Pokemon GO is the most successful mobile launch in history, according to SuperData Research. It surpassed Monster Strike as the top mobile game, and managed to take first place in top-grossing and top-download rankings for every country it launched in.
Global digital game sales in July were up 10 percent year-over-year to $5.9 billion. Thanks to Pokemon GO, the mobile category grew 16 percent from a year ago.
Pokemon GO also positively impacted Nintendo hardware and software. As SuperData notes:
“Nintendo’s mobile strategy ended up paying off exactly as intended. 3DS unit sales rose by over 50 percent from a year ago, an astonishing feat for underpowered hardware nearing the end of its lifespan. Furthermore, sales of 3DS games boomed. Combined sales of Pokémon Omega Red and Alpha Sapphire and Pokémon X and Y (2015 and 2013 releases) nearly doubled. Pokémon Go is the only factor that can explain jumps in sales of this magnitude. We are optimistic that mobile spin-offs for Fire Emblem and Animal Crossing will have a positive impact on Nintendo’s ecosystem.”
Our latest look at The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild shows off some of the weapons you’ll be able to use. Watch it below.
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— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) August 24, 2016
Family Gamer TV has a closer look at the new Harry Potter content on the way to LEGO Dimensions as part of Wave 6. Check it out below.
The eShop listing for Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice is now live in North America. On it, something is confirmed that we were all more or less counting on.
In one of the screenshots, the English menu is shown confirming Spirit of Justice’s DLC for the west. It’s right there when you start the game under “Extras and DLC”. There really was no reason to think that North America and Europe wouldn’t have the same access as Japan given how Capcom handled the series’ last release, Dual Destinies. Still, there you go.
As for what you can look forward to, the big addition in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice was the extra “Turnabout Across Time” case. Capcom also created costumes for Phoenix Wright, Apollo Justice, and Athena Cykes plus a couple of brief non-canon stories that mainly featured the former two characters.
At E3, Axiom Verge creator Tom Happ said he was looking into a potential 3DS port. That’s something which still hasn’t been ruled out, but technical challenges could prevent it from happening.
Dan Adelman, who has worked with Happ, was asked by Nintendo World Report for another update on Axiom Verge possibly coming to 3DS at Gamescom last week. Here’s the latest on that front:
“We would love to, but we’re looking into the technical feasibility. Even though the graphics/artstyle is very retro-looking, there’s actually a lot that’s technically going on under the hood. It’s always funny when people look at it and say ‘Oh, you could run that on the NES’, and I laugh because there’s no way you could run that on a NES. It really pushes the Wii U hardware. We’re investigating what it would take to bring it to the 3DS. We probably wouldn’t be able to, if we were able to do it at all, there would have to be some compromises made. We don’t know what those compromises would be, and if it’s not going to be a great experience we don’t want to do it. We’re looking into it now, if I had a magic wand and could make it play perfectly on the 3DS, absolutely we’d love to do it.”
Axiom Verge is coming to Wii U on September 1. According to Happ, it’ll be the game’s best version.
Super Mario 64 DS might be heading to the North American Wii U Virtual Console soon. Over on the ESRB, the game has now received a new rating indicating that it’s on the horizon.
Super Mario 64 DS launched on the European Wii U Virtual Console last December. At this point, a North American release is overdue.
We should be finding out about Nintendo’s Virtual Console plans for the week later today.
Inti Creates held another Japanese stream for Azure Striker Gunvolt 2 today. More footage was shown, and a couple of song previews were shared. Watch the recording below.
The latest Japanese hardware sales from Media Create are as follows:
New 3DS LL – 22,437
PS4 – 17,596
Vita – 10,027
New 3DS – 5,400
Wii U – 4,702
PS3 – 1,192
3DS – 835
3DS LL – 135
Xbox One – 52
For comparison’s sake, here are the hardware numbers from last week:
New 3DS LL – 24,382
PS4 – 17,433
Vita – 11,240
Wii U – 5,593
New 3DS – 5,354
PS3 – 1,064
3DS – 931
3DS LL – 225
Xbox One – 56
And here are the software charts:
1. [PS4] Tales of Berseria – 173,537 / NEW
2. [PS3] Tales of Berseria – 76,186 / NEW
3. [3DS] Yo-kai Watch 3 – 62,343 / 1,120,378
4. [3DS] Dragon Ball: Fusions – 18,343 / 127,652
5. [3DS] Puzzle & Dragons X – 16,370 / 144,106
6. [3DS] Kirby: Planet Robobot – 12,365 / 407,297
7. [WIU] Minecraft: Wii U Edition – 9,786 / 91,410
8. [3DS] Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire – 9,353 / 2,871,259
9. [3DS] Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games – 8,155 / 223,510
10. [WIU] Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games – 7,297 / 81,445
11. [PSV] Collar x Malice – 7,271 / NEW
12. [PSV] Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition – 6,459 / 854,061
13. [WIU] Splatoon – 5,772 / 1,452,067
14. [PSV] Toukiden 2 – 5,434 / 86,122
15. [PS4] Ratchet & Clank – 5,114 / 32,648
16. [3DS] Etrian Odyssey V – 4,636 / 109,676
17. [3DS] Sumikko Gurashi: Mura o Tsukurundesu – 4,436 / 24,977
18. [3DS] 12-Sai. Koisuru Diary – 4,099 / 24,459
19. [PS4] Toukiden 2 – 3,756 / 68,275
20. [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf (Happy Price Selection – 3,626 / 81,823
Wii U and 3DS will both be undergoing another round of maintenance today. Online play, rankings, etc. will be impacted by several hours of downtime tonight leading into tomorrow.
Here’s the schedule:
– 6 PM PT (August 24) – 2 AM PT (August 25)
– 9 PM ET (August 24) – 5 AM PT (August 25)
– 12 AM in the UK (August 25) – 10 AM in the UK (August 25)
– 3 AM in Europe (August 25) – 11 AM in Europe (August 25)
