Nintendo shares European release dates for upcoming amiibo
Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 6 Comments
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.
Club Nintendo slashes the prices of physical rewards
Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 23 Comments
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
Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 28 Comments
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.
Video: A look at Viz Media’s reprint of the Zelda: A Link to the Past comic
Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, Videos | 4 Comments
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.
Rumor: Target’s inventory for new Smash Bros. amiibo, Splatoon, silver Mario, Marth restock
Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, Rumors | 4 Comments
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.
Update: Change in plans for China – Nintendo experimenting with mobile games first before introducing console in emerging markets
Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 4 Comments
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.”
Nintendo won’t talk about NX or its Quality of Life platform at this year’s E3
Posted on 9 years ago by Matt(@OnePunchMaz) in General Nintendo, News | 29 Comments
In the Q&A following Nintendo’s recent financial results briefing, Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata already clarified that Nintendo won’t talk about their upcoming smartphone games at this year’s E3. In addition, don’t expect to hear specifics about Nintendo’s next gaming system, codenamed “NX” or their Quality of Life platform either. Iwata said the following:
We do not plan on talking specifics about the NX until 2016. Presently, we cannot talk about the time period when it will go on sale or what it’s like. Because we are calling it a ‘new concept,’ we are not thinking of this as a ‘simple replacement’ for the 3DS or the Wii U.
Incidentally, we’re getting various questions for this year’s E3, like ‘Won’t there be a NX announcement?’, ‘Will there be a presentation on smart devices?’, or ‘Will there be more on the quality of life platform?’ However, since we understand that E3 is an event for dedicated video game machines, we do not intend to discuss the smart devices as well as quality of life.
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[Just a Chat] Splatoon Direct, Nintendo’s Universal deal, and financial results bits
Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, Just a Chat, Videos, Wii U | 0 comments
There was a great deal of Nintendo news last week, and Daan/I talked about it all! That includes the Splatoon Direct, the Universal partnership for theme park attractions, and latest financial results (including related tidbits).
Stuff:
Video: Teens react to/play Duck Hunt
Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, Videos | 4 Comments
The Fine Brothers’ latest “React” video has teenagers taking on the classic NES game Duck Hunt. View the video below.
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Update: Universal bits – Iwata hints at Nintendo’s licensing business potentially expanding to “films and video content”
Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 27 Comments
Update: This is slightly related (using IP outside of games), so I’ll leave this here. Iwata also mentioned that when meeting with Universal, he was “surprised” by the company’s “extremely detailed” plans for Nintendo attractions at Universal Studios. Once the meeting finished and he returned to Japan, Iwata immediately talked things over with Miyamoto. Eventually, Universal’s attraction engineers met with “veteran Nintendo producers” multiple times on how to go about making Nintendo-themed attractions.
Nintendo has been heading into some interesting directions over the past few months. The company started to dabble with ventures that aren’t gaming-specific like figures, mobile games, and even theme park attractions thanks to a partnership with Universal. Things may not stop there.
While speaking at the Q&A portion of Nintendo’s latest financial results briefing, CEO Satoru Iwata hinted at the company potentially expanding to “films and video content”. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem as though Iwata elaborated much on this.
