Iwata: New StreetPass Mii Plaza games have been successful despite lack of promotion
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Nintendo recently pushed out four new StreetPass Mii Plaza games to little fanfare. For the most part, advertising was all but non-existent. Only recently did Nintendo prepare a Japanese commercial for one of the releases, Warrior’s Way – several weeks after the new offerings launched.
Despite the lack of promotion, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has reconfirmed that the new StreetPass Mii Plaza games have performed well financially. In just the span of a month, sales of the software reached 400 million yen.
Iwata told Toyo Keizai Online:
Pokemon X/Y takes up 1.7GB of space
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Pokemon X/Y is a pretty big 3DS game. You’ll need 1.7GB of free space on an SD card in order to download the game. We’re also hearing that, similar to other titles, special download cards will be available in Japan for digital distribution.
In related news, the August 11 episode of Pokemon Smash is said to be Pokemon X/Y-focused.
Club Nintendo Japan gets Animal Crossing-themed pouches
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A new reward has popped up on the Japanese Club Nintendo site: Animal Crossing-themed pouches. Users can choose from two color variations. For 120 points, Nintendo will provide either a light blue or pink pouch. Both measure in at 13 × 20cm.
Rune Factory 4 screenshots
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Mario & Luigi: Dream Team “Where Will Luigi Fall Asleep?” – video 1
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Carmack “extremely unlikely” to develop for Wii U, 3DS, PS Vita
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Don’t count on any Wii U, 3DS, or PlayStation Vita games from id Software founder and technical director John Carmack.
Carmack stated during a presentation at QuakeCon 2013 that he’s “extremely unlikely” to develop for any of the aforementioned platforms.
Journalist Britton Peele, who attended the event, shared the tidbit from Carmack on Twitter:
Carmack would love to develop for 3DS, Wii U, Vita … but it's "extremely unlikely to happen."
— Britton Peele (@BrittonPeele) August 1, 2013
Earlier in his talk, Carmack said that he had interest in bringing Doom 3: BFG Edition to Wii U and PS Vita, but they were not supported due to a lack of interest.
XSEED: Pandora’s Tower did “pretty well”, tough finding the right “bigger games” for 3DS retail, future announcements
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Pandora’s Tower is XSEED’s latest and likely final Wii title localized by the company. It came out during a fairly difficult period – once the Wii U was in the spotlight and at the beginning of the year.
Thankfully, Pandora’s Power did “pretty well”, according to executive vice-president Ken Berry. Had XSEED published the title during the 2012 holiday season, however, it “could have done much better”.
Berry told Siliconera:
“Pandora’s Tower has done pretty well, though not quite the level that The Last Story enjoyed. It probably could have done much better if we could have released it last holiday season rather than the first quarter of this year.”
Nintendo Treehouse on localizing Mario & Luigi
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The Nintendo Treehouse is behind pretty much all localized titles that Nintendo puts out on its systems. Mario & Luigi is no exception. Fortunately, senior localization manager Nate Bihldorff says that the characters only require a few tweaks – no major recreations of characters are required:
“Conceptually, all the characters are generally just one tweak away from being awesome. It’s a matter of making it fit better.”
