Nintendo Everything

This week’s 3DS eShop charts are as follows:

Software

1. Mario Kart 7
2. Shovel Knight
3. Super Smash Bros. for 3DS
4. Super Mario Bros. 3
5. Pokemon Omega Ruby
6. Pokemon Alpha Sapphire
7. Super Mario Bros.
8. Super Mario Bros. Deluxe
9. Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse
10. The Legend of Zelda
11. Animal Crossing: New Leaf
12. Yoshi’s New Island
13. Fantasy Life
14. Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D
15. Pokemon Trading Card Game
16. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy
17. Zelda: Link’s Awakening DX
18. VVVVVV
19. Tomodachi Life
20. Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate

Videos

1. Cube Creator 3D Trailer
2. The Cat Mario Show Episode 3
3. Mario Kart 7 Video
4. Super Smash Bros. for Wii U/3DS One Dog, One Bird, One Zapper
5. The Cat Mario Show Episode 1
6. Super Mario Bros. Deluxe Trailer
7. Super Smash Bros. for Wii U/3DS: Future King
8. Pokemon Bank Trailer
9. The Cat Mario Show Episode 2
10. Super Smash Bros. – Looks like we don’t have a choice!
11. Pokemon Art Academy Trailer
12. Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire E3 2014 TRailer
13. Captain Toad The Adventure Begins Trailer
14. New Super Mario Bros. 2: Coin Rush
15. Super Mario Bros. 3 Trailer
16. Mario Party 10 E3 2014 Trailer
17. How to Win at Smash Episode 6
18. Shantae: Risky Boots Character Video
19. Sonic Boom Launch Trailer
20. How to Win at Smash Episode 7

Source: 3DS eShop

It’s just been announced that a new Nintendo Direct presentation will air this coming Wednesday. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata will host the presentation, which will focus on games coming to the Wii U and 3DS this spring.

Fans can watch the broadcast at 9 AM ET / 6 PM PT. We’ll have a stream and potentially a live blog as the event proceeds.

Capcom went live with another localization blog about Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate today. You can access it here.

One of the more interesting topics concerns the screenshot above. Regarding the image, Capcom said the following:

If you can’t read Japanese, this message translates to “Do you want to hear that again?”, and automatically appears after every tutorial message. The cursor also defaults to Yes, so if you’re mashing buttons to get through the tutorial, you can accidentally select Yes and you’re sent through the entire thing again.

This was one of the first issues I brought to the Monster Hunter team, because I felt Western gamers wouldn’t respond well to it. After the director, Fujioka-san, explained their reasoning, I understood why they had made this decision. During the development of Monster Hunter 4, the team was directed to aim for a younger audience because the Nintendo 3DS’ market is younger than other platforms. To make sure the younger kids knew what do to, they added that question at the end of each tutorial just to be safe.

Overseas, the audience for Monster Hunter is older and more experienced with games, so they typically don’t need to read things twice to get the gist. With that in mind, we asked the team if we could remove that from our version of the game and they agreed. Woohoo! Victory #1! We also were able to naturally cut down on the tutorial length through shorter, but still entertaining dialogue – and no, we didn’t cut out anything from the tutorials – which means you can get back to the action a lot faster.

This is just one of the many subtle ways that we tweaked Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate for its Western release to make it more enjoyable to play.

I’m not really sure what’s going on here. It’s definitely some sort of bizarre glitch!

Thanks to Alex for the tip.

GameStop Italy opened up pre-orders for the New 3DS today. The standard systems are available in white/black colors, while the XL edition features metallic blue/metallic black colors. Pricing is set at €170 for the standard New 3DS and €200 for the XL version.

Pre-orders can be placed here.

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Natsume confirmed A-Train: City Simulator for North America last year. However, the publisher didn’t have much to say about the game’s European release.

Thanks to a listing on the Australian ratings board, we now know for sure that A-Train: City Simulator will be available in PAL territories. We don’t have any sort of release date, but it should definitely launch sometime this year.

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