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

Information Update - Nintendo 3DS


1.- Previously unseen footage from the canceled Mega Man Legends 3 made its debut on Capcom’s Games Guest Show. The footage is from a prototype Capcom had up and running before they inexplicably decided to cancel it. To see the English subtitles in the video you’ll need to click the CC button.

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Square Enix won’t be too pleased this week as it’s been revealed that Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance sales are down 80% from last week when the game officially launched in Japan. Without further ado, here’s the Japanese software and hardware charts:

1. [PSP] 2nd Super Robot Wars Z: Saisei-hen
2. [3DS] Kingdom Hearts 3D -Dream Drop Distance
3. [PSP] Pro Baseball Spirits 2012
4. [PS3] Pro Baseball Spirits 2012
5. [3DS] Kid Icarus: Uprising
6. [3DS] Super Mario 3D Land
7. [NDS] Pokemon Conquest
8. [3DS] Monster Hunter 3G
9. [3DS] Mario Kart 7
10. [3DS] Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games

1. Nintendo 3DS: 72,115
2. PlayStation 3: 19,370
3. PSP: 14,804
4. PlayStation Vita: 8,931
5. Wii: 7,099
6. Xbox 360: 3,764
7. Nintendo DS: 1,536
8. PlayStation 2: 1,355

Nielsen’s recently published Game Rank survey shows that consumers are most looking forward to getting their hands on Assassin’s Creed 3, Halo 4 and Madden NFL 13 this year. Disney’s Epic Mickey: The Power of Two and EA’s Madden NFL 13 came out on top for Nintendo’s ageing Wii console. Sadly Xenoblade Chronicles and The Last Story were both ranked below The Amazing Spiderman and the forthcoming Men In Black game.

2012 Xbox 360 titles: Halo 4 - 98 percent Assassin’s Creed III – 94 percent Max Payne 3 – 91 percent Madden NFL 13 – 90 percent Resident Evil 6 – 89 percent Ghost Recon: Future Soldier – 85 percent Fable: The Journey - 85 percent Kinect Star Wars - 85 percent NCAA Football 13 – 82 percent BioShock: Infinite – 77 percent Tomb Raider – 77 percent

2012 PlayStation 3 titles: Assassin’s Creed III – 98 percent Max Payne 3 – 96 percent Madden NFL 13 – 96 percent Resident Evil 6 – 94 percent Medal of Honor: Warfighter – 87 percent NCAA Football 13 – 85 percent Prototype 2 – 85 percent Ghost Recon: Future Soldier – 80 percent BioShock: Infinite – 79 percent Tomb Raider – 79 percent NBA Live 13 – 79 percent

2012 Wii titles: Madden NFL 13 – 96 percent Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two – 94 percent Battleship – 86 percent Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes – 82 percent The Amazing Spider-Man – 82 percent Men in Black – 81 percent The Last Story - 64 percent Xenoblade Chronicles - 50 percent

2.- Nintendo Power readers have voted for their most anticipated Nintendo 3DS, Wii and Wii U video games. Paper Mario is the most wanted game on the Nintendo 3DS with Batman Arkham City being the most wanted game on Wii U, and The Last Story for Wii.

Nintendo 3DS

1. Paper Mario

2. Luigi’s Mansion 2

3. Kingdom Hearts 3D

4. Animal Crossing

5. Final Fantasy -Theatrhythm

Wii

1. The Last Story

2. Skylanders: Giants

3. Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes

4. The Amazing Spider-Man

5. Men In Black 3

Wii U

1. Batman: Arkham City

2. Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge

3. Tekken

4. Darksiders II

5. Lego City Stories

According to word on the internet the next edition of Edge magazine will include a special surprise for Nintendo fans. Sadly there’s absolutely no hint as to what it may be, but with E3 fast approaching it could have sometime to do with Wii U. What would you like to be revealed in the next edition of the magazine?

A source from developer N Space has told Go Nintendo that Nintendo is hard at work developing a Nintendo 3DS headset which will launch sometime close to the debut ofHeroes of Ruin. Nintendo has yet to confirm whether or not it’s developing such a peripheral, but it doesn’t sound too far-fetched if they are.

Japanese gaming publication Famitsu has awarded Fire Emblem: Awakening for the Nintendo 3DS a fantastic 36/40 review score. Each of Famitsu’s four reviewers decided to award the highly anticipated game 9/10. Fire Emblem Awakening is the third Nintendo 3DS game in recent months to be a awarded a high score from Famitsu, with Kid Icarus: Uprising receiving a perfect 40/40 score and Kingdom Hearts 3D receiving 38/40.

3.- Chris Faylor, the Community Manager for developer Gearbox has stated categorically thatAliens: Colonial Marines on Wii U is not a port. When Faylor was asked if the game was indeed a simple port of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of the game he replied “I hate that word. The Wii U version is not a port. Remove it from your vocabulary.”

Namco, Capcom and Sega have revealed their mystery collaboration game as Project X Zone. The game is a strategic role playing game which features numerous iconic characters from each of the game studios. Project X Zone’s gameplay involves pairing up these characters and taking them into battle. Here’s the confirmed list of characters:

Capcom

Ryu & Ken (Street Fighter)

X and Zero (Mega Man)

Demitri and Dante (Darkstalkers and Devil May Cry)

Chris and Jill (Resident Evil)

Sega

Shinguji Sakura and Ogami Ichiro (Sakura Wars)

Pai and Akira (Virtua Fighter)

Kurt and Riela (Valkyria Chronicles)

Ulala and Touma (Space Channel 5 and Shining Force EXA)

Namco Bandai

Sanger Somvold (Super Robot Wars)

Jin and Ling Xiaoyu (Tekken)

Kos-Mos and T-elos (Xenosaga)

Yurie and Estel (Tales of Vesperia)

Kaito and Black Rose (.hack)

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Mister Gaga