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Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News, Wii U | 0 comments

The latest Famitsu most-wanted games chart is as follows:

01/01. [PS3] Persona 5 (Atlus, Winter 2014) – 678 votes
02/05. [Wii U] Mario Kart 8 (Nintendo, 05/29/14) – 614 votes
03/02. [3DS] Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate (Capcom, Fall 2014) – 607 votes
04/04. [3DS] Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth (Atlus, 06/05/14) – 578 votes
05/03. [PS4] Final Fantasy XV (Square Enix, TBA) – 576 votes
06/08. [PS3] Tales of Zestiria (Bandai Namco, TBA) – 379 votes
07/06. [PS4] Kingdom Hearts III (Square Enix, TBA) – 366 votes
08/11. [PSV] Freedom Wars (SCEJ, 06/26/14) – 339 votes
09/09. [PS4] The Evil Within (Bethesda Softworks, 2014) – 263 votes
10/17. [PS3] The Evil Within (Bethesda Softworks, 2014) – 260 votes
11/07. [PS3] Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Konami, TBA) – 249 votes
12/14. [3DS] Bravely Second (Square Enix, TBA) – 246 votes
13/13. [PS4] Watch Dogs (Ubisoft, 06/26/14) – 235 votes
14/10. [Wii U] Hyrule Warriors (Tecmo Koei, Summer 2014) – 233 votes
15/16. [3DS] Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS (Nintendo, Summer 2014) – 228 votes
16/15. [3DS] Senran Kagura 2: Deep Crimson (Marvelous AQL, 08/07/14) – 227 votes
17/18. [PS3] Mobile Suit Gundam Side Stories (Bandai Namco, 05/29/14) – 212 votes
18/21. [Wii U] Super Smash Bros. for Wii U Nintendo, Fall 2014) – 193 votes
19/22. [PS3] The Legend of Heroes: Sen no Kiseki II (Falcom, 09/25/14) – 182 votes
20/24. [PSV] The Legend of Heroes: Sen no Kiseki II (Falcom, 09/25/14) – 169 votes
21/12. [PS3] The Last Remnant (Square Enix, IWillNeverLeave) – 164 votes
22/26. [PS3] Atelier Shallie: Alchemists of the Dusk Sea (Gust, 06/26/14) – 163 votes
23/19. [PSV] Oreshika: Tainted Bloodlines (SCEJ, 07/17/14) – 157 votes
24/28. [PSV] Kantai Collection (Kadokawa Games, 2014) – 138 votes
25/23. [PSV] Toukiden Kiwami (Tecmo Koei, 2014) – 127 votes
26/—. [3DS] Yokai Watch 2 Honke / Ganso (Level-5, 07/10/14) – 126 votes
27/27. [PS3] The Idolmaster: One For All (Bandai Namco, 05/15/14) – 125 votes
28/25. [Wii U] Bayonetta 2 (Nintendo, Summer 2014) – 117 votes
29/—. [3DS] Yoshi’s New Island (Nintendo, Summer 2014) – 110 votes
30/—. [3DS] Gundam Try Age SP (Bandai Namco, 07/17/14) – 109 votes
Total Votes: 8,170

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Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News, Wii U, Wii U eShop | 7 Comments

This month’s EDGE review scores are as follows:

Trials Fusion – 8
Mario Kart 8 – 9
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft – 9
The Elder Scrolls Online – 5
Child of Light – 5
Kinect Sports Rivals – 5
Kirby Triple Deluxe – 7
Mercenary Kings – 5
FRACT OSC – 8

Thanks to joclo for the tip.

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Posted on 10 years ago by Jarop(@gamrah) in News, Wii U | 0 comments

New information was released through Tecmo Koei’s financial results, Hyrule Warriors (known in Japan as Zelda Musou) is coming to Japan this summer. A Western release is set for later this year. This announcement came through Tecmo Koei and not Nintendo as Nintendo are only responsible for the publishing in the west.

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Posted on 10 years ago by Jarop(@gamrah) in Screenshots, Wii U | 2 Comments

A pair of screenshots today. Sakurai explains:

 Bullet Bill here is an item. Can you guess what happens when you use it?

You turn into Bullet Bill and go full speed ahead!

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Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, General Nintendo, News, Wii U | 6 Comments

Nintendo has published the full outline from its financial results briefing held earlier today, featuring comments from Satoru Iwata. You can find it here. We’ve already picked out quite a few quotes from the briefing (not to mention the comprehensive summary that went up earlier!), but if you want to read up on more lovely comments from Iwata, now you have the chance to do so.

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Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 17 Comments

Nintendo has been hard at work on creating certain titles that can only be realized with the Wii U GamePad. We’ll start seeing some of the company’s efforts at this year’s E3, according to president Satoru Iwata.

Iwata told investors the following during a briefing held earlier today:

At the Corporate Management Policy Briefing this January, I explained that the company would prioritize making and proposing Wii U software titles that can only be made possible with the Wii U GamePad. We are planning to disclose our progress on this at E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo) in Los Angeles in June.

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Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 2 Comments

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata shared a few words about the planned web app for Mario Kart 8 during the company’s investor briefing earlier today. Read on below for his comments.

To enjoy these features even when you are not playing this game on the console, we are planning to offer a web service called “Mario Kart TV” (temp.), which also enables users to watch videos in a screen layout suitable for systems such as smart devices and computers, around the same time as the release of “Mario Kart 8.”

This is the layout for a smartphone. This web service will enable more people to easily watch Nintendo’s official videos, view rankings, watch videos that their friends have shared and videos of tournaments in which they have participated.

As I mentioned at the Corporate Management Policy Briefing in January, our policy is to establish consumer relationships based on accounts named Nintendo Network IDs, which are abbreviated as NNIDs. This “Mario Kart TV” (temp.) web service is available even for players without NNIDs, but by logging into the service with an NNID, they will be able to easily find their rankings, videos that their friends have shared, videos of tournaments in which they have participated, and it will be convenient to access this service through smart devices even when they are not at home.
We will work on providing this type of service so that players can enjoy video games more and be in contact with them even when they are not in front of a video game system.

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Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, General Nintendo, News, Wii U | 4 Comments

We now have direct quotes from Nintendo president Satoru Iwata regarding the company’s NFP plans. You can find all of his comments below.

To establish new and growing areas through the active utilization of character IP, it is important for Nintendo to take risks ourselves and come up with interesting ways to use our character IP.
In other words, other than using character IP in Nintendo’s video game software, we need to start a new business that will someday become one of our core activities.

As Nintendo’s first step

We have decided to release character figurines with built-in NFC functionality that are compatible with video games starting from this year-end sales season.

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Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News, Wii U | 8 Comments

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