Nintendo Download (8/3/17, Europe) – Slime-san, Retro City Rampage DX, more
Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS eShop, News, Switch eShop, Wii U eShop | 1 Comment
This week’s European Nintendo Downloads are as follows:
Switch Download
Retro City Rampage DX – €14.99
Slime-san – €11.99
Gunbarich for Nintendo Switch – €6.99
Strikers 1945 for Nintendo Switch – €6.99
ACA NeoGeo Aero Fighters 2 – €6.99
Puzzle Adventure Blockle – €6.29
Use Your Words – €13.09
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Nintendo Download (8/3/17, North America) – Slime-san, Retro City Rampage DX, more
Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS eShop, News, Switch eShop, Wii U eShop | 7 Comments
This week’s North American Nintendo Downloads are as follows:
Switch Download
ACA NeoGeo Aero Fighters 2 – $7.99
Puzzle Adventure Blockle – $7.99
Gunbarich – $7.99
Retro City Rampage DX – $14.99
Slime-san – $11.99
Strikers 1945 – $7.99
Use Your Words – $14.99
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Blaster Master Zero surpasses 100,000 downloads
Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS eShop, News, Switch eShop | 8 Comments
Blaster Master Zero has been downloaded over 100,000 times, Inti Creates has announced. That number should be across Switch and 3DS.
To celebrate the news, Inti Creates issued a special wallpaper. You can access it here.
Inti Creates said of the new milestone:
In only five short months, you wonderful people have propelled Blaster Master Zero over the 100,000 download milestone! Thank you so very much for your support! With the upcoming release of Shovel Knight on August 3rd, and with our other plans in the pipeline, we are still working very hard on making Blaster Master Zero as awesome as it can be. In the meantime, enjoy this absolutely adorable wallpaper that takes a peek into the everyday lives of Jason and Eve!
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Virtuos porting a AAA title to Switch
Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch | 57 Comments
Virtuos has worked on all sorts of ports and remasters in the past. Their previous projects include Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age, Final Fantasy X/X-2, HD, Batman: Return to Arkham, Assassin’s Creed: The Ezio Collection, and plenty more.
Now the studio is turning its attention to Switch. As spotted by Doctre81, senior programmer Xiaoyu Zhang states on LinkedIn that he’s involved with the porting process of a AAA title.
Here’s the relevant excerpt:
WIP: Porting a AAA title to Nintendo Switch
– Re-implement the renderer with Nintendo’s native graphics API(nvn)
– Design and implement the low level mechanism of graphics resource management and threading
– Exploit the performance advantages of the Vulkan-like API (UMA, explicit management of graphics memory, complete control over CPU/GPU synchronization, etc)
Zhang has been working at Virtuous since last March. It’s unclear how long the Switch project has been in development for, however.
Media Create sales (7/24/17 – 7/30/17)
Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News, Switch | 112 Comments
The latest Japanese hardware sales from Media Create are as follows:
New 2DS LL – 110,963
Switch – 89,314
PS4 – 82,368
New 3DS LL – 26,587
PS4 Pro – 10,988
Vita – 4,967
2DS – 3,680
New 3DS – 1,370
Wii U – 142
PS3 – 121
Xbox One – 94
For comparison’s sake, here are the hardware numbers from last week:
Switch – 98,999
PS4 – 23,841
New 2DS LL – 17,717
New 3DS LL – 13,108
PS4 Pro – 7,037
Vita – 4,545
2DS – 2,300
New3DS – 1,020
Wii U – 176
PS3 – 142
Xbox One – 77
And here are the software charts:
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Persona Q2 revealed for 3DS
Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News | 44 Comments
Persona Q2 is officially coming to 3DS, Atlus has revealed. A teaser site for the game is located here.
At the moment, the site only confirms that characters from Persona 5 will be featured in Persona Q2. No additional information is provided.
We’ll presumably be hearing more about Persona Q2 in the weeks and months ahead.
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Dragon Quest XI sells over 2,000,000 copies in Japan within first two days
Posted on 7 years ago by Andrew in 3DS, News | 69 Comments
Famitsu has reported that Dragon Quest has sold a total of 2,080,806 copies in Japan within the first two days of the game’s release. The 3DS version of the game sold 1,130,468 copies, while the PlayStation 4 version sold 950,338 copies.
The copies sold also include the sales from the Dragon Quest XI Double Pack Hero’s Sword Box, New Nintendo 2DS XL Dragon Quest Liquid Metal Slime Edition, and PlayStation 4 Dragon Quest Loto Edition.
Dragon Quest XI is out now in Japan but will also be releasing next year in the west under the name “Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age”.
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Ubisoft initially toyed around with making Mario + Rabbids a musical game or a first-person shooter
Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch | 9 Comments
Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle is not your typical game. It makes sense then that during early development, Ubisoft considered a few different genres for the title.
Creative director Davide Soliani told Glixel that Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle was initially considered as a musical, or even a first-person shooter. He said:
“We started to scratch them out, one after the other. We went through a musical game, a first-person shooter game; but really the team is composed of mainly tactical fans.”
Soliani had also mentioned that, early on, a group of five people came up with 13 ideas. Most of these are a mystery.
Nintendo confirms Super NES Classic Edition pre-orders coming this month
Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 7 Comments
We finally have a straight answer directly from Nintendo about the North American pre-order situation for the Super NES Classic Edition. Later this month, pre-orders will open at “various retailers”.
Nintendo also says that there will be a “significant amount of additional systems” sent to stores for launch. More units will be shipped “throughout the balance of the calendar year” as well.
Nintendo said:
Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle – tons of details and new footage
Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch, Videos | 8 Comments
With Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle launching in about a month, a new set of previews have now been published online with details and footage. We’ve rounded up everything below.
