Information Update // Noticias Nuevas - Nintendo 3DS & PSVita

Information Update - Nintendo 3DS


1.- NintenDaan has posted the first fifteen minutes of the sublime Super Mario 3D Land onto Youtube. Clearly there’s going to be plenty of spoilers including the game’s introduction sequence.

More After the Break...

Super Mario 3D Land comes out November 18th in Europe and on November 13th in North America.


Nintendo America has released a new Super Mario 3D Land trailer which harks back to the golden age of Nintendo advertising. 

Seriously it’s a great advert and it’s bound to entice plenty of families to part with their money during the holiday season. Super Mario 3D Land is released November 18th in Europe and November 13th in North America.

Nintendo Power has a ton of reviews in their latest issue, and there’s plenty of scores for games on the 3DS, most of which aren’t too bad. Of course, Super Mario 3D Land comes out on top, but Cave Story 3D, Shinobi and Pokémon Blast Rumble also score well.

• Super Mario 3D Land: 9.0

+Different and great styles of Mario platforming for everyone
+Great 3D

-More advanced moves (long jump, somersaults) are completely optional.
-Not very creative

Overall: “A true triple-A title…Natural evolution of the series…Not as much content as Galaxies but still tons..Blows away all of the previous handheld Marios.”

• Shinobi: 7.5
• James Noir’s Hollywood Crimes: 5.0
• Pokemon Blast Rumble: 7.5
• Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventures: 7.0
• Captain America: Super Soldier: 5.0
• Go Vacation: 7.0
• Cooking Mama 4: Kitchen Magic: 5.0
• Fishing Resort: 7.5
• Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Legacy: 7.5
• Nano Assault: 7.0
• X-Men Destiny (Wii): 2.5
• X-Men Destiny (DS): 2.0
• Back to the Future: The Game: 6.5
• Rayman Origins: 9.5

+Beautiful art
+Inspired soundtrack that amplifies the manic atmosphere
+Nothing plain or boring
+Extremely fluid
+Some of the “tightest” level design in the reviewers’ 26 year experience with platformers
+Great at creating sense of momentum
+Perfect difficult
+Great multiplayer
+Always introducing new concepts

Overall: “Best Rayman game ever made. A platforming masterpiece.”

• Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games: 7.0
• Spiderman: Edge of Time (3DS): 6.0
• Spiderman: Edge of Time (DS): 5.0
• Spiderman: Edge of Time (Wii): 7.0
• Fossil Fighters: Champions: 8.0
• Cave Story 3D: 8.0
• Pac-Man Party 3D: 4.5
• Michael Jackson: The Experience: 5.0
• The Sims 3: Pets: 7.5
• Centipede Infestation: 6.5
• Disney Universe: 4.5

2.- With the holiday season fast approaching now is a more crucial time than ever for Nintendo to shift plenty of Nintendo 3DS units, thankfully Japanese analysts are confidentthat Nintendo will do just that. With big hitters such as Mario Kart 7, Super Mario 3D Landand Monster Hunter Tri G things are looking especially good for Nintendo in the run up to Christmas.

“Hardware sales are usually five to eight times what they usually are for the rest of the year, reflecting that, I think around 2 to 2.5 million systems sold [in November and December] is a given, and it being the first Christmas for the 3DS, I think it’s possible to expect more than that.”
- SMBC Nikko Securities analyst Eiji Maeda
I think it’s plain that they’ll sell at least a million in November and December alone, pushing it past three million systems sold for the year. Already in October we’re seeing a lot of people purchase the system by itself in anticipation of supplies running tight toward the end of the year.”
“With Mario 3D Land leading the way and Mario Kart 7 and MH3G following, the 3DS has nothing but big-name titles up ahead.”
- Tamio Yanaka, game manager at Japanese electronics chain Bic Camera
“MH3G, Inazuma Eleven, Mario Kart 7, and Super Mario 3D Land will be the key to everything here. If the 3DS can reach 2.5 million systems before the end of the year, I imagine all of those titles will break half a million in sales.”
- Akinori Nakamura, professor of media studies at Kyoto-based Ritsumeikan University.

3.- Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has confirmed that first party Nintendo 3DS content will be getting downloadable content for titles that the company is publishing next year.

Hopefully this means we will see additional content for games such as Animal Crossing and Kid Icarus Uprising.

Nintendo has revealed it’s holding a press conference at the LA Auto show in Los Angeles. Unfortunately Nintendo wouldn’t provide any hints or tips regarding what they’re planning, but it certainly will be interesting. We shall find out exactly what it’s all about on Thursday, November 17th.

4.- Nintendo America has uploaded the first commercial for The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword. The video plays on the nostalgia factor of the series and gives a tantalising glimpse at what players can expect with Skyward Sword. 

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword is released November 18th in Europe and November 20th in North America.


5.- Famitsu magazine had this to say about Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime 3 in their review:

The interface is easy to get to grips with and guides the player seamlessly through the game, making it a pretty stressless experience. The action gameplay itself is pretty simple, but the items and monsters you can collect help to expand the world and make it worth it to hardcore players. The ship battles add some spice to things, but it takes a really long time for them to finish up.

They also scored it 37/10, which is only one point less than Super Mario 3D Land. Problem is, I’m pretty sure we don’t know if this game is going to be localised.


6.- We have some new screenshots from Monster Hunter Tri G that show off various monsters in the game.

John Koller of Sony Computer Entertainment of America has announced that the company has noticed a substantial amount of demand for the PlayStation Vita based on research that the company has conducted. The study shows that 60 percent of PlayStation Portable owners and 63 percent of PlayStation 3 owners intend to pick up the PlayStation Vita within the next year and a half.

7.- Cave Story 3D received a score of 8/10 from Nintendo Power magazine, which is pretty darn good. If you want to see the game in action though, there’s a video that you can find here from GamesRadar. 

There’ll be spoilers since it’s a ten-minute video running through the game, but it’ll help you decide if you want to pick it up.

This sounds completely ridiculous but apparently Sony has been hard at work creating a Super Smash Bros clone for the PlayStation 3. The game, which has yet to receive an official title, will apparently bring together a host of characters from the PlayStation portfolio including Nathan Drake, Kratos and Sly Cooper amongst others.

Source: MyNintendoNews

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