The latest Wii U/3DS-specific UK software sales are as follows:
Wii U
1. Nintendo Land – Nintendo
2. New Super Mario Bros. U – Nintendo
3. LEGO City: Undercover – Nintendo
4. Game & Wario – Nintendo
5. Injustice: Gods Among Us – Warner Bros. Interactive
6. Batman: Arkham City – Armored Edition – Warner Bros. Interactive
7. Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate – Capcom
8. Sports Connection – Ubisoft
9. Call of Duty: Black Ops II – Activision Blizzard
10. ZombiU – Ubisoft
3DS
1. Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Nintendo
2. Mario & Luigi: Dream Team – Nintendo
3. Luigi’s Mansion 2 – Nintendo
4. LEGO City Undercover: The Chase Begins – Nintendo
5. Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D – Nintendo
6. Mario Kart 7 – Nintendo
7. New Super Mario Bros. 2 – Nintendo
8. Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity – Nintendo
9. Super Mario 3D Land – Nintendo
10. Project X Zone – Namco Bandai
Source: Chart-Track
Zordix AB has prepared on a patch for Aqua Moto Racing 3D in order to address a number of bugs and improve stability.
Here’s the official overview from the game’s developer:
We are releasing a patch for our newly released game Aqua Moto Racing 3d. This is a small patch which attempts to fix some smaller issues with the save system and some stability issues we have noticed after the games release.
We have also noticed that on certain memory cards the game have problems with writing Street Pass times to it after a race. This might make your game sound stutter, for some almost nothing, for others a bit more. We recommend that if you do have this problem and feel it ruins your game experience you turn Street Pass functionality off, this will correct the problem instantly. The Street Pass functionality can be turned off from within the game in the settings.
The Aqua Moto Racing 3D patch is out now.
Source: Zordix AB PR
Nintendo is celebrating its 30th anniversary of the Famicom today. The system launched in Japan on July 15, 1983.
You could say that Nintendo has been in the console gaming business for a very, very long time. And company president Satoru Iwata only sees a bright future ahead.
Speaking with Japanese newspaper Nikkei Shinbun, Iwata said:
“Coming from thirty years in the home console business, I don’t think we’re suffering.”
Ubisoft has countless franchises at its disposal – Assassin’s Creed, Rayman, and Splinter Cell are just a few.
Watch_Dogs is one such IP that the publisher hopes can become a franchise of its own. That’s the approach Ubisoft took before giving it the green light.
Speaking with [a]list, Ubisoft’s senior vice president of sales and marketing Tony Key said that the company “won’t even start if we don’t think we can build a franchise out of it.” The comment came in response to [a]list asking if Ubisoft wants Watch_Dogs to be the foundation of a big franchise.
Absolutely. That’s what all our games are about; we won’t even start if we don’t think we can build a franchise out of it. There’s no more fire and forget – it’s too expensive.
We feel like we’re in a really good place with Watch_Dogs, but until we’re the biggest game of the year we’re not going to be satisfied.
Last year we cleaned up at E3 because we were pretty much the only next-gen game around. Watch_Dogs for us is really a franchise because we’re tapping into something people really care about, never more than when the NSA PRISM scandal broke.
The Soul Saga Kickstarter has come to an end, but it was most definitely a success for developer Disastercake.
A total of $192,222 was raised over the span of a month. Disastercake’s original goal was just $60,000.
Thanks to the huge support given to Soul Saga, the game managed to reach most of its stretch goals on Kickstarter. Soul Saga will indeed come to PlayStation 4, PS Vita, and Wii U. It will also feature elements such as voice acting.
You can find out more on Soul Saga here.
This week’s European Nintendo Downloads are as follows:
Wii U retail
The Smurfs 2 – €39.99 / £31.99
3DS VC
Shantae – €4.99 / £4.49
Spelunker – €3.99 / £3.59
3DS download
Attack of the Friday Monsters! A Tokyo Tale – €7.99 / £7.19
Robot Rescue – €2.99 / £2.69
3DS demo
The Denpa Men 2: Beyond the Waves
DSiWare
Fashion Tycoon – €4.99 / £4.49 / 500 points
Rabi Lady 2 – €1.99 / £1.79 / 200 points
Special offers
Puddle – €4.99, was €9.99 (£4.49, was £8.99) – from 18/7/13 until 01/8/2013
Fractured Soul – €4.99, was €7.99 (£4.49, was £7.19) – from 18/7/13 until 01/8/2013
Permanent price drop
Virtue’s Last Reward – €24.99, was €40.00 (£19.99, was £30.00)
Source: Nintendo PR
Wii U’s sluggish start is far from a secret. The console’s disappointing start extends to the UK, where sales have been slow – to put it mildly.
A new report on Gamasutra paints an ever worse picture for the Wii U in Britain. According to the site, the system managed to sell just 179,000 piece of software at retail this year. Gamasutra notes, “Even if digital sales added 10 percent to the total software units sold on the Wii U, its year-to-date results would just barely match retail software sales for the moribund PlayStation Vita.”
It’s all on Nintendo to fix the situation. The company hopes that with the new releases coming to Wii U this year, things will begin to turn around.
Atlus announced today that Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium Girl will be released in North America in October. Specifically, the game is due out on October 1.
The Millennium Girl will be distributed at retail and on the 3DS eShop. Pricing will be set at $39.99.
Source: Atlus PR
