Screenshots of this week’s Nintendo Downloads (11/29)
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Nintendo Download: Something to Be Thankful For: Cave Story Now Available on DSiWare and as a WiiWare Demo
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While the rest of your home might be cluttered with leftovers from a weekend of Thanksgiving revelry, this week’s downloadable games from Nintendo provide a palate-cleansing mix of fun puzzles and challenges to start your week off right. The popular Cave Story™ makes its debut on the Nintendo DSiWare™ service, while a demo version of the game becomes available for the WiiWare™ service. Other Nintendo DSiWare games include the frenzied Frenzic puzzler and Spot It! Challenge, which tests players’ ability to locate various objects. On the WiiWare service, travelers this holiday season will want to check out Airport Mania®: First Flight for a different perspective on the travel industry, while HB Arcade Disc Golf brings the popular outdoor sport into your living room. Finally, the classic 1996 NEOGEO game MAGICAL DROP II brings its balloon-bursting action to the Virtual Console™ service.
Consumers Snap Up 1.5 Million Nintendo Video Game Systems During Black Friday Week
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Value-Minded Shoppers Purchase 900,000 Nintendo DS and 600,000 Wii Systems
REDMOND, Wash.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– When confronted with a wide range of Black Friday retail options, U.S. holiday shoppers again turned to Nintendo. Nintendo sold 900,000 combined units in the Nintendo DS™ family of systems and 600,000 Wii™ consoles between Sunday, Nov. 21, and Saturday, Nov. 27, according to the company’s internal sales estimates.
“U.S. shoppers bought about 9,000 Nintendo hardware systems nonstop for every hour of every day during the week of Black Friday,” said Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime. “For the past several years, consumers have decided that Nintendo defined both top value and all-inclusive entertainment, and that sentiment continues again at the start of this shopping season.”
Is Nintendo done with motion controls?
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Recently, I was listening to an episode of IGN’s Game Scoop podcast. On there, ex-Nintendo editor in chief Craig Harris made an interesting comment that got me thinking. During a discussion about the PlayStation Move’s “modest” debut, Harris brought up how, while everyone is playing catch-up with motion gaming, Nintendo isn’t focusing on that element anymore. The examples he used included nearly all of Nintendo’s major releases for the holiday season, which are mostly traditional games with no special use of the motion controller. Donkey Kong Country Returns, Kirby’s Epic Yarn, and GoldenEye are those titles.
Fantastic easter egg in Donkey Kong Country Returns
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First, let’s take a look at the image below. It’s a photo of Billy Mitchell, who set a record for the original Donkey Kong and was one of the stars in The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters…
Next, let’s take a look at a picture taken of the monkey ruins in world 3-2 of Donkey Kong Country Returns…
That statue definitely looks like an homage to Billy Mitchell – It’s all in the tie. To be honest, I probably wouldn’t have noticed if it wasn’t already pointed out. This makes me wonder if there are other neat easter eggs in Donkey Kong Country Returns.
Rock Band Music Store update next week
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LYNYRD SKYNYRD FOUR PACK, SINGLES FROM 38 SPECIAL AND BAD COMPANY COME TO ROCK BANDNEXT WEEK
Cambridge, Mass. – Nov. 24, 2010 – Harmonix and MTV Games today announced that four songs from Lynyrd Skynyrd, three of which feature Pro Guitar and Pro Bass, plus singles from Bad Company and 38 Special, both of which feature Pro Guitar and Pro Bass, will be available Nov. 30 in the Rock 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 800 artists and more than 2,000* 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. To date, more than 75 million songs have been sold through the Rock Band Music Store since its launch Nov. 20, 2007.
Rock BandDLC Additions for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 system and Wii
Media Create software sales (11/15 – 11/21) – Top 50
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01. / 00. [PS3] Call of Duty: Black Ops (Subtitled Edition) (Square Enix) – 128.922 / NEW
02. / 00. [NDS] Super Fossil Fighters (Nintendo) – 42.829 / NEW
03. / 04. [NDS] Pokemon Black / White (Pokemon Co.) – 39.883 / 4.450.879 (-6%)
04. / 03. [WII] Super Mario All-Stars (Nintendo) – 38.219 / 565.928 (-12%)
05. / 01. [PSP] Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together (Square Enix) – 37.350 / 213.503 (-79%)
06. / 00. [PSP] World Soccer Winning Eleven 2011 (Konami) – 35.500 / NEW
07. / 00. [360] Call of Duty: Black Ops (Subtitled Edition) (Square Enix) – 30.279 / NEW
08. / 05. [NDS] Magician’s Quest: The Merchant’s Store of Sorcery (Konami) – 24.918 / 65.126 (-38%)
09. / 07. [PS3] World Soccer Winning Eleven 2011 (Konami) – 22.383 / 323.803 (-26%)
10. / 00. [PS3] Record of Agarest War 2 (Compile Heart) – 20.889 / NEW
11. / 06. [PSP] God Eater: Burst (Bandai Namco) – 18.726 / 375.082 (-40%)
12. / 00. [PSP] Criminal Girls (Nippon Ichi Software) – 17.855 / NEW
13. / 00. [PS3] Gekiatsu!! Pachi Game Tamashi: CR Evangelion – Hajimari no Fukuin (Fields) – 16.964 / NEW
14. / 08. [WII] Wii Party (Nintendo) – 16.814 / 1.208.037 (-4%)
15. / 02. [PS3] Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2 (Bandai Namco) – 14.632 / 62.241 (-69%)
16. / 00. [PS2] World Soccer Winning Eleven 2011 (Konami) – 14.450 / NEW
17. / 10. [WII] Kirby’s Epic Yarn (Nintendo) – 11.840 / 199.618 (-15%)
18. / 09. [WII] Wii Sports Resort (w/ Remote Plus) (Nintendo) – 11.745 / 26.184 (-19%)
19. / 00. [PSP] Hisshou Pachinko Pachislot Kouryaku Series Portable Vol. 2: CR Neon Genesis Evangelion – Hajimari no Fukuin (D3 Publisher) – 9.102 / NEW
20. / 00. [WII] World Soccer Winning Eleven 2011 (Konami) – 8.105 / NEW
Final Fantasy enemy makes an appearance in Mario Sports Mix
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Players who are hoping to complete Mario Sports Mix’s challenge mode will face one last task: A boss battle with a well-known Final Fantasy enemy. Head past the break if you’d like to see who it is!
