Nintendo Wii
North America:
1. Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Nintendo)
2. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo)
3. Just Dance (Ubisoft)
4. Wii Fit Plus with Balance Board (Nintendo)
5. Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4 (Warner Bros.)
Japan:
1. Wii Party (Nintendo)
2. Sengoku Basara 3 (Capcom)
3. Dragon Quest Monsters: Battle Road Victory (Square Enix)
4. Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Nintendo)
5. Wii Fit Plus with Balance Board (Nintendo)
UK:
1. Just Dance (Ubisoft)
2. Dance on Broadway (Ubisoft)
3. Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Nintendo)
4. Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4 (Warner Bros.)
5. Wii Fit Plus with Balance Board (Nintendo)
Nintendo DS
North America:
1. Mario Kart DS (Nintendo)
2. Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies (Nintendo)
3. New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)
4. Toy Story 3 (Disney)
5. Puzzler World (Atari)
Japan:
1. Metal Max 3 (Kadokawa Shoten)
2. Fire Emblem: Shin Monshou no Nazo Hikari to Kage no Eiyuu (Nintendo)
3. Kamen Rider Battle: Ganbaride Card Battle Taisen (Namco Bandai)
4. Tokimeki Memorial Girls Side 3rd Story (Konami)
5. Wizardry: Boukyaku no Isan (Genterprise)
UK:
1. Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies (Nintendo)
2. New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)
3. Professor Layton and Pandora’s Box (Nintendo)
4. Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4 (Warner Bros.)
5. Jam with the Band (Nintendo)
In the video, you can see a deer Pokemon, Shikijika, the evolution of Minezumi (Miruhoggu) and a swan/stork-like Pokemon, who currently unnamed.
Last year, Bethesda Softworks hyped up a “really big Wii game.” Unfortunately, the title – which turned out to be Wheelspin – was not internally created, and is actually one of the worst games on Nintendo’s console. Yet even though Bethesda expressed interest in more serious development on the Nintendo front last year, it doesn’t sound like the company is still considering that direction.
“From my group, which is the internal Bethesda development team, probably not [going into Nintendo development]. The stuff we’re doing is a better fit on the other platforms. You can never say never, but I think for the kind of games that we like to play and make, it fits the other platforms… I agree with what you said. Even if there’s going to be some bigger, more mature games on it, the system (Wii), for better or worse, has been moved to this demographic. If we had an idea that we thought would really take advantage of that platform, we would do something for it. Usually, we’re thinking more in terms of graphically doing things that the other systems do. That’s what we get excited about.” – Todd Howard, executive producer for Bethesda Game Studios
PSP – 28,747
DSi LL – 24,189
Wii – 21,092
PS3 – 19,420
DSi – 18,202
Xbox 360 – 6,056
DS Lite – 5,059
PS2 – 1,475
PSP go – 831
For comparison’s sake, here are the numbers from last week.
PSP – 26,786
DSi LL – 25,884
Wii – 22,239
PS3 – 19,473
DSi – 16,318
Xbox 360 – 5,936
DS Lite – 4,895
PS2 – 1,507
PSP go – 1,155
The scan and information below comes from Nintendo Power…
– Handbag is Ellie’s weapon
– Chomp appears on the touchscreen
– Chomp trains, learns new abilities, boosts stats when he isn’t needed
– Books, cookies, treasure chests that Elle drops into his lair used for Chomp to grow
– Chomp will allow you to progress and protect Ellie
– Move Chomp from one local to the other by pressing “X”
– Game is comparable to Metroid/Castlevania, as it is an open world filled with puzzlelike obstacles
– Ellie can learn new abilities from obelisks, scattered throughout the maps
– Ellie’s new abilities help to clear obstacles
– Ellie’s abilities include: Rolling, swinging her bag, firing energy beams, fire longer-range projectiles
– Chomp’s powers include: Twisting into a pair of vertical spikes (impales enemies above/below), barrel roll toward foes/switches, using tongue as a trampoline
– Ellie can get to higher areas of the map with Chomp’s tongue power
– New powers unlocked quickly
– Game has an automap, save rooms
– Different shops
– Action can sometimes take up both screens
“We want to capture the depth and diversity in gameplay that can come from having two radically different types of games on each screen, [but with Monster Tale] we want to integrate the two more seamlessly to avoid taking the player out of the game. One of the keys to this is having a character the player controls be able to move seamlessly between the two screens, instead of the game itself changing screens.” – Peter Ong. DreamRift/Monster Tale developer
WiiWare
– Dive: The Medes Islands Secret (Cosmonaut Games, 1,000 Wii Points)
– Family Pirate Party (ARC SYSTEM WORKS, 500 Wii Points)
DSiWare
– Crystal Monsters (Gameloft, 500 Nintendo DSi Points)
– Mega Words (Digital Leisure Inc., 500 Nintendo DSi Points)
– Puffins: Let’s Race! (Other Ocean Interactive, 500 Nintendo DSi Points)
