At least in the UK, Call of Duty: Ghosts is off to an absolutely abysmal start on Wii U. The console accounted for less than 1 percent of the game’s total sales. Believe it or not, Ghosts sold more on the PlayStation 4 even though the console itself has yet to launch in the country.
Along with today’s screenshot, Sakurai passed along the following message on Miiverse:
Here are the familiar capsules–these guys deserve a prize for being in every single game. We gave them a cute redesign by shortening their length a bit.
Wii U Games Will be the Focus of On-Board Gaming and Competitions
REDMOND, Wash.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Norwegian Cruise Line and Nintendo of America announced today that they are expanding their partnership to offer Wii U™ video game systems and Wii U games fleetwide. As part of the partnership expansion, the line will feature Nintendo’s newest video game console in all ships’ atriums and youth and teen centers. In addition, the new HD Wii U systems will be featured at various competitions and events on board each ship.
Norwegian first partnered with Nintendo in March 2007, when Wii™ systems were introduced fleetwide. Now, with the introduction of Wii U, the successor to Wii, the gaming experience is being elevated to new levels. The interactive Wii U gaming system complements Norwegian’s Freestyle Cruising® by offering gaming opportunities to guests of all ages. The new consoles give guests the chance to experience a variety of new action, adventure, party, racing, strategy, puzzle and sports games. Upcoming game rollouts will include The Legend of Zelda™: The Wind Waker HD, a high-definition re-release of one of the greatest Nintendo games of all time; Super Mario™ 3D World, the first multiplayer 3D Mario game for Wii U; New Super Luigi U™, starring Mario’s green-clad brother; Pikmin™ 3, which asks players to command an army of colorful creatures; and The Wonderful 101™, which puts players in control of a band of superheroes fighting off an alien invasion.
Despite a massive pile of listener mail this week, we manage to wrangle the podcast length down to 135 minutes compared to last week’s 180 minute unfinished monster. It’s also a really solid podcast! What we played: Call of Duty: Ghosts, Wii Fit U, Sonic: Lost World, and Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies. No discussion topic, but a LOT of listener mail rounds this out!
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The concept of watching TV isn’t the first thing I’d think of when designing a game. Although, people thought a title that has players taking pictures of Pokemon would be strange – and look how that turned out.
In this Unlikely Review, we take a look at Pokemon Channel and visit a game idea which most fans wouldn’t have originally expected.
Nintendo added several more songs to the European Wii Karaoke U database last week. You can find a listing of new inclusions below.
- The Adventure Angels & Airwaves
- Ain’t Got Nothin’ Oasis
- And the Melody Still Lingers on (Night in … Chaka Khan
- The Ballad of John and Yoko The Beatles
- Banquet Bloc Party
- Beautiful Sunday Daniel Boone
- Born to Be Somebody Justin Bieber
- Can’t Smile Without You Carpenters
- Counting Stars OneRepublic
- Dead! My Chemical Romance
- Denial Twist The White Stripes
- Diggin’ on You TLC
- Fall Justin Bieber
- Farewell Rihanna
- Goodbye to Love Carpenters
- Handlebars Flobots
- Heavy in Your Arms Florence + The Machine
- Helicopter Bloc Party
- Here, There and Everywhere The Beatles
- Howl Florence + The Machine
- Hurting Each Other Carpenters
- I Can Take It from There Chris Young
- I Don’t Wanna Dance Eddy Grant
- In the Still of the Night The Overtones
- Lady in Black Uriah Heep
- Lean on Me Michael Bolton
- Lights on Katy B feat. Ms. Dynamite
- Like a Hobo Charlie Winston
- Like Eating Glass Bloc Party
- Listen to Your Friends New Found Glory
- A Little Bit of Me, a Little Bit of You The Monkees
- Little Willy Sweet
- Lovers in Japan Coldplay
- Memory Motel The Rolling Stones
- Nothing Like Us Justin Bieber
- No You Girls Franz Ferdinand
- Oh No Not My Baby Carole King
- One More Chance Bloc Party
- Patience Take That
- Promise of a New Day Paula Abdul
- Put It in a Love Song Alicia Keys feat. Beyoncé
- Respectable The Rolling Stones
- Rip This Joint The Rolling Stones
- Round Are Way Oasis
- Smackwater Jack Carole King
- Some Broken Hearts The Bellamy Brothers
- Swamp Music Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Sympathy Uriah Heep
- Taxman The Beatles
- Things We Said Today The Beatles
- This Fire Franz Ferdinand
- Ulysses Franz Ferdinand
- Up All Night Take That
- Vibeology Paula Abdul
- Walk Away Franz Ferdinand
- We Found Love Jessie J
- What’s Your Name Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Will You Marry Me Paula Abdul
- Woman Wolfmother
- Wrong Depeche Mode
- You Chris Young
- You Got That Right Lynyrd Skynyrd
Nintendo has listed several games for release this coming week on the North American eShop. Here’s a quick roundup of some of the titles we’ll be seeing on Thursday:
Jewel Match 3
Senran Kagura Burst
World Conqueror 3D
Word Wizard 3D
