3D Classics
Urban Champion – 600 yen
Virtual Console
Takahashi Meijin no Boken Jima II (Adventure Island II) – 400 yen
Video Content
Orchestral piece for The Legend of Zelda 25th year anniversary that was played by musicians at E3 in 2D
2D streaming video of the making of a giant Pit Tachineputa
Nintendo Video (periodically updated, no commercials, can be longer in length than Spot TV)
– Part of a tour through the historic city of Kyoto in Japan in 3D – 5 minutes long, available until July 23
– Tokyo Girls Collection video for Spring/Summer 2011 from Cecil McBee and Jill Stuart – available until July 17
Man, I really wish we could get some of the content in North America that Japan does. I would love to watch the
SAN FRANCISCO – July 12, 2010 –Today, Ubisoft® announced its plans for Comic-Con International: San Diego on July 20–24, 2011. The company will feature the first public demos of Just Dance® 3 and Rabbids®: Alive & Kicking. In addition, Ubisoft will demo Rayman® Origins, and host an exclusive panel for Assassin’s Creed® Revelations on July 23, 2011.
Located in the Exhibit Hall at #4245, Ubisoft’s booth will feature a special stage for consumers to get down with Just Dance3, the latest iteration of America’s favorite dance game, which will be available on all platforms this fall, and Rabbids: Alive & Kicking, a zany, wild and humorous collection of mini games the whole family can enjoy. Booth visitors also will have an opportunity to play Rayman Origins for the first time before the game’s release later this year. Rayman Origins is a high-definition 2-D side-scrolling platforming adventure featuring full 4-player co-op. Additionally, Rayman Origins fans can win a free T-shirt by checking in on Facebook at the Rayman Origins billboard at 6th Avenue & F Street, in the Gaslamp quarter, and then claim their prize at Ubisoft’s booth. Other prizes will be given away at the booth, including special pre-order discounts and incentives on the upcoming Assassin’s Creed Revelations and Just Dance 3 releases.
Last month, Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli said that the company was “pretty much running” CryEngine on Wii U. But that’s in spite of the fact that, apparently, Crytek isn’t in possession of Wii U dev kits. CryEngine’s director of global business development, Carl Jones, told NowGamer that he hasn’t seen any kits yet.
Jones also discussed how Crytek couldn’t bring content to Wii due to the technological differences between other platforms, talked about his thoughts on a core market on Wii U, and touched on the possibility of bringing something such as a CryEngine 3-powered platformer to the console.
Crytek’s interested in the Wii U. What do you make of the platform?
CJ: It’s something we’re really interested in. There are a load of Nintendo fans at Crytek, right up to the top of the company. We were unfortunately unable to support the last generation of Wii because it would have been quite an engineering effort to take the engine down to that level of hardware.
So we were quite excited to see a new level of hardware come out that we think we can support, do some good stuff with, and it’s something we’re currently experimenting with.
1. [PS3] L.A. Noire – 58,436 / NEW
2. [PS3] inFamous 2 – 33,474 / NEW
3. [PS3] Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon – 30,189 / NEW
4. [360] Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon – 17,817 / NEW
5. [Wii] Wii Play: Motion – 17,008 / NEW
6. [PSP] The Little Battlers – 15,807 / 244,790
7. [3DS] The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D – 14,985 / 240,738
8. [PSP] Steins;Gate – 13,700 / 99,088
9. [Wii] GoldenEye 007 – 13,216 / 49,390
10. [Wii] Wii Sports Resort – 12,877 / 388,074
11. [360] L.A. Noire – 12,621 / NEW
12. [PS3] Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition – 10,512 / 65,436
13. [PS3] Meruru no Atelier: Arland no Renkinjutsushi 3 – 10,421 – 116,762
14. [3DS] Tales of the Abyss – 10,034 / 84,207
15. [PSP] ToHeart2 – 9,321 / 46,717
16. [3DS] Class of Heroes 3D – 8,353 / NEW
17. [DS] Pokemon Black/White – 8,271 / 5,227,336
18. [PSP] Gundam Memories: Tatakai no Kioku – 6,559 / 72,327
19. [PS3] Yakuza of the End – 6,297 / 394,902
20. [PSP] Suzumiya Haruhi-Chan no Mahjong – 5,285 / NEW
We have a somewhat clearer picture of how Ninja Gaiden III will turn out on Wii U. Based on comments from team Ninja, including some words from Hayashi recently, it sounds like the experience will be very similar to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions. The only major difference seems to be related to controls.
Said Team Ninja head Yosuke Hayashi:
“Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge is still Ninja Gaiden 3, but we plan to utilize the new controller for the Wii U to do new things. You may remember Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword for the Nintendo DS, we’re thinking implementing that kind of action and gameplay in an enhanced way for Wii U using the controller’s touch screen.”
PSP – 26,373
3DS – 22,943
PS3 – 22,900
Wii – 13,068
DSi LL – 4,811
DSi – 4,725
Xbox 360 – 2,016
PS2 – 1,309
DS Lite – 56
PSP go – 34
For comparison’s sake, here are the hardware numbers from last week.
3DS – 30,233
PSP – 29,871
PS3 – 26,441
Wii – 12,423
DSi LL – 4,963
DSi – 4,504
Xbox 360 – 2,244
PS2 – 1,222
DS Lite – 138
PSP go – 7
