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Although Nintendo has only released one Pokemon Snap game, there has certainly been clamoring from fans for a sequel. Game Freak’s Junichi Masuda is also a fan, and sounds open to considering a new entry.

However, Masuda feels that simply bringing out Pokemon Snap “as the same game” – in other words, “how it was before” – wouldn’t be the best idea. He instead feels that a new release would require “a new idea or something that will make it more appealing to players.”

Regarding the possibility of a new Pokemon Snap, Masuda told Polygon:

“Personally, I really love the Pokemon Snap game, but it wouldn’t be interesting if we just released the same game, how it was before, for the Wii U or 3DS. So we have to come up with a new idea or something that will make it more appealing to players. Sometime down the road, we may have something.”

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When asked about a mainline Pokemon game for Wii U in the past, Game Freak director Junichi Masuda hasn’t been open to the possibility. His thinking is that the RPG games are better-suited for handhelds due to the communication aspects.

Unfortunately, not much has changed. Polygon quizzed Masuda once again about a potential Pokemon Wii U game, Masuda said the following:

“The series was built around the idea of trading Pokemon, trading these creatures, and everything we designed about the games was based on that concept. That trading aspect was also to promote communication between people, and really, you need the handheld to be able to go places in real life, meet people, easily trade and battle with them. I think that’s the reason we designed them on the handheld; it’s really important to Pokemon.”

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Polygon has put up a huge report on Pokemon X/Y, which covers gameplay between the beginning up to the first gym. You can find a summary of details below – including comments from Game Freak’s Junichi Masuda. Alternatively, you can find Polygon’s full piece here.

– Start off by choosing your gender
– Customize how your character looks next
– Begin the adventure by meeting with 4 neighborhood kids who are also setting out to do the same
– Scene is shown over coffee in a little Parisian-style cafe
– Given your starter Pokemon and Pokedex here from one of these friends
– They explain what X and Y’s professor expects from them
– Need to travel the world and fill up the Pokedex with information on new Pokemon
– Formula of going to the professor, picking a Pokemon, traveling alone and occasionally battling against one main rival was changed in order to heighten focus on the games’ key theme of bonds
– Bonds are between Pokemon and their trainers as well as between trainers and their new in-game friends
– Friends will travel with you as you move through Kalos

“This time we really wanted to make it a journey about you and your friends. When you first meet the kids at the beginning of the game, you don’t actually know them, so you’re meeting them for the first time. But one of the central themes of Pokemon X and Y are bonds — the bonds between people, and the bonds between people and Pokemon, for example. When focusing on this theme, we wanted to make [the game] a journey about meeting these friends and then getting to know them over the course of the adventure.”

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In addition to North America, Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate has been discounted in Europe. The Wii U and 3DS versions are both on sale for 50% off. The promotion period lasts for four days only.

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Along with today’s screenshot, Sakurai passed along the following message:

“By any chance, are you hiding something from me?”

Nintendo will be introducing Pokemon Bank later this year, a cloud-based online storage center for the creatures captured in Pokemon X/Y.

As we’ve spoken about previously, this is a paid service. While a special offer gives players a month for free, they’ll need to fork over an annual fee once this period expires.

Thankfully, if you do happen to use the service and your subscription runs out, your Pokemon won’t go anywhere. You’ll just need to pay for the service again in order to access the Pokemon stored in Pokemon Bank.

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This week’s North American Nintendo Downloads are as follows:

Wii U retail

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD – $49.99 (available at 12:01 a.m. on Sept. 20)
Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure – $59.99 (available Sept. 24)

Wii U VC

Super Mario Bros. – $4.99

3DS retail

Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure (available Sept. 24) – $39.99
FIFA 14 (available Sept. 24) – $39.99
Shifting World – $7.99
Hakuoki: Memories of the Shinsengumi – $34.99

eShop sales

Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate – 50% off Wii U and 3DS versions until 9 a.m. on Sept. 22
Chasing Aurora – $4.99 until 9 a.m. PT on Oct. 3

3DS download

Rage of the Gladiator – $6.99
AiRace Speed – $4.99
Mahjong 3D – Essentials – $2.99
Star Wars Pinball – $6.99

3DS VC

Solomon’s Key – $4.99

DSiWare

Tales to Enjoy! The Ugly Duckling – $1.99 / 200 points
Tales to Enjoy! Three Little Pigs – $1.99 / 200 points

Source: Nintendo PR

Nintendo’s Remastered Classic Launches Digitally with HD Graphics, Limited-Edition Bundle

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD Renews an All-Time Great

REDMOND, Wash.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Sept. 20 marks a day of new adventures for fans of The Legend of Zelda franchise with the digital launch of the remastered version of one of the greatest video games of all time, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD, for the Wii U home console. Fans who do not own a Wii U system can opt for the limited-edition bundle, which comes with a black Deluxe Wii U console; a GamePad controller adorned with the gold Hyrule crest and symbols from the game; a download code for the digital version of Hyrule Historia, a book that details the chronology, history and artwork of The Legend of Zelda series; and a code to download The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD from the Nintendo eShop. The bundle is available at a suggested retail price of $299.99. Current Wii U owners can also download the game on Sept. 20 from the Nintendo eShop for $49.99.

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