August 2013 NPD: Mario & Luigi, New Super Luigi U, Pikmin 3 sales; 3DS sales rankings for 2013
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US sales results for three Nintendo releases in the month of August are in. Mario & Luigi: Dream Team came out on top with 190,000 copies sold (physical and digital), followed by New Super Luigi U at 120,000 units (physical and digital) and Pikmin 3 at 115,000 units.
6.47 million 3DS games have been sold thus far this year. That’s up close to 30 percent year-over-year.
Here’s a listing of 3DS games that have sold at least 250,000 combined copies in 2013 as of now:
Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon (863,000)
Animal Crossing: New Leaf (739,000)
New Super Mario Bros. 2 (406,000 in 2013, 1.85 million total)
Fire Emblem Awakening (390,000)
Mario Kart 7 (352,000 in 2013, 2.84 million total)
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity (298,000)
Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D (268,000)
Super Mario 3D Land (265,000 in 2013, 2.86 million total)
LEGO City Undercover: The Chase Begins (264,000)
August 2013 NPD: Top 10 best-selling games in the U.S.
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NPD Group has released a listing of the top ten best-selling games in the U.S. for the month of August. The results can be found below.
Zelda: Wind Waker HD vs. GCN – animation comparison video
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Mario Kart 8 also playable at this year’s Eurogamer Expo
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Start your anti-gravity engines! #MarioKart8 confirmed as playable at this year's @Eurogamer_Expo! #EGX pic.twitter.com/7SVIMm6rQ6
— Nintendo UK (@NintendoUK) September 12, 2013
Nintendo has announced one more title playable at the Eurogamer Expo this month: Mario Kart 8. The game was not included in the company’s original lineup.
Eurogamer Expo 2013 takes place in the UK between September 26 and September 29.
Sonic Lost World bosses trailer
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Aonuma talks about stories in Zelda games, wants to make a game where the player defines the story
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Zelda games have never put story ahead of gameplay. Sure, the plot is important – and was more prominent in Skyward Sword than ever before – but no Zelda has ever placed a huge emphasis on the sequence of events.
But what if Nintendo did actually attempt to focus on the story? How’d that go down? According to Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma, it wouldn’t be so easy:
“(I feel) like that would be a game that’s really hard to develop, if you have a story first, you’re kind of tied to that story, and locked into it, and you have to alter gameplay to make sure that the story progresses in a certain way. …that doesn’t really mean that the gameplay itself will be fun. I know that there are many games that were created to fit an existing story, and I don’t know that there are that many that have been very successful at it.”
Watch_Dogs adds Brad Keselowski as new NPC
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Brad Keselowski has been confirmed for Watch_Dogs as a non-playable character. Players will be able to encounter Keselowski, a professional stock car driver and team owner, while roaming the streets of Chicago.
Keselowski is the second celebrity-type NPC to be included in Watch_Dogs. Earlier this year, Ubisoft revealed that actress and comedian Aisha Tyler would be joining the game.
Source: Ubisoft PR
