Generally, one wouldn’t expect a transfer tool to cost money. Nintendo is offering a free DSi transfer tool as a matter of fact. Konami, however, will be charging 200 yen to those who wish to import girlfriend data from the Love Plus titles on the DS.
What’s interesting is that this might not actually be Konami’s fault. Strangely, Nintendo hasn’t offered a solution to developers and publishers who would like to release free software on the 3DS eShop. So Konami went as low as they possibly could, which happens to be 200 yen.
Konami is hoping to sweeten the deal for players who will be downloading the transfer tool. Nothing has been announced as of yet, but expect some news in about a month.
So… it looks like someone made a boo boo. Reports earlier in the day indicated that Square Enix will be considering Dragon Quest X for Wii U. However, that information was inaccurate.
A transcript of Yoichi Wada’s original comments are now available and while it’s true that the company is looking into Nintendo’s console from a technical standpoint to prepare for possible launch titles, he did not actually say anything about Dragon Quest X. The blog that provided comments from the Square Enix CEO noted that “Wada was absolutely not saying ‘Dragon Quest X on Wii U.'”
It’s amazing what a new piece of technology can do. Epic Games co-founder Mark Rein recently said that Unreal Engine 3 is running on the Wii U and labeled the console as being “very impressive”. And today we heard about Gabe Newell showing quite a bit of interest in the system.
In response to Newell’s quote from earlier in the day, Rein posted a comment on twitter expressing excitement about the possibility of Valve supporting Nintendo’s upcoming hardware. In fact, he’d like to see full Steam support on Wii U.
Rein said on Twitter:
“Valve likes the WiiU — the idea of having full Steam support on WiiU excites me quite a bit! Valve rocks!”
Even though the Wii U is probably over a year away from launching, we know of a few company who intend to bring launch titles to the platform. Tecmo Koei has said that they have a few things planned, for example, while Ubisoft has already confirmed that they’ll be looking to ship Killer Freaks From Outer Space.
Another company that might join in on the fun is Square Enix. Now, the really interesting thing here would be if they could ready Dragon Quest X for launch. The chances of that aren’t extremely high since it might take some extra time to prepare it for a dual release on Nintendo’s new console and the Wii. But man, that would make for one crazy launch in Japan.
Valve’s Gabe Newell seems to be on board with Wii U, saying that it “seems to be a lot more powerful than the previous generation.” The company has been around for more than a decade, but has never created a title for a Nintendo platform. Might that change with Wii U?
Newell told Joystiq:
“Wii U seems to be a lot more powerful than the previous generation. It sort of fits better into the scalability in terms of graphics performance and CPU performance, so I think it’ll be a lot easier for us to fit it into our scalability model. We’ve always loved Nintendo. Now it’s a lot easier to look at Wii U and have it fit within that framework.”
