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

Information Update - Nintendo 3DS


1.- An Infinity Ward engineer’s resume seems to hint that the next edition of the immensely popular Modern Warfare series will be heading to both next generation and current generation platforms. Alongside the currently available consoles there’s an intriguing “TBA” for other unannounced platforms. It seems reasonably likely that we will be seeing the game on Wii U, and at a long-shot the Wii.

More After the Break...

Nintendo’s recently released Kirby’s Dream Collection has taken the coveted number one in the Japanese charts this week. The Nintendo 3DS once again remains Japan’s favourite video game system selling a reasonable 44,399 units. Here’s the Japanese software and hardware charts.
[Wii] Kirby’s Dream Collection Special Edition
[NDS] Pokemon Black 2 / White 2
[3DS] Rune Factory 4
[PSP] Digimon World Re: Digitize
[PS3] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 2012
[3DS] Taiko Drum Master: Chibi Dragon and the Mysterious Orb
[PSP] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 2012
[PSP] New Class of Heroes: Toki Academy
[PSP] Musou Orochi 2 Special
[PSV] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 2012
3DS – 44,399 (47,063)
PS3 – 15,214 (14,813)
PSP – 13,058 (11,004)
PSV – 11,932 (13,427)
Wii – 9,002 (6,747)
PS2 – 1,093 (1,197)
360 – 865 (930)
DSi – 706 (581)
DSi LL – 637 (559)

Nintendo has just published its release schedule for the Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo DS and Wii. There’s quite a few to be determined scattered throughout the release schedule. The big titles such as Animal Crossing and Super Smash Bros 3DS still haven’t been dated, but both Paper Mario: Sticker Star and Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon are still on track for a holiday release in North America.

United States:

3DS
Nintendo 3DS XL — 8/19/2012

Animal Crossing (temp title) — TBD
Art Academy (temp title) — TBD
Fire Emblem (temp title) — 2012 2013
Lego City: Undercover (temp title) — TBD
Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon — Holiday
New Super Mario Bros. 2 — 8/19/2012
Paper Mario: Sticker Star — Holiday
Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask — Nov. 2012
Super Smash Bros. (temp title) — TBD

DS
Pokémon Black 2 — 10/7/2012
Pokémon White 2 — 10/7/2012

Wii
Kirby’s Dream Collection Special Ed — 9/16/2012

Famed Wedbush Morgan industry analyst Michael Pachter doesn’t believe that the Nintendo 3DS XL will be the saving grace for Nintendo. Pachter also believes that Sony’s troubled PlayStation Vita is just too expensive for consumers.


“The larger 3DS format is not all that compelling for the consumer,”he said, “and although I think the XL will help sales, I don’t think that the impact will revive weak sales of handhelds overall.”

“Vita’s too expensive for most, priced pretty much the same as the PS3 everywhere. While I think the Vita is a good value and a great device, when compared to the PS3 it’s pretty expensive.

“Also, there is not much of a library of Vita games, so sales will probably be slow until we see more content.”

Nintendo has revealed that they will be holding a special Dragon Quest X themed Nintendo Direct on Monday, July 30 at 20:00 JST. Satoru Iwata will once again be at the helm discussing everything you want to know about Dragon Quest X which is released in Japan on August 2nd.

Nintendo has announced that it plans to sell a combined total of 10.5 million Wii and Wii U console during the fiscal year ending March 2013. With Wii sales slowing down, Nintendo clearly hopes the majority of those sales will be for the Wii U which is due for release this holiday season.

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Mister Gaga