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

Information Update - Nintendo 3DS


1.- Nintendo has revealed that it’s releasing a brand new Pokemon game titled Nobunaga Ambition X Pokemon for the Nintendo DS. 

More After the Break...

Details are rather scarce but the game is coming to Japan sometime next year and is apparently a simulation RPG.


Square Enix has announced that Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance will be coming March 2012 in Japan. The information was revealed by the company at this years Jump Festa event. Hopefully we will hear about a Western release date shortly.

As you know the ten free Gameboy Advance games went live today for European and North American Nintendo 3DS ambassadors. The games themselves are stretched to better fit the Nintendo 3DS top screen but if you press the Start and Select buttons when loading the games they will display in their native resolution.

Nintendo has revealed the official box-art for the eagerly anticipated Kid Icarus: Uprising on the Nintendo 3DS. The game has been a long time coming but North American Nintendo 3DS owners will finally be getting the game March 23rd and it should hopefully be coming to Europe around the same time.

2.- Square Enix has launched the complete, official site for Kingdom Hearts 3D and there is plenty to check out including information about various characters and worlds. You can click here to visit the site yourself, or you can check after the break for new screenshots from the site.

Mighty Switch Force from WayForward is coming to Europe via the eShop next week on December 22nd. The game will be arriving in North America during the first quarter of next year, so the majority of you will have to continue playing the waiting game for the time being.

3.- Japanese media outlet Mainichi Digital believes that Sony has increased the number of PlayStation Vita units expected to hit Japanese shelves this weekend from 500,000 units to 700,000. We’ve already heard from Sony that allocation will be tight as PlayStation Vita pre-orders have all but sold out in Japan.

One of the lucky members of Game Wave has managed to get his hands on a PlayStation Vita and has rather kindly decided to unbox it on Youtube for your viewing pleasure. Expect many more unboxing videos to pop up on Youtube, but for now here’s the first.

Japanese gaming publication Inside Games managed to get a Vita game just ahead of tomorrow’s release and found out that it lacked an instruction manual. We already know that Capcom won’t be including a manual with Ultimate Marvel Vs Capcom 3 but Inside says that all PlayStation Vita games will do away with paper manuals in favor of digital manuals that can be accessible from the game.

4.- Famed industry analyst Michael Pachter has told Business Week that despite having an impressive launch software line-up, the biggest obstacle facing the PlayStation Vita is the price point which is $249 in North America and an incredibly steep £229 in the United Kingdom for the Wi-Fi only model.

“The number of titles is truly impressive, so there is no risk that people will wait to buy. The price point is the biggest obstacle.”

European PlayStation boss Jim Ryan has told the latest issue of Edge that the female market is the untapped holy grail. Ryan believes that the user-friendly PlayStation Vita user interface should help make the device more accessible to the female consumer. I find it difficult to believe that the female market hasn’t already been tapped into.

That [audience] is obviously the untapped holy grail. We’re hopeful that the rather less intimidating interface possibilities that Vita offers may make that market potentially more accessible.

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Mister Gaga