Animal Crossing: New Leaf has not only been a huge success at retail, but also on the 3DS eShop.
New Leaf has sold 2.73 million units in Japan through the end of December 2012. Based on data from Nintendo’s latest financials and data from Media Create as well as Famitsu, it looks like the game has sold a total of almost 800,000 copies digitally, 500,000 of which are direct downloads from the eShop.
Amazingly, the latest Animal Crossing has achieved close to 30% of its sales from digital downloads.
Brain Age: Concentration Training has been dated for Europe. 3DS owners can pick up the title starting on April 12.
In Europe, the new Brain Age goes by the lengthy title: “Dr Kawashima’s Devilish Brain Training: Can you stay focused?”.
Nintendo of America already confirmed a launch date for Brain Age: Concentration Training a few weeks ago. It’s hitting the states on February 10
Source: Nintendo PR
Let’s face it: Nintendo’s early 2013 lineup is bleak. Nintendo only has one major, core game releasing in January and February: Fire Emblem: Awakening.
Things will begin to turn around in March, according to president Satoru Iwata. Through the rest of the year and into 2014, “Nintendo will release a cavalcade of strong, fan-favorite software titles for both Wii U and Nintendo 3DS.”
Iwata wrote in an investor’s statement:
“Beginning in March and continuing through the rest of the calendar year and into 2014, Nintendo will release a cavalcade of strong, fan-favorite software titles for both Wii U and Nintendo 3DS. New entries in the Mario Kart, Super Mario, Legend of Zelda, LEGO City, Wii Fit and Pikmin franchises will help Nintendo regain momentum for Wii U. Additionally, highly anticipated Nintendo 3DS games such as Luigi’s Mansion 2 and Animal Crossing: New Leaf have the potential to be hardware drivers and bring new audiences to the platform.”
Update:
Looks like this is the real deal. GameStop has pre-orders running online here. Amazon also has a product page running
and includes a May 21 release date, which makes much more sense. Both retailers list a $49.99 price point.
Sniper Elite V2 has long been rumored for Wii U, but publisher 505 Games has never made any official announcements. But now it appears that the nearly year-old shooter will be coming to the console in just a few months.
GameStop casually lists the Wii U version of Sniper Elite V2 in its weekly ad – boxart and all. Consumers can begin pre-ordering the title, which apparently releases on May 24. The only red flag I see is that May 24 is a Friday. In North America, games typically launch earlier in the week.
Perhaps we’ll be hearing something official from 505 Games soon?
Nintendo published its latest financial results earlier today. While Big N did return to profitability, it was forced to negatively revise forecasts.
Read on below for a summary of Nintendo’s latest financials. Note that each figure below accounts for sales received between April to December of last year.
– Net income of 14,545 million (around $159m)
– Net sales estimates for the full year revised down by 17.3%
– Wii U has sold 3.06 million units worldwide as of December 2012
– 1.32 million consoles sold in North America
– Another 900,000 units sold in Europe
– 830,000 systems sold in Japan
– Wii sold 3.53 million units from April to December
– Nintendo has previously stated that it aims to sell 5.5 million Wii Us before the end of March, but it has now revised this target to 4 million
– New estimate for game sales: 16 million as opposed to the original 24 million
– 11.69 million games have been sold thus far
– Best-selling Wii U launch game was Nintendo Land
– Nintendo Land sold 2.33 million units
– 3DS sales saw a big increase
– Software sales up 41% year-on-year
– Hardware sales up 11%
Update: Apparently it’s not going as smoothly as they would like! Here’s the quote from Wii U community manager A_Trey_U:
Hello Wii U Community,
We are noticing some issues with the version of the patch that was posted that you guys are also reporting here on the forums. We are working with Nintendo on a resolution to this problem and hope to know more at some point tomorrow. I will keep you posted as I receive more information.
We are aware that some of the menu listings from the 360’s Revolution DLC drop are showing up in the game. This is not a confirmation of DLC for the Wii U, just a versioning problem that we are working to address.
I do not want to publish the list of known fixes until I have confirmation that they are all live. I hope to be able to do this tomorrow, but as I mentioned, this is something we are working on with Nintendo, so the timeline isn’t entirely in our hands.
Thank you for understanding.
A_Trey_U
No details on what it does other than bringing the Wii U “up to date” with the PS3 and 360, but I just wanted to let everyone know that it is live and you can go download it right now. I haven’t noticed any explicit change yet, and we won’t be getting the full details list for a little while now.
Superannuation has uncovered what appears to be a brand new IP from Ubisoft. Ubisoft Montreal, the maker of Assassin’s Creed, is apparently hard at work on “Osiris” – a new game set in Egypt. A “rough cut demo” trailer can be found here.
Does any of this look or sound familiar? It should. Just before E3 2012, trailer images from an unannounced Ubisoft title leaked out. Osiris and last year’s mysterious leak seem to be related.
It’s a wrap on Junction Point. Moreover, head honcho Warren Spector is done with his time at Disney.
Junction Point’s closure is, without a doubt, an emotional time for Spector. While he’s sad about Disney’s decision to shut down the company, Spector is also “excited for the future.”
Spector spilled all of his thoughts about Junction Point and more in a message posted on his Facebook page. You can find his full thoughts below.
It appears that 3D Space Harrier will be localized for overseas territories. A rating for the game popped up on the OFLC, likely meaning that an Australian release is on the way. One would assume that 3D Space Harrier will be making its way to the North American and European 3DS eShops as well.
Interestingly, Nintendo is listed as 3D Space Harrier’s publisher. Has Nintendo decided to publish the title for SEGA in the west?
