This week’s North American Nintendo Downloads are as follows:
Wii Download for Wii U
Metroid Prime Trilogy
Wii U Download
Rock ’N Racing Off Road
Frenchy Bird
Wii U Virtual Console
Shadow of the Ninja
3DS Download
Gunman Clive 2
Sumico
Drop Zone – Under Fire
Jewel Quest The Sapphire Dragon
3DS Virtual Console
Shadow of the Ninja
3DS Demo
Code Name S.T.E.A.M.
New Animal Crossing: New Leaf Items
Between Feb. 1 and Nov. 7, every two weeks Nintendo will release a new item that has only been available in the Japanese version of Animal Crossing: New Leaf. To get them, visit your nearest Nintendo Zone!
eShop Sales
It’s the final week of the Throwback Sale! Save up to 50 percent on select games of past and current Nintendo console generations! Hurry, the sale ends at 8:59 a.m. PT on Feb. 5.
Stealth Inc. 2: A Game of Clones, Thomas Was Alone and more games from Curve Digital are on sale until 8:59 a.m. PT on Feb. 12.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Danger of the Ooze and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are on sale until 8:59 a.m. PT on Feb. 5.
Source: Nintendo PR
The official manual for Pokken Tournament has been uploaded to the arcade game’s official website. It gives us a look at a few things – notably two new support Pokemon. Frogadier and Eevee are now confirmed for Pokken Tournament.
Xenoblade Chronicles X is a huge game. So much so that it nearly takes up all of the space on the Wii U disk, and the game is extremely close to the storage limit. At one point, Monolith Soft actually considered using more than one disk.
All of that information is from today’s Japanese Xenoblade Chronicles X Twitter update, which was posted by producer Shingo Kawabata. His full comments are posted below.
Xenoblade Chronicles X is using up most of the space on the Wii U disk. It’s really, really close to the storage limit. (To the point that at one stage we were considering using more than one disk for the game). To enjoy playing, the enormous seamless map must load quickly (which was achieved through the hard work of our programming division), but we had help from Nintendo proper implementing a further improvement to what we had. I believe we’re going to reveal the details of that on the official page in the future, but to people considering purchasing the packaged version of the game, as one of the game’s developers, I highly recommend you make use of this improvement.
Just in case you’re wondering, Wii U disks offer 25GB of space. It makes you wonder what Xenoblade Chronicles X’s size will be!
There wasn’t any sort of prior announcement, but Code Name: S.T.E.A.M’s demo has arrived in Europe. It can be downloaded by visiting the eShop. We don’t know if Code Name: S.T.E.A.M’s will be out in North America today, but we’ll let you know if we hear something.
LEGO Ninjago: Shadow of Ronin, announced for 3DS last year, now has a concrete release date. Warner Bros. Interactive confirmed today that the game will launch on March 24.
Source: Warner Bros. Interactive
Warner Bros. Interactive has announced not one, but two brand new LEGO games. LEGO Jurassic World and LEGO Marvel’s Avengers are coming to both Wii U and 3DS.
LEGO Jurassic World is due out in June. LEGO Marvel’s Avengers will follow this fall.
Check out details about each below:
LEGO Jurassic World
Following the epic storylines of Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park III, as well as the highly anticipated Jurassic World, LEGO Jurassic World is the first videogame where players will be able to relive and experience all four Jurassic films. The game will be available in June for the Xbox One, all-in-one games and entertainment system, the Xbox 360 games and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3 computer entertainment systems, PlayStation Vita handheld entertainment system, the Wii U system from Nintendo, Nintendo 3DS hand-held system, and Windows PC.LEGO Marvel’s Avengers
Avengers Assemble! Experience the first console videogame featuring characters and storylines from the blockbuster film Marvel’s The Avengers and the much anticipated sequel Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron, and more. Play as the most powerful Super Heroes in their quest to save humanity. The game will be available in fall 2015 for the Xbox One, all-in-one games and entertainment system, the Xbox 360 games and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3 computer entertainment systems, PlayStation Vita handheld entertainment system, the Wii U system from Nintendo, Nintendo 3DS hand-held system, and Windows PC.
Source: Warner Bros. Interactive PR
Metroid Prime Trilogy is launching today in North America and Europe as the next Wii download for Wii U. Note that the file size weighs in at 7705MB. Get those hard drives ready!
Jumpy Cat will no longer be coming to the eShop. Ninja Pig Studios, the game’s publisher, has confirmed that there are no longer plans to publish the game.
Ninja Pig Studios’ Jordan Schuetz wrote on Twitter last week:
@photonstorm thanks for the advice. The game won't be published so it's irrelevant, but thanks for the heads up. Didn't know about that.
— Jordan Schuetz (@ninjapigstudios) January 22, 2015
