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Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News, Wii U | 3 Comments

Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter has provided his NPD hardware estimates for the month of July 2013.

Here’s the full roundup:

PlayStation 4 – 375,000 units
Xbox One – 350,000 units
Wii U – 60,000 units (would be up 5% year-over-year)

Pachter also says that fall/holiday titles from 2013 will drive software sales for January. These include Call of Duty: Ghosts, Battlefield 4, EA Sports’ titles, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, Just Dance 2014, NBA 2K14 and GTA V.

Overall, software sales are anticipated to fall by 20 percent – $300 million this year compared to last year’s $373 million.

A continued decline in sales isn’t expect for the rest of 2014, Pachter says.

“In a nutshell, we think that the rapid ramp in sell-through for next generation consoles will cause an unprecedented ramp in next generation software sales, and notwithstanding current generation software sales weakness, we expect overall industry software sales to rebound into positive territory later this year. We believe this rebound is not only sustainable, but we expect it to be dramatic in the back half of the year, with double-digit gains expected.”

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Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 0 comments

Rabbids starting out as a gaming franchise. Then Ubisoft adapted the series into a television show. And now, the company has partnered with Sony Pictures Entertainment to bring Rabbids to theaters.

The Rabbids IP will be getting a full-length feature film in the future. Ubisoft Motion Pictures will be oversee and actively participate in the film’s production. Jonathan Kadin and Hannah Minghella, president of Production for Columbia Pictures, will oversee for Sony Pictures.

Head on below for the official announcement.

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Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 4 Comments

Flappy Bird, a mobile game that some say takes inspiration from Mario for its designs, is not at all an issue for Nintendo, a spokesperson has said.

The company’s Yasuhiro Minagawa told the Wall Street Journal that Nintendo did not issue any complaints about the title.

Minagawa stated:

“While we usually do not comment on the rumours and speculations, we have already denied the speculation.”

One could argue that Flappy Bird became a sensation in just a matter of days. However, the free game’s success led creator Dong Nguyen to take it down from the App Store and Google Play. Nguyen has said that there haven’t been any legal issues, and Nintendo’s comment reaffirms that the company did not play a role in its removal.

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Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, General Nintendo, News | 1 Comment

Trademarks for potential Dragon Quest game localizations continue to appear. The latest, as spotted by Siliconera, is “Luminaries of the Legendary Line” registered in the US database.

Now the only question is: do these filings have anything to do with the Japanese Dragon Quest 3DS remakes? Or do they pertain to the smartphone remakes?

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Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 1 Comment

Max Factory has revealed three more Nintendo figmas currently in production. Zero Suit Samus (Metroid: Other M), Link (Zelda: A Link Between Worlds) and Cordelia (Fire Emblem: Awakening) will get new releases down the road. Samus and Link are both “regular” figmas while Cordelia will be a scaled figure.

Thanks to NutOfDeath for the tip.

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Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, Random, Videos | 10 Comments

Caution: some strong language in the video.

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Posted on 11 years ago by Patrick(@Patricklous) in Famicompendium, Features, General Nintendo, News | 2 Comments

Have you ever bought a game based on nothing but the title? I sure have and that’s why I’m now writing about Jesus: Ky?fu no Bio Monster (or to use the fan-translated name – Jesus: Tale of the Dreadful Bio-Monster). Don’t go into Jesus expecting some kind of insane Japanese take on Christianity, though, as it’s more about researchers fighting space monsters and anime girls rocking out on synthesizers – or sometimes both at the same time. It’s hardly the most exciting game to play, but it still manages to be crazy in its own way.

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Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, Videos, Wii U | 2 Comments

By the way: this was in fact what Nintendo of Canada was teasing on Facebook throughout the week.

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Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, Images, Wii U | 7 Comments

In these photos provided by Nintendo of America, Rico Rodriguez of Modern Family enjoys playing Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze for Wii U at the Annenberg Beach House in Santa Monica, Calif., on Feb. 6, 2014, to celebrate the Feb. 21 launch of the latest installment of the beloved Donkey Kong franchise. In the new game, Donkey Kong and his friends take on a horde of icy invaders who are freezing their tropical island home. Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze for Wii U features beautiful high-definition graphics as well as off-screen play using the Wii U GamePad.

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Posted on 11 years ago by Austin(@NE_Austin) in General Nintendo, News, Wii, Wii U | 0 comments

We’ve got some financial news for you today, this time from the Disney corner of the market: Disney Interactive’s Disney Infinity game– the Skylanders-inspired toy-based adventure sandbox– is raking in a ton of money, taking company profits from about $9 million at this time last year to $55 million in the last three months of 2013. Here are the full details:

– Disney games division brought in $403 million in revenue
– 38% increase in sales year-over-year
– Disney Infinity is the primary driver of this
– Profits are up by $46 million over this time last year
– $9 million in profit in FY3/2013 vs. $55 million in profit in FY3/2014.

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