Animal Crossing: New Leaf’s major update is now live. You can grab it straight from the 3DS eShop.
Today’s update adds in functionality for amiibo as well as other features. Details can be found in our Animal Crossing Direct live blog here.
The update takes up 2,107 blocks. In other words, that’s 263.375 MB.
Here are a few Animal Crossing: New Leaf Welcome amiibo trailers:
Today’s Animal Crossing Direct will begin an hour from now (7 AM PT / 10 AM ET / 2 PM in the UK / 3 PM in Europe). We have the North American, European, and Japanese broadcasts below. We’ll also be maintaining a live blog after the break.
The presentation will be mostly focused on Animal Crossing: New Leaf. However, in the Japanese version, Nintendo will have something to say about Miitopia as well.
Live streams
The Pokemon Company put out another two Pokemon Sun/Moon commercials today. However, this time around, Pokemon GO is featured as well. Watch the two adverts below.
The latest Japanese hardware sales from Media Create are as follows:
PS4 – 30,375
New 3DS LL – 15,151
Vita – 10,392
2DS – 7,103
New 3DS – 3,090
Wii U – 1,898
PS3 – 610
Xbox One – 335
3DS – 244
3DS LL – 72
For comparison’s sake, here are the hardware numbers from last week:
PS4 – 27,069
New 3DS LL – 14,092
Vita – 8,853
2DS – 7,404
New 3DS – 2,700
Wii U – 1,919
PS3 – 763
Xbox One – 752
3DS – 370
3DS LL – 77
And here are the software charts:
At the end of next week, Prima will be bringing out Playing With Power: Nintendo NES Classics. It’s a special commemorative book featuring a commemoration of 17 NES Classics, commentary from “Nintendo visionaries”, Nintendo Power excerpts, and more.
Prima has now shared a few preview images from Playing With Power. Find them in the gallery below.
Nintendo has penciled in maintenance for 3DS in about a week’s time. Certain network services such as online play, rankings, etc. may be impacted.
The schedule for maintenance is as follows:
– 4:50 PM PT (November 8) – 6:30 PM PT (November 8)
– 7:50 PM ET (November 8) – 9:30 PM ET (November 8)
– 12:50 AM in the UK (November 9) – 2:30 AM in the UK (November 9)
– 1:50 AM in Europe (November 9) – 3:30 AM in Europe (November 9)
Thanks to MyGamingBoulevard, we have another couple of off-screen NES Classic Edition videos. See some footage of Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr. below.
Yesterday, Eurogamer wrote up a report stating that Wii U production will be wrapping up by the end of the week. Now, however, Nintendo has come out stating that there are no such plans.
“There is no change to our continuing [Wii U] production,” a spokesperson told Japanese outlet IT Media. While the representative started out by saying he/she was unaware of the article’s specifics, speculation about Wii U production ending “was not true.”
Capcom is looking to find ways to expand Monster Hunter’s sales in territories outside of Japan. Chairman Kenzo Tsujimoto stated that while the series has been finding success on handhelds in Japan, they do not sell as well in the US, citing handheld gaming being only 10% of gaming. Tsujimoto also noted that other platforms, such as the Switch, Playstation 4, and Xbox One are being taken into consideration.
