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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 33 Comments

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, which launched in North America last Friday, has already sold 490,000 units between physical and digital sales, Nintendo has announced. That number accounts for sales between November 21 and November 23.

Thanks to the success of Super Smash Bros., it’s now the fastest-selling Wii U game ever in the U.S. Mario Kart 8 previously held this record.

Nintendo has also confirmed that more than 14 million Super Smash Bros. games have been sold in the U.S. alone.

Scott Moffitt, Nintendo of America’s executive vice president of Sales & Marketing, said of today’s news:

“The Nintendo holiday is off to a great start, but there’s a lot of work left to do and a few more surprises in store for our fans. With great deals coming on Black Friday and Cyber Monday and great content like Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker launching next week, Nintendo will offer shoppers the best combination of fun and value this holiday season.”

Source: Nintendo PR

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News, Wii U | 1 Comment

This week’s Famitsu review scores are as follows:

LittleBigPlanet 3 (PS4/PS3) – 9/9/9/9
Guilty Gear Xrd: Sign (PS4/PS3) – 9/9/8/8
Samurai Warriors Chronicle 3 (3DS/PSV) – 9/9/8/8
Never Alone (PS4) – 9/8/7/9
Diabolik Lovers Vandead Carnival (PSV) – 8/8/8/7
Aikatsu! 365 Idol Days (3DS) – 8/7/8/7
Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures 2 (3DS) – 7/8/7/7
Kamen Rider: SummonRide (PS3/Wii U) – 7/7/8/6

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Posted on 9 years ago by Kirara Koneko(@KiraraKoneko) in News, Wii U | 1 Comment

The director for Xenoblade Chronicles X, Tetsuya Takahashi took to twitter again to share brief bit of information about the upcoming title.

In his tweets he revealed that the main script writer for Xenoblade Chronicles X is Yuchiro Takeda, whom you might remember as the script writer for Xenoblade Chronicles. The pair have also worked together in the past on the anime adaptation of Xenosaga.

The main topic of his tweets were about the story, below is a translation of one of those tweets:

“After the ‘basic’ fantasy story for [Xenoblade], we’re having him write a deep sci-fi story this time around,”

Takahashi went on to reiterate that composer Hiroyuki Sawano (Attack on Titan) is in charge of sound, and that Kunihiko Tanaka (Xenogears, Xenosaga, Xenoblade) is in charge of character design.

Takahashi also stated:

“I’ve known Mr. Tanaka for a long time, but this time I asked for his cooperation to bring out the Xeno-ness in the art.”

Xenoblade Chronicles X will be released for Wii U in Japan in Spring 2015, North America and Europe can expect a 2015 release as well.

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Today Sakurai talks a little bit more about The Orbital Gate, which appeared in yesterday’s screenshot:

…By the way, this model is actually a trophy. Diorama style. The Orbital Gate Assault stage actually took a whole year to complete.

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News, Wii, Wii U | 17 Comments

Square Enix has shared its lineup for this year’s Jump Festa. Dragon Quest Heroes, Final Fantasy Explorers, Final Fantasy Type-0, and Bravely Second will be playable while Final Fantasy XV will be present in video form.

Square Enix will hold a live stream for Bravely Second and Dragon Quest X on December 20. On December 21, there will be stage events for Final Fantasy Explorers, Dragon Quest Heroes, and Dragon Quest X.

You can find Square Enix’s Jump Festa teaser page here.

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News, Wii U | 2 Comments

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U contains something known as the “World Status” mode. By hitting up this mode, you’ll see a ticker featuring random statistics collected by players.

Kotaku grabbed the following stats below from this morning:

2,297,299,984 hours of play time – almost a third as much as the entire Halo franchise
6,432,211,879 total damage received
118,676,889 total KOs worldwide
1,446,231 miles total distance the Sandbag has traveled in Home Run Contest – almost six times the distance from the Earth to the moon
3,899,843 online battles held YESTERDAY
10,731,978 online battles ever held
22,107,817 battles overall (offline and offline)

We can’t say this with absolute certainty, but it does appear that Super Smash Bros. for 3DS is included in the data. It’d be tough for the Wii U game alone to accumulate 2.2 billion hours of play within 96 hours of its release!

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One Super Smash Bros. for Wii U player has encountered an incredibly bizarre glitch in the game. As shown in the video above, character models are completely disfigured. The cause of the glitch is currently unknown.

Thanks to Felix for the tip.

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Ubisoft was once planning on including a world in Rayman Legends known as “Chateau Dracula”, which roughly translates to “Dracula Castle”. Sadly, the idea was cut from the final game.

Dracula Castle was set in a large gothic castle. Players would be able to traverse a dining room, cellar area, and even the rooftops.

Unseen64 managed to obtain concept art of Dracula Castle. The stage was never prototyped, and it was apparently scrapped due to time and budget constraints.

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