Need for Speed: Rivals not heading to Wii U
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Earlier today, EA announced the next entry in the Need for Speed franchise – Need for Speed: Rivals. Unfortunately, there are no plans to bring the game to the Wii U at this time.
Ghost Games’ founder and Rivals producer Marcus Nilsson told Eurogamer that “Frostbite is not really set up for Wii U.” EA confirmed in its announcement that the racer is being built on the Frostbite 3 engine.
“Yeah, Frostbite is not really set up for Wii U. I don’t have all the information, so it wouldn’t be right for me to speak about it. Frostbite 3 is a really capable engine, it’s scalable and it gives us a big advantage on the next generation to support the Xbox One and the PS4, but it’s not being developed on the Wii U.”
A shame that we won’t be seeing this one on Wii U. You could argue that Most Wanted was best on Nintendo’s system last year out of all console versions, so it would have been nice to see how Rivals turned out.
New Sonic Lost World teaser image, details confirmed for May 29
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SEGA released a new teaser image for Sonic Lost World on its Facebook page today. In addition to the photo above, the following message was posted:
“Six will rise from the Lost World. Are they friends or foes? Find out on May 29th.”
Sonic Lost World should also be covered heavily on the next Nintendo Direct.
Next Nintendo Direct set for June 11 at 7 AM PT / 10 AM ET
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Nintendo’s next Nintendo Direct, planned for E3 time, has been set. The presentation will be streamed on June 11 at 7 AM PT / 10 AM ET.
A tweet from Nintendo confirms:
Hello. We already announced we will have another #NintendoDirectNA at E3, but now we can share the date/time: 6/11 at 7 am PT. #IwataSays
— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) May 23, 2013
A press release from Nintendo says that the Direct “will provide updates about future Wii U games”.
Disney Infinity – Monsters University Play Set Trailer
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Media Create software sales (5/13 – 5/19)
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This week’s Japanese software sales are as follows:
01./00. [PSP] Summon Night 5
02./01. [3DS] Friend Collection: New Life #
03./02. [3DS] Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon
04./03. [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf #
05./00. [PS3] MuvLuv Alternative: Total Eclipse #
06./04. [PS3] Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen
07./05. [3DS] Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultimate Mission
08./14. [WII] Taiko no Tatsujin Wii: Super Deluxe Edition #
09./08. [3DS] New Super Mario Bros. 2 #
10./11. [3DS] Mario Kart 7
11./06. [PS3] Tomb Raider
12./10. [3DS] Tousouchuu: Shijou Saikyou no Hunter-Tachi Kara Nigekire!
13./12. [PSV] PhotoKano Kiss
14./16. [PSP] Pro Baseball Spirits 2013
15./15. [3DS] Taiko no Tatsujin: Chibi Dragon to Fushigi na Orb
16./17. [3DS] Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate (Best Price!)
17./09. [PS3] Naruto Shippuden: Narutimate Storm 3
18./13. [PSP] 7th Dragon 2020-II
19./21. [WIU] New Super Mario Bros. U
20./25. [NDS] Pokemon Black 2 / White 2
GameStop ad (5/22 – 5/28)
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This week’s GameStop’s ad is as follows:
Media Create hardware sales (5/13 – 5/19)
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The latest Japanese hardware sales from Media Create are as follows:
3DS LL – 24,123
3DS – 13,001
PS3 – 10,948
Vita – 10,931
PSP – 6,524
Wii U – 6,037
Wii – 1,143
Xbox 360 – 349
For comparison’s sake, here are the hardware numbers from last week:
3DS LL – 33,351
3DS – 16,412
PS3 – 12,793
Vita – 12,331
Wii U – 7,974
PSP – 6,360
Wii – 1,506
Xbox 360 – 485
EA working on Wii U games after all?
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EA may not have ceased Wii U development all together as initially thought, based on new comments from the company.
Speaking at the Stifel Nicolaus 2013 Internet, Media and Communications Conference today, EA chief financial officer Blake Jorgensen noted that the publisher does have content in the works for the Wii U, but not as many titles as PlayStation and Xbox consoles.
Jorgensen also said the following about Wii U during the event:
“You know, I think Nintendo’s business was more [an] extension of their last console. I think what the consumer will find is a lot more powerful gameplay with the new boxes that are coming out, and a lot of excitement, but it’ll remain to be seen as to the services associated with those as to how consumers decide which direction they might want to go.”
