Japan’s Splatoon art book has all sorts of lovely goodies. A couple of weeks back, an image surfaced of unused urinal warp zones. That isn’t the only interesting find from the book though.
Above is a look at an area left on the cutting room floor. At one point, the developers were toying around with an idea for a coal mine. While it didn’t make it into the final game, it could be neat to see it implemented somehow in the future!
If you picked up Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash yesterday, you may have noticed that an update for the game could be downloaded. Nintendo brought out version 1.0.1 in time for its launch. It doesn’t do too much though, as the Big N says of the patch: “Adjustments have been made to make for a more pleasant gaming experience.”
Update: Added in videos for Animal Crossing Series 2 amiibo cards and Collectors Album after the break.
Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival saw its North American launch last week, but it only just arrived in Europe yesterday. Get a look at the full item with an unboxing video below.
It’s another dose of Nintendo birthdays today! The SNES and amiibo are now a year old.
In Japan, the SNES launched on November 21, 1990. Meanwhile, the first amiibo figures came out one year ago today.
Like I said a few days ago, November is a very busy month for birthdays. The Wii U and Wii, and even Shigeru Miyamoto had their special days earlier this week.
Bloo Kid 2 has appeared on several platforms since last March. Yet the 3DS version has managed to generate the most sales, earning 36 percent of the overall revenue.
Bloo Kid 2 has sold over 5,500 copies through the eShop. Because of the title’s performance, it covered all of the developer’s costs.
winterworks wrote in a blog post:
The 3DS version was a rough ride. I was super happy when we were accepted as a developer for Nintendo platforms (dream come true!) so I ordered the dev-hardware and got my hands dirty at once.
The Monkey-X framework cannot target the 3DS hardware, so I had to create an own 3DS target build. I also had to rearrange resource-loading and add more UI-screens for the 3DS’ second display as well as change a lot of stuff for the stereoscopic 3D-effect.I got major help from my former colleague Florian Eisele, who will be working closely with me on future projects. He did all the hardware-related coding so that I could focus on adopting the game to the new display and input possibilities of the 3DS. We had a version running within days, but it took us many additional weeks to iron out every problem like running out of video RAM or occasional framerate drops.
In the end, it totally paid off. We now have a Nintendo 3DS title in our portfolio! And the game sold well enough to cover all our costs.
According to Dengeki’s own sales numbers, Project X Zone 2 sold just over 37,000 copies in its first week in Japan (fairly close to Media Create’s figure of 41,000 copies). The site also says that the game managed to sell through 60 percent of its initial shipment.
So what should we make of these numbers? Well, Dengeki has the original Project X Zone at 78,000 copies sold in its first week, and lifetime sales of 140,000 units total. Sales for the sequel do seem to be a bit sluggish thus far. If the performance of the first Project X Zone is anything to go by, the second entry may end up doing better in the west.
Kung Fu Panda: Showdown of Legendary Legends was originally planned for release earlier this week. That didn’t happen though, and it seems as though the game has gone through a slight delay.
All your favorite Kung Fu characters are here! Kung Fu Panda: Showdown of Legendary Legends arrives this December~ pic.twitter.com/eBPSkAQDuM
— Little Orbit (@littleorbit) November 9, 2015
Little Orbit has said on Twitter that Kung Fu Panda: Showdown of Legendary Legends is due out in December. A specific date wasn’t announced, but it should be launching pretty soon.
Thanks to Lolo for the tip.
On Tuesday, Aksys Games brought out Moco Moco Friends in North America. A lengthy gameplay video has now been issued, which you can watch below.
Yesterday, Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon made its debut in North America. Watch a bunch of footage from the title below.
