Nintendo of Europe has done a standout job with eShop sales thus far. 3DS VC titles have been discounted regularly, and even Wii U eShop titles have started to see temporary price drops.
The same can’t be said for the situation in North America. Sales have been few and far between, and the Wii U store has yet to see a single discount.
One does have to wonder why there haven’t been any Wii U sales yet. Broken Rules co-founder Felix Bohatsch recently wrote on Twitter that the studio would like to have a sale for Chasing Aurora, “but we can’t yet”.
Bohatsch tweeted:
“We’d love to put @Chasing_Aurora on sale in the US as well, but we can’t yet… you’ll have to ask @NintendoAmerica what the exact reasons are…”
Hey everyone, it’s Patrick here and throughout this week I’ll be celebrating Christmas in the only way relevant to this website – by taking a look at a bunch of terrible Christmas specials based on various Nintendo titles. First up is the Super Mario Bros. Super Show – a late-80’s TV program featuring cartoons based on Super Mario Bros. and Zelda. This Christmas episode —Koopa Klaus— is one of the rare episodes of the show that isn’t just a reference to a popular movie like “Raiders of the Lost Mushroom” or “On Her Majesty’s Sewer Service”, but that doesn’t make it any less awful.
Frozenbyte on future Wii U support, pleased with Trine 2 sales thus far
Trine 2: Director’s Cut could be just the start of Frozenbyte’s Wii U support. Sales and marketing manager Mikael Haveri has said that the studio is “very interested” in working on the console once more.
“We are very interested in working on it again. Who knows, but if everything goes well maybe even sooner than many might suspect.”
Haveri also commented on sales of Trine 2: Director’s Cut thus far. Haversi said the title is selling “fairly well according to our calculations”.
According to a new report Nicalis will publish Ikachan on the 3DS eShop sometime next month. 1up writers that the DSiWare version will be released “shortly thereafter.”
Ikachan won’t cost very much at all. Currently, it looks like the title will only cost $5.
SEGA and Double Fine’s The Cave was finally playable on Wii U during a press event last week. On Nintendo’s console, players can expect the GamePad to act as a character selector and means of controlling the camera. If you tap on a character, you’ll jump to them. If you double tap, the camera’s focus moves to them. Characters do not move independently off-screen in the game.
Double Fine’s Chris Remo said the following about the Wii U version of The Cave:
“So other than that, it pretty much plays like all the other versions. We did work really hard to ensure that visually everything you’re seeing is identical to the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions, so there’s no downscaling, there’s nothing going on that is not up to par with the other next-gen systems. There’s nothing super wacky going on, but it’s a completely full-featured version of the game.”
Bravely Default technically got a sequel in the form of that PC game no one really cared about. But now it seems like Square Enix is gearing up to make a true follow-up to the 3DS game.
Producer Tomoya Asano is looking to receive fan feedback for the next entry. Asano has already come up with a list of 100 questions and suggestions made by fans, and is now asking these same fans how much they would they these ideas become realized. Each point can be answered with “Strongly Agree”, “Agree”, “Disagree”, “Strongly Disagree”, and “Indifferent”.
Square Enix will be closing the questionable on December 20. It will then mull over the feedback received for the next Bravely Default.
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