New information was released through Tecmo Koei’s financial results, Hyrule Warriors (known in Japan as Zelda Musou) is coming to Japan this summer. A Western release is set for later this year. This announcement came through Tecmo Koei and not Nintendo as Nintendo are only responsible for the publishing in the west.
A pair of screenshots today. Sakurai explains:
Bullet Bill here is an item. Can you guess what happens when you use it?
You turn into Bullet Bill and go full speed ahead!
Nintendo has published the full outline from its financial results briefing held earlier today, featuring comments from Satoru Iwata. You can find it here. We’ve already picked out quite a few quotes from the briefing (not to mention the comprehensive summary that went up earlier!), but if you want to read up on more lovely comments from Iwata, now you have the chance to do so.
While Wii U may be suffering from a dearth of third-party support, outside developers and publishers continue to work on new experiences for 3DS – especially in Japan. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata said during an investor briefing earlier today that we can count on even more third-party games for the platform, “including unannounced ones.”
Iwata said:
Nintendo has been hard at work on creating certain titles that can only be realized with the Wii U GamePad. We’ll start seeing some of the company’s efforts at this year’s E3, according to president Satoru Iwata.
Iwata told investors the following during a briefing held earlier today:
At the Corporate Management Policy Briefing this January, I explained that the company would prioritize making and proposing Wii U software titles that can only be made possible with the Wii U GamePad. We are planning to disclose our progress on this at E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo) in Los Angeles in June.
Nintendo president Satoru Iwata shared a few words about the planned web app for Mario Kart 8 during the company’s investor briefing earlier today. Read on below for his comments.
To enjoy these features even when you are not playing this game on the console, we are planning to offer a web service called “Mario Kart TV” (temp.), which also enables users to watch videos in a screen layout suitable for systems such as smart devices and computers, around the same time as the release of “Mario Kart 8.”
This is the layout for a smartphone. This web service will enable more people to easily watch Nintendo’s official videos, view rankings, watch videos that their friends have shared and videos of tournaments in which they have participated.
As I mentioned at the Corporate Management Policy Briefing in January, our policy is to establish consumer relationships based on accounts named Nintendo Network IDs, which are abbreviated as NNIDs. This “Mario Kart TV” (temp.) web service is available even for players without NNIDs, but by logging into the service with an NNID, they will be able to easily find their rankings, videos that their friends have shared, videos of tournaments in which they have participated, and it will be convenient to access this service through smart devices even when they are not at home.
We will work on providing this type of service so that players can enjoy video games more and be in contact with them even when they are not in front of a video game system.
We now have direct quotes from Nintendo president Satoru Iwata regarding the company’s NFP plans. You can find all of his comments below.
To establish new and growing areas through the active utilization of character IP, it is important for Nintendo to take risks ourselves and come up with interesting ways to use our character IP.
In other words, other than using character IP in Nintendo’s video game software, we need to start a new business that will someday become one of our core activities.As Nintendo’s first step
We have decided to release character figurines with built-in NFC functionality that are compatible with video games starting from this year-end sales season.
