It’s been a long wait for Armillo, but the game is almost ready for release. It may only be a couple of weeks away – at least in Europe – based on a new listing on the eShop.
If the Wii U eShop is correct, Armillo will launch in Europe on July 3. One would also think that the North American launch would take place at around the same time.
This week’s Famitsu review scores are as follows:
Watch Dogs (PS4/PS3/360) – 9/9/9/9
Freedom Wars (PSV) – 8/9/9/9
Taiko Drum Master: Don and Katsu’s Space-Time Great Adventure (3DS) – 8/9/8/8
Kamen Rider: Battride War II (PS3/Wii U) – 7/8/8/8
Kamen Rider: Battride War II (Wii U) – 7/8/8/8
Cross Channel: For All People (PS3) – 7/7/7/9
Robotics;Notes Elite (PSV) – 7/7/7/9
Date A Live: Ars Install (PS3) – 7/8/7/8
Aiyoku no Eustia: Angel’s Blessing (PSV) – 7/8/7/7
Black Code (PSP) – 7/7/7/7
Cross Channel: For All People (PSV) – 7/7/7/7
Girls und Panzer (PSV) – 6/6/6/5
This week’s European Nintendo Downloads are as follows:
Wii U
Pullbox World – Regular price is €9.99 / £8.99 / CHF14.00; €6.99 / £6.29 / CHF9.80 until 31/07/14 if you’ve previously downloaded Pullblox or Fallblox on Nintendo 3DS
Monkey Pirates – €4.99 / £4.49 / CHF7.00
Another World – 20th Anniversary Edition – €7.99 / £7.19 / CHF11.20
How to Train Your Dragon 2 – €39.99 / £29.99 / CHF48.85
Color Zen Kids – €2.99 / £2.99 / CHF3.99
Wii U VC
Super C – €4.99 / £3.49 / CHF7.00
3DS
Another World – 20th Anniversary Edition – €7.99 / £7.19 / CHF11.20
How to Train Your Dragon 2 – €29.99 / £24.99 / CHF36.60
Color Zen Kids – €2.99 / £2.99 / CHF3.99
BearShark – €1.99 / £1.79 / CHF2.80
3DS DLC
Mario Golf World Tour: Star Pack – €5.99 / £5.39 / CHF8.40
Mario Golf World Tour: Free-Trial Course Pack – free (If you invite Rosalina to play, you’ll also get two courses: Mario’s Star and the New Super Mario Bros. U-inspired Rock-Candy Mines! If you download the Free-Trial Course Pack, you can try the new courses before you buy!)
Special Offers
Toki Tori 2 + – €2.99 / £2.50 / CHF3.99 (until July 3)
Aqua Moto Racing 3D – €5.99 / £5.39 / CHF8.39 (until July 17)
Fractured Soul – €3.99 / £3.59 / CHF5.60 (until July 3)
Source: Nintendo PR
A Sonic cameo today in the form of a trophy, Sakurai explains:
Here’s Dr. Eggman’s machine, Eggrobo. It’ll appear as a guest character in Smash Run and attack you with laser beams.
Takashi Tezuka has confirmed that the Mario Maker development team is comprised of staffers from various internal Nintendo groups. The project was originally being made by he Mario course tools team – who came up with the concept – but a new group was formed when Mario Maker turned into an actual game.
We also have news regarding Mario Maker’s director: Yosuke Oshino. Oshino is a relatively young staffer who is directing for the first time. He previously worked on New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Pikmin and Pikmin 2 as a programmer, and acted as programming support on Mario Kart 7.
This month’s NPD report is in, and so are the leaks. “creamsugar”, a member of NeoGAF known for sharing NPD data, has provided a rough breakdown of sales for each platform:
200k > PS4 > 100k > XBO > Wii U > 360 > 50k > PS3 > Wii
It’ll be more interesting to see how Wii U performs next month. Mario Kart 8 launched at the very end of May, meaning it didn’t have an absolutely major impact in last month’s NPD report. June will be much more noteworthy to examine!
According to social media intelligence analytics provider Crimson Hexagon, Nintendo experienced the highest level of Twitter success during E3 2014.
Crimson Hexagon reports that 47 percent of all tweets mentioned Nintendo. Two of the most popular tweets included a message made by Nintendo of America teasing Shigeru Miyamoto’s appearance on a live broadcast and another from @Dropkickpikachu, who said: “Nintendo has just shown more playable female character’s in one game preview than the other companies have all E3 so far.”
As a whole, the #Nintendo hashtag was tweeted 30,000 times. The #e32014 hashtag was tweeted another 55,000 times.
The scarf above comes with all copies of the Hyrule Warriors Treasure Box. It also comes with a triforce clock and several other goodies.
For a breakdown of the Treasure Box and Premium Box, check out this post.
