ Certainly, we recognize there’s an appetite for all of our great legacy content.”

On My Nintendo…

“From the Nintendo of America standpoint, we have it as a priority to make My Nintendo much more meaningful moving forward.”

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Just a day after the feature was announced, one fan has already given Super Mario 64 the same hat capture ability that Nintendo will be including in Super Mario Odyssey. Check out the results below.

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— Prominent Gaming Personalities to Be Featured in Original Series
‘Polaris Primetime,’ ‘Parker Plays’ and ‘Polaris: Player Select’ —

Disney will debut D|XP, a daily summer programming block dedicated to the world of gaming, SATURDAY, JULY 15 (9:00 p.m.–3:00 a.m. EDT), on Disney XD. D|XP will showcase games, publishers, events and prominent personalities across the gaming landscape including both entertainment gaming and esports. The television and multiplatform destination – featuring content produced in collaboration with ESPN, Disney Digital Network and its Maker creators, IGN, Attack Media, Warner Bros. Television Group’s Blue Ribbon Content, Banger Films, ESL (Electronic Sports League) and VICE’s Waypoint – is designed to connect with gaming enthusiasts of all ages, with a core demographic of age 13+.

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Update: Bumped to the top. GameStop has everything including Fire Emblem here.

Original: Best Buy is taking pre-orders for even more amiibo. The Metroid 2-pack, Super Mario Odyssey figures, and new Mario series amiibo are available. Pre-order them all here.

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Best Buy began to take pre-orders for the new Zelda: Breath of the Wild amiibo yesterday, but they quickly became unavailable. Now they’re up on the retailer’s site once again. You can pre-order the various figures here.

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Amazon has posted the packaging for the new Koopa Troopa and Goomba amiibo being added to the Super Mario series line. View both of the images above.

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Brandwatch has some new information about social media activity for the Nintendo Spotlight: E3 2017 video presentation.

Here are some of the notable tidbits:

– Over 50,000 mentions of the Nintendo Spotlight between 9 and 9:30am PT
– 74% of gender-categorized authors were male, 26% were female.
– Highlights: The largest mention spike during the conference (not counting the end of conference spike in comments) was when Metroid Prime 4 was announced.
– Notable in the mentions overall was the fact that Animal Crossing did not have a part.

Metroid Prime 4 and Kirby saw the most significant game-related mention spikes during the Spotlight. Additionally, Metroid Prime 4 had the largest number of mentions, followed by Kirby 2018 and Super Mario Odyssey.

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HORI has another new accessory lined up for Switch. Today, the company announced an official keyboard set for release in Japan in September. View some photos below.

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Nintendo’s activities at today’s E3 video game trade show in Los Angeles included the announcement of a remake of a classic Mario & Luigi game and the crowning of the winning team in the 2017 Splatoon 2 World Inkling Invitational.

Following a morning packed with new announcements, the Nintendo Treehouse: Live at E3 show included in-depth play-throughs of a variety of games for both the Nintendo Switch and Nintendo 3DS systems. During the show, Nintendo announced that an updated version of the first game in the Mario & Luigi series was in development for the Nintendo 3DS family of systems. Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser’s Minions contains all the fun gameplay and dialogue of the Game Boy Advance original, as well as an optional Easy mode for younger or more inexperienced players.

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