Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News, Wii U | 2 Comments

Famitsu posted a report about the Pikmin short films and Shigeru Miyamoto’s appearance at the Tokyo International Film Festival. Read on below for a summary of what was shared, courtesy of NeoGAF’s “StreetsAhead”.

-The films were screened in 3D at the event.
-The films are ‘Late-Night Juice’ (2 mins), ‘The Treasure Inside The Bottle’ (8 mins), and ‘The Rough Day’ (13 mins).
-Miyamoto showed off some of the storyboards he made in Flipnote 3D at the event.
-He joked that with the time he put in making these short films he probably could have made about 2 games.
-He was reticent to use the Rock Pikmin idea at first, but with the mechanic involing breaking glass/crystal in the game came to the conclusion that rocks breaking it would be easiest to convey.
-Rock (and probably Flying) Pikmin don’t appear in the films since they were made at the same time as Pikmin 3 and they hadn’t finalized everything about those types yet.
-He mentioned that he’s working on the Star Fox game for Wii U.
-They’d like to release the Pikmin 3 demo on Wii U and the films on the 3DS at the same time.

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Excitebike Arena will be included in the first DLC pack for Mario Kart 8. Check out a trailer above!

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When Sakurai said there’d be a lot more customisation options compared to the 3DS version he wasn’t messing around, here’s just one of the many combinations that are on offer:

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Nintendo briefly touched on the composers for Smash Bros. Wii U during the game’s presentation last week. Thanks to an update on the game’s website, we get a proper look at the full lineup.

First, here’s a listing of composers who worked on both versions of the new Smash Bros. games:

The following composers also specifically worked on Smash Bros. for Wii U:

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Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 4 Comments

Shigeru Miyamoto attended the Tokyo International Film Festival this past weekend to debut his new Pikmin shorts. At the event, Reuters caught up with Miyamoto to discuss a number of topics.

Here’s a quick overview as to what was shared:

– Miyamoto had balked for years at requests to make films with Nintendo characters
– He warmed to the possibilities of filmmaking given technological advances

Miyamoto noting that he has no plans to shift from games to the movie business….

“I haven’t moved over. But as computer graphics have gotten better, I started to feel that it’s something that I could get involved with. Making films in the past was something that was made with a completely different skill set but now I feel that it’s rather similar.”

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Posted on 11 years ago by Kirara Koneko(@KiraraKoneko) in 3DS eShop, Wii U eShop | 0 comments

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