Several 3DS online services, such as online play and rankings, will undergo maintenance for approximately 5 hours later today. The exact times are as follows:
– 4 PM PT (December 20) – 9 PM PT (December 20)
– 7 PM ET (December 20) – 12 AM ET (December 21)
– 12 AM in the UK (December 21) – 5 AM in the UK (December 21)
– 1 AM in Europe (December 21) – 6 AM in Europe (December 21)
The release date of Poochy & Yoshi’s Woolly World is just over a month away, and Nintendo just released a new trailer for the game alongside a press release which highlights the game’s features.
By scanning the Yarn Poochy amiibo, players can summon Poochy to help them out. When you scan the amiibo during Poochy Dash stages, you will instead unlock fast-paced Time Attack challenges, which reward you with new Poochy patterns when you beat them.
Mellow Mode is back from the Wii U version, but in addition to having wings, Yoshi can also count on the help of the Poochy Pups, who will seek out secrets and hidden collectables and also can be used to attack enemies.
A great variety of amiibo can be used to unlock new patterns for Yoshi, and new additions for the 3DS version include the Splatoon and Animal Crossing amiibo.
As previously announced, the game also includes 30 stop-motion animations by the Japanese animation studio Dwarf.
Finally, an update is coming to the Wii U version of Yoshi’s Woolly World on February 3rd that will add compatibility with the Yarn Poochy amiibo.
Poochy & Yoshi’s Woolly World will be released on February 3rd in Europe and North America.
Super Mario Run has been given a minor update to fix some small bugs. The most important issue seems to be related to loading the game and trying to link it to your Facebook, which could cause a crash. The patch notes are as follows:
– Issue with Friend List linking has been fixed.
– Other minor issues have been fixed.
Pokemon Shuffle’s weekly update has arrived, and, most importantly, it brings along new stages for devoted players. If you’ve gotten up through Stage 450, you can now access Stage 451 and more.
In the Special Stages, there is a competitive stage featuring Rayquaza. Players who Check In will receive a Rayquaza as a gift, and you can also take on the competitive stage to earn more prizes. The stage lasts until December 27, and the prizes are as follows:
Finally, repeat runs have begun for Hoopa Confined, Zygarde Complete, and Arceus, which will last until January 3.
Last Wednesday, Nintendo surprised a Southwest airlines flight with a special event. All passengers were given a New 3DS XL and a digital copy of Super Mario Maker for 3DS. Mario was also waiting to welcome everyone at the gate when the flight landed.
Southwest has now shared a recap video of all that transpired. Watch it below.
Surprise an entire flight with the New Nintendo 3DS? Yes! We joined @NintendoAmerica & @iJustine for one unforgettable trip: pic.twitter.com/FIJUMIv1v0
— Southwest Airlines (@SouthwestAir) December 16, 2016
Niantic is in the process of rolling out a new Pokemon GO update. Like usual, fans are picking it apart in hopes of making some interesting discoveries. The Silph Road now appears to have found evidence of a potential holiday event / items.
First, graphic assets have been added which look a lot like presents or gifts. File names for these are tiered from Bronze to Gold and then with variants for Special, Great, and Ultra. The Silph Road also points out that a metadata attribute named “HasHolidayItems” is showing in relation to the shop, and a variant of the shop button has appeared:
We’ll have to see if anything comes of this. If we do hear anything, we’ll let you know,
After a reported five years of searching, the first advertisement for what would become the Nintendo Entertainment System has been located.
Hidden a few pages into a 1984 issue of Consumer Electionics is the first advertisement for the NES, in the form of a prototype known as the Advanced Video System, or AVS. Found by archivist Frank Cifaldi on eBay, he parted with a measly $6.99 for what he considered an “extremely lucky” find.
It took five years but I finally found it: the very first advertisement for what became the Nintendo Entertainment System, from late 1984! pic.twitter.com/6r4sv7vSst
— Frank Cifaldi (@frankcifaldi) December 17, 2016
The third Yo-kai Watch movie, known as Eiga Yo-kai Watch: Sora Tobu Kujira to Double no Sekai no Daib?ken da Nyan! (Yo-kai Watch The Movie: The Flying Whale and the Grand Adventure of the Double Worlds, Meow!), premiered in Japan this past weekend. It managed to top the Japanese box office, beating out Rogue One: A Star Wars Story – which also opened a day earlier. We should note however that Yo-kai Watch’s box office earnings for the Saturday – Sunday time period did not overcome Star Wars.
The new Yo-kai Watch film sold 545,211 tickets for 608,033,100 yen (roughly $5.189 million) on 415 screens on Saturday and Sunday. That amount encompasses 57.5 percent of the opening weekend box office for the previous Yo-kai Watch movie, which went on to earn 5.53 billion yen (roughly $47 million).
Thanks to Mii Again for the tip.
Update: Bumped to the top. As usual, Sensor Tower is reporting different data. They said Super Mario Run was downloaded 25 million times in four days. Sensor Tower also estimates that the game generated over $21 million in revenue.
Original: Based on the latest data from App Annie, Super Mario Run was downloaded over 37,256,946 times between December 15 and December 17. 11,052,106 of those downloads are said to be from the United States. There were also 1,991,086 downloads in the UK.
During the initial three day period, users played Super Mario Run 2.4 times each day. App Annie says the average play time was 5 minutes 35 seconds (13 minutes 12 seconds a day).
Play sessions of Super Mario Run were slightly longer on iPad. While it was played for 14 minutes and ten seconds every day on iPad, iPhone users played for 12 minutes and 14 seconds.
Switch is now confirmed to support both Vulkan and OpenGL 4.5. The Khronos Group certifies the console as a Vulkan 1.0 conformant implementation. Moreover, it shows the OS as “Nintendo OS” and it passes the Vulkan 1.0.1.0 CTS. Switch is listed as hitting OpenGL 4.5 and OpenGL ES 3.2 conformance as well.
That’s a lot of technical talk, but it should only mean good things for Switch owners in the end. This essentially means that developers should have an easier time creating games for the system.
