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Mario & Luigi: Dream Team sold just 99,972 copies in its first week in Japan with a sell-through rate of 25.49%. This is quite low given the performance of the series’ previous title.

To compare, Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story moved 192,945 units in its first week with a 86.75% sell-through rate. Not only did the DS game sell more, it also did so with a smaller shipment. Consumers who purchased Bowser’s Inside Story were made up of a large audience – including grade school students and people in their thirties.

In its weekly report, Media Create mentions how Pikmin 3 launched one week prior to Mario & Luigi: Dream Team and was also a highly-anticipated release from Nintendo. That may have negatively impacted the word of mouth of the 3DS title.

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Nintendo has gone ahead and opened an official announcement community on Miiverse for the Earthbound series. It’s home to the “official source for the latest EarthBound news and information.”

This naturally begs the question: what kind of news could Nintendo have in store for EarthBound?

You can visit the community here.

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The latest Wii U/3DS-specific UK software sales are as follows:

Wii U

1. Pikmin 3 – Nintendo
2. New Super Luigi U – Nintendo
3. New Super Mario Bros. U – Nintendo
4. Nintendo Land – Nintendo
5. LEGO City: Undercover – Nintendo
6. Injustice: Gods Among Us – Warner Bros. Interactive
7. Game & Wario – Nintendo
8. Batman: Arkham City Armored Edition – Warner Bros. Interactive
9. Sports Connection – Ubisoft
10. ZombiU – Ubisoft

3DS

1. Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Nintendo
2. Mario & Luigi: Dream Team – Nintendo
3. Luigi’s Mansion 2 – Nintendo
4. Mario Kart 7 – Nintendo
5. LEGO City Undercover: The Chase Begins – Nintendo
6. New Super Mario Bros. 2 – Nintendo
7. Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D – Nintendo
8. Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask – Nintendo
9. Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity – Nintendo
10. Super Mario 3D Land – Nintendo

Source: Chart-Track

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Ubisoft has finally started to give an extended look at Assassin’s Creed IV’s multiplayer elements. Just recently, the publisher held an event, which allowed members of the press to see multiplayer in action. You can find details rounded up from a VG247 report below.

– New dimension to co-op, a system for creating your own multiplayer modes called Gamelab
– Interface has been revamped to better allow in-game comms
– Over 100 staffers working on multiplayer
– Ubisoft Annecy, Bucharest, Shanghai and Kiev are all involved
– Annecy believes Wolfpack co-op upgrade is a “big step”
– Discovery mode: “linear experience” with a “story wrapper” to ease people into co-op rather than a straight training mode
– Tutorial system was wanted when Annecy saw Wolfpack was attracting people over to online play who weren’t interested in versus modes, but the introductory elements were somewhat lacking
– Discovery supports up to four players
– Work as a team to complete missions that rise in difficulty
– This helps you accrue more time, bonuses, etc.
– Unleashed: attain as high a sequence as possible by lining up multi-kills and synched kills, defending chests, eliminating disguised enemies, beating infected opponents, etc.
– Gamelab: set up multiplayer as you please
– This has over 200 customizable elements
– Team wanted to give more power to the community, please them, make them happy
– Begin with a template based on existing modes before altering what you like
– “Pistolier” mode: kill only with pistol shots, and all melee murdering has been switched off; alters deathmatch-style play completely since you must target from afar
– Share Gamelab modes with friends, favorite them, upload them to the community, get promoted by Ubisoft
– Saba Island: a pirate hideout map
– Santa Lucian: fishing village and Portobello, a “really nice place occupied by pirates”
– Frantic Gamelab mode: turns all scoring off, awarding a single point for each kill

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Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge is being sold for cheap at Best Buy as part of a “Deal of the Day” sale. The game is currently available for $22.99. Once Tuesday rolls on in, the deal will be gone.

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Platinum Games has updated its Wonderful 101 blog with a second post. You can find it here. Today’s post covers the story and a bit of the Wii U game’s battle system.