“There are great new pieces of software launching this year such as Wii Play: Motion in June and Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword later on in 2011. Plus, there are plenty more surprises in store for 2012 from us – Wii has got a great future ahead of it. We just wanted to make sure that the appeal of Wii is as broad as possible, and the new Mario Kart bundle is designed to be a great value proposition to anyone who is interested in getting a Wii. With this specific campaign, we are targeting families with young kids looking to buy their first games console. This is a very large potential audience, and the new Mario Kart bundle will be the perfect proposition for them.”

Project Cafe won’t be out until April 2012 at the earliest, so Nintendo has one year year to fill with Wii software. And, personally, I think the console will arrive later in the year rather than earlier. There are only so many games Nintendo will localize (and let’s not forget about Japan who has had these titles for some time now), so Nintendo really should have at least a surprise or two in store for the Wii.

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Rock Band Music Store update next week

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Cambridge, Mass. – May 13, 2011 – Harmonix today announced that a four pack of songs from Pantera and a legendary single from Peter Frampton will be available beginning May 19 in theRock Band 3 Music Store of downloadable content for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and Wii™.
Rock Band provides the deepest and best selection of artists, songs and albums through the Rock Band music platform, which features more than 900 artists and more than 2,700* tracks via disc and download purchase (complete list of tracks at www.rockband.com/songs). Rock Band’s gigantic music library dwarfs that of any other rhythm video game on the market. More than 100 million songs have been sold through the Rock Band Music Store since its launch Nov. 20, 2007.
Rock Band DLC Additions for Xbox 360, PlayStation®3 system and Wii

Vote for the Xenoblade Chronicles alternative cover art (Europe)

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The acclaimed, epic Wii RPG Xenoblade Chronicles is coming to the UK later this year with an alternative cover on the inside of the regular cover – and fans get to choose which artwork will be used. Vote for your favourite by spreading the word!
Voting starts today and closes on 25 May 2011. In order to vote you simply click on your favourite cover art and use the Facebook and Twitter links underneath to share a link to this cover art on your social network of choice. Feel free to spread the word and vote as often as you like!

PES 2012 announced

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PES 2012: Real Football Simulation
KONAMI details focus for forthcoming Pro Evolution Soccer simulation
Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH has outlined its ambitious plans and focus for PES 2012, which it will release in Autumn 2011 for PlayStation®3, Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, Windows PC, Wii, PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) and PlayStation®2, and which again boasts exclusive use of the UEFA Champions LeagueTM & UEFA Europa LeagueTM licences.
“For me, the ultimate aim in the ongoing PES series is to match what people see when they go to a match or watch a big game on TV with what they experience on their console,” explains Shingo ‘Seabass’ Takatsuka, the Creative Producer of the Pro Evolution Soccer series. “As such, in consultation with football fans across the globe, we have been working non-stop to isolate and determine how to make our game marry in with how real football is played. This is key to PES 2012, and key to providing the ultimate football experience within a console title.”

SEGA’s Vintage Collection 3 coming to WiiWare

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SEGA is proud to announce that the next edition of our Vintage Collection series is headed here in late 2011 and early 2012, to PlayStation Network and Nintendo Wii Virtual Console! This collection features favorites from the Wonder Boy series as well as some other gems from that era, including one of the first titles produced by legendary designer Yu Suzuki.
The biggest news of this bundle is that we are releasing a fully localized version of Wonder Boy in Monster World IV, which has never had a previous release in the West – it has previously appeared only in Japan.
Here’s everything that’s on the way:

April 2011 NPD hardware sales

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Xbox 360 – 297K (+60%) – Top Selling Console
PlayStation 3 – ~204.3K (+13%)
Nintendo 3DS – 194K
Wii – 172K (-38%)

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Best-selling games in April based on NPD data

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1. Mortal Kombat (PS3/360) – Warner Bros. Interactive
2. Portal 2 (PS3/360/PC) – EA
3. LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars (Wii/DS/360/3DS/PS3/PC) – LucasAsrts
4. Call of Duty: Black Ops (360/PS3/DS/Wii/PC) – Activision Blizzard
5. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12 (360/PS3/Wii) – EA
6. Crysis 2 (360/PS3/PC) – EA
7. Just Dance (Wii) – Ubisoft
8. Michael Jackson The Experience (360/Wii/PS3/DS/PSP) – Ubisoft
9. Pokemon White (DS) – Nintendo
10. NBA 2K11 (360/PS3/Wii/PSP/PS2/PC) – Take 2 Interactive

Ubisoft was in fact planning on an E3 announcement for Rayman Origins Wii

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Yesterday an Amazon page and boxart were found for Rayman Origins on Wii. Before that, we heard that Ubisoft was planning on announcing the Wii version of the title at E3. Apparently that’s exactly what Ubisoft had in store. The company told Dutch website N1ntendo:

“Rayman Origins will also be released as a retail-game for Wii, even though this is/was supposed to be a surprise for this year’s E3.”

I suppose we’ll receive an official announcement about the game at E3. Now the only uncertainty is whether or not the DS GameStop listing was an error…

Thanks to Dragoon for the tip!

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Pandora’s Tower details

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– Towers have distinct themes
– Tree tower, stone tower, steel tower
– Masters of each tower also represent the theme
– 13 towers in total
– Will spend time in an observation tower
– This tower stands next to the master towers
– Graiai can be found in the observation tower
– Store items and recover your health by going to sleep
– Talk to Ceres in the observation tower
– Nintendo says you can “communication” with Ceres
– You can pick an item up if you see a glowing marker on the group
– Receive different items from enemies depending on where you strike them
– Time progresses in the game when battling through towers or while you’re sleeping
– Materials/movements of enemies change over time
– Hold B to open up a zooming window while aiming at the screen

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Chrono Trigger teleports onto Nintendo’s Virtual Console

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The Past, Present and Future are in Your Hands…
LOS ANGELES (May 12, 2011) – Square Enix, Inc., the publisher of SQUARE ENIX® interactive entertainment products in the Americas, announced today that CHRONO TRIGGER® is headed to Nintendo’s Virtual Console™ service for the Wii™ console on May 16, 2011.
Originally released in 1995 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System™, CHRONO TRIGGER was created by a talented development team – Yuji Horii (script creator), creator of the DRAGON QUEST® series, Akira Toriyama (character design), creator of Dragon Ball®, and the creators of FINAL FANTASY – all of whom were key contributors to the game’s success.