During a recent Iwata Asks, director Hideki Kamiya teased a secret collaboration character for The Wonderful 101. But as it turns out, there are three such heroes to find.

The characters were shown for the first time during a PAX Prime 2013 panel a short while ago. Each one comes from the same title.

You can find an image of the three after the break.

Kamiya gives a look at a prototype from The Wonderful 101

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Like most games, The Wonderful 101 went through a series if iterations before Platinum settled on the final style and gameplay. Director Hideki Kamiya intends to show some of the title’s prototypes at his PAX Prime panel later today. But for now, he did share one prototype image on Twitter:

We'll show you prototype versions of TW101 at the panel at #pax13 http://t.co/XzEqkQSGQm
— ???? Hideki Kamiya (@PG_kamiya) September 1, 2013

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A few more Zelda: Wind Waker HD screenshots

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Media Create software sales (8/19 – 8/25) – Top 50

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01./00. [PS3] Super Robot Wars OG Saga: Masou Kishin III – Pride of Justice (Bandai Namco Games) {2013.08.22} (¥7.480) – 39.255 / NEW <52,55%>
02./01. [3DS] Disney Magic Castle: My Happy Life # (Bandai Namco Games) {2013.08.01} (¥5.480) – 20.881 / 227.508 (-50%)
03./02. [3DS] Mario & Luigi: Dream Team # (Nintendo) {2013.07.18} (¥4.800) – 20.339 / 264.977 (-49%)
04./00. [PSV] Super Robot Wars OG Saga: Masou Kishin III – Pride of Justice (Bandai Namco Games) {2013.08.22} (¥6.480) – 18.929 / NEW <46,91%>
05./00. [PSV] Conception II: Shichisei no Michibiki to Mazuru no Akumu (Spike Chunsoft) {2013.08.22} (¥6.279) – 18.878 / NEW
06./03. [3DS] Friend Collection: New Life # (Nintendo) {2013.04.18} (¥4.800) – 15.585 / 1.394.763 (-45%)
07./00. [PS3] Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara (Capcom) {2013.08.22} (¥3.990) – 14.480 / NEW
08./06. [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf # (Nintendo) {2012.11.08} (¥4.800) – 8.448 / 3.386.386 (-36%)
09./07. [3DS] Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon (Nintendo) {2013.03.20} (¥4.800) – 7.639 / 878.384 (-39%)
10./08. [3DS] Youkai Watch (Level 5) {2013.07.11} (¥4.800) – 7.084 / 143.796 (-36%)
11./04. [3DS] One Piece: Romance Dawn – Bouken no Yoake (Bandai Namco Games) {2013.08.08} (¥5.980) – 6.712 / 47.210 (-57%)
12./09. [WIU] Pikmin 3 (Nintendo) {2013.07.13} (¥5.985) – 5.741 / 171.401 (-48%)
13./14. [3DS] Mario Kart 7 (Nintendo) {2011.12.01} (¥4.800) – 5.262 / 2.106.522 (-32%)
14./00. [WIU] The Wonderful 101 (Nintendo) {2013.08.24} (¥6.830) – 5.258 / NEW
15./05. [3DS] Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies (Capcom) {2013.07.25} (¥5.990) – 5.232 / 327.996 (-61%)
16./00. [3DS] Conception II: Shichisei no Michibiki to Mazuru no Akumu (Spike Chunsoft) {2013.08.22} (¥6.279) – 5.072 / NEW
17./10. [3DS] Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D (Nintendo) {2013.06.13} (¥4.800) – 5.003 / 258.457 (-52%)
18./13. [3DS] Fantasy Life: Link! (Level 5) {2013.07.25} (¥4.980) – 4.481 / 48.874 (-45%)
19./12. [3DS] Hoppechan: Tsukutte! Asonde! Punipuni Town!! (Nippon Columbia) {2013.07.25} (¥5.040) – 4.280 / 33.857 (-48%)
20./15. [WII] Taiko no Tatsujin Wii: Super Deluxe Edition # (Bandai Namco Games) {2012.11.29} (¥5.040) – 4.280 / 549.364 (-45%)

Reggie officially confirms no Ambassador program for Wii U

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We have additional confirmation that an Ambassador program won’t be coming to Wii U.

Although a Nintendo customer service representative recently said that there aren’t any plans, that was hardly an official confirmation. However, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime shared a few comments with Kotaku explaining why there isn’t anything in the works.

Here’s the full conversation between the two:

Reggie Fils-Aime: The focus on making sure that this holiday, [the Wii U’s] second holiday, is really strong is actually quite consistent with the way that we always thought about our hardware launches. Look at Nintendo 3DS. We lined up Mario Kart 7 and Super Mario 3D Land to make sure that its second holiday was as strong as possible.
Kotaku: Right, but with that one, the precedent set there was that you guys dropped the price by a third, I think under the recognition that the machine wasn’t moving. And then, once that happened, that seemed to really propel it along. But, I mean, the Ambassador program and all that certainly sent a signal to me that Nintendo had miscalculated the appeal of the system at its initial price point. Lowering it seemed to solve it, right? Lowering it dramatically and doing those types of things [worked]. Are you guys doing any sort of Ambassador program for Wii U owners to thank them for coming in early and withstanding some of the [software] drought?
Reggie Fils-Aime: So, we have nothing to announce in terms of an Ambassador Program. And what I would do is reinforce what you just said. The situations are very different not only in terms of the timing, not only in terms of the level of the reduction… it’s a very different situation.

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