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

Information Update - Nintendo 3DS

1.- Disney Interactive has confirmed that Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion will launch on exactly the same day as Epic Mickey: The Power of Two for Wii, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion is exclusive to Nintendo 3DS and will be released November 23rd in Europe.

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THQ has announced today that Mike Tyson will be staring in the forthcoming WWE 13 for Wii. Tyson said he’s reprising his role from 1998 as a Ringside Enforcer for D-Generation. Mike Tyson will only be available for those that pre-order the game, which launches on October 30th for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii.

Rising Star Games has announced that Harvest Moon: the Tale of Two Towns for the Nintendo 3DS and the Nintendo DS will be released in Europe on June 29th. Natsume and MarvelousAQL have already confirmed that the game will utilise StreetPass.

StarCraft II lead designer Dustin Browder thinks that StarCraft could work well on Wii U. Browder admitted that he didn’t know too much about the system, but he thought that If he were able to control a cursor on the television with his hand on the touchscreen, then it might be able to work. Would you like StarCraft II to appear on Wii U?


“The problem I have with the iPhone interface is the big meaty sausages called my fingers that are always in the way,” Browder told me, explaining that he thinks devices like the iPhone and iPad work well for games that allow you to casually lift up and put down your fingers, like tower defense.

“If I can control a cursor on the television with my hand on the touchscreen, that might be able to work.”

“If I can control a cursor on the television with my hand on the touchscreen, that might be able to work,” he said. “[But] because of the hotkey scenario, it’s not like players actually play StarCraft with the mouse only—they play with the mouse and keyboard… We obviously allow new users to play mouse-only and that’s really fun, but when you get serious about the game you do move into the mouse and keyboard space.”

Legendary games designer Shigeru Miyamoto has revealed that he worries about the continued reliance by developers to create yet another first person or third person shooter. Miyamoto says he wonders about how younger gamers sit down and interact with these types of games, and thinks parents need a better idea of what happens in these games.

Veteran Nintendo producer Takashi Tezuka believes New Super Mario Bros U is what gamers want from a Wii U Mario game. Tezuka explained that Nintendo didn’t want to mess with a winning formula that has been perfected by the company over the years. Is New Super Mario Bros U what you want?

2.- Many analysts try to push Nintendo to develop games for smartphones but Nintendo does not plan to do so. Nintendo producer Takashi Tezuka was recently asked about how he’d feel if Mario games would come to iPhone. Tezuka said that Nintendo can definitely make a Mario game that only uses touchscreen controls but it wouldn’t be a 2D side-scrolling platformer, and it would be on a Nintendo console. Games that use touchscreen controls can be developed for Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS and the upcoming Wii U – why should Nintendo make Mario games for other platforms?

During a recent interview, Shigeru Miyamoto was asked about what he thinks about Nintendo’s competitors. Miyamoto found it interesting how competitors are taking ideasfrom Wii U only a year after it was revealed because – after the initial releases of Nintendo DS and Wii – it took companies a few years to bring their own gaming devices with touchscreen control or motion control to the market. Miyamoto believes that it is better not to focus on the competition during E3 and, instead, developers should focus on “bringing fun to the world.”

New Super Mario Bros. producer Takashi Tezuka was asked about which recent 2D platformer impresses him. Tezuka revealed that he was very impressed by Retro Studios’Donkey Kong Country Returns for Wii. New Super Mario Bros. Wii and Donkey Kong Country Returns were being developed at the same time and when Tezuka saw the latter while it was in development, he thought “the graphics were so pretty.” Tezuka said that Donkey Kong Country Returns had a positive impact on him.

The Wii U GamePad and the PlayStation Vita are touchscreen-to-TV devices. According to Sony Worldwide Studios Vice President Scott Rohde, the PS Vita is the superior device of the two because the “Wii U tablet doesn’t have a processor in it.” Unlike the Wii U GamePad, the PS Vita and the Nintendo 3DS are handheld gaming devices. The 3DS also has a processor and, like the PS Vita, is capable of connecting to a home console.

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Mister Gaga