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

Information Update - Nintendo 3DS


1.- Nintendo of America’s Vice President of Corporate Affairs Cindy Gordon has reconfirmedto journalists that the Wii U won’t support DVD’s, Blu-ray or Gamecube discs. Gordon did however reconfirm that the Wii U will be fully backwards compatible with Wii games, which we already knew. Hopefully it will support digital streaming services such as the BBC iPlayer, Netflix and Hulu etc.

More After the Break...

 

Nintendo of America has uploaded a new trailer for the action-packed Kid Icarus: Uprisingon the Nintendo 3DS. The new trailer details the game’s Fiend’s Cauldron which allows players to customize their play experience by adjusting the intensity level. The higher the difficultly level you play on, the greater the reward.

2.- Microsoft’s marketing director of France, Cedrick Delmas has told reporters that Nintendoisn’t looking to compete against other console manufactures, and other console manufactures aren’t looking to compete against them. Sounds like a huge mistake on Microsoft’s part.

“We’re not here to counter Nintendo and they’re not here to fight the other manufacturers. Nintendo has put itself in a different cycle, they’re advancing at their own pace.”

- Cedrick Delmas, Microsoft’s marketing director of France

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has told investors that no one can replace Shigeru Miyamoto. Miyamoto was mentioned due to the retirement rumours that circulated late last year, which both Iwata and Miyamoto have categorically denied. Iwata stressed that younger developers who were previously under Miyamoto’s wing have now been allowed to work independently from the revered developer.

“Of course, no single person can replace Mr. Miyamoto instantaneously. They are living in a different age from Mr. Miyamoto and their experiences are different from Mr. Miyamoto’s. On the other hand, there have been many people who have observed how Mr. Miyamoto works, have worked with him or have been left in situations where they have to take on more significant responsibility without being allowed to be dependent upon Mr. Miyamoto.

Team Ninja’s Fumihiko Yasuda and Yosuke Hayashi have told Gamefront that the Wii U is extremely easy to develop for and is very similar to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in that respect. Hayashi also went on to say that the Wii U hardware is constantly changing.

“Nintendo asked us what we would want from the hardware. And when we gave them our feedback, we could see that they really listened and made changes. The hardware is currently changing constantly.”

“The control via a touch screen is like the Nintendo DS, we worked on the NDS with Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword, and we would like to take some elements from it and install them in the U Wii version of Ninja Gaiden 3.”

3.- Long ago we heard that Yu-Gi-Oh! was coming to the 3DS. But it was a vague announcement with nothing else attached to it other than the brand, so it’d be easy for Konami to let it disappear into a void and not have many people notice. A new rumour, however, suggests the game is in development and will be known as:

Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal World Championship 2012: The Legendary Beginning Number

Aside from the stupidly long name which I will never speak aloud (but instead call it “that Yu-Gi-Oh! game”), this sounds promising. It’s not much to go on, but we can hold to an ounce of hope for the time being.

Square Enix has tweeted that the walkthrough trailer for Heroes of Ruin is now available via the eShop. The difference now though is that you can watch it in 3D. Hooray! I’m not sure if this is for all regions, but you may want to boot up the eShop to see if it’s there.

We reported that GameGear games were coming to the Virtual Console on the 3DS and it seems like Shinobiand Sonic Triple Trouble will be the first two titles from that platform as they’ve been rated by the ESRB. We don’t have other information at this time, but we’ll hopefully hear something in the coming weeks.

Genius Sonority, makers of the Pokémon home console games has unveiled Denpa Ningenfor the 3DS. It’s an RPG focused on capturing Pikmin-like creatures using the augmented reality functionality of the 3DS and using them to save someone who has been captured by the demon king. The game will launch on the eShop in Japan on the 8th of February and a demo of the game will be released tomorrow. You can click here to find various gameplay videos or after the break to see the debut trailer and some screenshots of the game.

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Mister Gaga