Nintendo’s latest financial report reveals the latest milestone for hardware sales. Across all of its systems released since the NES, a total of 727.65 million units have been sold.
Handhelds account for a majority of Nintendo’s sales at 427.11 million. Home consoles follow at 300.54 million.
FDG Entertainment readied a few new screenshots from the beautiful Switch title Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom. See the latest images below for a look at the final graphics with hand-drawn character animations.
Donkey Kong Country designer Gregg Mayles is back again with more insight into the early days of the game’s development. Earlier today, Mayles shared some art of early Kremling concepts, including “the origins of a far more serious and tough-looking” King K. Rool who went by “Krudd”. Also planned at one point was a military theme, though that was dropped in the end.
Below is the concept art:
The next Japanese Splatfest in Splatoon 2 is another sponsored food-themed one – Meiji Mushroom Mountain vs Meiji Bamboo Shoot Field. Today, the special artwork for this Splatfest featuring the Squid Sisters and Off the Hook was released; you can see it above.
Two Fire Emblem Heroes updates today: the daily Summoning Focus for today is Heroes with Death Blow. The focus units are Elincia: Lost Princess, Delthea: Free Spirit and Klein: Silver Nobleman.
Also, the Bound Hero Battle featuring Corrin & Azura is back. As always, there are also quests that require you to use specific characters in the BHB battle to earn extra orbs. This time, the quests ask you to use Anna: Commander and Sharena: Princess of Askr.
Nintendo has posted another update to the Smash Bros. Blog for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. This time around, we have an introduction for Richter.
Here’s the overview:
It’s time for the latest Famitsu’s most wanted games chart. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate remains its position at #3 this week.
Head past the break for the full chart. All votes were cast between July 26 and August 1.
CE-Asia has prepared a new trailer for the tactical role-playing game Banner of the Maid in celebration of ChinaJoy 2018. You can watch it below.
Gregg Mayles left a big mark on the Donkey Kong Country series. He served as a designer on the series, and created the likes of Diddy Kong and King K. Rool.
With King K. Rool having been announced for Smash Bros. Ultimate a few days ago, Mayles is taking a trip down memory lane. It turns out that Donkey Kong Country was going to be called Monkey Mayhem, and King K. Rool’s initial name was Kommander.
Nintendo asked Switch owners last year to decide on whether hot dogs are sandwiches. Ultimately, the consensus was that they are in fact sandwiches having taken home 54% of the vote. One year later, the tides have turned.
Nintendo again asked Switch owners to vote on whether hot dogs are sandwiches a few weeks ago. This was done through the system’s news channel feature. This time around, the results were shared.
