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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 3 Comments

The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses has announced that the Magical Wind Waker Baton, featured The Wind Waker and used by the conductor of The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses, can be purchased for the first time ever. Fans can pre-order it online here or purchase one at any upcoming Zelda Symphony show.

As previously mentioned, new dates have been added to The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses. You can find the full lineup here if you missed it previously. All new shows will include updated Twilight Princess gameplay in HD.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS eShop, General Nintendo, News, Wii U eShop | 7 Comments

The Humble Friends of Nintendo Bundle is off to a pretty great start. In less than 24 hours, it’s garnered about 61,000 sales and raised around $600,000. With the Humble Nindie Bundle from last year, it achieved 37,000 sales in 24 hours.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 30 Comments

As part of Nintendo’s financial results today, it was announced that the company will be implementing an Audit/Supervisory Committee and Officer System. What does this mean exactly? Well, more power will be given to the Board of Directors for an increased focus on corporate governance. Additionally, Nintendo of America/Nintendo of Europe presidents Reggie Fils-Aime and Satoru Shibata will be executive officers.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, DS, General Nintendo, News, Wii, Wii U | 4 Comments

Nintendo’s earnings for the fiscal year ended March 31 are in. Below are the full details:

– Fell 60.6 percent to 16.5 million yen, or $148 million, on revenue of $4.53 billion (down 8 percent)
– Nintendo’s stock price has fallen slightly in trading, down 0.9 percent to $18.72 a share
– Nintendo saw diminished assets, cash flow, and profits during the year

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 3 Comments

Nintendo’s latest financial report has updated information on the company’s million sellers. Additionally, we have an updated release schedule. Find all of the information below.

Wii U

Mario Kart 8 – 7.50 million
New Super Mario Bros. U – 5.19 million
Nintendo Land – 5.07 million
Super Mario 3D World – 4.82 million
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U – 4.80 million
Splatoon – 4.27 million
Super Mario Maker – 3.52 million
New Super Luigi U – 2.49 million
Mario Party 10 – 1.76 million
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD – 1.72 million

3DS

Pokemon X/Y – 14.70 million
Mario Kart 7 – 13.26 million
Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire – 11.84 million
Super Mario 3D Land – 10.73 million
New Super Mario Bros. 2 – 10.25 million
Animal Crossing: New Leaf – 10.00 million
Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS – 8.12 million
Tomodachi Life – 4.98 million
Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon- 4.82 million
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D – 4.04 million

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, General Nintendo, Videos, Wii U | 2 Comments

The latest episode of Nintendo’s Japanese show Nyannyan Neko Mario Time has now gone live. We’ve included it below.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, Rumors | 28 Comments

Nintendo will be issuing its earnings release in just a matter of hours. The festivities will kick off with a conference where some interesting information could be shared.

Dr. Serkan Toto, who is known as an analyst and somewhat of an insider, has heard that “Nintendo will actually announce news on future products and pipeline” unlike the previous event. That could mean more on mobile, though it’s unknown how much the Big N will have to say about NX.

A word of caution: how much news we’ll be seeing from the earnings conference is unclear. The briefing that follows later in the day could be potentially more interesting. That’ll be tomorrow evening in North America, and very early on Thursday for European folks.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 12 Comments

MCV has received word from NIS America that the company will no longer be handling the release of Atlus’ titles across Europe. Additionally, going forward, Atlus won’t be distributing any NIS games in America.

NIS America MD Takuro Yamashita said in a statement:

“Around ten days ago, we terminated our alliance with Atlus in Europe and the US. Atlus became very picky about selecting the European publishing partner after it was bought by Sega. It always cherry picked its EU publishing partner based on who offered the highest minimum guarantee on a title by title basis. I noticed that it was very difficult for NIS America to establish an equal-partnership with Atlus. Atlus and its European games have contributed a lot to the expansion of NIS America in Europe. I would like to express my greatest appreciation to them for that.”

NIS America has handled several of Atlus’ titles in Europe. The lineup includes the Etrian Odyssey 3DS titles, Persona Q, nad more.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Matt(@OnePunchMaz) in General Nintendo, News | 10 Comments

Geek Melee held an interesting interview with the English voice cast of Star Fox 64 – most of whom reprised their roles for Star Fox: Zero. Make sure to check out the full interview over on Geek Melee; below are a few highlights:

Bill Johns on voicing Falco:

“They showed me a still print of the Falco character and said ‘think Han Solo.’  I guess whatever came out was what they wanted.

There wasn’t a tremendous amount of copy in those early games.  I’m pretty sure everything Falco said fit on a page and a half of script, in large font and double spaced”

Jock Blaney on not returning as Wolf for the 3DS remake of Star Fox 64:

“I was a little disappointed at not returning. It may have been because I moved from Seattle some years back and was now working out of Las Vegas and they wanted their talent to be local Seattle.  It would have been fun!”

Mike West on the response to his performance as Fox in Smash Bros. 4:

“I try not to read social media crap but I saw some pretty harsh comments about my performance as well as a couple of other voice actors.”

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 5 Comments

This past week, Okami celebrated its 10th anniversary. Hideki Kamiya, who acted as director on the game, shared a few words on his Twitter account in honor of the milestone.

Kamiya tweeted out the following:

Even though ten years have passed, I’ve still been receiving congratulatory messages and requests for a sequel, so as a developer I couldn’t ever be happier than now… I’m grateful to everyone who has been supporting Okami, and also to Capcom for giving a chance to send it out to the world, while at the same time I also hope from my sincerest heart that someday I could fulfill the duty to draw the continuation of the journey of Amaterasu and co. …

…but everyone’s expectations have been swelling so much that they’re going to burst, so even if I were to make a sequel I don’t have even a pixel of confidence that it could surpass the original…

I’m very happy that Capcom came out with Okamiden a few years back, but a proper sequel with Kamiya at the helm would be a dream come true. We need to make it happen… somehow!

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