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Update: This promotion also applies to The Wonderful 101 and LEGO City: Undercover (for their respective launch weeks).

Those who purchase Pikmin 3 from the Japanese Wii U eShop will receive a discount. Nintendo is slashing the game’s price by 10% between July 13 and July 19.

A small little incentive for folks to go digital. Will a similar offer be made available overseas?

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Update 2: Added Denpa Men 3, Chibi Robo Photography (we’ll be using that name from here on out), Wii U network services details.

Update: Looks like that Chibi Robo thing is called “Chibi Robo Live-Action!” and will be out today for 1,500 yen. From what I can tell.

Well, that came out of nowhere! We don’t have any details from this Nintendo Direct yet, but we do know that Denpa Men 3 has been announced for the 3DS eShop and some kind of new Chibi Robo experience is on the way.

Denpa Men 3

– Can make a little house for your characters
– Capture monsters and let them fight for you
– Can fully import your Denpa Men from the previous entries
– Out in Japan on August 7 for 1000 yen
– Demo on July 31
– Capture Denpa Ningen via AR camera while they resist, add to party, get houses
– Travel to different islands as the journey progresses
– Bazaar Island, Rental Island, Auto Antenna Tower for auto-capture
– Denpa Men 1&2 half-off from 1000 yen to 500 yen through 9:59 am 7/17.

Chibi Robo Photography

– For 3DS eShop
– Focused around the camera functions of the system
– Snap real life objections and collect them in the game
– Various minigames
– There is contest for collecting the various items in the game; snap stuff like a print design for Wii U or a Yen Card
– Match up real-life objects against silhouettes on the screen to turn them into “nostaljunk” and add to a museum
– Demo also available

Wii U network services

– YNN: access content like variety shows, drama and anime
– Can watch on TV and GamePad
– Coming in August
– Demae-Can: delivery service channel
– You can order food directly from the GamePad
– Coming in July
– Bandai Channel announced for Japan
– It offers a wide range of Anime programming
– Coming in August

Source 1, Source 2

Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News | 0 comments

The English version of Mario & Luigi: Dream Team has gone live. Access it here. The discussion has all sorts of talk about the game from Nintendo president Satoru Iwata and members of the development team.

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

Digital sales are becoming increasingly important to the video games industry. Yet, since its inception, the NPD Group has not typically included any of these figures in its monthly reports.

Plans are now in place to change that. NPD hasn’t set any sort of date, but hopes to begin include digital sales in its reports – which will include global sales as opposed to just US sales as is the case with its retail data – later this year. Market research firm EEDAR is on board to make this possible.

David McQuillan, president of the Games group at NPD, told GamesIndustry:

“We fully realize that the market needs the same level of information for the digital categories as exists for the physical business today: SKU-level POS. The progress on that effort up until recently has been slow and frustrating at times, but today I am very happy to share that the pace of progress has changed recently. NPD has formed a leader panel to track digital POS sales of full game and add-on content downloads. It is an important and critical step toward that goal. Leader panels are often formed as a precursor to a formal launch of a POS tracking service.

“We couldn’t agree more with ESA; full market transparency, including digital is incredibly important to the health of the industry.”

“The NPD games leader panel is currently comprised of nine leading games publishers. The initial focus will be on full-game downloads and downloadable content for consoles, PCs and portables. We aren’t at liberty to say who is participating at this time, since we are in the beta (proof of concept) stage.”

“The plan is to have digital POS sales integrated into our US new physical POS retail sales data to enable more efficient analysis for our clients. The timing of when that will happen has not been finalized.”

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Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, 3DS eShop, DSiWare, News, Wii U, Wii U eShop | 0 comments

This month’s GamesMaster review scores are as follows:

The Last of Us – 95%
Animal Crossing: New Leaf – 91%
Game & Wario – 70%
Remember Me – 74%
Borderlands 2: Tiny Tina’s Assault on Dragon Keep – 90%
Grid 2 – 74%
Call of Juarez: Gunslinger – 75%
Way of the Dogg – 33%
Hunter’s Trophy: America – :(%
Dorito’s Crash Course 2 – 61%
Poker Night 2 – 75%
Fuse – 58%
Wonderbook: Diggs Nightcrawler – 73%
Jacob Jones and the Bigfoot Mystery: Episode 1 – 83%
Nun Attack – 66%
Farming Simulator 2013 – 51%
Draw Slasher – 70%
Rymdkapsel – 90%
Project X Zone – 60%
Rayman Legends Challenges App – 92%
Mario and Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move – 85%
Swords and Soldiers 3D – 23%
The Starship Damrey – 45%
Publisher Dream – 40%
Bloody Vampire – 64%
Dust 514 – 69%
Zeno Clash II – 60%
The Night of the Rabbit – 73%
Sanctum 2 – 62%
Rising Storm – 85%

Thanks to joclo for the tip.

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3DS users can purchase Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers from the eShop for just $29.99. The game will be discounted until July 14.

Soul Hackers is on sale at retail as well. Amazon and Best Buy also have it for $30.

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