Prior to the Seattle Mariners’ baseball game against the Kansas City Royals yesterday, a moment of silence was held for former Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi. Yamauchi passed away last week due to complications stemming from pneumonia.
Yamauchi became majority owner of the Marines in 1992. Nintendo of America took over in 2004, though he still maintained a strong influence over the team.
One fun fact for you: despite his ownership of the Mariners, Yamauchi never actually attended any of the club’s baseball games.
Oliver & Spike has not been officially confirmed for Wii U. In April, developer Rock Pocket Games said that the game’s release on Nintendo’s console would depend on a “potential partner”.
Not much has changed since then, as Oliver & Spike’s fate on Wii U hasn’t been determined. However, according to Rock Pocket’s Natascha Röösli, the game is now being pitched to the likes of Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft as a second-party title.
Röösli told Dromble:
Not only will the upcoming Pokémon X/Y have the largest swath of pokémon to catch in series history, but each one of those pokémon will have multiple “version”, one for each language that the game is available in. Players’ Pokédex will keep track of these entries, so when you trade an American Pikachu for a Japanese Pikachu, your ‘dex will allow you to view both the English and the Japanese versions of the pokémon’s Pokédex entry.
What does this mean for completionists? Well, Game Freak has effectively more-than-tripled the amount of work you’ll need to do in order to get a full Pokédex, which is both a little bit evil and a little bit funny.
