Ubisoft must really be loving Nintendo right about now. Thanks to the 3DS price drop, the third-party publisher has seen an “eight-fold” jump in European 3DS software sales. Ubisoft’s European marketing and sales director Geoffrey Sardin told GamesIndustry, “We are very pleased with the development.”
Talking specifically about Germany, Ubisoft’s Ralf Wirsing said that there has been a 700 per cent spike in German software sales since the system price drop.
An anonymous third-party publisher isn’t as pleased, though, and has expressed some caution. This publisher believes that the 3DS will be “dead” if it doesn’t sell well during the holidays.
“So far retail is not euphoric. The fact that 3DS-software is still treated with great caution in the initial and repeat orders, we see that retail waits for the commercial development. It will be important to watch 3DS when the big Nintendo-titles are out there on holiday season. If the machine does not sell then, it’s definitely dead.”
As is demonstrated in the video above, you can actually play Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection 3DS while the system is set upside down. I’m not sure if I’ve seen any other 3DS game do that!
3DS
Star Fox 64 3D – 84%
Tales of the Abyss – 70%
Transformers: Dark of the Moon Stealth Force – 17%
Wii
Captain America: Super Solider – 51%
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 – The Video Game – 33%
Inazuma Eleven Strikers – 80%
Rhythm Heaven Wii – 88%
The Smurfs: Dance Party – 27%
Xenoblade Chronicles – 93%
DS
Captain America: Super Soldier – 67%
Challenge Me: Brain Puzzles 2 – 30%
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 – The Video Game – 74%
Harvest Moon: Grand Bazaar – 70%
Inazuma Eleven – 71%
Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary – 68%
Jewel Time Deluxe – 31%
The Smurfs – 28%
Touch ‘N’ Play Collection – 25%
DSiWare
99Bullets – 3
Jagged Alliance – 2
eShop
3D Classics: Xevious – 1
Let’s Golf! 3D – 2
Thanks to joclo for the tip!
Cambridge, Mass. – August 19th, 2011– Harmonix today announced that a 3-pack of hits from Incubus will be available beginning August 23rd in theRock Band 3 Music Store of downloadable content for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and Wii™.
Rock Band provides the deepest and best selection of artists, songs and albums through the Rock Band music platform, which features more than 900 artists and more than 3,000* tracks via disc and download purchase (complete list of tracks at www.rockband.com/songs). Rock Band’s gigantic music library dwarfs that of any other rhythm video game on the market. More than 100 million songs have been sold through the Rock Band Music Store since its launch Nov. 20, 2007.
Rock Band DLC Additions for Xbox 360, PlayStation®3 system and Wii
