Along with today’s screenshot, Sakurai passed along the following message on Miiverse:
Turnips are used in the Villager’s up-air and down-air attacks. Perhaps because the turnip prices fluctuate depending on the day’s market, the number of turnips that appear changes every time. How cute.
Nintendo has finally confirmed the limited edition, silver-colored 3DS XL system featuring Mario and Luigi. It’s available for purchase starting today. The MSRP is $199.99, though retailers like Best Buy have it available for $180.
You can find Nintendo’s official announcement below.
How much does death affect the story of a game? How many times can you re-play a section before it starts to take away from a narrative experience? If you’ve ever wanted insight into what might make games tick with respect to this idea, this is the episode for you. Aside from that we discuss ‘Papers, Please’, ‘Super Mario 3D World’, and ‘Wind Waker HD’, as well as tackling plenty of listener mail. Enjoy!
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Amazon has a new Wii U and 3DS titles on sale at the moment. You can find a roundup of discounted prices elow.
Wii U
Batman: Arkham City Armored Edition
– $8.50 (will ship when stock is available)
Assassin’s Creed III
– $15
Your Shape: Fitness Evolved 2013
– $15
Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two 
– $15
Just Dance 4
– $15
Marvel Avengers: Battle For Earth
– $15
3DS
Crosswords Plus
– $6.82
Cubic Ninja
– $7.46
Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir
– $9
Bit.Trip Saga
– $10
LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7
– $10
Doctor Lautrec and the Forgotten Knights
– $13
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow Mirror Fate
– $15.40
Bonus
The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia
– $12.24 with code “bookdeal” at checkout
Jason Rubin, co-founder of Naughty Dog and former THQ president, closed out GameTrailers’ Bonus Round with a few somewhat harsh words about Nintendo. Rubin remarked, “Nintendo is irrelevant as a hardware manufacturer in the console business.”
Rubin did praise the company as a whole, however. Nintendo is a “worldwide treasure,” he said, while also noting how “it is a crime that we do not play those games on the systems that we have.”
Data collected by shopping market research firm InfoScout indicates that the Xbox One was the most popular gaming console during Black Friday 2013, thanks to a 31 percent market share. Xbox 360 followed with a 30 percent share. The PlayStation 4 and PS3 were next with 15 percent each. Nintendo closed things out with a 6 percent share for Wii U and 1 percent share for Wii.
InfoScout also reveals the top-selling games for the Black Friday period. Call of Duty: Ghosts came out top, with Disney Infinity, Skylanders Swap Force, Grand Theft Auto V, and Madden NFL 25 rounding out the top five.
Mansion Lord, Golgom Games’ “RPG/business sim” with a murder mystery twist, could find its way to Wii U.
The team is currently seeking $28,000 in funding to make Mansion Lord a reality. If donations exceed $85,000, we’ll be seeing the game on Wii U. This would need to happen by December 19.
You can find the official Kickstarter page here.
