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TalkBack / Re: Super Mario Maker Reaches A Million Sales

« on: September 30, 2015, 06:04:30 PM »

Woo! On to 2 million!

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Official Sales Thread

« on: September 30, 2015, 06:03:50 PM »

JAPAN NUMBERS!
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1118608

Top Game: [WIU] Super Mario Maker - 52.396 / 245.182 (-4%)

Media Create Sales: Week 39, 2015 (Sep 21 - Sep 27)

01./02. [WIU] Super Mario Maker # <ACT> (Nintendo) {2015.09.10} (¥6.156) - 52.396 / 245.182 (-4%)
02./01. [3DS] Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon <RPG> (Nintendo) {2015.09.17} (¥5.076) - 44.555 / 196.379 (-71%)
03./03. [3DS] Yo-Kai Watch Busters: Red Cat Team / White Dog Squad <ACT> (Level 5) {2015.07.11} (¥4.968) - 39.468 / 1.566.740 (+7%)
04./00. [PSV] Utawareru Mono: Itsuwari no Kamen # <RPG> (Aqua Plus) {2015.09.24} (¥7.344) - 26.252 / NEW
05./07. [3DS] Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer # <ETC> (Nintendo) {2015.07.30} (¥4.320) - 21.785 / 1.050.673 (+19%)
06./08. [WIU] Splatoon <ACT> (Nintendo) {2015.05.28} (¥6.156) - 20.736 / 681.495 (+24%)
07./00. [PSV] Genkai Tokki: Moero Crystal # <RPG> (Compile Heart) {2015.09.25} (¥7.344) - 18.721 / NEW
08./00. [PS4] Utawareru Mono: Itsuwari no Kamen # <RPG> (Aqua Plus) {2015.09.24} (¥7.344) - 18.635 / NEW
09./04. [3DS] Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King <RPG> (Square Enix) {2015.08.27} (¥6.458) - 17.790 / 776.665 (-28%)
10./06. [PS4] Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain # <ADV> (Konami) {2015.09.02} (¥9.072) - 15.158 / 372.233 (-27%)
11./00. [PS3] TV Anime Idolm@ster: Cinderella Girls G4U! Pack Vol.5 <ETC> (Bandai Namco Games) {2015.09.25} (¥10.778) - 13.287 / NEW
12./09. [PS3] Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain # <ADV> (Konami) {2015.09.02} (¥9.072) - 11.217 / 167.691 (-31%)
13./16. [PSV] Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition <ADV> (Sony Computer Entertainment) {2015.03.19} (¥2.592) - 10.770 / 343.434 (+31%)
14./00. [PS3] Utawareru Mono: Itsuwari no Kamen # <RPG> (Aqua Plus) {2015.09.24} (¥7.344) - 10.693 / NEW
15./12. [3DS] Monster Hunter Diary: Poka Poka Airu Village DX <ETC> (Capcom) {2015.09.10} (¥4.309) - 10.197 / 83.687 (-27%)
16./00. [PSV] Hakuoki: Shinkai - Furi no Shou # <ADV> (Idea Factory) {2015.09.25} (¥6.804) - 10.064 / NEW
17./00. [PS4] The Witch and the Hundred Knights Revival # <RPG> (Nippon Ichi Software) {2015.09.25} (¥7.344) - 8.902 / NEW
18./00. [PS4] Saint Seiya: Soldiers' Soul <ACT> (Bandai Namco Games) {2015.09.25} (¥7.690) - 6.938 / NEW
19./18. [3DS] Rhythm Heaven: The Best+ <ACT> (Nintendo) {2015.06.11} (¥5.076) - 6.830 / 475.059 (+16%)
20./10. [PSV] Resident Evil: Revelations 2 <ADV> (Capcom) {2015.09.17} (¥5.389) - 5.765 / 21.698 (-64%)

Top 20

3DS - 6
PSV - 5
PS4 - 4
PS3 - 3
WIU - 2

Media Create Hardware

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+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+-------------+
|System | This Week  | Last Week  | Last Year  |     YTD    |  Last YTD  |     LTD     |
+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+-------------+
| 3DS # |     29.110 |     26.739 |     30.439 |  1.371.579 |  1.577.925 |  19.210.024 |
| PSV # |     19.868 |     20.210 |     16.716 |    689.368 |    914.767 |   4.213.295 |
|  WIU  |     18.024 |     16.033 |      9.950 |    452.995 |    414.807 |   2.596.575 |
|  PS4  |      4.071 |      8.375 |      8.033 |    827.399 |    726.079 |   1.798.066 |
|  PS3  |      2.630 |      2.411 |      6.026 |    187.073 |    378.938 |  10.356.064 |
|  XB1  |        232 |        737 |      1.113 |     12.722 |     31.116 |      55.989 |
+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+-------------+
|  ALL  |     73.935 |     74.505 |     72.522 |  3.541.136 |  4.149.307 |  38.230.013 |
+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+-------------+
Super Mario Maker cares not for last weeks new releases (which weren't big-audience tickets to be fair). The Underwater Ray Ramano sequel debuted last week.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/41239/super-mario-maker-reaches-a-million-sales

Also, Super Mario Maker has sold 1 million world wide!

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Xenoblade Chronicles X. Monolith Soft's Next Game.

« on: September 30, 2015, 05:38:32 AM »

http://www.gameinformer.com/games/xenoblade_chronicles_x/b/wii_u/archive/2015/09/29/xenoblade-chronicles-x-feature-preview-game-informer.aspx

The Game Informer preview from issue #270.

Nothing much new that hasn't been covered by the Japanese PVs and news before hand. Still, a nice overview of the game.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: LOST REAVER (used to be called Project Treasure) MEGA THREAD

« on: September 30, 2015, 04:51:16 AM »

As I mentioned earlier in the thread, the Beta began on September 3rd.

Ah. If we're lucky, the game will fully release by March 2016!

Here's some hot beta action:

Featuring Unreal Engine Petey Piranha

Hmm, it looks as junky as I feared. Still, I want to try it. Might be fun enough to get a few loot drops. Hopefully Bandai Namco doesn't do something stupid with the microtransactions.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: LOST REAVER (used to be called Project Treasure) MEGA THREAD

« on: September 29, 2015, 07:21:17 PM »

The beta for Ace Combat: Infinity lasted for a week in February 2014. The game was later released on May 27th, 2014 for North America. Japan and Europe releases were also in May 2014. Typically, a beta is not far off from the full release of the game.

However, Ace Combat: Infinity had an early, Japan-only beta in December of 2013. For Lost Reavers, I don't recall a date announced for the Japan beta. We might be waiting until the late spring of 2016 to see Lost Reavers be released.

If the game doesn't get canceled by then, of course. Ah, I don't think the chances of that are all that high. It looks like Bandai Namco already has a bunch of game made already.

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TalkBack / Re: Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash Gets North American Date

« on: September 29, 2015, 07:12:10 PM »

Here comes the ringer!

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TalkBack / Re: Reminders: Club Nintendo And The Smash Ballot

« on: September 29, 2015, 07:11:42 PM »

Zombie Panic in Wonderland of course. Though, I guess the 3DS version of that is better?

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: SMTxFE Genei Ibun Roku #FE JPop Extravaganza (Thread Name Not Final)

« on: September 29, 2015, 12:42:04 AM »

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/41228/genei-ibunroku-fe-adds-two-new-playable-characters-three-mirages

New characters!
According to Siliconera, Tharja is Kiria's Mirage.

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TalkBack / Re: Genei Ibunroku #FE Adds Two New Playable Characters, Three Mirages

« on: September 29, 2015, 12:40:12 AM »

Tharja amiibo imminent!


Actually, probably not if the development was started long before amiibo came in to being. Maybe there will be functionality for amiibo as single-battle boosters or session long perks?

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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 446: Black Hatred in Vague Human Shape

« on: September 28, 2015, 03:21:44 AM »

There are quite a few horribly wonderful tangents in this episode. Good show.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Super Mario Maker

« on: September 26, 2015, 12:07:35 PM »

Honestly, I didn't notice that beneath the broad strokes (shell carrying, wall jumps) that it was all the same underneath.

Hey, they are emulating the things! Just not all of it.

Where do I get the weird mushroom for to make Mario lanky?

Random from a Super Mushroom. I recall reading something about completing all stages in the 10 Mario Challenge lets you shake a Super Mushroom to transform it in to a Skinny Mushroom.

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TalkBack / Re: Pokemon Shuffle Mobile Stacks the Deck

« on: September 26, 2015, 11:53:59 AM »

What Ishihara meant by the mobile game being tuned for adults is that it's paced to be played in short bursts multiple times a day for every day for many weeks or months. This is as opposed to the 3DS version where it is more likely to be played in one session per day at most.


Sad to read that the mobile version of Shuffle is so much more miserable.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Official Sales Thread

« on: September 25, 2015, 08:24:21 PM »

JAPAN NUMBERS!
http://neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1116848

Top Game: [3DS] Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon - 151.823 / NEW

Media Create Sales: Week 38, 2015 (Sep 14 - Sep 20)

01./00. [3DS] Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon <RPG> (Pokemon Co.) {2015.09.17} (¥5.076) - 151.823 / NEW
02./01. [WIU] Super Mario Maker # <ACT> (Nintendo) {2015.09.10} (¥6.156) - 54.544 / 192.785 (-61%)
03./05. [3DS] Yo-Kai Watch Busters: Red Cat Team / White Dog Squad <ACT> (Level 5) {2015.07.11} (¥4.968) - 36.979 / 1.527.272 (-7%)
04./04. [3DS] Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King <RPG> (Square Enix) {2015.08.27} (¥6.458) - 24.758 / 758.874 (-42%)
05./00. [PSV] World Trigger: Borderless Mission <ACT> (Bandai Namco Games) {2015.09.17} (¥6.145) - 23.334 / NEW
06./03. [PS4] Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain # <ADV> (Konami) {2015.09.02} (¥9.072) - 20.635 / 357.075 (-52%)
07./07. [3DS] Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer # <ETC> (Nintendo) {2015.07.30} (¥4.320) - 18.267 / 1.028.888 (-12%)
08./08. [WIU] Splatoon <ACT> (Nintendo) {2015.05.28} (¥6.156) - 16.772 / 660.759 (-4%)
09./06. [PS3] Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain # <ADV> (Konami) {2015.09.02} (¥9.072) - 16.288 / 156.474 (-28%)
10./00. [PSV] Resident Evil: Revelations 2 <ADV> (Capcom) {2015.09.17} (¥5.389) - 15.932 / NEW
11./00. [PS3] Samurai Warriors 4: Empires # <ACT> (Koei Tecmo) {2015.09.17} (¥7.344) - 14.297 / NEW
12./02. [3DS] Monster Hunter Diary: Poka Poka Airu Village DX <ETC> (Capcom) {2015.09.10} (¥4.309) - 14.034 / 73.490 (-76%)
13./00. [PSV] Saki: Zenkoku-hen # <TBL> (Kaga Create) {2015.09.17} (¥7.538) - 13.698 / NEW
14./00. [PSV] Samurai Warriors 4: Empires # <ACT> (Koei Tecmo) {2015.09.17} (¥6.264) - 13.056 / NEW
15./00. [PS4] Samurai Warriors 4: Empires # <ACT> (Koei Tecmo) {2015.09.17} (¥7.344) - 11.360 / NEW
16./09. [PSV] Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition <ADV> (Sony Computer Entertainment) {2015.03.19} (¥2.592) - 8.244 / 332.663 (+12%)
17./00. [PS4] Destiny: The Taken King - Legendary Edition <ACT> (Sony Computer Entertainment) {2015.09.17} (¥8.532) - 6.643 / NEW
18./10. [3DS] Rhythm Heaven: The Best+ <ACT> (Nintendo) {2015.06.11} (¥5.076) - 5.866 / 468.228 (-17%)
19./00. [PSV] Yunohana Spring! # <ADV> (Idea Factory) {2015.09.17} (¥6.264) - 4.561 / NEW
20./11. [WIU] Mario Kart 8 # <RCE> (Nintendo) {2014.05.29} (¥6.156) - 4.095 / 1.126.412 (-17%)

Top 20

3DS - 6
PSV - 6
PS4 - 3
WIU - 3
PS3 - 2

HARDWARE

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+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+-------------+
|System | This Week  | Last Week  | Last Year  |     YTD    |  Last YTD  |     LTD     |
+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+-------------+
| 3DS # |     26.739 |     27.829 |     43.592 |  1.342.469 |  1.547.486 |  19.180.914 |
| PSV # |     20.210 |      9.480 |     11.857 |    669.500 |    898.051 |   4.193.427 |
|  WIU  |     16.033 |     20.891 |      8.396 |    434.971 |    404.857 |   2.578.551 |
|  PS4  |      8.375 |     18.555 |      8.939 |    823.328 |    718.046 |   1.793.995 |
|  PS3  |      2.411 |      2.628 |      6.078 |    184.443 |    372.912 |  10.353.434 |
|  XB1  |        737 |        207 |      1.314 |     12.490 |     30.003 |      55.757 |
+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+-------------+
|  ALL  |     74.505 |     79.590 |     80.378 |  3.467.201 |  4.076.785 |  38.156.078 |
+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+-------------+
| PSVTV |        739 |        462 |        709 |     24.012 |     61.918 |     174.225 |
|  PSV  |     19.471 |      9.018 |     11.148 |    645.488 |    836.133 |   4.019.202 |
|n-3DSLL|     19.811 |     21.504 |            |    877.799 |            |   1.744.857 |
| n-3DS |      4.672 |      4.214 |            |    285.076 |            |     654.382 |
| 3DSLL |        729 |        836 |     35.622 |     86.415 |  1.171.299 |   6.919.038 |
|  3DS  |      1.527 |      1.275 |      7.970 |     93.179 |    376.187 |   9.862.637 |
+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+-------------+
Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon is at top with Super Mario Maker holding at 2nd. Samurai Warriors 4: Empires released to chart at the bottom 20 along with the retail disc of Destiny: The Taken King.

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TalkBack / Re: Animal Crossing Characters Available in LINE Messaging App

« on: September 25, 2015, 04:38:19 AM »

I've never even heard of LINE. Must have sprung up overnight.

It's a Japanese instant messaging app that brings in money through selling stickers. If you see the Facebook Messenger having cute images in the chat log, LINE did it earlier.

The app is very popular in Japan and the rest of east Asia, I believe. It doesn't seem to have caught on elsewhere.

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TalkBack / Re: Animal Crossing Characters Available in LINE Messaging App

« on: September 24, 2015, 04:45:01 PM »

So begins the sweet, sweet merchandise!


I do wonder what will be next. Hopefully more cute things!

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TalkBack / Re: Miku Or Persona: A Tough Choice For The Portable Rhythm Fan

« on: September 22, 2015, 04:50:08 PM »

My other problem with Miku is that if it doesn’t live in the uncanny valley, it’s at least getting its mail there, as there’s something really unsettling about applying Mii styling to the vocaloid characters.

Unless something changed, the super-deformed style of the Project Mirai games are based on Good Smile's Nendoroid line of figurines. A line of figurines that popular for being cute and (relatively) affordable. ("Relatively" meaning $40 instead of $80+ for a bigger, more detailed statue.)

I was afraid of the Project Mirai games being lesser versions of the Project Diva games. Seems those fears have come true.

Fixed quote

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TalkBack / Re: Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer (3DS) Review

« on: September 22, 2015, 04:32:02 PM »

There's a 7.9 review on Paste Magazine that found the joy in the mundane work of being an interior decorator in the Animal Crossing world. From what I can infer, the reviewer wasn't bothered by the lack of direction, difficulty, or objectives.


Animal Crossing was always a series about what you put in to it rather than what the game gives you. Happy Home Designer seems to go further down that notion, except it's focus on decorating has led to a failure of covering the superficial and superfluous nature of Animal Crossing. The naked core of Animal Crossing has been laid bare by Happy Home Designer!

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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 445: I Made a Stage with Boos in It

« on: September 20, 2015, 06:13:50 PM »

Ooo, I quite like the orchestrated version of the New Super Mario Bros. music.


It is a big misstep that Super Mario Maker isn't better integrated with even Nintendo's own social network. Nintendo not figuring out the internet well enough is an old hat, but it hurts more with this latest release.


Aside from my severe freezing issues, Super Mario Maker has been a pleasant time for me. I haven't tried any super hard stages, just the easier ones. It's really nice to play HD versions of these old sprites in user-created levels.

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TalkBack / Re: Splatfest Weekend Results: Callie Brings It Home

« on: September 20, 2015, 05:02:03 PM »

Science was blinded by art!

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Splatoon!! WELCOME - TO DYE!

« on: September 20, 2015, 03:57:56 AM »

And, by a narrow margin, Splatoon has proved to be the artists' game. Oh well, got 5 snails from getting the third rank in Team Science.

Of curious interest, Splatoon got a mini-tournament Youtube stream out of TGS 2015.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sjHg4dqu50

The stream is over now. It is sponsored by Youtube and hosted on Nintendo Co. Ltd.'s channel. This further continues Nintendo's weird, sometimes messy relationship with Youtube.

Man, watching good players be savage with the Krak-On Roller is a scary sight.

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TalkBack / Re: Project X Zone 2 Adds Nintendo Crossovers

« on: September 19, 2015, 08:45:45 PM »

Ah, Fiora. The pairing makes visual sense with KOS-MOS.

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TalkBack / Re: New Hyrule Warriors Legends Details: 3D, Amiibo, Handling Of Wind Waker For Wii U

« on: September 19, 2015, 08:44:48 PM »

Hmm, I'm guessing the Wii U version might not get the Wind Waker scenarios that are new to the 3DS game?


Hopefully, there will be an option to Wii U version owners to buy the new characters as DLC, but I'm not holding my breath.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: NX Rumors and Speculation Thread (Unprecedented partnership with Square Enix?)

« on: September 19, 2015, 03:44:11 PM »

That touchscreen stuff really took off. Motion controls, not much.

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo UK, Green Man Gaming Enter Partnership

« on: September 19, 2015, 02:24:33 AM »

Pretty sweet for those that are frequent customers and have credit to use.

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TalkBack / Re: Star Fox Zero Delayed to 2016

« on: September 18, 2015, 04:04:58 AM »

Considering Nintendo's pretty much conceded the entire Holiday 2015 console season to Sony & Microsoft now, I wonder if management is feeling any differently about dropping the Wii U's price. Otherwise, I could see the November NPDs setting some new All Time Lows for them.

If they could drop the price, I think they would have done so already. Maybe the sad reality is that the current price is close to breaking even for Nintendo. Which... is an insane thought now that I think about it.


Also, I don't think Star Fox Zero was ever that big a draw. If the premise is that the game being delayed means that Nintendo conceded, then Nintendo conceded long before.