Wii U/Wii/3DS/DS million sellers – April 2013
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Included in Nintendo’s latest financial report is an updated listing of its million seller titles. New entries include Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon and Super Mario Galaxy.
The full listing is as follows (worldwide numbers):
Nintendo DS
Pokemon Black/White 2 – 7.81 million
New Super Mario Bros. – 30.38 million
Nintendo 3DS
New Super Mario Bros. 2 – 6.42 million
Animal Crossing: New Leaf – 3.86 million
Mario Kart 7 – 8.08 million
Super Mario 3D Land – 8.29 million
Paper Mario: Sticker Star – 1.97 million
Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon – 1.22 million
Mario Tennis Open – 1.11 million
Wii
Wii Sports – 81.99 million
Mario Party 9 – 2.87 million
Mario Kart Wii – 34.26 million
Wii Sports Resort – 31.89 million
New Super Mario Bros. Wii – 27.88 million
Super Mario Galaxy – 11.72 million
Wii U
Nintendo Land – 2.60 million
New Super Mario Bros. U – 2.15 million
Star Wars still a possibility for Disney Infinity
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Disney Infinity is, of course, a Disney product. But with the company’s acquisition of Lucasfilm, that means Star Wars could technically be included in the upcoming video games.
Disney’s Bill Roper isn’t ready to jump on the Star Wars bandwagon just yet. While Disney’s new ownership of the property is exciting and brings new possibilities, “we’re really just focused on launching this platform quickly.”
“That was definitely exciting when that [news of the acquisition] came down from within the company. We love the potential for Infinity – we always joke, well, ‘the possibilities are infinite’. For us, we’re really just focused on launching this platform quickly. We’ve got incredible IPs, and we’re showing the strength of what we’re building with the way we’ve approached the creative, where everything in the game world is toys, so we can have a Jack Sparrow next to Sulley [from Monsters] and it makes sense.”
GameStop ad (4/24 – 4/30)
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This week’s GameStop ad has gone live. Highlights include Assassin’s Creed III for $29.99.
The full lineup of deals can be found in the circular below:
Nintendo hints that new Mario, Mario Kart are coming to Wii U this year
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Nintendo hasn’t said much about the new 3D Mario action game and Mario Kart title for Wii U. Both were mentioned briefly during a Nintendo Direct a few months ago, but other than that… nada!
Despite the silence, could these two anticipated titles be coming to market this year? An inclusion in Nintendo’s financial results announcement seems to point in this direction.
“Based on the strong lineup of upcoming software titles for both the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U systems, Nintendo expects to return to Operating Income profitability by the end of the current fiscal year. During the next several months, Nintendo expects to launch new titles in the Mario Kart (Wii U), Super Mario Bros. (Wii U), Wii Fit (Wii U), Pikmin (Wii U), The Legend of Zelda (Wii U and Nintendo 3DS), Mario & Luigi (Nintendo 3DS) and Pokémon (Nintendo 3DS) franchises. These games, along with titles from Nintendo’s third-party publishing partners, will help drive hardware momentum and introduce new audiences to the Wii U and Nintendo 3DS platforms.”
The new Mario and Mario Kart games will be playable at this year’s E3, so they must be fairly far along in development. It’d be pretty crazy to see both of them in the same year, though.
Media Create hardware sales (4/15 – 4/21)
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The latest Japanese hardware sales from Media Create are as follows:
3DS LL – 57,089
3DS – 18,833
Vita – 15,011
PS3 – 13,915
Wii U – 8,798
PSP – 7,816
Wii – 1,379
Xbox 360 – 515
For comparison’s sake, here are the hardware numbers from last week:
3DS LL – 28,139
3DS – 18,584
Vita – 14,112
PS3 – 14,039
Wii U – 9,984
PSP – 7,566
Wii – 1,383
Xbox 360 – 492
Nintendo to sell key Wii U titles starting in second half of the year
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The Wii U is struggling in the marketplace right now. In order to improve the situation, Nintendo is planning on releasing more software for the system.
That makes sense, right? When you have quality software and games that people care about, that should lead to some increase in hardware sales.
Nintendo noted in its latest financial report that it will be launching “key Nintendo titles from the second half of this year through next year in order to regain momentum for the platform.” The company will also look to “improve the sales by communicating the compelling nature of our hardware and software” through Miiverse. Finally, improving hardware profitability is another goal, which will lead to reduced costs.
For the “Wii U” system, launched in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2013, there were some delays in software development that resulted in intervals between new software title releases at the early stage of this year. Taking this into consideration, for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2014, we plan to concentrate on proactively releasing key Nintendo titles from the second half of this year through next year in order to regain momentum for the platform. Nintendo strives to improve the sales by communicating the compelling nature of our hardware and software to as many people as possible through our new network service called “Miiverse,” which offers an environment where people can empathize with others and share their gaming experiences. We also strive to reduce costs to improve hardware profitability.
Paradox Interactive has no plans for new Magicka on Wii U or 3DS
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Paradox Interactive is working on Magicka – Wizards of the Square Tablet for Android and iOS devices. Unfortunately, the company has no plans to bring the game to either of Nintendo’s platforms at this time.
When asked if Paradox has any interest in bringing Magicka – Wizards of the Square Tablet to the Wii U or 3DS, the studio responded:
“At this point there are no plans to bring the game to those platforms.”
Well, you can’t have them all!
Nintendo Announces Fiscal 2013 Financial Results
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Nintendo today reported financial results for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2013. After reporting a net loss in its previous fiscal year, Nintendo was able to return to profitability in both Net and Ordinary Income for the full year, although Operating Income remained negative.
Based on the strong lineup of upcoming software titles for both the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U systems, Nintendo expects to return to Operating Income profitability by the end of the current fiscal year. During the next several months, Nintendo expects to launch new titles in the Mario Kart (Wii U), Super Mario Bros. (Wii U), Wii Fit (Wii U),Pikmin (Wii U), The Legend of Zelda (Wii U and Nintendo 3DS), Mario & Luigi (Nintendo 3DS) and Pokémon (Nintendo 3DS) franchises. These games, along with titles from Nintendo’s third-party publishing partners, will help drive hardware momentum and introduce new audiences to the Wii U and Nintendo 3DS platforms.
Assassin’s Creed III – Tyranny of King Washington – The Redemption screenshots
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Ubisoft says they’re aiming for a “broader range” of play-styles based on player feedback for Splinter Cell: Blacklist
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“After shipping Conviction, there were a lot of people who said the fans didn’t like Mark and Execute. But when we looked at our broader feedback – we do surveys through Uplay and get thousands and thousands of players – the people who rated those new features the highest were actually players who played at least two games in the series before. So in fact it was the opposite of what the data was telling us.”
– Ubisoft Toronto boss Jade Raymond
You can read the rest of a really interesting interview here. It basically says that– while some players see the series as being “dumbed down”– Ubisoft will be going for a game that you can play stealthily or action-y, depending on what you enjoy. It’s a way to expand the audience without sacrificing the core gameplay that hardcore players like in Splinter Cell, but chances are we’ll be looking at more of an action-stealth game than a purely stealth game. Think the Resident Evil 4/5 change vs. Resident Evil GCN‘s “hardcore horror” vibe.
