Wii U and 3DS both underwent maintenance last night. Later today and carrying into tomorrow, that’ll be happening once again.
The schedule is as follows:
– 6 PM PT – 2 AM PT
– 9 PM ET – 5 AM PT
– 2 AM in the UK – 10 AM in the UK
– 3 AM in Europe – 11 AM in Europe
The maintenance period will affect certain network services such as online play, rankings, etc.
This week’s issue of Famitsu has an interview with Hisashi Nogami, the producer of Splatoon. One portion of the discussion touched on the game’s future.
Famitsu asks if it really is the end for Splatfests. According to Nogami, it was originally decided to run Splatfests for a year. Nintendo was able to continue those events, but they feel now is the right time to have them come to a close.
As for the future specifically, Nogami feels that the game is done. Nintendo has stopped with Splatfests and updates, but they’d still like to build excitement through events such as Splatoon Koshien tournaments. When asked about something like a sequel, Nogami said that Splatoon has been raised together with the fans who have been playing it, and they’d like to continue heading in that direction in the future with the utmost care.
A new Nintendo Direct focusing on the 3DS will be hosted on Thursday, Nintendo has announced.
The presentation will be shown at the following times:
– 7 AM PT
– 10 AM ET
– 3 PM in the UK
– 4 PM in Europe
We’ll have a live stream and post going with the Nintendo 3DS Direct before it happens. The official page is located here.
Note: Nintendo says there will be no NX talk during the Direct.
Nintendo just released the third video in a multi-part series about a squad of toads helping Mario in Paper Mario: Color Splash. We have today’s clip below.
This week’s Famitsu review scores are as follows:
Salt and Sanctuary (PS4) – 8/9/8/9
Tokyo Xanadu eX+ (PS4) – 9/8/8/8
F1 2016 (PS4/XBO) – 8/8/8/8
Bound (PS4) – 7/8/7/9
Volume (PS4/PSV) – 7/8/7/8
Yuukyuu no Tierblade: Lost Chronicle (PSV) – 7/7/8/8
Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger: Battle Cube Puzzle (3DS) – 7/7/7/7
A few days ago, Let’s Play Video Games put up a report claiming that NX will make use of advanced vibration technology and motion sensing in new controllers intended to replace the Wii Remote. The site has now followed with additional unconfirmed information regarding the current version of development hardware.
Let’s Play Video Games writes that developers have access to a split d-pad as well as some sort of share button, similar to that of the PlayStation 4. The button features a small icon of a camera and will let users upload still images and video on Miiverse, Twitter, Facebook or YouTube. Images or video can also be saved to external memory devices, which then can be ultimately moved to PC.
Let’s Play Video Games offers up the following mockup:
Just like last week’s report, these latest rumors are unconfirmed. It’ll stay that way until Nintendo has something official to say about its new system.
This week’s Wii U/3DS-specific UK software sales are as follows:
Wii U
1. Minecraft Wii U Edition – Nintendo
2. Mario & Sonic: Rio 2016 Olympic Games – Nintendo
3. New Super Mario Bros. U + New Super Luigi U – Nintendo
4. Mario Kart 8 – Nintendo
5. Pokken Tournament – Nintendo
6. Splatoon – Nintendo
7. Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Warner Bros. Interactive
8. Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze – Nintendo
9. The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD – Nintendo
10. Super Mario Maker – Nintendo
3DS
1. New Super Mario Bros. 2 – Nintendo
2. Pokemon Omega Ruby – Nintendo
3. Tomodachi Life – Nintendo
4. Yo-Kai Watch – Nintendo
5. Pokemon Alpha Sapphire – Nintendo
6. Pokemon X – Nintendo
7. Pokemon Y – Nintendo
8. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D – Nintendo
9. Monster Hunter Generations – Capcom
10. Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon – Nintendo
Source: Chart-Track
Pokémon Shuffle’s free weekly updates continue! As announced last week, a repeat run of the Mega Charizard X stage has begun, and will run until September 6. As usual with Mega challenges, only the best players will earn the Mega Charizardite X, going to the top 13,000 players in Europe, 19,000 in North America and 60,000 in Japan. Other prizes are as follows:
-Skill Swapper: Top 1,000 (EU), 1,600 (NA), and 5,000 (JP)
-Mega Speedup: Top 4,200 (EU), 6,400 (NA), and 20,000 (JP)
-Disruption Delay: Top 4,201-19,000 (EU), 6,401-26,000 (NA), and 20,001-80,000 (JP)
-Attack Power: All players who don’t get the Charizardite X
Players who qualify for the Charizardite X but already have it will receive a Raise Max Level instead.
The non-competitive stages added this week are a new stage for Xerneas, and repeat runs of Arceus, Regice, and Daily Pokémon (#5). The last of those features Maractus, Dunsparce, Qwilfish, Durant and Heatmor, all switching on a daily basis. The Xerneas stage will last until September 6, while the others run until the 13th.
Tallowmere will be hitting the Wii U eShop in North America on September 1. To download it, you’ll need 326 mb of space.
