More insight into Switch’s launch sales in Japan
Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch | 9 Comments
Media Create shared its own data earlier this week, showing that Switch sold around 329,000 units in Japan. The tracker now offers additional insight into the system’s performance.
Switch’s release greatly helped to raise both software and hardware sales from last week. Overall software sales between February 27 and March 5 are 835,000 units (124.10 percent compared to last week) while overall hardware sales are 402,000 units (520.94 percent compared to last week).
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Monster Hunter XX – Breath of the Wild collaboration trailer
Posted on 8 years ago by Jake in News | 2 Comments
Capcom has released a trailer for their upcoming Breath of the Wild/Monster Hunter XX collaboration. Check it out below:
The Alliance Alive trailer shows off event scenes, world map, vehicles
Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, Videos | 1 Comment
FuRyu published another new trailer for The Alliance Alive that shows off event scenes, the world map, and vehicles. Have a look at it below.
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Zelda: Breath of the Wild collaboration revealed for Monster Hunter XX
Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News | 6 Comments
At an event in Japan today, Capcom unveiled yet another Monster Hunter XX collaboration. The latest one ties into a big, recently-released Nintendo game. Of course, that’s The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
The new collaboration content for Monster Hunter XX will be available via 7-Eleven spots between April 24 and May 31. It encompasses the following:
– Hylia series costume
– Ancient Weaponry – Bow weapon
– Palico armor: Warm Korok
– Palico weapon Korok’s Branch
– Event Quests: The Legend of Zelda – Trial of Power / Trial of Courage / Trial of Wisdom
– Guild Card Backgrounds
– Titles
Miitomo – new Miitomo Drop stage and items (3/9/17)
Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Mobile, News | 0 comments
Miitomo has been updated with more content. Users will find a new stage, along with some brand new items.
“A second impurression! Cat Style Redux #3” is the new stage. It includes the following:
– Cat pajamas (top)
– Cat pajamas (bottoms)
– Fluffy kitty slippers
– Collar with bell
And as far as the new items go, you can nab the following:
– Cyberpunk visor
– Vest + hoodie + tailored jacket
– Work boots
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Mario Sports Superstars – golf, tennis, baseball, soccer footage
Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, Videos | 0 comments
Lots of footage is in showing four sports in Mario Sports Superstars: golf, tennis, baseball, and soccer. Over an hour of gameplay can be viewed below.
6180 the moon for 3DS out in Europe and Australia next week
Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS eShop, News, Videos | 0 comments
6180 the moon was originally made for Wii U. Turtle Cream has since prepared a 3DS version, and it’s coming soon to PAL regions.
6180 the moon is hitting the European and Australian 3DS eShops on March 16. In North America, it’ll be arriving a bit later.
We’ve included a trailer for the game below.
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Bomberman 64 Wii U Virtual Console footage
Posted on 8 years ago by Zack in Videos, Wii U eShop | 2 Comments
The folks from GameXplain have uploaded footage of Bomberman 64 from the Wii U Virtual Console to YouTube. You can check it out below.
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Niantic again talks about wanting to improve gyms in Pokemon GO
Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Mobile, News | 0 comments
A big priority Niantic has for Pokemon GO is to improve the gym system. Studio CEO John Hanke recently spoke about the need to improve the gameplay, and that’s something senior product manager Tatsuo Nomura discussed with Polygon as well.
Nomura told the site:
“The gym portion [of Pokémon Go] needs a lot more work, and we are trying to improve it and make a bigger change to how the system works. Overall, I think we need a little bit more time to think through how we do it.”
“We needed to define [gyms] in a way that works in a mobile game. For example, we didn’t have … there’s no non-playable characters. That’s not how the game works. We’re an MMO, and we expect people to play with other people.”
“We expected more people to play that portion, and a lot of that is game balancing and just mechanics-wise, there’s some part of that that needs refinement.”
Niantic hasn’t shared a timetable as to when we can expect a new approach to gyms in Pokemon GO. The company does have a few updates planned for 2017 though, so it’s possible that there could be something by the end of the year.
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Rime’s publisher says “cost of manufacturing” contributing to higher price on Switch as well
Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch | 61 Comments
Along with a new release window for Rime, a physical version and price point were announced for the game yesterday. On Switch, it’ll cost $39.99 / €44.99 / £39.99 whereas other versions are $29.99 / €34.99 / £29.99.
Grey Box, Rime’s publisher, already said that “prices for our products based on the costs of development and publishing for each specific platform”. Adding to this, the company now tells Kotaku that “cost of manufacturing is also a factor”.
The news obviously hasn’t been going over well. We’ll just have to hope that this isn’t a trend that continues on Switch.
