With the release of Code Name: S.T.E.A.M., Nintendo is currently sending out an Abraham Lincoln Mii via SpotPass with the name ‘Honest Abe’. Check your 3DS if you’re not on it to see if you have that blue light, and go to your Miiplaza to see and receive the 16th president of the United States and our defender from aliens!
Inti Creates’ eShop hit Azure Striker Gunvolt has just reached 100,000, the official Twitter for the game just tweeted.
Azure Striker Gunvolt has cleared the 100,000 worldwide downloads milestone! Thank you!! 😀 http://t.co/bUybcvEDZT pic.twitter.com/AomXY4eNnz
— INTI CREATES (@IntiCreatesEN) March 13, 2015
This is certainly a much deserved milestone for this fantastic platformer. Have you played Azure Striker Gunvolt yet? A demo was just released a few weeks ago and is now available for download in the 3DS eShop. A sequel for the game is currently in the works.
The new Stella Glow trailer is officially here after going dark since its announcement back in October of last year. This neat looking RPG is slated to come out in Japan on June 4th. No word on a western release.
Though news and details on this game have been scarce, you can get a good idea of what Stella Glow is all about here and here
System: Nintendo 3DS eShop
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Developer: Sega AM2/M2
Publisher: Sega
Author: Patrick
When Sega announced their line of remastered “Classics” for the 3DS, the one I was really holding out for was Out Run. Being born in an era where arcades barely mattered, I’d only had a single chance to play the original arcade cabinet so my familiarity with the game mostly came from the fact that it has already been ported to just about every console in existence. While most of these ports captured the game’s relaxed feel and addictive gameplay, they did vary wildly in quality so I was curious to see how well this 3DS version stacked up. Is it faithful to Yu Suzuki’s original classic?
Well yeah, of course. The emulation experts at M2 always go to crazy lengths to get the small details accurate as possible while throwing in heaps of extra content and hidden bonuses. What really surprised me was how well Out Run holds up in the year 2015.
Kirby and the Rainbow Curse’s debut sales in the U.S. are in. Last month, the game sold 52,000 copies, according to reliable NPD leaker “creamsugar”. It should be noted that because Kirby and the Rainbow Curse launched towards the end of February, that figure only accounts for about a week of sales.
The only other piece of Kirby and the Rainbow Curse sales data comes from Japan. First week sales for the game (as revealed by Media Create a few weeks ago) came in at 32,000 units. Total units sold should be at around 60,000 units at this point.
RCMADIAX’s latest game, Pentapuzzle, is now confirmed to be hitting the North American Wii U eShop next week. Pricing is set at $4.49.
RCMADIAX has released several other titles on the Wii U eShop, including Blok Drop U, Shut the Box, and Toss N Go.
Nintendo has followed up on this month’s NPD report with a bunch of sales figures.
In terms of what we haven’t already reported, Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate managed to sell 290,000 copies in its first month. Super Smash Bros. for Wii U sales have now surpassed 1.5 million, while amiibo figures are up to 3.5 million.
Read on below for Nintendo’s full response to this month’s NPD report.
Nintendo has shared a notable stat from this month’s NPD report. According to the company, all versions of the 3DS sold a combined 395,000 units in the U.S. last month.
A Nintendo spokesperson told GamesBeat, “The great majority of these sales were New Nintendo 3DS XL systems, which sold 130 percent more units in its initial frame than Nintendo 3DS XL did when it launched on Aug. 19, 2012.”
Gaming hardware sales for the industry were up $378.2 million for a 10 percent bump year-over-year. The launch of the New 3DS XL provided a large contribution to that figure.
Regarding Wii U, Nintendo says that “hardware sales have increased by more than 20 percent” thus far in 2015 compared to the same period in 2014.
