There’s no question that Rayman Legends will be excellent. The game builds on the incredibly well-received Rayman Origins while boosting gameplay features and visuals.

But Rayman Legends may go beyond the “greatness” level. Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot told Kotaku that the game “should be in the top five of the best games ever by the company.”

“Rayman Legends should be one of the best games we’ve ever done. It should be in the top five of the best games ever by the company.”

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Yoshi now available on the Wii U eShop for 30 cents

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The Virtual Console release of Yoshi has landed on the Wii U eShop. Through July 11, you can download the game for just 30 cents. Do it, folks!

Details from Nintendo’s E3 analyst briefing – strong 2014 3DS lineup, first free-to-play game, more

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Nintendo has just kicked off its E3 2013 analyst briefing. Macquarie Securities analyst David Gibson is in attendance and is live-tweeting from the event. We’ll be rounding up details below.

– UK market share of the 3DS in the UK has grown from 19% in January-March, 23% in April, and 26% in May
– Animal Crossing boosted US 3DS sales by 4 times versus prior week and set digital sales record in eShop
– Nintendo saying 3DS lineup next year will be strong and not have intervals driven by 1st party titles
– Nintendo plans to turn Wi-Fi access points of 28k in USA and 24k in Europe into StreetPass relay stations to boost StreetPass usage ex japan
– Nintendo aims to use first-party Wii U games to boost hardware sales and third-parties will follow
– Nintendo plans to boost digital sales with launches like New Super Luigi U but also the first free to play game
– Nintendo saying 3DS success in Japan is proof specialist hardware can succeed in smartphone era
– Nintendo free to play game will be released this fiscal year but will not be a Mario or Pokemon game as they already have a good relationship with those brands
– Nintendo talked about keeping cash so it can take risks, delays in schedule were driven mainly by quality focus and some getting used to the Wii U hardware

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Zelda: Wind Waker HD/GameCube comparison images

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Media Create software sales (6/3 – 6/9)

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This week’s Japanese software sales are as follows:
01./01. [3DS] Friend Collection: New Life # (Nintendo) {2013.04.18} (¥4.800) – 46.787 / 1.090.875 (-21%)
02./04. [PS3] Kamen Rider: Battride War # (Bandai Namco Games) {2013.05.23} (¥7.480) – 18.059 / 166.794 (-10%)
03./05. [3DS] Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon (Nintendo) {2013.03.20} (¥4.800) – 15.759 / 766.712 (-20%)
04./02. [PS3] Resident Evil: Revelations (Capcom) {2013.05.23} (¥4.990) – 15.495 / 150.361 (-52%)
05./06. [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf # (Nintendo) {2012.11.08} (¥4.800) – 13.953 / 3.263.663 (-17%)
06./03. [3DS] Shin Megami Tensei IV # (Atlus) {2013.05.23} (¥6.980) – 13.649 / 232.636 (-55%)
07./10. [PS3] Terraria (Spike Chunsoft) {2013.05.23} (¥4.179) – 7.619 / 35.941 (-10%)
08./08. [PSV] Valhalla Knights 3 (Marvelous AQL) {2013.05.23} (¥5.980) – 5.710 / 57.195 (-49%)
09./14. [3DS] Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultimate Mission (Bandai Namco Games) {2013.02.28} (¥5.800) – 5.148 / 203.609 (-3%)
10./13. [WII] Taiko no Tatsujin Wii: Super Deluxe Edition # (Bandai Namco Games) {2012.11.29} (¥5.040) – 4.300 / 492.793 (-23%)
11./00. [360] Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition (Microsoft Game Studios) {2013.06.06} (¥2.079) – 4.268 / NEW
12./20. [3DS] Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate (Best Price!) (Capcom) {2012.11.15} (¥3.800) – 3.510 / 316.487 (+21%)
13./15. [3DS] New Super Mario Bros. 2 # (Nintendo) {2012.07.28} (¥4.800) – 3.330 / 2.039.477 (-16%)
14./07. [PSP] Norn9: Norn + Nonette # (Idea Factory) {2013.05.30} (¥6.090) – 3.121 / 17.956 (-79%)
15./17. [3DS] Mario Kart 7 (Nintendo) {2011.12.01} (¥4.800) – 3.034 / 2.060.698 (-11%)
16./12. [PSP] Summon Night 5 (Bandai Namco Games) {2013.05.16} (¥5.980) – 2.793 / 127.927 (-53%)
17./19. [3DS] Tousouchuu: Shijou Saikyou no Hunter-Tachi Kara Nigekire! (Bandai Namco Games) {2012.07.05} (¥5.040) – 2.669 / 494.218 (-9%)
18./16. [PS3] Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen (Capcom) {2013.04.25} (¥4.990) – 2.611 / 190.336 (-28%)
19./21. [3DS] Taiko no Tatsujin: Chibi Dragon to Fushigi na Orb (Bandai Namco Games) {2012.07.12} (¥5.040) – 2.459 / 493.591
20./26. [WIU] New Super Mario Bros. U (Nintendo) {2012.12.08} (¥5.985) – 2.452 / 519.027

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Hideki Konno comes to StreetPass Mii Plaza as well

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Eiji Aonuma isn’t the only new StreetPass Mii Plaza visitor. Mario Kart producer Hideki Konno has appeared as well through a SpotPass distribution. Connect your 3DS online and you should see him on your system shortly.

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Lots of Batman: Arkham Origins footage

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Miyamoto on lessons learned working on HD games, feels responsibility for slow Wii U start, music playing

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CVG has gone live with a short interview with Shigeru Miyamoto. You can find comments below regarding work on HD games, Wii U’s slow start, and playing music.

Miyamoto on lessons he has learned working on his own debut HD projects such as Pikmin 3…

What I learned the most is that the HD visuals are really particularly suited to Pikmin 3, and I say that because I think the lesson I learned is that the high resolution graphics are really good at portraying lots of little details within the environment.

But also of course in completing those HD visuals it’s taken a lot of time, and what’s particularly important is that in that process of developing the games you really need to stay true to that core game design. Because if you don’t then it’s very easy for a game’s production values to overshadow what’s going on with the gameplay itself.

Of course at the same time if you don’t have that core game design locked down then the development keeps extending and extending as you try to polish the quality of the graphics along the way.

Peach wasn’t always intended to be playable in Super Mario 3D World

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Princess Peach is finally playable in a mainline Mario game. Super Mario Bros. 2 was the last title to offer something similar.

This is something that Super Mario 3D World producer Yoshiaki Koizumi is quite pleased about.

Koizumi told Polygon:

“I feel like Mario games, as you know, have done lots of representation of male characters over the years. Perhaps much more so than female — so it’s actually really nice to be able to have a female playable character in the game.”

Interestingly, Peach wasn’t always intended to be playable. But once Koizumi mentioned the idea and told the team that they should “definitely” include her, Peach’s role in 3D World was set.

According to game director Koichi Hayashida:

“I think she adds a lot to the sense of competition when you get in multiplayer. You can have different people choosing different characters based on their personality or whoever they like. And princess Peach is just really a lot of fun to play!”

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