Rayman Legends originally started out as a Wii U exclusive. But when the platformer launches later this summer, it will be coming to four different systems.

Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot explained to GamesBeat that the company was concerned about potentially poor sales on Wii U. Guillemot said, “we didn’t want those creators to wind up in a position where even after making a fantastic game, they didn’t sell well enough.” In order to make additional versions and improve the Wii U version, Ubisoft made the decision to push the game’s release back.

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Nintendo is bringing back the 3DS launch game Steel Diver in the form of a free-to-play game.

Shigeru Miyamoto confirmed the news to IGN, and also revealed that multiplayer will be included. Platforms are unconfirmed at this time, however.

“There is something we’re doing with the Steel Diver idea that I think is going to open things up with that game… It’s going to be very fun. We’re exploring from a perspective of where we can take that from a multiplayer standpoint – it’s going to have this four-player battle mode that I think is going to be very interesting. It’s something that we’re hoping to be able to show relatively soon.”

The new free-to-play Steel Diver game could introduce a membership or micro-transaction type of free – nothing is decided currently. IGN reports that “Miyamoto stressed that his team was focused on balancing how a pricing model would affect the entertainment value of the final product, which ultimately would be available in a packaged form as well.”

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The Wonderful 101 will not be a short game. Far from it, actually.

Although director Hideki Kamiya and his team at Platinum Games are striving to create a game with a lot of replay value, there is a ton of content waiting for players who only plan on experiencing The Wonderful 101 once. Kamiya estimates 20 hours of gameplay for a “normal play session”.

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Nintendo confirmed Pikmin 3 way back in 2008. The game is finally coming out in a few weeks, several months following the Wii U’s launch.

Shigeru Miyamoto told Polygon recently that he had hoped to bring Pikmin 3 out sooner, but doing so wouldn’t have been so easy. It’s true that the title started off on Wii, but moving it to the Wii U was more difficult than people assume.

“I did want to release it sooner. One of the big challenges was that I think that a lot of people, they hear the name Wii U, and because it shares the Wii name, the assumption is, ‘Oh, it would be very easy to take whatever was on Wii and just move it to Wii U.’ But in fact, the jump in a hardware standpoint, both from the development structure and the chipset within the system, it was such a dramatic change from what we had with Wii that development of the game, we had to recreate it to move it over to Wii U. So that was one of the challenges.”

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A second wave of Photos Together: Super Mario eShop cards will be available in Japan later this month. The product acts as a cash voucher on the 3DS digital store as well as an application that allows users to take photos with Mario characters. The new cards, out on June 28, feature Koopa, Luigi, and Bowser.

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It’s no secret that Nintendo and the Wii U will have a ton of competition this holiday. Two new consoles will be making their debuts: the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Yet, despite this, Nintendo of America Reggie Fils-Aime believes that the narrative of Microsoft vs. Sony with Nintendo being left out on the side is “inaccurate”.

“It’s a very inaccurate narrative. In fact, that was the narrative in 2006. That was exactly the narrative. I think by the end of this holiday… we’re going to be in a very good position.”

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Nintendo’s Hideki Konno was recently asked if there is any sort of hope for a new Ice Hockey game. Konno’s response was terse. He said: “We’ll think about it.”

Something tells me that Nintendo won’t be pursuing Ice Hockey anytime soon. Then again, you never know! Reggie did hint yesterday that Nintendo is considering revivals of some of its older franchises.

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