NPD Group has released a listing of the top ten best-selling games in the U.S. for the month of June. The results can be found below.
Recent comments from a Nintendo customer service representative indicated that the Wii U and 3DS would eventually get unified accounts. In other words, the two systems would be tied together in some ways through the technology.
Now Nintendo is backing away from these remarks. Charlie Scibetta, Sr. Director of Corporate Communications at Nintendo of America, has attempted to clarify the situation.
Scibetta said:
“Nintendo has already announced the Nintendo Network as a unified ‘network platform’ that delivers current and future online services to the Nintendo 3DS system and the upcoming Wii U console. These services include, but are not limited to, multiplayer online game play and the ability to download both add-on content and full games that are also available as packaged software. Further details on these services will be revealed at a later date.
“However, there is no current announcement concerning a unified online ‘account system’ between Wii U and Nintendo 3DS, which suggests payment implications that Nintendo is not ready to confirm at this time. We hope this clarifies any misunderstanding.”
12th July 2012 – Follow the exploits of Barbazan, a disastrous but highly entertaining magician, in a series of 3D stop motion animation clips are launching exclusively on Nintendo 3DS. The first of six, five minute episodes of The Incredible Barbazan will be available to download from the Nintendo eShop from 12th July.
The clips will be available from the Nintendo eShop over a six week period at a price of £1.35 per episode. To whet your appetites, a short trailer will also be released for free via Nintendo Video on 18th July.
Namco Bandai is showing off the latest footage of Tekken Tag Tournament 2 at the San Diego Comic-Con this week. GameSpot demonstrated some gameplay during a live-stream of the expo. We captured the video – you can take a look at it above.
Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why’d you steal our garbage?! is apparently getting a Collector’s Edition. While D3Publisher hasn’t confirmed the product, it’s rumored that the following items will be included:
Steelbook packaging decorated like the Enchiridion, a book in the Adventure Time series.
A custom stylus modeled after Finn’s golden sword
An exclusive art book and activity book
A fold-out poster of the Land of Ooo
There’s a tiny bit of talk about the Collector’s Edition being exclusive to GameStop. That hasn’t been confirmed, though, nor has the package itself.
The 3DS has sold over 5 million units sold in the US, according to Nintendo. That statistic is based on data collected by NPD Group.
Other notable updates include:
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D became the third Nintendo 3DS title to sell more than 1 million units, joining Super Mario 3D Land (2.1 million units sold life to date) and Mario Kart 7 (1.75 million units sold life to date).
- For the month, two of the top five and nine of the top 25 best-selling software SKUs play on Nintendo platforms.
- For the second month in a row, Nintendo held a 75 percent market share for portable hardware in the United States.
- Nintendo sold more than 400,000 total hardware units in June and saw double-digit growth across each of its product lines compared to May. This includes more than 155,000 Nintendo 3DS systems, more than 150,000 units of the Nintendo DS family of systems and nearly 95,000 Wii consoles.
You can find Nintendo’s entire response to the June 2012 NPD below.
