Slides from Ubisoft’s latest financial presentation reveal charts based on two sets of data. The company shared a listing of the top 20 grossing franchises at retail of the last ten years and top ten grossing retail games of 2014. Both charts are posted below.

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Marth amiibo starting to reappear at some GameStop stores

Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 2 Comments

The restock of the Marth amiibo is happening – slowly but surely. Amazon has been taking orders during very, very brief periods (so brief in fact that by the time we’d put a post up, the figure would already be sold out). GameStop is now joining in on the fun as well.

Marth isn’t available online, but you may have luck finding him in-store. GameStop’s inventory tracker indicates that the amiibo is starting to appear at some locations. You can try finding a nearby GameStop outlet that has the Marth figure here.

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Nintendo to reveal E3 2015 plans tomorrow

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Nintendo will finally be revealing its E3 2015 plans tomorrow, the company has confirmed.

Specific details are, naturally, being kept under wraps for now. Nintendo only shared a photo of someone in pink sweats – perhaps Reggie Fils-Aime?

In any case, check back tomorrow at 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT for news about Nintendo’s E3 2015 plans.

Who’s training for E3? Find out our plans for E3 tomorrow at 9 a.m. PT! pic.twitter.com/hsOsCgUtwY
— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) May 12, 2015

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Nintendo shares European release dates for upcoming amiibo

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Nintendo has announced the release dates for several upcoming amiibo.

Ganondorf, Zero Suit Samus, Dark Pit, and Palutena are due out on June 26. Bowser Jr., Dr. Mario, and Pikmin & Olimar amiibo are releasing on July 17.

The situation is much different in North America. Dark Pit and Palutena are coming in July, while all of other figures aren’t planned for launch until September.

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Club Nintendo slashes the prices of physical rewards

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Without any sort of announcement on Nintendo’s part, it appears that the prices of physical rewards on Club Nintendo have been reduced. Items like the Fierce Deity Link Jigsaw Puzzle, Majora’s Mask 3D Messenger Bag, and Retro Mario T-shirt are discounted by up to 50 percent.

All of the new prices are shown above. Here’s a look at how much each of the items costed previously:

Mario & Luigi Greeting Cards – 300 coins
Nintendogs Greeting Cards – 300 coins
3DS Game Card Case: 2015 Edition – 400 coins
2016 Desktop Calender – 400 coins
3DS XL Pouch: The Legend of Zelda – 600 coins
Retro Mario T-Shirt – 700 coins
Fierce Deity Link Jigsaw Puzzle – 800 coins
The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask 3D Messenger Bag – 800 coins

North American Club Nintendo members can redeem their coins up through June 30 at 11:59 PM PT. The site will then be shutting down, though a new Nintendo rewards membership service will launch later this year.

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Castlevania spiritual successor “Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night” a possibility for Nintendo systems

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Castlevania has a long-standing history on Nintendo platforms. So the hope was that the next game from Koji Igarashi, one of the series’ main creator, would end up on a Nintendo system.

Igarashi finally announced “Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night” today in partnership with Inti Creates after several days of teasing. The current plan is only to make the project for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. However, a Nintendo version hasn’t been ruled out entirely.

On the game’s Kickstarter page, a statement from the Q&A says the following about why the campaign doesn’t include support for Nintendo systems:

Our budget left us with two options: Build the biggest, most beautiful game we can, or make sure it runs everywhere from the start. As things stand today, we can’t afford to create the two separate versions of this game that would be necessary to make it run on every console. That said, we’ve heard legends about a remarkable treasure hidden in the castle basement…

That sounds somewhat encouraging! Perhaps if the Kickstarter campaign clears its initial stretch goals, a Nintendo version might be something that will be given greater consideration – especially given that last sentence, and how the stretch goals are constructed at present:

You can check out Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night on Kickstarter here. If there’s any concrete news about a Nintendo version, we’ll have it right here on the site.

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Video: A look at Viz Media’s reprint of the Zelda: A Link to the Past comic

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Last week, Viz Media reprinted the Zelda: A Link to the Past comic that was featured in Nintendo Power over two decades ago. GameXplain has now posted a video showing a look at the graphic novel, which is posted below.

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Rumor: Target’s inventory for new Smash Bros. amiibo, Splatoon, silver Mario, Marth restock

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The moderation team over on Reddit has posted unconfirmed figures for Target’s inventory of upcoming amiibo. Supposedly, the information was obtained from a trusted source, and indicates how much stock the retailer has for figures like the upcoming Smash Bros. and Splatoon figures.

As expected, Lucina and Robin will end up being the toughest to find. Marth’s restock also seems to be rather small, although that also isn’t a major surprise.

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Update: Change in plans for China – Nintendo experimenting with mobile games first before introducing console in emerging markets

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Update (5/11): Bumped to the top. It’s unclear if this is anything different than what Bloomberg already reported, but we’re hearing that Nintendo has changed its plans to produce consoles for the Chinese market.

Nihon Keizai Shimbun reports that Nintendo will not execute prior plan to manufacture consoles for the Chinese market.
— Dr. Serkan Toto (@serkantoto) May 11, 2015

Last year, we heard from Nintendo president Satoru Iwata about how the company planned on bringing completely new hardware to emerging markets in 2015. This was instead of selling cheaper versions of systems like the Wii U. Nintendo hasn’t given up on emerging markets, but its new device will be delayed in favor of experimenting in different countries with smartphone games.

Iwata mentioned during Nintendo’s financial results briefing this week that smartphone games will increase its chances for success in emerging markets. “Smart devices have lowered the barrier for people around the world to get to know our games and characters like Mario,” he said.

Iwata also confirmed that plans for emerging markets will be shared during a business strategy briefing later in the year.

Because of Nintendo stating that its pursuit of the mobile space will help double profit this fiscal year, the company’s shares rose the most in seven weeks. Bloomberg reports, “The stock rose as much as 9.5 percent as of 11:25 a.m. in Tokyo.”

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