Nintendo Everything

This week’s Wii U/3DS-specific UK software sales are as follows:

Wii U

1. Mario & Sonic: Rio 2016 Olympic Games – Nintendo
2. Minecraft Wii U Edition – Nintendo
3. New Super Mario Bros. U + New Super Luigi U – Nintendo
4. Mario Kart 8 – Nintendo
5. Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Warner Bros. Interactive
6. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD – Nintendo
7. Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze – Nintendo
8. Splatoon – Nintendo
9. Pokken Tournament – Nintendo
10. Super Mario Maker – Nintendo

3DS

1. Pokemon Alpha Sapphire – Capcom
2. Pokemon Omega Ruby – Nintendo
3. Monster Hunter Generations – Nintendo
4. Pokemon X – Nintendo
5. New Super Mario Bros. 2 – Nintendo
6. Pokemon Y – Nintendo
7. Tomodachi Life – Nintendo
8. Yo-Kai Watch – Nintendo
9. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D – Nintendo
10. Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon – Nintendo

Source: Chart-Track

This week’s UK software sales are as follows:

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A few new Pokemon themes will be arriving on the European 3DS eShop on Friday, August 5. The first theme features several Pokemon with Substitutes, the second features Gardevoir and Gallade, and the third features Latios and Latias. These themes were previously only available in Japan.

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The retail version of FAST Racing Neo is now available to pre-order on Amazon. The game will cost €24.99 and is currently only available for Europe. It will release September 30, and it includes the main game and its upcoming DLC tracks.

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Dragon Ball: Fusions has received yet another scan, the latest one being from Weekly Jump. The magazine shows Gorus, the Ultimate God fusion – created by a fan – between Goku and God of Destruction Beerus. Players can add the character to their squad by scanning a QR code (pictured in the image above).

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With data provided by SurveyMonkey Intelligence, Forbes has taken a look at the demographic behind Pokemon GO.

Interestingly, a majority of Pokemon GO players appear to be female. The split is estimated to be at around two-thirds female, one-third male. It’s also said that the average player “is a 25-year-old, white woman with a college degree making about $90,000 a year.”

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Free plays are often handed out in Nintendo Badge Arcade. But what happens when users decide not to spend cash on extras? What happens to that poor bunny? We explore that idea – and poke some fun at it – in our new comic below.

It’s time for the latest Famitsu‘s most wanted games chart! Games like Dragon Quest XI and Zelda: Breath of the Wild maintain their positions, while Monster Hunter Stories is now in the top 10.

Head past the break for the full chart. All votes were cast between July 14 and July 20.

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Yo-kai Watch 2 will be available in Australia and New Zealand on October 15, Nintendo has announced. Today’s news follows a pair of classification ratings from the region.

Nintendo posted the following on Twitter a couple of minutes ago:

North America will have Yo-kai Watch 2 slightly earlier on September 30. There’s no news regarding a European release, but that will likely change in the months ahead.

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Yesterday, Niantic issued a new Pokemon GO update across iOS and Android. But there’s a problem with the former platform that some users have been experiencing.

The issue makes it seem that progress has been lost. However, this is not the case, and some players may have only “inadvertently created another Pokemon GO account by logging in with a different Google email address than the one originally used for the game.”

You’ll find the full lowdown on the problem below, as well as instructions from Niantic about how to solve it.

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