Nintendo Everything

The Wii is on its way out, and the Wii U hasn’t performed up to Nintendo’s expectations. Given these two factors, MCV decided to ask Activision’s UK MD, Roy Stackhouse, about whether the publisher’s expectations for the game have been negatively impacted.

Not at all, Stackhouse said. In fact, he along with Activision as a whole “expect to sell a lot of Skylanders on the Nintendo platforms.” Stackhouse also said the company still considers Nintendo to be “a very integral part of our sales mix going forward.”

Stackhouse’s comments in full:

“Not at all. We still expect to sell a lot of Skylanders on the Nintendo platforms. Just because the sales may have softened doesn’t mean there isn’t a lot of consoles out there that children are still playing on. We still see Nintendo as a very integral part of our sales mix going forward.”

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Most had expected Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 to be this year’s Call of Duty title. That didn’t happen, as Activision ended up revealing Ghosts. But what about the future of the Modern Warfare sub-series?

For now, Infinity Ward doesn’t intend to continue on with Modern Warfare. Community manager Tina Palacios, speaking with OXM, said the following when asked about the similarites between the Ghosts and Modern Warfare title/logo art:

“With the storyline, we knew that we wanted to end the Modern Warfare franchise, and we wanted to go in a new direction. I can say that our focus and only focus is on Ghosts right now as it is, and we have no other plans at this time… when we were creating Ghosts, we really got inspired by Ghost from Modern Warfare 2, just by how he looks.

“It made sense for these soldiers we have in Ghosts who want to hide their identities would have the same masks and face paint. I think it would be safe for me to say that just knowing the characters from our previous games didn’t have a backstory, that’s what really pushed us forward. We thought we need to really establish that.”

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Nintendo decided against launching Wii Party U on the eShop in North America and Europe. The situation is different Down Under, however.

Yep – Wii Party U is up on the Australian Wii U eShop. It’s been available since the game’s launch late last week, in fact.

Why is Wii Party U being distributed on the Australian eShop but not the North American and European stores? Your guess is as good as mine!

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The latest Wii U/3DS-specific UK software sales are as follows:

Wii U

1. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD – Nintendo
2. Wii Party U – Nintendo
3. Sonic Lost World – Nintendo
4. Deus Ex: Human Revolution – Director’s Cut – Square Enix
5. Nintendo Land – Nintendo
6. LEGO City: Undercover – Nintendo
7. Skylanders Swap Force – Activision
8. New Super Mario Bros. U – Nintendo
9. New Super Luigi U – Nintendo
10. Disney Infinity – Disney Interactive

3DS

1. Pokemon X – Nintendo
2. Pokemon Y – Nintendo
3. Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Nintendo
4. Luigi’s Mansion 2 – Nintendo
5. Sonic Lost World – Nintendo
6. Mario Kart 7 – Nintendo
7. LEGO City Undercover: The Chase Begins – Nintendo
8. New Super Mario Bros. 2 – Nintendo
9. Super Mario 3D Land – Nintendo
10. Mario & Luigi: Dream Team – Nintendo

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Game Center CX 3 will provide players with plenty of new areas to explore. You’ll be able to visit an arcade, toy shop, mom-and-pop-candy store, model kit shop, and a department store roof.

Each one of these locales offers its own events and challenges. While clearing challenges and continuing on through the story, years will pass and the city experiences various changes. In one instance, your school bans its students from going to the arcade in the mid 80s. But in the late 80s, specialty game shops will begin to appear.

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Today, SEGA announced a Japanese launch date for its mashup puzzle title, Puyo Puyo Tetris. A release is planned for February 6, with pricing set at 5,229 yen.

Alongside Puyo Puyo Tetris’ launch, SEGA will make a product available which is made up of figures and 3DS covers. This will be priced at 4,480 yen.

Renegade Kid is busy finishing up Treasurenauts and Mutant Mudds for PlayStation platforms. Additionally, co-founder Jools Watsham has teased a new “secret project”. The game has been given the code name “CGC”.

Watsham wrote on Twitter:

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The full weapons list for Call of Duty: Ghosts thanks to Twitter user @Espadah_. You can find the full rundown below, along with images.

Assault Rifles

SC-2010
SA0-805
AK-12
FAD
Remington R5
MSBS
Honey Badger
ARX-160
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Light Machine Guns

Ameli
M27-IAR
LSAT
Chain SAW
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Sub-Machine Guns

Bizon
CBJ-MS
Vector CRB
Vepr
K7
MTAR-X
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Shotguns

Bulldog
FP6
MTS-255
Tac 12
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Sniper Rifles

USR
L1155
Lynx
VKS
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Marksman Rifles

IA2
Mk 14 EBR
MR-28
SVU Dragunov

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Square Enix tends to hold its Final Fantasy franchise close to the vest. The series hasn’t changed hands in the past, with Square Enix deciding to develop each new game internally.

Now here’s a crazy thought: how about an Eidos-made Final Fantasy? You may remember that Square Enix absorbed the company a few years ago, and is now a close partner as a result.

Interestingly, Square Enix has considered bringing in an outside developer to work on Final Fantasy – including Eidos. There have been discussions about the possibility, according to Yuji Abe. Abe said Square Enix would “think about” allowing an external team to take on Final Fantasy “if we find the right team of developers, the right people who really wanted to do it, and we had the right game”.

He told OXM:

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This week’s UK software sales are as follows:

Individual formats

All formats

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