Capcom reported its financial results today for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2018. As the company has said in previous reports, its original Switch games sold well. Monster Hunter XX and Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers both “enjoyed hit status”.
In November, Capcom confirmed that Ultra Street Fighter II had shipped 500,000 copies worldwide. Monster Hunter XX managed to exceed shipments of 350,000 units.
Bandai Namco has a new character trailer ready for Little Nightmares: Complete Edition focusing on The Guests. View the video below.
As Tennis World Tour approaches its release date this month, Bigben has prepared a new gameplay video showing a match between John McEnroe vs. Andre Agassi. We have the footage below.
Team17 has published the launch trailer for Raging Justice, which is out today on the Switch eShop. View the video below.
It’s unclear just how much Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze sold during its first week in the UK. However, we do know that it was towards the top of the charts.
GamesIndustry adds that the new Switch version “already accounts for nearly 17% of the total number of copies the game has sold in the UK (physical units only). Week one sales of the Switch version were 53.7% higher than week one sales of the Wii U version (although Switch does have a considerably higher install base).”
We should have an idea as to how Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze performed on Switch in Japan this week. As for the US, we’ll need to wait for next month’s NPD report.
Nintendo and HAL posted two new pieces of Kirby Star Allies art on Twitter today. The first image, attached above, highlights the character in his muscled form during the boss battle. We have some more standard art of Dedede below.
Part of the paid Nintendo Switch Online service is a selection of NES games with added online functionality. 20 of those will be available at launch, with more to be added later. Being able to play classic games (albeit not online) has previously been done on Nintendo systems with the Virtual Console service, with the difference that games had to be purchased individually. For a while now, it has seemed increasingly likely that a Virtual Console like on Wii, Wii U and Nintendo 3DS would not be coming to the Nintendo Switch – and this has now been confirmed.
Kotaku inquired about a possible Virtual Console on Switch, and received the following answer from a Nintendo spokesperson via e-mail:
The latest Jake Hunter game has been announced, and it’s coming to Nintendo Switch. The game’s full title is Jake Hunter Detective Story: Prism of Eyes. This is pretty much all we can glean from the preview images of this week’s Famitsu magazine, but we should have more info once we have access to the full issue later this week.
This week’s Switch/ Wii U/3DS-specific UK software sales are as follows:
Switch
1. Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze – Nintendo
2. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – Nintendo
3. Super Mario Odyssey – Nintendo
4. Nintendo Labo Toy-Con 01: Variety Kit – Nintendo
5. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – Nintendo
6. Splatoon 2 – Nintendo
7. 1-2-Switch – Nintendo
8. Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2 – Warner Bros. Interactive
9. Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle – Ubisoft
10. Nintendo Labo Toy-Con 02: Robot Kit – Nintendo
Wii U
1. Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze – Nintendo
2. Minecraft: Wii U Edition – Nintendo
3. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – Nintendo
4. Just Dance 2018 – Ubisoft
5. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD – Nintendo
6. Lego City Undercover – Nintendo
7. Splatoon – Nintendo
8. Sonic & All Stars Racing Transformed – SEGA
9. Super Mario 3D World – Nintendo
10. Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival – Nintendo
3DS
1. Mario Kart 7 – Nintendo
2. Pokemon Ultra Moon – Nintendo
3. Pokemon Ultra Sun – Nintendo
4. Super Mario 3D Land – Nintendo
5. New Super Mario Bros. 2 – Nintendo
6. Detective Pikachu – Nintendo
7. Tomodachi Life – Nintendo
8. Luigi’s Mansion 2 – Nintendo
9. Miitopia – Nintendo
10. Mario Party: Island Tour – Nintendo
Source: Chart-Track
