Information Update // Noticias Nuevas - Nintendo 3DS

Information Update - Nintendo 3DS


1.- Nintendo 3DS sales figures in the United Kingdom are rather disappointing to say the least. Now, Japanese gaming publication Famitsu is reporting that Nintendo’s most recent portable is being outsold considerably by its predecessor, the Nintendo DS. 

More after the break...

Software sales for the console aren’t too much better, as there’s only one Nintendo 3DS title in the entire UK all format top 40. Nintendo are going to have to work considerably hard to turn the machines fortunes around.

1.) Xbox 360　- 30.6% | 923,000
2.) PlayStation 3 – 22.6% | 682,000
3.) Wii　- 16.5% | 498,000
4.) Nintendo DS – 15.2% | 458,000
5.) PC　- 10.5% | 317,000
6.) PlayStation Portable　- 2.3% | 69,000
7.) Nintendo 3DS　- 2.3% | 69,000
8.) PlayStation 2 – 0.1% | 3,000

2.- One of my most anticipated games of this years E3 event had to be The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword.The trailer that Nintendo showed off at the event showed that the game is set to be a fantastic swan song to the Wii’s illustrious career. Sadly we don’t know too much about the games storyline but thankfully Zelda Informer has revealed some interesting titbits regarding precisely that.

“Link and Zelda live in the land of Skyloft, high above the surface world below. One day Link participates in a birdriding competition as part of a festival celebration. The winner of the competition gets a prize from Zelda. After winning the prize, Link takes Zelda out on a date and flies her over the clouds on his bird (okay, so the game’s probably less ‘high school’ about it, but I figure this gets the point across). That’s when disaster strikes. A giant tornado appears, sucking Zelda down to the surface world. Link gets charged with rescuing her and receives his traditional green garb as well as the titular Skyward Sword. It’s at this point that we meet the sword’s spirit companion, Phi – she’ll guide Link as he journeys across the surface to rescue Zelda. From there, Link travels down to the surface and enters the Sky Temple (the demo dungeon), where he suspects Zelda is hidden. After fighting through the traps, he encounters Ghirahim, the Demon Lord who rules the surface realm, who states that he and his tribe – yes, he’s not alone – are after Zelda. You duel him, he escapes, and the adventure continues from there.”

Other details:

• The bird demo is not the very, very beginning of the game; you’ll be meeting the people of Skyloft and going through some story sequences first
• You can press Down on the D-pad at any time the pointer is engaged to recalibrate the controller
• Phi is actually voice-acted, and speaks in Midna-like gibberish
• Dungeons are heavily non-linear, and there are significant portions of even just the part of the Sky Temple we experience on the show floor that can be skipped (including the Beetle upgrade)
• You can actually stun Ghirahim during the first phase of the fight by moving your sword in a circle to confuse him, similar to the eyeball obstacles; wait for an opening, and strike! You don’t actually need to do this to defeat him, though, so it looks as though bosses as well as dungeons can be tackled in multiple ways and don’t have one set solution
• Ghirahim may actually not be the final boss

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Noticias Nuevas - Nintendo 3DS

1.- Las ventaas de la Nintendo 3DS en Reino Unido están siendo bastante decepcionantes. Bueno, mucho. Está siendo más vendida su predecesora, y por una cantidad considerable, que la 3DS. La DS la gana en ventas. 

Y las ventas de software también sufren, teniendo sólo un juego de 3DS en el Top 40 vendidos. Está claro que Nintendo tendrá que trabajar, pero ya.

1.) Xbox 360　- 30.6% | 923,000
2.) PlayStation 3 – 22.6% | 682,000
3.) Wii　- 16.5% | 498,000
4.) Nintendo DS – 15.2% | 458,000
5.) PC　- 10.5% | 317,000
6.) PlayStation Portable　- 2.3% | 69,000
7.) Nintendo 3DS　- 2.3% | 69,000
8.) PlayStation 2 – 0.1% | 3,000

2.- Zelda informer ha dado detalles sobre el nuevo juego de Zelda para la Nintendo Wii: Skyward Sword, sobre todo concernientes a la historia.

• El demo del pájaro no es el comienzo, comienzo del juego. Antes hablarás con NPCs y habrá cutscenes.
• Puedes pulsar el botón Abajo siempre que aparezca el puntero en la pantalla para recalibrar el mando
• Phi tiene actor de voz, y habla en gibberish al estilo Midna
• Las mazmorras son increíblemente NO lineares.
• Ghirahim puede no ser el jefe final

Source: MyNintendoNews
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