Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii | 88 Comments

Yesterday, Wii U celebrated its fourth anniversary. Wii has now reached a milestone of its own. The console shipped on November 19, 2006, making it ten years old.

I personally have many great memories of Wii. It’s the only console I’ve ever waited on a long for. I spent hours outside Best Buy on launch day – I can still remember how cold it was. Wii also has some of my favorite games of all time in Super Mario Galaxy, Super Mario Galaxy 2, and Okami. Just can’t believe it’s been ten years already!

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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 22 Comments

Wii U is another year older. With the console having originally launched on November 18, 2012, the system is celebrating its fourth anniversary today.

Even though Wii U hasn’t panned out the way Nintendo or anyone else would have liked, it’s still an important piece of gaming history. Plus, it brought us games like Mario Kart 8, Super Mario 3D World, Bayonetta 2, and many more. The console

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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 5 Comments

Last year, late Nintendo president Satoru Iwata was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Golden Joysticks. Another important staffer at the company was given the same honor today: Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma.

Aonuma wasn’t in attendance, but he did deliver a thoughtful pre-recorded speech. We have it in full below.

Aside from Aonuma’s award, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess was selected as the best Nintendo game of the year while Pokemon GO picked up a win as the best handheld/mobile title as well as Innovation of the Year.

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Posted on 7 years ago by Matt(@OnePunchMaz) in 3DS, Rumors, Switch | 116 Comments

The Switch rumors don’t stop coming today, and it’s another major one, this time from Eurogamer. The outlet claims that, according to multiple sources, a mainline Pokemon game is currently being developed by Game Freak for the Switch under the codename “Pokemon Stars”. As the name implies, it is supposedly the “third version” to Pokemon Sun & Moon, like Yellow was to Red & Blue, Platinum was to Diamond & Pearl and so on. The game is “already well in development”, according to Eurogamer, and will launch in 2017. The target release date is apparently late 2017, though it was initially planned as a Summer release. This would be the first ever mainline Pokemon game to be playable on a home console – and the first time that games in a single generation of Pokemon will span multiple consoles.

According to Eurogamer, the Pokemon Sun & Moon initial reveal trailer might have already shown footage of this supposed Switch version – the  model of Pikipek shown there is apparently from Pokemon Stars:

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Posted on 7 years ago by Matt(@OnePunchMaz) in Rumors, Switch | 39 Comments

Laura Kate Dale of Let’s Play Video Games has once again come forward with another Switch rumor/leak – and this time, it’s a wild one. According to her sources at both Ubisoft and Nintendo, Ubisoft is developing a Mario & Raving Rabbids crossover turn-based RPG, which will be one of the Switch’s launch titles.

Apparently, the working title is “Mario RPG: Invasion of the Rabbids” and, while Ubisoft is the main developer, Nintendo is overseeing the development to ensure proper use of the Mario IP. As the working title implies, the game will be about an invasion of the Mushroom Kingdom by various Rabbids characters. A new Bowser form based on the design of the Rabbids will apparently be a recurring boss character. The core party will apparently feature various minor characters from the Mario universe, with a particular focus on Yoshi, alongside a playable Rabbid. There will be cameo appearances from some of the more major Mario characters.

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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS eShop, News | 25 Comments

Nintendo has announced Swapdoodle, a new application for 3DS that allows users to write messages, draw 3D pictures, and share them with friends. It’s out today on the eShop.

Swapdoodle also lets you experience doodle lessons featuring characters from Splatoon, Zelda, Super Mario, and more. Screenshots from select games can be shared as well.

Here’s a trailer:

Swapdoodle is free to download. However, it’s possible to purchase more doodle lesson packs for other characters. Additional details are past the break.

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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS eShop, News, Wii U eShop | 1 Comment

This week’s North American Nintendo Downloads are as follows:

Wii U Download

Exile’s End – $9.99 (available Tuesday)
Ohayou! Beginner’s Japanese – $4.99
Swap Fire – $14.99

Wii U Virtual Console

Excitebike 64 – $9.99

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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch | 35 Comments

More comments from NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang have come in, who spoke about Switch during the company’s latest financial call last week.

Huang indicated to callers that the system’s Tegra processor is similar to what’s found within Sony and Microsoft consoles plus most gaming PCs. Thanks to that, developers should be able to port games over to Switch fairly easily.

Huang said:

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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 33 Comments

Today, Polygon published a lengthy interview with Valhalla Game Studios head Tomonobu Itagaki. Much of the discussion centered around the ill-fated Wii U game Devil’s Third. He chatted about its origins and how it ended up on Wii U, Nintendo of America’s handling of the game, and the negative critical reception.

We’ve picked out notable excerpts from the interview below. Be sure to read the entire piece on Polygon here as well.

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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, New Nintendo 3DS, News, Wii U | 2 Comments

The latest Japanese hardware sales from Media Create are as follows:

PS4 – 92,344
New 3DS LL – 20,345
Vita – 10,410
2DS – 7,972
New 3DS – 3,603
Wii U – 2,756
PS3 – 611
3DS – 324
Xbox One – 171
3DS LL – 57

For comparison’s sake, here are the hardware numbers from last week:

PS4 – 32,041
New 3DS LL – 19,798
Vita – 9,816
2DS – 7,122
New 3DS – 3,807
Wii U – 2,071
PS3 – 735
3DS – 408
Xbox One – 181
3DS LL – 47

And here are the software charts:

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