Update (12/29): Replaced Famitsu data with Media Create.
Original (12/28): The latest Japanese hardware sales from Media Create are as follows:
New 3DS LL – 111,513
PS4 – 90,140
Vita – 57,170
2DS – 51,077
New 3DS – 13,694
PS4 Pro – 10,098
Wii U – 8,348
PS3 – 1,234
Xbox One – 830
3DS – 169
3DS LL – 109
For comparison’s sake, here are the hardware numbers from last week:
New 3DS LL – 84,823
PS4 – 70,031
2DS – 39,218
Vita – 36,214
PS4 Pro – 9,317
New 3DS – 9,149
Wii U – 5,095
Xbox One – 1,872
PS3 – 925
3DS – 226
3DS LL – 62
And here are the software charts:
Momotaro Dentetsu 2017: Tachiagare Nippon!! was shown on the latest episode of Denjin Getcha. Take a look at the full recording below.
Stephen Radosh produced the Mario and Zelda games for the Philips CD-i. But before that, one position he had was at SEGA.
Radosh was involved with working on arcade cabinets. One that never released was actually for a Nintendo character – specifically Donkey Kong. This would have been a title in which players controlled Donkey Kong as a parking attendant.
Radosh told Game Informer:
“Somehow Sega had gotten the rights to Donkey Kong. You were dodging cars that were pulling in and out of the lot, and you had to get X number of cars parked in spaces.”
What happened to that project, might you ask? When it was in development and Radosh was working at SEGA, the company (owned by Paramount at the time) was sold back to Japan.
A few new Dragon Quest XI details have emerged from NHK’s Dragon Quest 30th anniversary special program.
First, camping is in the game. One image shown from the PlayStation 4 version is of a “Camp Menu”. Here players can rest (heals HP and MP), do “mysterious smithing,” pray to the statue of the goddess, and patrol the area.
On another screen which asks the player what they want to create, the following options are shown:
Copper Sword (Seidou no Tsurugi)
Iron Sword (Tetsu no Tsurugi)
Silver Rapier (Zan no Rapier)
Zombie Killer
Platinum Sword
Zombie Buster
Magic Swordsman Rapier (Makenshi no Rapier)
Fire Sword (Honoo no Tsurugi)
Metal Slime Sword (Metasura no Tsurugi)
Miracle Sword Modified (Kiseki no Tsurugi Kai)
Hayabusa Sword Modified (Hayabusa no Tsurugi Kai)
Inferno Sword
As Gematsu points out, each item in the smithing menu has a list of required items to create that item, a description, and difficulty level.
NHK’s program also showed that players will be able to ride dragons in Dragon Quest XI.
During NHK’s Dragon Quest 30th anniversary special program, some footage of Dragon Quest XI footage. We get a brief look at the 3DS version as well as the PS4 (and possibly Switch) release. Watch the clip below.
After recently revealing plans for a Meta Ridley figure, First 4 Figures has pulled back the curtains on another Nintendo item. At some point in 2017, a new Bowser figure will be released.
Just like with Meta Ridley, we only have a single teaser image to look at, which is attached above. We’ll hopefully have more images and an actual release date at the start of 2017.
After spilling the beans on Ubisoft’s apparent plans to bring the next Assassin’s Creed to Switch earlier this week, YouTube user OBE1plays spoke with reliable leaker Laura Kate Dale during a stream yesterday. Dale was more than willing to answer questions about the system. Here’s a roundup of information shared, as collected by Nintendo Life:
We found out this past summer that the servers for Devil’s Third would be taken offline. That day has finally come. If you try playing the game online, you’ll be greeted with the message above. It was fun while it lasted I suppose!
This month’s issue of Retro Gamer features an interview with Satoru Okada, a former designer at Nintendo. Okada worked at the company for about 40 years, and was directly involved with the creation of various hardware.
Some excerpts from the interview are now available. Below, you can read excerpts from Okada about the Game & Watch, Game Boy, and DS. You might be surprised to learn that late Nintendo president Satoru Iwata wasn’t initially interested in the idea for dual screens…
This week’s North American Nintendo Downloads are as follows:
Wii U Virtual Console
Mario Kart 64 – $9.99
New 3DS Virtual Console
Castlevania Dracula X – $7.99
