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“If you look at the upcoming Christmas market, the Wii will be selling in very low volumes – it’s on its way out – and the Wii U will arrive, but it will bring in a relatively small number of early adopter consumers. We see ourselves well positioned for the casual market who won’t buy Wii U on day one. We’ve got a wow moment, we feel. I remember when people picked up the Wii controller for the first time, that was a big moment, it was a casual market breakthrough, but we thing we’ve got a casual market breakthrough as well with Wonderbook and the lowest priced PS3 yet.” – Sony’s Managing Director of PSUK, Fergal Gara

Whoa, I completely forgot about Wonderbook. If that’s what Sony is banking on to help them win the casual market… yikes. Don’t get your hopes up, Sony! Of course, they also had some nice words for the Big N when discussing casual markets:

“If you look at the casual market overall in the last few years, there’s no doubt that the kings of that market has been Nintendo, they have done a great job with a great product.”

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3DS

1. Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon
2. Paper Mario: Sticker Star
3. Animal Crossing
4. Fire Emblem
5. Scribblenauts Unlimited

Wii

1. Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two
2. LEGO Lord of the Rings: The Video Game
3. Skylanders Giants
4. Wreck-It Ralph
5. Just Dance 4

Wii U

1. New Super Mario Bros. U
2. Pikmin 3
3. Nintendo Land
4. Scribblenauts Unlimited
5. Game & Wario

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Wii U pre-orders have been strong in the U.S. thus far. The console seems to be doing just fine in Europe, too.

GAME has send out a statement about Wii U pre-orders, stating that there has been “lots and lots of interest.” The retailer added that they’ve been “exceeding expectations”.

“As expected with such a highly anticipated announcement of Wii U, we’ve had lots and lots of interest. Pre-orders are exceeding expectations with the black console proving the most popular so far.”

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The Wii U version of Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed has been playable for a few months now. While the actual game content hasn’t been criticized, those who have tried it out have said that it suffers from frame rate issues.

Sumo Digital executive producer Steve Lycett, addressing fans on the official SEGA forums, stated that “the Wii U version is now the closet to the target frame rate” on consoles. Maybe this will ease the concerns of fans a bit?

You may be interested to hear that the Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed demo hasn’t changed since July. Sumo has been busy working on the final product, so it hasn’t had time to prepare new content for expo attendees. If this really is true, one would definitely expect the Wii U racer to have improved.

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There’s lots of Assassin’s Creed III footage and a bunch of details to check out in the video above, for those who weren’t able to watch the show earlier today. Reggie’s interview bits are towards the end.

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The latest episode of GameTrailers TV just wrapped up a few minutes ago, as did the show’s interview with Reggie Fils-Aime.

During the discussion, Geoff Keighley asked the Nintendo of America president about first-party titles that are in development for Wii U. Reggie responded by assuring that Shigeru Miyamoto, the staffers at EAD, and Retro are working on “fantastic projects.”

“… Rest assured, Mr. Miyamoto, the team at EAD are working on fantastic projects. Rest assured that Retro is working on a fantastic project. We’ve got big games in development that will be coming that will continue to drive the install base of the system. All of that’s going to be there.”

Reggie was then probed about when we could be hearing about these projects. He said that news will be shared “in all likelihood during E3”, adding that it “really depends on the progress of the games.” Announcements could be made a little bit before E3, or perhaps a littler bit after.

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Ninja Gaiden III director Yosuke Hayashi is very much a supporter of Wii U. In an interview with the Official Nintendo Magazine, Hayashi noted that the GamePad and hardware “could get many people to pay attention to console games once again.”

“The biggest difference compared to other Nintendo hardware released until now is that it is not trying to complete with ‘only one’ feature. Obviously, the Wii U GamePad is a huge feature, but the Wii U isn’t only about that. There’s the hardware performance, network capabilities and, of course, the titles that fully utilise these aspects. From this all-encompassing gaming abilitity I get the impression that this hardware could get many people to pay attention to console games once again.”

Hayashi went on to discuss Miiverse, which he believes “has the potential to become a kind of virtual amusement park for game fans.” On a personal note, he’s excited about the feature.

“The biggest change of direction from the Wii would be the Miiverse. It’s usually introduced as a social networking tool, but I feel it has the potential to become a kind of virtual amusement park for game fans. With SNS [Social Networking Sites] making a lot of unique advancements, as a gamer, I am excited to see how the Miiverse will grow within the realm of console games.”

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