Pokemon Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon news may arrive on tonight’s Pokenchi, possible new Lycanroc form
Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News | 9 Comments
Pokemon Ultra Sun and Pokemon Ultra Moon were announced two months ago. While we haven’t seen much of either game, that could be changing very soon.
On tonight’s episode of the Japanese show Pokenchi, Pokemon Sun/Moon director Shigeru Ohmori will be making an appearance. He’ll apparently be talking about the latest Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon information and will deliver a “shock announcement” regarding the anime.
Meanwhile, the next issue of CoroCoro could be leaking very shortly. Speculation has pointed to a possible new Lycanroc form. Although not confirmed, the cover has an image of what looks like Lycanroc with a different color scheme and a few aesthetic changes.
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Nintendo France – more unannounced third-party games for Switch coming, mobile talk, amiibo is here to stay
Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, General Nintendo, News, Switch | 26 Comments
We recently came across an interview French website Gamekult conducted at E3. The site caught up with Philippe Lavoué, managing director of Nintendo France. Since we felt it was interesting enough, we decided to go ahead with a full, proper translation.
In the interview, Lavoué touched on many different topics. This includes Switch and third-parties (more games are coming), mobile, and the staying power of amiibo.
We’ve posted the fully translated interview below. Just keep in mind the context of when it was conducted – specifically for questions such as a NES Classic Edition followup.
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Take-Two expecting great Switch sales to continue, feeling optimistic and “very supportive of Nintendo”
Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch | 57 Comments
This week, Take-Two Interactive reported its latest financial results. The event was accompanied by the regular earnings call with investors, analysts, and other interested parties.
Towards the end of the call, Switch was brought into the conversation. Take-Two was asked about its potential and how the company’s perspective has changed over the past few months.
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Scrapped Mission Mode found for Mario Kart Wii after nearly a decade
Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii | 18 Comments
Mario Kart DS introduced the very neat Mission Mode. It had you completing various objectives, such as racing backwards through a course. The mode even featured a number of boss battles.
The next Mario Kart game, Mario Kart Wii, was going to include its own Mission Mode at some point before being ultimately scrapped. After nearly a decade, a new discovery from MrBean35000vr reveals some of the leftover content.
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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.
