After yesterday’s interview with gameindustry.biz, Eurogamer also got the chance to sit down and talk with Mike Quigley, Niantic’s chief marketing officer, to talk about Pokemon GO. You can read the full interview here; below are a couple of interesting tidbits:
On how the success of Pokemon GO caught them off guard:
“There’s no way to sugarcoat it, we were overwhelmed by how [Pokémon GO] took off. The success of the product caught us out of position in a couple of areas – we fully admit it. The summer was quite painful – no one slept much. But this has always been a marathon not a sprint. You can look back at Ingress and see that.”
“We can look back and wish we had more resources for certain things, but we kind of weathered it and hopefully people say ‘oh, we are hearing from them more now, there’s more transparency’. And for what it’s worth, regardless of headcount or staffing, one of the reasons people weren’t hearing from us is that there were so many things going on with servers and stuff that was, frankly, distracting the company. We just wanted to make sure the game was still up and running. That took everyone and their focus to take care of things.”
One month ago, the official Japanese “Bravely” series Twitter account promised some big news for the series’ 4th anniversary. Today, a new game called “Bravely Default: Fairy’s Effect” was announced. The game will soon enter into a limited-capacity closed beta test. Further details were not announced, including which platform the game will be on, but it seems likely that this will be a smartphone game.
Keep in mind that this does not mean the end of the series on 3DS or Nintendo hardware in general. In Japan, both a smartphone and a web browser game were released between Bravely Default and Bravely Second, so a spin-off title on different hardware is nothing unusual. The title of this game also doesn’t seem to imply that it’s a sequel to Bravely Second.
The release of Pokemon Sun & Moon is almost upon us and Nintendo has seemingly stopped with the regular video releases that reveal new Pokemon. However, CoroCoro magazine apparently isn’t stopping anytime soon. Scans of its latest issue have leaked today, and they show two new Ultra Beasts, one new Pokemon and exclusive Z-Moves for the starter Pokemon.
Interestingly, the names / numbers of the Ultra Beasts are not revealed – however, it seems like these Ultra Beasts might be version exclusives, based on the layout of the magazine page and their colors. CoroCoro also states that the new Pokemon is quite a mystery, and wonders how it is related to Solgaleo and Lunala. Decidueye’s unique Z-Move is called “Shadow Arrows Strike” in Japan, while Incineroar’s is called “Hyper Dark Crusher”.
More and clearer scans will likely pop up soon; we will keep you updated.
The release of Pokemon Sun & Moon is getting ever closer, and we’ve reached another milestone today – the final event in the demo version is available today. Talk to the woman inside the building at the marina to see her off on her journey. As a reward, you will get a Comet Shard to send to the full game, which can be sold for quite a lot of money. Note that you can only start transferring items (and Greninja) once you actually have save data from the full version.
A new commercial for Pokemon Sun and Moon has released for Japan. It doesn’t show much of the actual games, instead focusing on the series progress over 20 years, similar to the games’ first reveal. Check it out below:
Awhile back, the Nintendo of Austraila twitter page hosted a Q&A for fans to ask producer Junichi Masuda and Shigeru Ohmori questions about the games. They have now answered many of the questions in a video, which you can watch below. They touch on inspiration for Alola forms, the setting, and the starters, as well as who their personal favorite new Pokemon are and noting that the series could journey to Australia some day, due to its diverse wildlife.
Developers of #PokemonSunMoon answer your questions in this Q & A video!
You posed the questions, and the makers of Pokémon answered… pic.twitter.com/LDIfcHDHzu
— Nintendo AU NZ (@NintendoAUNZ) November 11, 2016
This week’s expanded Japanese software sales are as follows:
01./00. [PS4] Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare #
02./00. [PS4] Dragon Ball: Xenoverse 2
03./00. [PS4] Atelier Firis: The Alchemist and the Mysterious Journey #
04./05. [PS4] Battlefield 1
05./00. [PSV] Atelier Firis: The Alchemist and the Mysterious Journey #
06./01. [PS4] Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization #
07./02. [PSV] Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization #
08./04. [PSV] World of Final Fantasy #
09./07. [PS4] Titanfall 2
10./03. [PS4] World of Final Fantasy #
11./10. [3DS] Monster Hunter Stories #
12./11. [3DS] Mario Party: Star Rush
13./17. [WIU] Minecraft: Wii U Edition
14./18. [PSV] Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition
15./15. [3DS] Yo-Kai Watch 3: Sushi / Tempura
16./06. [PS4] Berserk and the Band of the Hawk
17./09. [PS4] Mafia III #
18./19. [WIU] Paper Mario: Color Splash
19./22. [3DS] Kirby: Planet Robobot
20./08. [PSV] Yahari Game Demo Ore no Seishun Love-Kome wa Machigatteiru. Zoku #
Last week, Capcom released the newest round of Monster Hunter Generations DLC for the month of November. View some footage of the content in the Twitch archive below.
Miitomo has been updated with more content. Users will find returning stages, along with some brand new items.
“Royal Elegence” is the returning stage theme. They provide the following:
– Fantasy princess tiara
– Fantasy princess dress
– Magical princess tiara
– Magical princess dress
– Princely crown
– Royal prince outfit
– Fantasy prince outfit
– Princely shoes
– Cat master
– Royal princess tiara
– Royal princess dress
– Princessy pearl slippers
And as far as the new items go, you can nab the following:
– Steampunk wings
– Hair bun covers
– Cute bob wig
– Tortoise shell glasses
– Robo-kitty headgear
– Robo-kitty body (set)
– Two-tone pullover fleece
– Mid-length duffle coat
– U-neck sweater + collared shirt
– Cozy jacket + dress
– Woolen houndstooth shorts
– Mid-length pleated skirt
– Side gore ankle boots
– Side-striped sneakers
– Colored stone necklace
– Gradient felt muffler
