Miyamoto will see what he can do about accommodating left-handed gamers better
Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 6 Comments
Being a left-handed gamer isn’t so easy. A lot of titles don’t accommodate such users too well, making it difficult to play.
This is something that Shigeru Miyamoto seems to understand. And he told Kotaku that he’ll talk to his teams about seeing what can be done.
Miyamoto stated:
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Player finds new Super Mario Bros. infinite lives glitch
Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 4 Comments
Super Mario Bros. has been around for nearly thirty years. At this point, most would have expected that the game’s major glitches and infinite lives tricks would have been discovered. But apparently not!
As shown in the video above, one player has seemingly managed to uncover a new glitch leading to a constant stream of 1-ups.
Here’s how the technique is described:
First, you must first take player one’s Mario to the second level of the game and throw away your first life. With Luigi taking over, player two must traverse all the way to World 5-2 and find the hidden beanstalk block halfway through the stage. Once there, Luigi must start climbing the vines, however, he must await – and take on the chin – an incoming projectile from one of the Hammer Bros. Upon being hit, once player one resumes control of Mario, the beanstalk from World 5-2 will start growing in World 1-2, providing all you need to infinitely kick shells for unlimited bonuses.
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Video: Watch Eiji Aonuma do a cucco dance
Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, Random, Videos | 6 Comments
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Nintendo dominates E3 2014 social media conversation on Twitter
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According to social media intelligence analytics provider Crimson Hexagon, Nintendo experienced the highest level of Twitter success during E3 2014.
Crimson Hexagon reports that 47 percent of all tweets mentioned Nintendo. Two of the most popular tweets included a message made by Nintendo of America teasing Shigeru Miyamoto’s appearance on a live broadcast and another from @Dropkickpikachu, who said: “Nintendo has just shown more playable female character’s in one game preview than the other companies have all E3 so far.”
As a whole, the #Nintendo hashtag was tweeted 30,000 times. The #e32014 hashtag was tweeted another 55,000 times.
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Video: Play Nintendo Tour 2014
Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, Videos | 0 comments
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Nintendo’s Scibetta shares a message for those unsure if they want a Wii U
Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News, Wii U | 3 Comments
GamesBeat caught up with Nintendo of America communications boss Charlie Scibetta at E3 2014 last week. Among other topics, Scibetta was asked to share a message for those unsure if they want to pick up a Wii U.
Check out Scibetta’s comments about that very subject (and more) below:
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Monster Hunter producer gets a promotion
Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 0 comments
Capcom has announced a couple of changes to its Japanese headquarters management structure.
Nariyuki Nobuyama, Head of Consumer Games R&D Human Resources Division and General Manager of R&D Promotion Department, is now also a Corporate Officer as well.
Another corporate officer is Monster Hunter 4 series producer Ryozo Tsujimoto. Tsujimoto also fulfills the role of Head of Consumer Games Development Division 3 and General Manager of Department 3.
Last but not least, Internal Audit and IT head Hirokazu Nakabachi is Capcom’s new exeuctive corporate officer.
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Mario Happy Meal toys are a hot commodity in South Korea
Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News, Random | 2 Comments
The Mario Happy Meal toys at McDonalds appear to be a hot commodity in South Korea. With the second wave of toys out today, photos have been snapped of huge lines forming – some of which even stretched outside or up to the second floor.
As for why people are so interested in the toys, people are apparently trying to make money by selling them online. This has led some Korean websites to ban members for thirty days should they attempt to resell the Mario Happy Meal toys.
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Reggie: Wii U is second place in current console war, Nintendo doesn’t need to release another console
Posted on 10 years ago by Jarop(@gamrah) in General Nintendo, News, Wii U | 12 Comments
During an interview at last week’s E3, Reggie was asked whether or not he thought the Wii U could ever outsell the Playstation 4 or Xbox One. He had the following to say:
“The dirty little secret is if you look at life-to-date numbers, between Sony and Nintendo they’d be pretty close in terms of PS4 vs. Wii U, with Xbox coming in third place,”
“I think it’s going to be a three-horse race for the balance of this cycle.”
Reggie admitted that the delays of Wonderful 101 and Pikmin 3 caused issues for the console at launch but also doesn’t think that warrants another console right away:
“We think that the Wii U has a long and vibrant life in front of it,”
“What it needs are games like Mario Kart 8 and Super Smash Bros Wii U and Splatoon – those types of games that can really drive the installed base. We believe if we can do that effectively the Wii U has a long and robust life.”
“The interesting point there is that when we announced the Wii U and when we announced all of the launch details, we fully expected games like Wii Fit U, Pikmin, the The Wonderful 101 to be in the launch window,”
“The Nintendo quality bar is really what kept us from launching those games potentially in February or March and so that’s what created the lack of software during that initial launch phase.”
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Grezzo seeking new staffers, asks: “Would you like to make a ‘legend’ with us?”
Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 29 Comments
Grezzo, the developer behind The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D and The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Anniversary Edition, has put up a couple of new job listings. One of the pages on the company’s website states, “Would you like to make a ‘legend’ with us?” That’s leading to speculation that Grezzo could be cooking up something with Zelda, though that’s far from confirmed.
Here’s how things are described by GameFAQs’ “sunny_red51”:
I think this is somewhat telling. They do use “Densetsu,” which means “Legend” and is the same word used in “The Legend of Zelda (Zeruda no Densetsu),” like you said. They could have used “story” or “tale” or “world” or any other concept, but they specifically used “legend.” Of course, “legend” (“densetsu”) could just be what they always use, so it could just be coincidence, too.
From the job descriptions, it looks like there are two different types of positions, for this particular project maybe, programmers and planners. Under each, they have positions that last at least six months and positions that last at least one year, with the possibilty for each to be extended. Under programmer, they list “character control, camera, UI support, map management, game progression management, etc.” (roughly translated). Under planner, they list “text supervision, script and data creation supervision, and level design supervision” (roughly translated). It does kind of sound like a Zelda game, but it might not be MM 3D. It looks like they made the Zelda Four Swords Anniversary Edition, too, so it could be something like that or something new altogether.
