Nintendo Everything

This week’s Famitsu scans are now available. Highlighted games include FuRyu’s 3DS visual novels and Puzzle & Dragons X (also threw in a Splatoon Splatfest ad). Scans of each can be found in the gallery below.

Nintendo’s 2016 Annual Report is now available. For those that are interested, head on over here to check it out. There doesn’t appear to be anything overly new (yes, NX is still coming next March), but it provides a nice recap of some information.

Here are a few highlights:

Net sales: U.S.$4,464 (millions of dollars)
Operating income (loss): 290 (millions of dollars)
Number of employees: 5,064 [633 temporary]
3DS global hardware sales: 6.79 million
Wii U global hardware sales: 3.26 million
3DS global software sales: 48.52 million
Wii U global software sales: 27.36 million
Reginald Fils-Aime and Satoru Shibata are now Executive Officers of Nintendo of America and Nintendo of Europe respectively

And the single note about NX:

Nintendo is also devoted to the development of a gaming platform codenamed “NX” with a brand-new concept, which will be launched in March 2017 globally.

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Buddy & Me Dream Edition is slated for release tomorrow in both North America and Europe on the Wii U eShop. Watch a few minutes of gameplay below.

Super Mario Maker will be undergoing maintenance tomorrow evening (Thursday into Friday). It was actually planned earlier in the week, but Nintendo shifted things around.

In any case, the maintenance period is scheduled for the following times:

– 8:50 PM PT (July 21) – 11 PM PT (July 21)
– 11:50 PM ET (July 21) – 2 AM ET (July 22)
– 4:50 AM in the UK (July 22) – 7 AM in the UK (July 22)
– 5:50 AM in Europe (July 22) – 8 AM in Europe (July 22)

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We have file sizes for two Wii U eShop games arriving very soon. Buddy & Me Dream Edition, out tomorrow in North America and Europe, requires 278MB. The European release Dragon Skills is 318MB.

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We’ve been hearing a lot of rumors about a partnership between Pokemon GO and McDonald’s Japan as of late. Today, it was finally made official.

McDonald’s has announced that they’re collaborating with Pokemon GO, but there’s no news as to when exactly it’s coming. The game’s severs are being prepared so that there are no errors. Also, it was clarified that the news reported by media previously did not come from them.

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The latest Japanese hardware sales from Media Create are as follows:

New 3DS LL – 23,382
PS4 – 20,395
Vita – 10,991
Wii U – 7,601
New 3DS – 3,665
PS3 – 1,045
3DS – 653
3DS LL – 106
Xbox One – 63

For comparison’s sake, here are the hardware numbers from last week:

PS4 – 22,717
New 3DS LL – 16,505
Wii U – 15,470
Vita – 11,042
New 3DS – 3,284
PS3 – 1,126
3DS – 670
3DS LL – 87
Xbox One – 72

And here are the software charts:

1. [3DS] Yo-kai Watch 3 – 632,135 / NEW
2. [PSV] The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 3rd Evolution – 10,485 / NEW
3. [3DS] Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns – 9,806 / 156,484
4. [WIU] Splatoon – 8,241 / 1,423,257
5. [WIU] Minecraft: Wii U Edition – 8,127 / 50,957
6. [WIU] Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games – 7,611 / 45,896
7. [PSV] Uppers – 6,931 / NEW
8. [3DS] Culdcept Revolt – 6,519 / 35,839
9. [PSV] Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition – 6,121 / 824,235
10. [3DS] Kirby: Planet Robobot – 5,484 / 350,387
11. [PSV] Refrain no Chika Meikyuu to Majo no Ryodan – 5,214 / 39,786
12. [PS4] Overwatch – 4,798 / 120,522
13. [PS4] Super Robot Wars OG: The Moon Dwellers – 4,561 / 84,032
14. [3DS] Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games – 4,187 / 191,526
15. [3DS] Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire – 4,102 / 2,823,853
16. [3DS] Taiko no Tatsujin: Don Don! Mystery Adventure – 3,971 / 61,181
17. [PS3] Super Robot Wars OG: The Moon Dwellers – 3,451 / 48,769
18. [PSV] Dragon Quest Heroes II – 3,198 / 215,631
19. [PS4] Grand Theft Auto V (4,990 Yen Edition) – 3,188 / 133,568
20. [PSV] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2016 – 2,887 / 156,427

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Bandai Namco has released an official set of screenshots showing Darkrai in the arcade version of Pokken Tournament. View them below.

Darkrai has not yet been announced for the Wii U version of Pokken Tournament. However, we do expect news to drop in the future given that a reference to the Pokemon was found in update files.

The Splatoon Live in Makuhari CD came out in Japan last Wednesday. According to Oricon, the package sold 10,345 copies in its first week. It was also the eighth best-selling album during that period.

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Capcom’s been posting several videos featuring the various monsters from Monster Hunter Stories, and the latest one shows the Aptonoth in action. Watch it below: