Knytt Underground is 50 percent off (reduced from $12.99 to $6.49) until 8:59 a.m. PT on Feb. 26.
Spin the Bottle: Bumpie’s Party is 50 percent off (reduced from $11.99 to $5.99) until 8:59 a.m. PT on Feb. 26.
Paper Monsters Recut is 37 percent off (reduced from $7.99 to $4.99) until 8:59 a.m. PT on Feb. 19.
ZaciSa’s Last Stand is 65 percent off (reduced from $1.99 to $0.69) until 8:59 a.m. PT on Feb. 25.
Disney Big Hero 6: Battle in the Bay is 33 percent off (reduced from $29.99 to $19.99) from Jan. 13 until 8:59 a.m. PT on March 9.
Disney Frozen: Olaf’s Quest is 33 percent off (reduced from $29.99 to $19.99) from Jan. 13 until 8:59 a.m. PT on March 9.
3D Game Collection is 16 percent off (reduced from $5.99 to $4.99) until 8:59 a.m. PT on Feb. 27.
Funfair Party Games is 12 percent off (reduced from $7.99 to $6.99) until 8:59 a.m. PT on Feb. 27.
Murder on the Titanic is 25 percent off (reduced from $7.99 to $5.99) until 8:59 a.m. PT on Feb. 27.

Price Reductions

Battleminer for Nintendo 3DS is $7.99 (reduced from $9.99) beginning at 9 a.m. PT on Feb. 12.
Jett Tailfin for Wii U is $12.99 (reduced from $24.95) beginning at 9 a.m. PT on Feb. 15.

3DS Themes

NES: Sword-Swinging Link
The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask: Dire Moon
The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask: Gold Edition
Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate: Gore Magala & Seregios – Available Feb. 13 (Free with purchase of Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate.)

Valentine’s Day Activities

National StreetPass Weekend – Valentine’s Edition
Show your love for gaming during this weekend’s StreetPass event. From Feb. 13 to Feb. 15, you can get up to six StreetPass tags from other Nintendo 3DS users from more than 29,000 Nintendo Zone hotspots across the U.S. and Canada. It’s a great opportunity to collect Mii characters from new locations to help fill up puzzle panels in Puzzle Swap and help out in StreetPass Mii Plaza games. You can also enhance game play in StreetPass-enabled games you already own such as Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS, Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire. To find a Nintendo Zone location near you, visit http://www.nintendo.com/3ds/nintendozone. For more information about StreetPass, visit http://www.nintendo.com/3ds/features/streetpass/.

PlayNintendo.com Valentines
Send a legendary message to your friends with printable Valentines featuring characters from The Legend of Zelda. Explore more Nintendo Valentine’s Day fun at http://play.nintendo.com/valentine!

Source: Nintendo PR

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Media Create sales (2/2 – 2/8)

Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, New Nintendo 3DS, News, Wii U | 21 Comments

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

New 3DS LL – 21,650
PS4 – 18,758
Vita – 10,013
New 3DS – 7,916
Wii U – 6,517
PS3 – 6,426
3DS LL – 3,084
3DS – 2,642
Vita TV – 560
Xbox One – 238

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

New 3DS LL – 21,880
PS4 – 17,392
Vita – 11,871
New 3DS – 7,700
PS3 – 7,211
Wii U – 6,807
3DS LL – 3,641
3DS – 3,187
Vita TV – 521
Xbox One – 222

And here are the software charts:

1. [PS3] Dragon Ball Xenoverse – 44,221 / NEW
2. [PS4] Dragon Ball Xenoverse – 34,690 / NEW
3. [3DS] Youkai Watch 2: Shinuchi – 24,068 / 2,455,880
4. [3DS] Lost Heroes 2 – 20,691 / NEW
5. [3DS] Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire – 12,234 / 2,501,000
6. [PS4] Far Cry 4 – 9,790 / 46,029
7. [3DS] Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate – 9,715 / 2,460,920
8. [PSV] Ebikore PhotoKano Kiss – 9,512 / NEW
9. [3DS] Devil Survivor 2: Record Breaker – 9,240 / 62,505
10. [3DS] Super Smash Bros. for 3DS – 8,950 / 2,140,261
11. [PS3] Far Cry 4 – 8,513 / 26,879
12. [PS3] Tales of Zestiria – 8,225 / 378,602
13. [PS3] Dark Souls II Scholar of the First Sin – 7,770 / NEW
14. [WIU] Kirby and the Rainbow Curse – 7,004 / 52,009
15. [WIU] Super Smash Bros. for Wii U – 5,683 / 581,796
16. [WIU] Mario Kart 8 – 4,799 / 911,267
17. [3DS] Youkai Watch 2 – 4,777 / 3,098,589
18. [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf – 4,678 / 3,913,847
19. [PSV] Persona 4 Golden (PS Vita the Best) – 3,574 / NEW
20. [3DS] Kenka Bancho 6 – 2,896 / 40,742

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Is 3D Steets of Rage 2 in the works? Game rated in Australia

Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS eShop, Rumors | 5 Comments

3D Steets of Rage 2 doesn’t seem exist yet. That’s why it’s peculiar how the game has been rated over in Australia. Could 3D Steets of Rage 2 be happening at some point?

Source, Via

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Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze appears to have a cut achievement system

Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Rumors, Wii U | 7 Comments

The Cutting Room Floor has discovered a strings file labeled “miiverse” inside Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze. This seems to have strings for some kind of cut achievement system.

There’s a ton of text included in the file. Players would have received achievements for defeating bosses, uncovering new areas, collecting KONG letters and puzzle pieces, and more. Perhaps it would have been possible to share achievements on Miiverse?

If you’re interested in checking out the full text from the achievements-related file, continue on below.

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Playtonic working on Banjo Kazooie spiritual successor, interested in Wii U

Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News, Wii U eShop | 18 Comments

Update 2: Name update: the game is going by the tentative name “Project Ukulele”. Additionally, reader Noble Wrot tried adjusting the levels and contrasts of the image below to bring out the forms of the shadowy figures. We might be looking at a bird and some kind of reptile!

Update: Teaser site open here. The team is entirely comprised of those who were formerly from Rare. We also have this piece of art:

This month’s issue of EDGE contains an interview with Playtonic. The studio’s first game will be a spiritual successor to Banjo Kazooie, and the team seems to have quite a bit of interest in the Wii U.

As stated in the magazine:

“There’s a history of working with Nintendo so we’d naturally love to see our game on a Nintendo platform. If people tell us to make Wii U our target console platform then we’ve got the flexibility to do that.”

Playtonic has funding, but the company would like to team up with a publisher if the two sides were interesting in working together. The plan is to first release this game on Steam Early Access, followed by consoles.

Source

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Smash Bros. 3DS update version 1.0.5 out now – amiibo support, share mode

Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News | 12 Comments

The 1.0.5 update for Super Smash Bros. 3DS is out now. Players in North America, Europe, and Japan can download the patch.

Today’s update is rather significant. amiibo figures are now supported, meaning players can train their fighters on the go. amiibo in Smash Bros. Wii U are compatible with the 3DS game.

Nintendo and Bandai Namco have also prepared a share mode. Players can post photos, replay data, and Mii Fighter data to the server to share with other users around the world. Other users can search and download the content. In addition, posting photos to Miiverse is now possible.

Read on below for the full update notes from Nintendo.

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UK software sales (Week ending 2/7)

Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News, Wii U | 0 comments

This week’s UK software sales are as follows:

Individual formats

All formats

Source 1, Source 2

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Nintendo tried to secure the rights to Harry Potter in the late ’90s

Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, Rumors | 14 Comments

In a new report, Unseen64 claims that Nintendo Software Technology created a pitch in 1998 to obtain exclusive access to the Harry Potter franchise. Had Nintendo been successful, it would have “secured the rights to produce all adaptations of the book series for the indefinite future in video game form; potentially preventing the eventual movie adaptations from being created altogether”.

Unseen64 says – via a former artist at NST – that two groups planned separate pitches. One group would focus on a third-person adventure title, while the other (including Marvel comic book artist Adi Granov) would concentrate its efforts on a game based on Quidditch.

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Rumor: Details emerge about cancelled Metroid 3DS project

Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, Rumors | 40 Comments

Back in December, there was talk about a cancelled Metroid project for 3DS. Not much was known about it at the time, but a few concrete details have since surfaced.

The folks over at Unseen64 put up a new podcast on Patreon that shares a bit more on the mysterious Metroid project. It was made clear by the site’s Liam Robertson that this was an attempt to revive 2D Metroid on 3DS. Based on a rough prototype Robertson saw, the title was a tad faster than Super Metroid and Metroid Fusion.

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Rumor: Netflix working on live-action The Legend of Zelda TV series

Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, Rumors | 27 Comments

If a new report from the Wall Street Journal is to be believed, Netflix is cooking up a new live-action television show based on The Legend of Zelda.

The site says that things are “in the early stages” at present. A source close to the Wall Street Journal claims that the series is “about an ordinary boy named Link who must rescue a princess named Zelda and save a fantasy world called Hyrule” – essentially Zelda as we know it. It’s being described as a family-friendly Game of Thrones, with Nintendo having a heavy involvement.

At present, Netflix is seeking a writer for the project. Since it’s such a long ways off, the Wall Street Journal points out that Netflix or Nintendo could kill the series off before things progress too far.

Keep in mind that this report has not been officially confirmed. Netflix declined to comment, and Nintendo has not yet responded.