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Posted on 5 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 0 comments

During Nintendo’s 79th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, one investor shared the sentiment that the company “has been a little slow to join large global trends like the mobile business and releasing games that use VR.” Having said that, this person wanted to hear Nintendo’s thoughts topics such as cloud gaming and 5G.

Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa, Shigeru Miyamoto, and director / senior executive officer Ko Shiota all provided commentary. Here the official translation of what they shared:

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Posted on 5 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News | 0 comments

It’s been well-documented just how important Fire Emblem Awakening was to the series. If that game hadn’t been successful, the franchise could have been in jeopardy. Thankfully, all went well, and Fire Emblem Awakening even achieved huge popularity in the west.

In an interview with VG247, Fire Emblem: Three Houses director at Intelligent Systems Toshiyuki Kusakihara was asked about what made Awakening so successful. Funnily enough, he’s completely unsure. Kusakihara said that the team “didn’t make any change to our philosophy to make Awakening be liked outside of Japan” and doesn’t know “why it’s so popular.”

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Posted on 5 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 0 comments

During Nintendo’s 79th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, one investor brought up how E3 featured the same sort of things we’ve been seeing from games over the past three decades in the sense that players look at the screen and play with a controller in their hand. This person wanted to know how developers feel about this and whether or not it will continue. That led to some very interesting comments from Nintendo.

Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto, Shinya Takahashi, and Ko Shiota all commented here. Takahashi mentioned how Nintendo is always looking to innovate and pointed to 1-2 Switch and Labo VR. Miyamoto would add that Nintendo was the first to create the d-pad and additional buttons, as well as the analog stick which “is the clear winner.”

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Posted on 5 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 0 comments

Avalanche Software will always be known for its work on the Disney Infinity series. Prior to that franchise, however, the studio also put out another Disney-related game: Toy Story 3. While working on that project, Avalanche was cooking up something alongside it.

Kotaku has unearthed details about the cancelled project known internally as Star Command. In it, the cast of Toy Story would head to space and help toys from all over the galaxy.

Here are some additional details:

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Posted on 5 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch | 0 comments

During a panel at Anime Expo today, Spike Chunsoft made a pair of visual novel announcements. Robotics;Notes Elite and Robotics;Notes DaSH will both be localized for the west, the company confirmed.

Here’s an overview of Robotics;Note Elite, along with a trailer:

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Posted on 5 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS eShop, News, Switch eShop, Wii U eShop | 0 comments

This week’s European Nintendo Downloads are as follows:

Switch Retail

A.O.T. 2: Final Battle bundle – €69.99 (available July 5)
Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered – €29.99

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Posted on 5 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch | 0 comments

Story of Seasons: Reunion in Mineral Town, a remake of the Game Boy Advance games Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town and Harvest Moon: More Friends of Mineral Town, has been confirmed for western release. Marvelous says that this will happening sometime after the Japanese and Asia launch. These two regions are getting the game on October 17.

If Marvelous / XSEED Games handles the overseas launch (which currently seems to be the case), the Story of Seasons name should carry over. Marvelous owns the Bokujo Monogatari / Story of Seasons games while Natsume has rights to the Harvest Moon name.

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Posted on 5 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Switch, Videos | 0 comments

Marvelous has released the first trailer for Story of Seasons: Reunion in Mineral Town, a remake of the Game Boy Advance games Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town and Harvest Moon: More Friends of Mineral Town. Watch it below.

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Posted on 5 years ago by Oni Dino(@Oni_Dino) in Previews, Switch eShop | 0 comments

At E3 2019, Capcom kindly invited us to their booth for some behind-closed-doors gameplay demos of their upcoming Switch releases. In part six of this series, I’ll be taking a retrospective look at my experience with Resident Evil 5 and Resident Evil 6.

You can hear me chatting about all things gaming (and more) on our weekly podcast, available on iTunes, Spotify, and many other platforms.

For detailed impressions of both Resident Evil 5 and Resident Evil 6, check below the break.

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Posted on 5 years ago by Oni Dino(@Oni_Dino) in Previews, Switch | 0 comments

At E3 2019, SEGA kindly invited us to their booth for some personal time with their line-up of offerings. In part five of this series, I’ll be taking a retrospective look at my experience with a new entry in a game series that still blows my mind that it even exists: Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020.

You can hear me chatting about all things Nintendo (and more) on our weekly podcast, available on iTunes, Spotify, and many other platforms.

For detailed impressions of Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, check below the break.

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