Included in Nintendo’s latest financial report is an updated listing of its million seller titles. New entries include Nintendo Land, New Super Mario Bros. 2, Paper Mario: Sticker Star, New Super Mario Bros. 2, and Animal Crossing: New Leaf.
The full listing is as follows (worldwide numbers):
DS
Pokemon Black/White 2 – 7.63 million
New Super Mario Bros. – 30.18 million
3DS
New Super Mario Bros. 2 – 5.96 million
Animal Crossing: New Leaf – 2.73 million
Mario Kart 7 – 7.73 million
Super Mario 3D Land – 8.0 million
Paper Mario: Sticker Star – 1.83 million
Mario Tennis Open – 1.07 million
Wii
Wii Sports – 81.64 million
Mario Party 9 – 2.73 million
Mario Kart Wii – 34.01 million
Wii Sports Resort – 31.54 million
New Super Mario Bros. Wii – 27.61 million
Wii U
Nintendo Land – 2.23 million
New Super Mario Bros. U – 2.01 million
Ubisoft’s Osiris was officially outed last night. But bad news for those looking forward to the new IP from the maker of Assassin’s Creed: it’s no longer in the works.
A Ubisoft representative confirmed that it pulled the plug on the project:
“The content in question was from a Ubisoft project that is no longer moving forward.”
Ubisoft didn’t clarify when it shelved Osiris, nor did it say how long its Montreal studio was working on the title.
With only one month remaining in January, previously announced services for Wii U – namely TiVo, Netflix, and Google Maps – had little chance of making it out this month despite Nintendo saying otherwise.
Officially, Nintendo has now declared a more vague “early 2013” release for both TiVo and Netflix. Regarding Google Maps, support for the app is now scheduled for the “first quarter of 2013.”
Update: Added in the full quote after the break.
Nintendo and EA’s relationship has gone strangely sour following the Big N’s E3 2011 press conference. EA CEO John Riccitiello stepped out on stage and proudly spoke about his company’s excitement over the console. Since then, though, the publisher’s interest in Wii U has declined and its output has been nothing less than disappointing.
We’ve seen a couple of sports titles. We’ve also seen a late Mass Effect 3 port and late Need for Speed: Most Wanted port, the latter of which is finally coming out in March.
During EA’s financial results call today, one investor mentioned the company’s non-aggressive pursuit of Wii U and wondered what this means for consumer adoption of next-gen consoles in the future. Riccitiello, who happened to deliver a response, noted that it isn’t wise to ever count Nintendo out and praised the game-maker’s IP. However, he went on to say: “What we describe as ‘Gen 4’ is yet to come.” Does this not mean that EA – well, Riccitiello at least – feels that the Wii U isn’t next-gen?
Below is Riccitiello’s paraphrased response, as transcribed by NeoGAF’s iMax:
Miiverse won’t be seeing some of its bigger changes (like dedicated communities) until later this year. Today, however, it seems that Nintendo did implement a few, small modifications:
– Better implementation of the favorite communities
– Better button access with easy clicks to the Nintendo eShop, settings, new posts and popular ones
– ”Other communities” is added, through this grayed out at the moment
– Finally, all the emoticons are directly displayed while posting a message
This week’s Japanese eShop update is as follows:
Nintendo 3DS
Downloadable titles
Culdept (retail title) – 4,800 yen
Nintendogs + Cats (retail title, all three versions) – 4,800 yen each
Fire Emblem: Kakusei (retail title, Fire Emblem: Awakening) – 4,800 yen
Calcio Bit (retail title) – 4,800 yen
Super Pokémon Scramble (retail title) – 4,800 yen
Tantei Jing?ji Sabur?: Fukush? no Rondo (retail game, coming 01/31) – 4,200 yen
@Simple DL Series Vol. 7 The Uwaki Kareshi – Totsugeki! Uwaki Genba – 300 yen
Peakvox Myu Myu Train – 500 yen
Virtual Console
Madura no Tsubasa (Famicom, The Wing of Madoola) – 500 yen
Puyo Puyo (Game Gear) – 300 yen
Wii U
Downloadable Titles
Shin Hokuto Mus? (Fist of the North Star: Ken’s Rage 2, retail title) – 7,100 yen
Video Content
Chari Hashi DX video
BlayzBlue video
Simple Series: Cheating Boyfriend! Assault! Crime Scene! video
Myu Myu Train videos
There’s a double dose of encouraging Wii U-related news coming from Havok today.
First off, the company’s Vision Engine is now available for the platform. With its release, the full product suite of Havok technology has made its way to Wii U. Along with access to the free binary downloads of Havok Physics and Animation, developers are able to purchase a source license for any product they desire. Available tools include the aforementioned Havok Vision Engine, Havok Physics, Havok Animation, Havok Behavior, Havok Destruction, Havok AI, Havok Cloth, and Havok Script.
Vice president of sales and marketing Brian Waddle commented:
“We have shared a long-term partnership with Nintendo and are pleased to offer licensing of our entire product suite for Wii U developers worldwide. With several great Havok-powered launch titles recently released, we are pleased to see Wii U developers pushing the hardware with Havok’s tech. We look forward to seeing Havok Vision Engine power some great high-fidelity games on the new platform.”
