Super Smash Bros. Ultimate managed to sell around 1.2 million copies in its first three days in Japan. Dengeki now provides a bit of extra information on the game’s performance. Sales tracking indicates that Smash Bros. Ultimate sold through 75% of its initial shipment.
Given how the game has sold thus far, Dengeki has Smash Bros. Ultimate selling two million copies before we reach 2019. Year-end sales from Christmas and New Year’s should contribute to steady sales over the next few weeks.
Atelier Lulua: The Scion of Arland has received a new batch of details and screenshots. Sterk, Mana, Stia, and the synthesis system are covered this time around. We’ve rounded everything up below, courtesy of Gematsu.
Earlier this week, we heard from Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime in which he tried to explain why Red Dead Redemption isn’t on Switch. In an interview with IGN, he commented further on third-party support for the console.
On some third-party gaps, Reggie reiterated:
YouTuber Doctre81 has spotted a couple of interesting profile listings from Blind Squirrel Games that point to a possible new collection for Switch. The developer appears to be working for an unspecified company on some sort of collection.
One staffer mentions that he’s remastering/porting a trio of fighting titles from the 90’s, planned for Switch and other platforms. The staffer is making “UIUX designs for all screens with newly designed features”.
When we last shared news about Children of Morta, it was around three years ago. The game had been funded on Kickstarter and was planned for Wii U.
Unsurprisingly, Wii U no longer appears to be in the picture. Children of Morta is planned for Switch instead, and is targeting a 2019 release.
A slight update on the Pokemon movie front: Pokemon the Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back Evolution’s opening day in Japanese theaters will be July 12th, 2019. Unfortunately, that’s pretty much all the information we have on the movie right now. Given its title, we can infer that Mewtwo will have a starrring role, but so far we have no official synopsis and no trailer yet.
There’s also no word yet on the movie’s international release. The past couple of Pokemon movies got a limited theatrical run in some countries before being released on home media and streaming services.
Other than the two New Power Summoning Foci, we’ve got two other bits of Fire Emblem Heroes news for you today. Intelligent Systems revealed the event calendar for the game up through January, which you can see above. All of the regular events are present as usual, and there will also be two Special Heroes summoning events, which will likely be Christmas and New Years-themed, given their timing.
Also, Tactics Drills got its usual Thursday update today. The new map “A Merciful Boost”can be found in the Skill Studies section.
Developer Bandana Kid’s puzzle platformer Elli was originally set to launch in December on Nintendo Switch. Today, Bandana Kid announced that the game was delayed a bit – it is now set to launch on the Nintendo Switch eShop on January 10th, 2019.
As a reminder, here’s the initial trailer for the game:
The Japanese boxart for the Robotics;Notes Value Set has surfaced online via Amazon listings.
The set includes both the Robotics;Notes Elite remaster, as well as Robotics;Notes DaSH.
The boxart can be seen above, listing both games on the front.
Two new Summoning Focuses are now live in Fire Emblem Heroes, themed “New Power 1” and “New Power 2”.
These sets include heroes who recently got new weapon skills as part of the latest software update. This includes Robin (High Deliverer) and Ogma (Loyal Blade) in New Power 1, and Palla (Eldest Whitewing), Est (Junior Whitewing), and Catria (Middle Whitewing) as part of New Power 2.
These Summoning Focuses are expected to last until December 23rd.
