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Another excerpt coming from today’s iJustine Shigeru Miyamoto video concerns Mario Maker. Miyamoto once again confirmed online functionality for the title, and went as far as to say that popularity rankings are being implemented.

Miyamoto’s full words are below:

You’ll be able to see what happens when other people play your course, or when you play other peoples courses… there’ll be popularity rankings for the most popular courses and things like that… so there’s a lot on the community side.

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We shared iJustine’s new interview with Shigeru Miyamoto a short while ago, but I figured this was worth a separate post. When we get comments about Zelda Wii U, they’re certainly worth paying the extra attention to.

Here’s the Q&A about the new game:

You showed the Zelda trailer and that’s such a huge world. How is that going to be for you guys to approach as far as gameplay and story, because it’s such a huge world.

With Zelda games, what we’ve always done is try to make them where you enter this big world of Hyrule and there’s a lot to explore and discover, but because of the hardware limitations, what we’ve had to do is segment off each area and piece those segments together in a way that make them feel like a big world. Now, with the hardware capabilities of Wii U, we first started by saying if we can take an entire world the size of the world from Twilight Princess, and make that the size of one of the areas in the game.

Do you see that as a game where people will go to complete a certain mission and they end up doing fifty things along the way?

Yeah, there may even be times where you forget what your goal is, because you are doing other things on the side. There may be times where you go in to one big one long dungeon, or you’re headed for a dungeon and doing other things on the side. What we’re trying to do is design it in a way where you don’t have to play it for a super long time, but more matched to today’s lifestyle where you can think for a little bit, and say “maybe I just want to play for a little bit today and do this one thing.” and get that thing done, then take a break.

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The review scores from EDGE’s latest issue have surfaced. View them below.

Far Cry 4 – 9
Dragon Age: Inquisition – 8
Assassins Creed Unity – 5
Assassins Creed Rogue – 6
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U – 8
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker – 7
Escape Dead Island – 2
This War is Mine – 9
Never Alone – 6
Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire – 8

EDGE announced its choices for the top ten games of 2014 as well. Here’s how the results panned out:

10. LittleBigPlanet 3
9. This War is Mine
8. Far Cry 4
7. Ultimate SFIV
6. MGS V: Ground Zeroes
5. Nidhogg
4. Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft
3. Mario Kart 8
2. Dark Souls II
1. Bayonetta 2

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Games featured in the gallery above: Atelier Rorona Plus: The Alchemist of Arland, Doraemon: Nobita’s Space Heroes, Etrian Mystery Dungeon, Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai Remix, Kirby and the Rainbow Curse, Kuroko’s Basketball: Ties to the Future, Lost Heroes 2, The Great Ace Attorney, and Yowamushi Pedal.

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This week’s GameStop ad has gone live. You can find it in full below.

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The latest Japanese software sales from Media Create are as follows:

1. [3DS] Youkai Watch 2: Shinuchi – 1,244,171
2. [3DS] Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire – 152,384 / 1,950,481
3. [PS4] Grand Theft Auto V – 81,659 / NEW
4. [WIU] Super Smash Bros. for Wii U – 79,005 / 306,533
5. [PS3] Shining Resonance – 67,282 / NEW
6. [3DS] Super Smash Bros. for 3DS – 47,393 / 1,835,852
7. [3DS] Youkai Watch 2 – 32,168 / 2,958,112
8. [3DS] Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate – 29,418 / 2,255,273
9. [WIU] Mario Kart 8 – 24,938 / 778,808
10. [PS3] Assassin’s Creed: Rogue – 17,656 / NEW
11. [3DS] Derby Stallion Gold – 16,659 / 90,275
12. [3DS] Aikatsu! 365 Idol Days – 16,023 / 49,174
13. [WIU] Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker – 14,628 / 80,510
14. [PS3] Nobunaga no Yabou: Souzou with Power-Up Kit – 14,054 / NEW
15. [3DS] Attack on Titan: The Last Wings of Mankind Chain – 12,650 / 31,723
16. [3DS] Sumikko Gurashi: Koko ga Ochitsukundesu – 12,216 / 36,053
17. [PS3] Hajime no Ippo: The Fighting – 10,675 / NEW
18. [PSV] Phantasy Star Nova – 10,117 / 137,263
19. [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf – 9,961 / 3,830,376
20. [PS3] Resident Evil HD – 8,493 / 74,196

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The latest Japanese hardware sales from Media Create are as follows:

New 3DS LL – 83,041
PS4 – 68,041
New 3DS – 34,676
Wii U – 27,334
3DS LL – 24,475
Vita – 24,039
3DS – 14,911
PS3 – 7,803
Vita TV – 974
Xbox One – 724
Xbox 360 – 102
PSP – 8

For comparison’s sake, here are the hardware numbers from last week:

New 3DS LL – 63,714
3DS – 38,846
New 3DS – 25,541
Wii U – 24,469
Vita – 22,355
3DS LL – 17,319
PS4 – 15,971
PS3 – 5,679
Vita TV – 986
Xbox One – 790
Xbox 360 – 189
PSP – 8

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