Milon’s Secret Castle will be hitting the Japanese eShop as a Famicom download on December 26 for 500 yen. Screenshots of the game can be found above.
New Wii U Service Gives Every Member of the Family His or Her Own Personalized, Easy-to-Use Second-Screen Viewing Experience
REDMOND, Wash.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– The company that changed how we play is about to change how we watch. On Dec. 20, Nintendo will introduce Nintendo TVii, a free, integrated service for the recently launched Wii U console that combines what you watch and how you watch into one seamless, second-screen experience on the revolutionary new Wii U GamePad controller.
The rapid increase in both the quality and availability of video entertainment content – hundreds of satellite and cable channels, a seemingly endless amount of video-on-demand options – has made finding something to watch a complex and occasionally frustrating process. The solution to this problem is coming from perhaps an unexpected place: a video game console.
The latest Japanese hardware sales from Media Create are as follows:
3DS LL – 206,973
Wii U – 126,916
3DS – 112,052
PS3 – 42,976
PSP – 33,002
Vita – 14,446
Wii – 10,346
Xbox 360 – 1,760
PS2 – 1,102
DSi – 320
DSi LL – 221
For comparison’s sake, here are the hardware numbers from last week:
Wii U – 308,142
3DS LL – 136,373
3DS – 75,126
PS3 – 36,994
PSP – 19,637
Vita – 11,039
Wii – 6,714
Xbox 360 – 1,216
PS2 – 904
DSi – 245
DSi LL – 179
It’s been a long wait for Soul Hackers, since this RPG was originally released for the Sega Saturn back in 1997, but it looks like the game will finally be available in English next Spring. Soul Hackers combines the usual dungeon-crawling, demon-fusing gameplay of the Shin Megami Tensei franchise with a heavy cyberpunk influence. Think Ghost in the Shell if it involved actual ghosts.
The game never even recieved a complete fan translation, so it’s great that we’ll be able to play it in English after all these years. And by we I mean those with an North American 3DS. Ghostlight, get in on this!
Much like Dragon Quest IX, the 3DS remake of Dragon Quest VII will contain a sharing component. Players will be able to trade stones with others via StreetPass.
Each stone has a carving and is tied to a Monster Park. As soon as three stones are collected in a set, a monster will show up in a cave to fight. Users will be able to face a variety of different monsters through the described stone system.
During the start of tonight’s Nintendo Direct, Satoru Iwata briefly spoke a bit about issues concerning the Wii U. Even with the latest firmware update, users have still been complaining about system update and program start loading times. Good news: both of these issues will be addressed, Iwata said.
The Nintendo president also talked about Wii U stock availability in Japan. Iwata apologized for shortages surrounding the Wii U Premium Set, but it sounds like consumers will simply need to deal with the situation for now and wait for additional units to arrive.
