Ubisoft has been of the Wii U’s strongest supporters. But in light of troubling sales, you never know when a publisher will pack its bags and leave the console behind.

Still, there’s no reason to worry about Ubisoft at the moment. The company has plenty of titles coming out for the system this year, and a spokesperson said that “it takes some time to grow an established base.”

The spokesperson provided GamesIndustry with the following statement:

“As with any new console, it takes some time to grow an established base. Ubisoft has a varied and high-quality line-up for Wii U, with more big titles on the way including Rayman Legends, Watch Dogs, Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag and Splinter Cell Blacklist. We’re confident that this will help in continuing to attract gamers to the Wii U system and that Nintendo will take steps to ensure that the Wii U is successful in the market.”

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Alright, Amazon: I owe you an apology.

The retailer didn’t seem to know what it was doing when it listed New Super Luigi for 3DS. It later changed the entry to Wii U, but listed a $60 price point. I, along with others, thought Amazon had gone mad by listing Wii U DLC for release, especially at such a high amount.

But Amazon was onto something. During the Nintendo Direct today, Nintendo confirmed that New Super Luigi U will be seeing a disc-based release in addition to the previously-announced DLC for New Super Mario Bros. U.

And so the original New Super Luigi listing has been changed for a final time. It now properly lists the $30 price point and August 25 launch date. If you’re interested in the product, you can reserve it from Amazon here.

Best Buy is offering a last-minute pre-order bonus for Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D. If you reserve the game, you’ll receive a Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels 3DS eShop download code. Codes will be emailed to consumers when the game launches – May 24.

You really have to applaud Capcom for its work on DuckTales Remastered. It wasn’t easy hammering out all of the different aspects and kinks of the renewed collaboration with Disney.

Since two companies were involved, it took awhile before development could proceed. Capcom’s Christian Svensson wrote on the Capcom-Unity boards that over two years were needed just to complete the deal. Svensson first began conversations with Disney in February 2010.

Svensson’s comments in full:

It took more than two years (on and off) to do the deal even before any development started. The first conversations I had with folks at Disney about this were had at Dice in 2010 (Feb 2010).

Initial proposals for greenlight started preparation in mid-late 2011 (when it looked like we would be able to reach a deal with Disney). Active development started a bit later after greenlight was achieved.

In short, it was a lengthy process.

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Nothing has changed with the Wii U version of Ghost Recon Online. Just as it was last September, the game remains “on hold”.

The official Ghost Recon Online Twitter account wrote today:

Why do I get the feeling that the Wii U won’t end up getting Ghost Recon Online? Prove me wrong, Ubisoft!

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Game & Wario ended up as a retail product. That wasn’t always the plan, though.

In a new Iwata Asks, Intelligent Systems’ Naoko Mori and Nintendo president Satoru Iwata discussed how the title originally started out as pre-installed software for Wii U. Mori said that “it wasn’t actually conceived of as being part of the WarioWare series.” With the arrival of E3, the team “began working on something that we could present and which would be easy for people to pick up and play.”

Since this was intended to be included with the Wii U, “we didn’t want to make it overly quirky. We didn’t want something that would only appeal to a certain section of our customers.”

The full exchange between Mori and Iwata can be found below.

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In an interview with Polygon, Capcom’s senior product manager revealed that the company would absolutely be willing to continue looking to the past for old franchises or games that could use modern remakes, similar to what they’re doing with DuckTales later this year. They’re unable to talk about exactly what games might be getting the treatment, but they did hint that Aliens vs. Predator (the 1994 side-scroller) is the one that fans have been requesting most.

We’ll let you know if they announce anything else for a remake.

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A new Animal Crossing: New Leaf is now available to 3DS owners. Simply visit the Puzzle Swap section of StreetPass Mii Plaza to begin filling it out. You’ll automatically receive one free piece through SpotPass.

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