Medabots Dual will be released in Japan on November 14. The game will be playable at the Tokyo Game Show next month.
The Wii U is in a similar position as the 3DS. Both systems received price drops less than a year after their release.
When the 3DS reduction was announced, Nintendo revealed an Ambassador program for the handheld. A total of 20 games were made available for free – 10 NES games and 10 exclusive GBA titles.
Apparently, the Wii U won’t be seeing anything similar based on recent comments from a Nintendo customer service representative. Nintendo of America’s Helena Toledo said:
Thank you for taking the time to write with your questions regarding a Wii U Ambassador program. The Ambassador program is only available to any Nintendo 3DS owner who purchased their system before August 12, 2011 and there are no plans for a similar program for Wii U.
I know that this isn’t what you were hoping for, but we appreciate your support of our products now and in the future. I also want to assure you that your comments will be added to our records and made available for other departments at the company to use as they see fit.
Platinum Games has updated its Wonderful 101 blog with yet another post. You can find it here. Today’s update covers the game’s replayability and bottle-caps.
Famitsu has shared new screenshots and details for a pair of female heroines in Exstetra. You can find the latest on Akari and Kotone below.
Akari
– 16-year-old school girl
– Likes Ryoma
– Views him as an older brother
– Prisma Knight
– Dresses as a magical girl
– Uses magic to support her allies
– Voiced by Yui Ogura
Kotone
– 18-year-old girl from a renowned girls academy
– Gentle, easygoing older sister-like personality
– Has good cooking skills
– Voiced by Ai Kayano
General
– Asakusa and Shinjuku have fused with a parallel world called Amasia and transformed into dungeons
Just a few weeks ago Project Phoenix developer Hiroaki Yura blasted Nintendo, stating that the company’s hardware is not “exciting”. He did acknowledge that Nintendo’s systems can be “interesting”, but that’s where the positivity ended.
Yura now seems quite a bit willing to consider Project Phoenix for Wii U. Speaking with 4 color rebellion, Yura said: “I must admit that the WiiU could possibly be an interesting platform for our game”.
His comments in full:
“I must admit that the WiiU could possibly be an interesting platform for our game, however we are unsure as to what the current situation for the indie dev publishing from within Japan is like at the moment. Last time I checked was that it didn’t allow Japanese indies to publish games on the WiiU but this may have changed from a recent news article I read.”
Have I missed something? This is pretty bizarre, honestly. I do wonder why Hiroaki sounds much more open to the possibility of Project Phoenix coming to Wii U given his recent comments…
EarthBound was as successful as Nintendo could have hoped for. It sold very well, with the company announcing this month that it became the third best-selling title on the eShop following its launch on the Wii U eShop.
Surely the positive response to EarthBound means Nintendo is working on a way to get Mother 3 to North America, right? Well, not so fast.
Nintendo of America Reggie Fils-Aime told IGN:
“To answer your specific question, I would have to say no. We knew the response to EarthBound was going to be strong. Believe me, I’ve met those fans. The first question out of their mouth is, ‘Reggie, when is EarthBound coming? Mother 3!’ I’ve met, I think, all of them. So we’re always looking at our rich history to identify those opportunities of games we could bring back and have consumers experience.”
“For me, it was Chrono Trigger. That was a key game in my early video-game-playing days, and I love when we made that game available. So we’re constantly looking at opportunities to bring back some of our great legacy content, reintroduce that to consumers, and have them enjoy it the way many of us did years and years ago.”
“I have nothing to announce regarding Mother 3 at this time.”
Mother 3 would obviously require a lot more work to bring over. For one thing, it was never officially localized. Second it’s a Game Boy Advance game, and the Wii U and 3DS currently do not support the platform on the Virtual Console (though the Wii U will be receiving support… eventually).
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD is launching on the eShop early in North America. The digital version will go live on September 20, followed by the retail release on October 4.
Unfortunately, Europe will not be seeing anything similar. When asked about the situation, Nintendo said that Wind Waker HD is launching in Europe on October 4 – essentially confirming that the downloadable and retail versions are going live on the same day.
