What would happen if another company attempted to initiate a hostile takeover of Nintendo because they were after the company’s IPs. Would the Big N be able to protect itself? That’s something an investor wanted to know at Nintendo’s 79th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders a few days ago.
President Shuntaro Furukawa commented on the situation. He explained that Nintendo hasn’t adopted anti-takeover measures, but has systems in place “to take all legal and appropriate steps against it”.
During Nintendo’s 79th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, one investor brought up how E3 featured the same sort of things we’ve been seeing from games over the past three decades in the sense that players look at the screen and play with a controller in their hand. This person wanted to know how developers feel about this and whether or not it will continue. That led to some very interesting comments from Nintendo.
Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto, Shinya Takahashi, and Ko Shiota all commented here. Takahashi mentioned how Nintendo is always looking to innovate and pointed to 1-2 Switch and Labo VR. Miyamoto would add that Nintendo was the first to create the d-pad and additional buttons, as well as the analog stick which “is the clear winner.”
Rounding out today’s news about Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town is an update for PAL regions. Marvelous will publish the game directly in Europe and Australia, the company has announced.
Here’s an overview of Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town:
Nintendo has shared the latest piece of Splatoon 2 art in celebration of the final Splatfest. This time around, Crusty Sean & Bisk get the focus.
Nintendo says the following about the two characters representing Team Order:
This week, the lineup of Wii games from Nintendo on China’s NVIDIA Shield expanded once again. Donkey Kong Country Returns, which was previously confirmed for the device, is now available.
Here’s some footage:
Donkey Kong Country Returns takes up 3.9GB on NVIDIA Shield.
Konami today announced its lineup for Gamescom 2019. As far as Nintendo titles go, Conta Rogue Corps and Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution will be present. eFootball PES 2020, Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links, and Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game rounds out the lineup.
Gamescom 2019 runs between August 20 and August 24.
Nintendo is back with another “Virus Vid” for Dr. Mario World. Have a look at the short clip promoting the new mobile game below.
Fire Emblem: Three Houses was shown off today at Japan Expo 2019 in Paris. Toshiyuki Kusakihara from Intelligent Systems and Genki Yokota from Nintendo were present and revealed a few new tidbits about the game (credit goes to Perfectly Nintendo for translating and transcribing):
Attack on Titan 2: Final Battle is out today. To celebrate the occasion, Koei Tecmo put together a launch trailer for the game:
