Screenshots of this week’s Nintendo Downloads (2/9/12, North America)
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Nintendo Download (2/9/12, North America)
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This week’s Nintendo Download includes the following featured content:
Nintendo Video™
Dinosaur Office: Romance (available Feb. 14 at 9 a.m. PST) – Craig deals with matters of the heart. Rawr! (For Nintendo 3DS™)Nintendo eShop
Maru’s Mission™ – Play as the ninja Maru in this action-packed side-scrolling game that will take you on a journey across the world. To rescue his girlfriend, Maru must face a number of mythological monsters. (For Nintendo 3DS)
The story behind Solatorobo’s publishing situation
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In addition to being the first game in the “Little Tail Bronx” series, Tail Concerto was also CyberConnect2’s first project. The title didn’t sell particularly well, and I’m sure Mamoru-kun met a similar fate.
Due to Tail Concerto’s poor sales, Namco Bandai wasn’t too interested in CyberConnect 2’s pitch for Solatorobo: Red the Hunter.
You might be wondering how the studio persuaded Namco Bandai into publishing the game given this fact.
Director Takayuki Isobe provided an explanation in an interview with Gamasutra:
“To overcome the weak points with Tail Concerto, we created massive amounts of assets, generating multiple concept documents, each time refining the world and settings to create a game with a very deep story and a detailed world view that even a mature audience could enjoy, and eventually were able to get the green light from our client.”
Battleship teaser trailer
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Activision and Hasbro Announce Upcoming Battleship Videogame
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Tactical Naval Warfare, Combined with First-Person, Boots-on-the-Ground Gameplay, Lands this Spring
MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Lock, load and prepare for grand oceanic action this spring because Hasbro (Nasdaq: HAS) and Activision Publishing Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Activision Blizzard Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI), proudly present the BATTLESHIP™ videogame developed with Double Helix Games. Inspired by the classic naval strategy game, this seek-and-find adventure is taken to spectacular new heights. As a stand-alone story from Universal Pictures’ upcoming epic action-adventure of the same name, the BATTLESHIP videogame offers a blend of strategic naval command and first-person action gameplay.
“We’re geared up for an outrageous sea and land conflict with the all new BATTLESHIP videogame,” said David Oxford, Activision Publishing. “Inspired by the film’s exciting action and stunning backdrop, the game is next-gen naval warfare that thrusts players into the middle of humanity’s last stand against an unfamiliar menace.”
Media Create hardware sales (1/30 – 2/5)
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3DS 75,018
PS3 23,293
Vita 17,141
PSP 15,847
Wii 8,814
Xbox 360 1,382
DSi LL 1,090
DSi 669
PS2 481
For comparison’s sake, here are the hardware numbers from last week:
3DS – 84,789
PS3 – 22,924
Vita – 18,942
PSP – 16,008
Wii – 10,396
Xbox 360 – 1,235
DSi LL – 1,180
DSi – 738
PS2 – 713
Amazon hinting at Radiant Historia reprint
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Remember how Atlus was asking fans if they’d be interested in a reprint for Radiant Historia last week? Well, it seems that the company will be publishing a new round of copies next month.
According to Amazon.ca, Radiant Historia will be available on March 19. Those who plan on purchasing the title can pre-order it from the retailer here.
Technically Atlus hasn’t confirmed a reprint, but I’d say this is a pretty good sign!
Pokemon Black/White Mewtwo trailer
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Wedbush January 2012 NPD hardware predictions
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Wedbush’s Michael Pachter has provided predictions for the January 2012 NPD report. The actual data will be made available on Thursday.
Wedbush January 2012 sales estimates (change year-on-year):
Xbox 360 – 390,000 units (+2%)
PlayStation 3 – 235,000 units (-12%)
3DS – 215,000 175,000 units
Wii – 175,000 units (-45%)
DS – 65,000 units (-78%)