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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS eShop, News, Wii U eShop | 7 Comments

This week’s North American Nintendo Downloads are as follows:

Wii U Retail

Mario Party 10 (available Friday)

Wii U Download

Elliot Quest
Pentapuzzle
Super Destronaut

Wii U Virtual Console

Klonoa 2: Dream Champ Tournament

3DS Retail

Fossil Fighters: Frontier

3DS Download

Iron Combat: War in the Air
Navy Commander

3DS Themes

Code Name: S.T.E.A.M. Lincoln vs. the Aliens
Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Tipping Stars
Skylanders Trap Team Air Theme
Skylanders Trap Team Life Theme
Skylanders Trap Team Magic Theme
Skylanders Trap Team Tech Theme

eShop Sales

Wii U/3DS

Moon Chronicles, Xeodrifter and other Wii U and Nintendo 3DS games from Renegade Kid are on sale until 8:59 a.m. PT on April 2.

Turtle Tale on Wii U and Nintendo 3DS is 33 percent off (reduced from $2.99 to $1.99) until 8:59 a.m. PT on April 2.

Wii U

Paper Monsters Recut is 25 percent off (reduced from $7.99 to $5.99) until 8:59 a.m. PT on April 2.

3DS

Glory of Generals, Quell Reflect and Swords & Soldiers 3D from Circle Entertainment are on sale until 8:59 a.m. PT on April 9.

Spot the Differences!, Viking Invasion 2 – Tower Defense and other games from Bigben Interactive are on sale until 8:59 a.m. PT on April 2.

Big Hero 6: Battle in the Bay and Disney Frozen: Olaf’s Quest from GameMill Entertainment are on sale from 9 a.m. PT on March 20 until 8:59 a.m. PT on April 27.

Zombie Panic in Wonderland DX is 37 percent off (reduced from $8.00 to $4.99) until 8:59 a.m. PT on April 18.

Permanent Price Drop

GetClose: A game for RIVALS is $2.99 (reduced from $4.99).

Events/Activities

Code Name: S.T.E.A.M. – Medal March Tournament – See how your Code Name: S.T.E.A.M. squad stacks up online in Nintendo’s Public Tournaments. Top players earn unique titles that are visible online and earn major bragging rights with their friends and around the world! The Medal March Tournament will run through March 22. To keep updated on Nintendo’s Public Tournaments, opt in to notifications via the SpotPass feature in the game. Click here for more information. Good luck, agents!

Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Tipping Stars – Create your own levels in the Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Tipping Stars game and challenge players all over the world to complete them. You can also give tips to other creators and spread the word about your favorite levels. Click here to learn more about building levels so you can start earning stars!

The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask 3D – The results of The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask 3D drawing challenge in Miiverse have been revealed by Eiji Aonuma, producer of The Legend of Zelda games. Aonuma also gave his comments on the recognized drawings. Click here to see the gallery!

Source: Nintendo PR

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News | 6 Comments

Puzzle & Dragons Z + Puzzle & Dragons Super Mario Bros. Edition will be slightly cheaper than expected. While most retailers have been listing the package for $40, it turns out that the final price will be just $29.99.

Nintendo also confirmed that a demo is in the works for Puzzle & Dragons Super Mario Bros. Edition. This will be available “in early May.”

Puzzle & Dragons Z + Puzzle & Dragons Super Mario Bros. Edition launches in North America on May 22.

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News, Wii U | 5 Comments

TIME’s third Nintendo-centric piece today is entirely based on an interview with Shigeru Miyamoto. Miyamoto further discussed Splatoon’s Mario origins, his reputation, other forms of entertainment, the platforms he found particularly fun working on, and plenty more.

As always, we’ve rounded up the quotes below. Head past the break for Miyamoto’s comments.

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, New Nintendo 3DS, News, Videos | 3 Comments

A second article from TIME covers several Nintendo-related topics in addition to mobile gaming. President Satoru Iwata, Nintendo of America CEO Reggie Fils-Aime, and Shigeru Miyamoto participated in the discussion. We’ve rounded up all of the tidbits and quotes below.

On amiibo…

– Iwata started sketching out the amiibo idea while on a bullet train in late 2013
– Iwata got more and more excited as he mulled the concept
– He dashed off a four-page pitch to his engineers

“It was something I believed would be completely new for us.”

Reggie and Iwata on how pursuing smart devices helps Nintendo…

“We view it as that marriage of the software with the hardware that together creates a compelling experience.” – Reggie

“If we don’t take an approach that looks holistically at the form a video-game platform should take in the future, then we’re not able to sustain Nintendo 10 years down the road. We would like to create several hit titles by effectively leveraging the appeal of Nintendo IP.” – Iwata

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News, Switch | 80 Comments

TIME has gone up with a big interview featuring Nintendo president Satoru Iwata.

Some highlights include:

– Decided to try out mobile after finding solutions to Nintendo’s problems; not porting games from their systems, but instead making new software
– “for each title, we will discuss with DeNA and decide the most appropriate payment method”
– Not against Miyamoto getting involved with development, but he’s currently focusing on Wii U games for this year
– “Development of smart device games will be mainly done by Nintendo”
– Wanted to talk about NX so there wouldn’t be a misunderstanding that Nintendo isn’t as interested in dedicated games
– Iwata promises not to do anything that may hurt Nintendo IP

We’ve rounded up the full Q&A after the break. Be sure to check out TIME’s full piece here as well.

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, General Nintendo, News, Wii U eShop | 3 Comments

Siliconera published a new interview with Hiro Maekawa, the president of Natsume. Maekawa ended up addressing a variety of topics, including Harvest Moon: The Lost Valley, why the company decided to localize A-Train, and more. Maekawa also said that Harvest Moon 64 won’t be coming to the Virtual Console due to technical issues, and noted that there isn’t any news on Natsume returning to older games such as Wild Guns.

We’ve rounded up a few of Maekawa’s comments below. You can find the full interview on Siliconera here.

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, New Nintendo 3DS, News, Wii U | 13 Comments

The latest Japanese hardware sales from Media Create are as follows:

PS4 – 33,826
Vita – 20,103
New 3DS LL – 19,668
PS3 – 7,221
New 3DS – 7,164
Wii U – 7,054
3DS – 2,666
3DS LL – 2,590
Vita TV – 688
Xbox One – 307

For comparison’s sake, here are the hardware numbers from last week:

PS4 – 33,753
New 3DS LL – 21,402
Vita – 19,757
New 3DS – 7,661
PS3 – 7,645
Wii U – 7,379
3DS – 2,566
3DS LL – 2,321
Vita TV – 621
Xbox One – 445

And here are the software charts:

1. [PS3] Yakuza Zero – 145,823 / NEW
2. [PS4] Yakuza Zero – 90,506 / NEW
3. [PSV] Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth – 76,760 / NEW
4. [PSP] Uta noPrince-sama All Star After Secret – 67,237 / NEW
5. [WIU] Mario Party 10 – 50,212 / NEW
6. [PS3] Dragon Quest Heroes – 33,448 / 426,408
7. [3DS] Assassination Classroom: Grand Siege on Kurosensei – 25,494 / NEW
8. [3DS] Zelda: Majora’s Mask 3D – 15,941 / 381,702
9. [PS4] Dragon Quest Heroes – 14,744 / 319,473
10. [PSV] Harukanaru Toki no Naka de 6 – 13,601 / NEW
11. [3DS] Yo-Kai Watch 2: Shinuchi – 11,701 / 2,539,885
12. [3DS] Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire – 10,768 / 2,559,923
13. [PSV] God Eater 2 Rage Burst – 10,406 / 299,945
14. [PSV] Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Sui – 9,879 / NEW
15. [3DS] Super Smash Bros. for 3DS – 6,965 / 2,180,208
16. [PS3] Winning Post 8 2015 – 6,943 / NEW
17. [3DS] Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate – 6,100 / 2,498,432
18. [3DS] LEGO City Undercover: The Chase Begins – 5,993 / 19,277
19. [PSV] Winning Post 8 2015 – 5,933 / NEW
20. [PSV] Samurai Warriors 4-II – 5,729 / 39,423

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An interesting title entered the Australian classification database today. Something known as “Pokemon Rumble World” has been rated, which I don’t believe is a game that already exists.

Unfortunately, the entry doesn’t provide much information, but Ambrella is listed as Pokemon Rumble World’s developer. Ambrella worked on previous entries in the Pokemon Rumble series. There also appears to be online interactivity of some sort.

We’ll keep you updated as we learn more about Pokemon Rumble World.

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 8 Comments

GamesBeat spoke with DeNA West CEO Shintaro Asako following Nintendo and DeNA’s business and capital alliance announcement today. Topics included how talks between the two sides evolved, the need to kick off its partnership with the right game, the strength of Nintendo’s IPs, how it’s not too late for the company to enter the mobile market, and plenty more.

We’ve rounded up Asako’s various comments below. Be sure to check out GamesBeat’s full post here.

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