Pokemon takes a back seat while Mario celebrates with 300,000 copies of the Super Mario Collection sold.

After leading the Media Create sales charts for five consecutive weeks, Pokemon Black and Pokemon White’s reign atop the summit has come to an end as they step aside for Mario and his latest Wii offering.

Super Mario Collection: Special Pack began its life in Japan in the top spot with sales of 307,755.  With the limited availability of the game and the holiday season approaching, the game should continue to sell well in the near future.

Settling for the runner-up spot for its sixth week of sales is Pokemon Black and Pokemon White, which dip 1 to 2. Their fall is due to a 51 percent decline in sales, giving a total just short of 82,000 copies. Kirby’s Epic Yarn sold an additional 35,000 units this week, a 61 percent decrease in sales, falling from 2 to 5 in its second week.

Mario Party 2 and Super Bonk highlight the month's lineup of releases.

Nintendo has announced their November lineup of classic games for the Japanese Virtual Console. The first of these is the Nintendo 64 title, Mario Party 2. Released December 17, 1999 in Japan and January 24, 2000 in North America, Mario Party 2 includes six themed boards, the ability to practice a mini-game, and new spaces on the board. Mario Party 2 is set to be released on November 2, priced at 1,000 Wii Points.

From Hudson comes Super Bonk, the fourth game in the Bonk series originally released in the mid-90s, and the first on the Super Famicom/SNES. Jaleco will be releasing Bishojo Janshi Suchei-Pai, a Super Famicom mahjong game with a distinctive anime style. Finally, Capcom will be releasing Ghost n' Goblins for Virtual Console Arcade. Each of these three titles has been priced at 800 Wii Points.

Some video showing the Shop Channel equivalent for 3DS.

Part of the presentation at today's Nintendo Operational Briefing showed a video example of the Shop Channel for Nintendo 3DS.

Mario, Donkey Kong, Dr. Mario, and utilities such as the Mario Clock are shown in the clean new interface. The video also shows a Super Mario Land video loaded and played from the service.

See below for a portion of the Briefing, including the Shop Channel demonstration.

Four games expected around launch, more to follow.

Following Nintendo's Financial Results meeting today, where figures for all of Nintendo's sales and profits for hardware and software were released to investors, a supplementary information document gave a launch schedule for October 2010 onwards, including a preliminary list of Nintendo published games for Nintendo 3DS.

The release schedule shows the 3DS hardware release dates that have already been confirmed, February 26, 2011 for Japan and March 2011 for US/Europe, and also gave release windows for some games that have already been announced.

Mega Man character designer to leave Capcom and subsidiary Daletto at the end of the month.

Keiji Inafune announced today that he will be leaving his position as head of research and development, and management groups at Capcom, and CEO of Daletto, an online games business subsidiary of Capcom effective from the end of October. Inafune has been with Capcom for 23 years.

Inafune believes that he is no longer effective at the requirements of a CEO for Daletto, and as for Capcom, he has achieved all that he can as a developer. He feels it means death for a creator to settle down.

Rock Band adds 12 songs from The Doors, and Guitar Hero does the time warp again.

This week, the two prominent instrument-based rhythm games add a variety of songs from classic rock bands and popular cult musicals.

Rock Band, which will only feature downloadable content for Rock Band 3 from here on out, released a 12-pack of The Doors songs. Three of those songs ("Light My Fire," "Touch Me," and "Riders on the Storm"), which come with Pro Guitar and Pro Bass upgrades, are free until November 1. The entire pack is available for 1,500 Wii Points ($15).

The Guitar Hero store adds three news songs from The Rocky Horror Picture Show, including the well-known "Time Warp." The three-song pack is available for 550 Wii Points ($5.50) as a pack, or 200 Wii Points ($2) each.

The creative WiiWare title is now available on the European game service.

tons of bits's first WiiWare title, Chick Chick Boom, has been released for WiiWare in Europe and Australia. The title, priced at 800 Wii Points ($8), has players battling enemies by drawing weapons. This is achieved by connecting the dots, then launching it to the enemy's arena.

No American release date has been announced, though the title has been rated by the ESRB, receiving an E+10 rating.

Check out our exclusive direct feed footage.

Aside from some great hands-on time, we were able to record footage from the first six worlds (Jungle, Beach, Ruins, Cave, Forest, and Cliff). Watch Donkey Kong and Diddy ride mine carts, rockets, rhinos, and more mine carts, as well as taking on some bosses in an effort to recover DK's banana stash from the Tiki tribe.

Also check out Nintendo's latest official trailer and gameplay footage below.

The numbers are painted red for Nintendo for the first time in seven years.

Nintendo posted a loss of 2.01 billion yen (approximately $2,470,000) for the April through September 2010 period, citing the strength of the yen as the primary factor.

Nintendo relies on foreign sales for more than 80 percent of its business, and thus as the value of the yen rises, the value of the overseas sales falls. The same period in 2009 resulted in a 69.49 billion profit for Nintendo. This is the first time in seven years that Nintendo has posted an interim net loss.

Slower sales have also contributed to the loss. In the first half of 2009, Nintendo sold 11.7 million DS units, however in 2010, that number fell to 6.69 million. Sales of the Wii fell from 5.75 million to 4.97 million. Software sales for Wii and DS fell a combined 37 percent from the same period a year ago.

Get ready for Sissel's adventures on 01.11.11.

Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective is coming to the US on January 11, 2011.

After being delayed from a holiday release this year, Ace Attorney creator Shu Takumi's latest creation will be available for Western gamers early next year. The game was released in Japan in June of this year. 

Capcom also released the official box art for the game today, which we have updated in our game profile.