Capcom held a launch event for Monster Hunter 4 in Japan earlier today. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata made a stage appearance, completing the cycle of when he announced the title for 3DS nearly two years ago.
From the original shocking announcement of Monster Hunter 4, “I believe there is truly deep emotion swirling around today as we are presented a topnotch quality game at this completion presentation”, he said paying tribute to Capcom.
Also mentioned is that 3DS has achieved sales of 12 million units in Japan to date. Iwata has been talking around with a lot of people about Monster Hunter 4, who say of a lot of positive things. And, “In recent years, the dedicated gaming business is not supposed to be doing well” is often talked about, especially in the Japanese market. But when it comes to Nintendo, they keep on going and not much has changed.
Iwata additionally threw out another statistic: 90% of 3DS users have connected their system to the Internet. In addition to local play, Monster Hunter 4 will support Internet functionality. Also brought up is that there will be new ways to enjoy the StreetPass features by taking advantage of the StreetPass Relay Stations, which will allow players to get involved with even more people.
Iwata stated that symbolizing something like Capcom and Nintendo teaming up would not have thought to have been possible, but they continued and incorporated a “symbol” of this within the software – a tease of some form of collaboration. The meaning was not revealed, leaving fans wanting to know more information. News about this will apparently be shared prior to September 14.
In the end, Iwata commented on just wanting to experience rich gameplay from Monster Hunter 4 made possible by a game system.
Capcom is preparing a patch for DuckTales Remastered that, along with other elements, will fix online leaderboard issues in the Wii U version.
Capcom-Unity staffer JimmyRey confirmed the upcoming update. There’s no word yet on when it will be available, but one would think that we’ll be seeing it sooner rather than later.
…we are forumlating our patch plans now for all SKUs. I won’t go into details yet, but once I have a timeline and a patch list, I’ll be sure to let you know. There was a small update on Steam but it was for very small, super easy, low risk issues. A more meanful update to address issues for all systems is still being worked on and needs to go through our QA process and 1st party’s cert process.
I apologize for any inconvenince any of the issues you’ve run into might cause you. Unforutnately, QA is not an exact science. Having shipped many titles, I can tell you that there are some issues can only manifest themselves when being released out to the wild and you’ll never see in QA, like the Wii U leaderboard issue. Some issues occur very rarely and we may see once or twice during QA, but never have reliable steps to recreate and fix the issues, but when you have exponentially more users looking at it, a rare issue will sometimes appear with more frequency.
SEGA has confirmed its full lineup for this year’s PAX Prime. Sonic Lost World, Total War: Rome II, Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse, Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F, and the mobile title Heroki will be playable at the expo.
SEGA’s slate of games can be seen at booth #142/242.
Source: SEGA PR
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD will be hitting North America on October 4, it has been confirmed. A general October timeframe had been announced previously.
The official date comes from a press release sent out earlier today regarding the Symphony of the Goddesses concert tour.
Zelda: Wind Waker HD will also be hitting Europe on October 4. It’ll be hitting Japan on September 26.
The latest Wii U/3DS-specific UK software sales are as follows:
Wii U
1. The Wonderful 101 – Nintendo
2. Disney Infinity – Disney Interactive
3. Pikmin 3 – Nintendo
4. Splinter Cell: Blacklist – Ubisoft
5. Nintendo Land – Nintendo
6. New Super Luigi U – Nintendo
7. New Super Mario Bros. U – Nintendo
8. LEGO City: Undercover – Nintendo
9. ZombiU – Ubisoft
10. Sports Connection – Ubisoft
3DS
1. Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Nintendo
2. Luigi’s Mansion 2 – Nintendo
3. Mario Kart 7 – Nintendo
4. Mario & Luigi: Dream Team – Nintendo
5. LEGO City Undercover: The Chase Begins – Nintendo
6. New Super Mario Bros. 2 – Nintendo
7. Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity – Nintendo
8. Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D – Nintendo
9. Disney Infinity – Disney Interactive
10. LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes – Warner Bros. Interactive
Source: Chart-Track
