This week’s GameStop ad has gone live. Highlights include Assassin’s Creed III for $29.99.
The full lineup of deals can be found in the circular below:
Shin’en hit a new milestone with FAST – Racing League today. Since it was made available, the game’s demo has surpassed one million downloads.
Shin’en shared the news on Twitter:
Wow, we just hit over 1 million downloads of our “FAST – Racing League” WiiWare demo.Thanks to all for trying (and many for buying 😉 !
— Shin’en Multimedia (@ShinenGames) April 24, 2013
Psychoz Interactive is now an official Wii U developer. Studio owner Georges Paz passed along the good news on Twitter yesterday, and also officially confirmed that Forgotten Memories will be coming to the eShop.
Paz wrote:
I’m proud to announce that we are now Nintendo licensed developers! Forgotten Memories will be our first title on the Wii U!
— Georges Paz (@tatoforever) April 23, 2013
This week’s Famitsu has revealed Hot Blooded Tough Guy Kunio: Fighting Concerto for the 3DS. The game will incorporate new modes and features a brand new story. Interestingly, some members from the original team are involved as supervisors.
Hot Blooded Tough Guy Kunio: Fighting Concerto launches in Japan on August 8. Pricing has not been announced.
A new Okami announcement of sorts is coming next week. On Twitter, the official Japanese Okami Twitter account writes:
“Hello, this is Okami news. Sorry I’ve been kind of out of touch lately, but I have the feeling we’ll be able to drop a fresh announcement like WHAM! around the beginning of Golden Week, so please look forward to it. Right now we’re on track with preparations.”
Famitsu has a tease of its own in its latest issue which states:
“The new game to bring fans tears of happiness finally comes to life! A must-see!”
Could the two teases be connected…?
Nintendo hasn’t said much about the new 3D Mario action game and Mario Kart title for Wii U. Both were mentioned briefly during a Nintendo Direct a few months ago, but other than that… nada!
Despite the silence, could these two anticipated titles be coming to market this year? An inclusion in Nintendo’s financial results announcement seems to point in this direction.
“Based on the strong lineup of upcoming software titles for both the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U systems, Nintendo expects to return to Operating Income profitability by the end of the current fiscal year. During the next several months, Nintendo expects to launch new titles in the Mario Kart (Wii U), Super Mario Bros. (Wii U), Wii Fit (Wii U), Pikmin (Wii U), The Legend of Zelda (Wii U and Nintendo 3DS), Mario & Luigi (Nintendo 3DS) and Pokémon (Nintendo 3DS) franchises. These games, along with titles from Nintendo’s third-party publishing partners, will help drive hardware momentum and introduce new audiences to the Wii U and Nintendo 3DS platforms.”
The new Mario and Mario Kart games will be playable at this year’s E3, so they must be fairly far along in development. It’d be pretty crazy to see both of them in the same year, though.
This week’s Japanese software sales are as follows:
01./00. [3DS] Friend Collection: New Life #
02./00. [PS3] Naruto Shippuden: Narutimate Storm 3
03./00. [PSP] 7th Dragon 2020-II
04./01. [3DS] Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon
05./03. [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf #
06./00. [PSP] Amnesia Crowd #
07./02. [3DS] Card Fight!! Vanguard: Ride to Victory!!
08./04. [PS3] One Piece: Pirate Warriors 2 #
09./25. [3DS] Tousouchuu: Shijou Saikyou no Hunter-Tachi Kara Nigekire!
10./00. [360] Monster Hunter Frontier: G1 Premium Package
11./09. [3DS] New Super Mario Bros. 2 #
12./05. [PS3] Pro Baseball Spirits 2013
13./16. [3DS] Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate (Best Price!)
14./08. [PSP] Pro Baseball Spirits 2013
15./10. [PSP] Sword Art Online: Infinity Moment #
16./07. [PSV] Muramasa Rebirth
17./15. [3DS] Mario Kart 7
18./11. [PS3] Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 ReMIX
19./12. [PSV] Soul Sacrifice #
20./06. [WII] Taiko no Tatsujin Wii: Super Deluxe Edition #
The latest Japanese hardware sales from Media Create are as follows:
3DS LL – 57,089
3DS – 18,833
Vita – 15,011
PS3 – 13,915
Wii U – 8,798
PSP – 7,816
Wii – 1,379
Xbox 360 – 515
For comparison’s sake, here are the hardware numbers from last week:
3DS LL – 28,139
3DS – 18,584
Vita – 14,112
PS3 – 14,039
Wii U – 9,984
PSP – 7,566
Wii – 1,383
Xbox 360 – 492
