According to Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot the pressure is on Nintendo this financial year with the Wii U, as another failed year for the system could cost the company third party support. In an interview with CVG, he had this to say:

“With Mario Kart, Wii U made one step and we expect with Smash Bros. it will also do more. If Nintendo put the right price on the machine then they will probably have a chance to do further,”
“We are coming with Watch Dogs and Just Dance this year. We also have another game on the shelves that we expect to come at some point when there will be more machines,”
“That game is waiting for more machines to be available,”
“We are also waiting for them to achieve more sales so that we can invest more. Because the problem we have with next-gen now here, is that we are seeing less games that are on next-gen and last-gen consoles.”
“Nintendo has to perform this year, otherwise they will have less games. Justifying investing in the machine needs a larger install base,”

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Super Smash Bros. For 3DS Screenshot (06/18/14)

Posted on 10 years ago by Jarop(@gamrah) in 3DS, Screenshots, Wii U | 1 Comment

Today Sakurai gave us a look at a new 3DS mini-game and had this to say along with the screenshot:

Here’s a new mini-game that’s quite a bit different from Coin Launcher in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. It’s called Trophy Rush! The details…will be kept secret for now.

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Tezuka on Yoshi’s Woolly World – “wonder wool” tease, no online, more

Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 5 Comments

NZGamer has published a new Yoshi’s Wooly World interview with Takashi Tezuka. You can find excerpts from the discussion below and the full thing here.

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Miyamoto will see what he can do about accommodating left-handed gamers better

Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 6 Comments

Being a left-handed gamer isn’t so easy. A lot of titles don’t accommodate such users too well, making it difficult to play.

This is something that Shigeru Miyamoto seems to understand. And he told Kotaku that he’ll talk to his teams about seeing what can be done.

Miyamoto stated:

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Aonuma reflects on Zelda: Skyward Sword’s tutorials, will be careful with them going forward

Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii, Wii U | 9 Comments

One of the more common complaints with The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword concerned the game’s tutorials. Many felt that there were too many of them, especially at the beginning.

This is something that series producer Eiji Aonuma has learned from. Aonuma told Kotaku that he now understands “that when you go out and buy a game, you buy the game because you want to play it, and you don’t want to have any obstacles in the way.” Additionally, he admitted that Skyward Sword’s tutorials were “frontloaded”.

Aonuma said this was all “a real learning experience for me”, and he’ll “be careful not to do that.”

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Player finds new Super Mario Bros. infinite lives glitch

Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 4 Comments

Super Mario Bros. has been around for nearly thirty years. At this point, most would have expected that the game’s major glitches and infinite lives tricks would have been discovered. But apparently not!

As shown in the video above, one player has seemingly managed to uncover a new glitch leading to a constant stream of 1-ups.

Here’s how the technique is described:

First, you must first take player one’s Mario to the second level of the game and throw away your first life. With Luigi taking over, player two must traverse all the way to World 5-2 and find the hidden beanstalk block halfway through the stage. Once there, Luigi must start climbing the vines, however, he must await – and take on the chin – an incoming projectile from one of the Hammer Bros. Upon being hit, once player one resumes control of Mario, the beanstalk from World 5-2 will start growing in World 1-2, providing all you need to infinitely kick shells for unlimited bonuses.

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Screenshots of this week’s Nintendo Downloads (6/19/14, Europe)

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Nintendo Download (6/19/14, Europe)

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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

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Super Smash Bros. for 3DS screenshot (06/17/14)

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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.