Digital Foundry’s latest analysis covers the Wii U edition of Need for Speed: Most Wanted. The verdict is excellent – Digital Foundry hails the game as “definitive console version”.
You can find the full piece here and comparison videos with other versions below.
Nintendo of France’s Philippe Lavoué recently chatted about all things Wii Mini with Gamekult. The publication managed to sneak in a few questions about the Wii U, and asked about the console’s price as well as how Nintendo will avoid consumer confusion between the Wii, Wii Mini, and Wii U…
Read Lavoué’s translated comments below.
As was the case with Need for Speed: Most Wanted U, a western Wii U title has been dated for Japan before North America and Europe.
Codemasters has officially announced F1 All Stars Powered Up Edition for the territory, which is due out on June 27. Pricing is set at 7,140 yen.
Players can use the GamePad to steer their vehicle thanks to the controller’s built-in sensor. It will also be possible to race with any Mii of your choosing. Four-player split-screen multiplayer is also supported.
Update: There’s also $15 off the white Wii U Pro controller
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Two Nintendo games are on sale at Best Buy for the next couple of days. The Skylanders Giants Portal Owners Pack for 3DS can be purchased for $29.99 while Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two for Wii is available for $9.99. Shipping is free for both items.
Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon couldn’t have sold any better in Japan. As you already know, the game moved 280,000 copies in its first week. Media Create reports that Dark Moon sold through 85% (specifically 84.79%) of stock, likely leading to sell-outs.
Cumulative sales of the original Luigi’s Mansion stand at 640,000 units in Japan. But as Media Create notes, it’s difficult to compare sales of the two since conditions on the market were different. The original Luigi’s Mansion, for instance, was a launch title on GameCube.
