Information Update - Nintendo 3DS
1.- Despite MCV reporting from a trusted source that both Microsoft and Sony will be showing off their new consoles at E3, industry analyst Michael Pachter remains firmly unconvinced.
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Speaking to Forbes Pachter said that there’s zero chance that Sony will show off the PlayStation 4 at the event and there’s little to no chance that Microsoft will do the same. Pachter also stated that neither would launch a console in 2013. What do you think?
According to VGCharts Nintendo’s reasonably controversial Metroid: Other M has finally sold over a million units. The game originally launched seventeen months ago to fairlymixed reviews from the gaming press. Clearly the number of retail outlets offering the Other M at sale price during the Christmas season helped boost sales of the game.
Update: Reggie is to be interviewed sometime between 4pm-5pm. Thanks btj.
2.- Edmund McMillen of Team Meat has told online publication Joystiq that if the Binding of Isaac comes to the Nintendo 3DS, as the development team hope it does, then it will include The Binding of Isaac’s first and only expansion, The Wrath of the Lamb. The team still hopes Nintendo will allow the controversial game on the Nintendo 3DS.
Perhaps $40 for a 3DS game is outrageous, but what surprises me is when people scoff at the cost of $5 and $10 Nintendo eShop games. Really? Now even $5 or $10 is too much for a game?
Time for some perspective: our best selling DS game has sold around 100,000 copies worldwide. Based on how the average original non-licensed game sells on the DS market, 100,000 copies is a big success. On a side note, we saw no profits from this title due to the broken business model of retail – but that’s a different story.
In my opinion, iPhone games have a greater chance of selling closer to 200,000 copies due to the nature of the platform and the audience using it (they also have the same chance of selling zero copies due to how flooded the market is).
But, they have to be the right types of experiences for the iPhone audience.
Games that go beyond literal simple pleasures take time and money to create. This will never change. If people are unwilling to pay higher prices for richer experiences, then these types of games will cease to exist. You know supply and demand and all that.
We will then be left with a market full of simple gaming experiences that offer the same value as what you paid for it.
3.- The latest edition of American gaming publication Nintendo Power has plenty of newinformation regarding the forthcoming Mario Party 9 for Wii. Thankfully one of the forum members from the Mario Party forums has typed up all the exclusive details and here they are:
Instead of moving around the stage separately, all players ride together in a vehicle
- Only the player who is taking a turn gets the rewards
- Collect as many Mini Stars as possible before the end
- Earn them by landing on special spaces and playing mini-games
- Purple mini Zstars remove stars from your inventory
- Variety of dice: high number dice, dice that only roll 0 and 1
- Board details: Toad Road has a broken bridge that cannot be jumped unless all players roll a sufficiently high number
- If you fall off the bridge, you enter a Mini Ztar-filled canyon
- Bob-omb Factory is littered with conveyer belts that change your course
- Each board has a miniboss and a final boss
- In Bob-omb Factory, fight against a giant Whomp
- Each player stands on a rotating platform while attempting to avoid being flattened by the stone creature
- Mini-games include memory games (quickly count a horde of Goombas as they rush into their homes) to tests of your button-pressing skills (tap the proper buttons to climb a mountain) to more-physical activities (swing the Wii Remote to throw toppings on a pizza)
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Mister Gaga
I don't think the world is ready for the PS4 yet.
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