This week’s North American Nintendo Downloads are as follows:
Wii U Retail
Super Mario Maker – $59.99 (available Friday)
Wii U Download
Explody Bomb – $1.99
Funky Physics – $1.99
Q.U.B.E: Director’s Cut – $7.99
Star Sky – $4.00
The Swindle – $12.49
Wii U Virtual Console
Tecmo Bowl – $4.99
3DS Retail
Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai DX – $39.99
3DS Themes
Super Mario Bros. : Famicom Cartridge
eShop Sales
Wii U
– Trine Enchanted Edition and Trine 2: Director’s Cut from Frozenbyte are on sale until 8:59 a.m. PT on Oct. 10.
– Abyss and 99Moves from EnjoyUp are on sale until 8:59 a.m. PT on Oct. 8.
3DS
– Toys vs Monsters is 75 percent off (reduced from $3.99 to $0.99) until 8:59 a.m. PT on Oct. 7.
– Gardenscapes, 3D Mahjongg and Pazuru from Joindots are on sale until 8:59 a.m. PT on Sept. 24.
Permanent Price Drop
Attack on Titan: Humanity in Chains is reduced to $29.99 (from $39.99) beginning at 9 a.m. PT on Sept. 7.
Source: Nintendo PR
Today, Bandai Namco passed along some additional screenshots of the recently-confirmed characters and enemies in Project X Zone 2. We have the full set below.
Nintendo has issued a press release for Super Mario Maker’s launch tomorrow. We’ve posted it in full below.
Enter a Virtual Playroom to Create Levels, Play Levels Created by Others and Experience Mario Like Never Before
REDMOND, Wash., Sept. 10, 2015 – Flying Piranha Plants? Bill Blasters that shoot helpful coins instead of dangerous Bullet Bills? A level full of 20-Goomba-high stacks, dozens of trampolines and Hammer Bros. flying in Koopa Clown Cars? Mamma mia!
While all this sounds like some kind of amazing Nintendo fever dream, it’s all possible in the Super Mario Maker game, launching exclusively for the Wii U console on the 11th of September. This new game lets players’ imaginations run wild! Anyone with an Internet connection can play a near-limitless number of Mario levels created by people all over the world. Using the Wii U GamePad controller, players can quickly and easily create their own original levels using items, enemies, graphical styles and even power-ups from four classic Mario styles: Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario World and New Super Mario Bros. U. These levels can then be uploaded online to share with players everywhere. Things that were never possible before in a Super Mario Bros. game are now possible in Super Mario Maker – and players are in control of it all.
The official boxart for SEGA 3D Reprint Archives 2 is now available. Check it out above.
Super Mario Maker wasn’t specifically created for the series’ 30th anniversary. That’s according to Yosuke Oshino, who says that the way things lined up was “just a coincidence.”
Oshino recently said:
“This being Mario’s 30th Anniversary is just a coincidence, it’s not something we consciously planned. The idea started with the course editor for the side scrolling Mario games. This tool was previously running on PC, but the team in charge of it thought that it might be helpful for developing future Mario games if the tool ran on the Wii U GamePad and so they started doing some experiments. While doing this they realized how easy it was to make courses and how fun it was for people like them who had no experience with level design. So they decided to bring the idea of making this tool into a game to the producer, Tezuka-san.”
Even if it wasn’t intentionally planned, Super Mario Maker definitely makes the anniversary a little extra special!
Pokemon GO was announced earlier today for Android and iOS devices. Nintendo is involved with it, but the game is apparently not part of the company’s partnership with DeNA. DeNA confirmed this to Dr. Serkan Toto.
The first smartphone game jointly developed by Nintendo and DeNA is planned for release this year. If Nintendo are still sticking to that plan, we should hear an announcement pretty soon.
Update: Here’s a full transcript of the event from the official Pokemon website.
Pokemon GO was announced earlier today. In case you want to watch the whole announcement conference yourself, The Pokemon Company have uploaded a recording of the conference to their Youtube channel. Check it out below:
As announced yesterday, Nintendo just posted a brief video featuring Shigeru Miyamoto commenting on some Mario myths. Check it out below:
There are so many myths about Mario… Mr Miyamoto reveals the truth. #SuperMario30https://t.co/SGbDOz8wcB
— Nintendo of Europe (@NintendoEurope) September 10, 2015
Super Mario Maker is one of Nintendo’s biggest titles this year and their marketing push for the game reflects that, according to Nintendo UK product manager Remy van Leeuwen. Van Leeuwen told MCV that their “marketing push is on the same kind of level as [Mario Kart 8]. It’s really one of our big titles this year and it’s definitely in parity with Splatoon this year. “
Super Mario Maker was released in Japan today and it has already received its first update. Patch 1.01, for which you’ll need 201 MB of free space, comes with these changes:
- “Create a course” scene: a small element was added
- Condition(s) for increasing the amount of useable parts (in the level editor) were added
- Various changes meant to improve the gameplay experience
It seems likely that this patch will also be applied to European and US versions of the game once they release tomorrow.
