Interested in the 3DS XL Circle Pad Pro? Then you’ll need to purchase the product directly from Nintendo’s only store.
There are no plans to offer the accessory at retail, Nintendo has said. The regular Circle Pad Pro was made available at GameStop locations.
Nintendo said in a statement:
“There are no plans to sell this accessory at other retail locations at this time.”
Looks like we didn’t have to wait long at all for Denpa Men 2’s release date! IGN is reporting that the title will be available on the 3DS eShop on May 2. That’s a tentative date, but it’ll likely stick.
No word on pricing just yet. But to compare, the original Denpa Men launched at $9.99.
A trio of Retro staffers left the company in 2008 and formed Armature Studio.
You might be wondering: what sparked the move? Game director Mark Pacini explained the decision in an interview with Game Informer:
I was there for eight years. When you work for Nintendo, Nintendo’s an awesome company. They’re great to work for. It’s hard, challenging work, but it’s rewarding at the same time. But given that regard, there’s a limited amount of things you can do in Nintendo. You can’t work on other platforms. You kind of work on games that they would like you to work on, so after doing three of the same games in a row, we were kind of like, we’d really like the flexibility to do other things.
The wait for a re-release of EarthBound has been agonizing. For years fans begged for the game overseas, but Nintendo never delivered… until this week. During the latest Nintendo Direct, the Big N announced that EarthBound would be made available on the Wii U’s Virtual Console.
Why has it taken so long for Nintendo to follow through on fan requests? Was it related to licencing issues with the game’s music, which has long been speculated?
Not so, says Nintendo of America’s Bill Trinen, who told Kotaku: “Not that I’m aware of.” Trinen added that “they’re taking the original game and putting it on Wii U,” meaning the full soundtrack will be in place.
Trinen discussed the move to bring out EarthBound in North America and Europe once again with Kotaku:
“It just seems like there’s a lot of Earthbound supporters inside of Nintendo and inside of Nintendo of America, and there’s been a real big desire to try to bring this back for people that have been longing for it for a very long time. And so, we’re just really happy that we’ve been able to do it. And we’re gonna do it on Wii U, where it’ll… because it’s gonna be a Virtual Console game, it’ll have its own Earthbound Miiverse community. Which is gonna be, I think, spectacular.”
The Denpa Men 2: Beyond the Waves is approaching its overseas launch. IGN editor Jeremy Parish reports on Twitter that the game is coming soon. He estimates that it could be hitting the 3DS eShop in just a couple of weeks.
Be on the lookout for it…
More Nintendo maintenance early next week
Nintendo will be carrying out another round of maintenance on its online services next week.
On Monday, all of the company’s digital stores will be down between 1:00 PM and 7:00 PM PT. That will be followed up on Tuesday with downtime for Pokemon Black/White and Pokemon Black/White 2.
You can find the full roundup of maintenance information below.
According to Nintendo of Japan’s website, 3DS owners will soon be in for a pleasant new application that lets them post their Animal Crossing: New Leaf or Tomodachi Collection screenshots to Twitter or Tumblr via the 3DS internet browser. This would, in theory, allow for simultaneous posting of the image to other websites as well, and it should support the ability to add comments. The process (if reading-via-pictures is any indication) should go something like this:
– Take a screenshot in the game
– Open the internet browser from the Home Menu.
– Hit the “share” button and select either Tumblr or Twitter
– Choose the screenshot from your photos
– Post to the service you selected
