Nintendo President Satoru Iwata has announced that the company is creating a new next-generation hardware concept called NX. Read more …
OlliOlli Cross-Buy Available On Wii U and 3DS
When it releases for the Nintendo eShop next month, OlliOlli will be available as a cross-buy game on both Nintendo 3DS and Wii U. This means that anyone who purchases a copy of OlliOlli on Wii U will also get a free copy of the game for 3DS, and vice versa. The second copy will unlock via the player’s Nintendo ID. Read more …
What’s Next for Gaming?
Change is inevitable. While this can be unfortunate in some cases (as I detest change for change’s sake alone), it’s an inescapable fact. Nowhere is this more evident than in the world of technology, which has seen such rapid acceleration of development over the past two decades that what we have in the palm of our hands today would seem like alien technology to the good folks of 1995.
I am now considering just how many of you reading this won’t be old enough to remember the year 1995.
Now, I am contemplating the number of you who weren’t even BORN in 1995 and I would like to cry a bit about it if that’s alright. Read more …
3D Dot Game Heroes Review
Created to bear resemblance to 8-bit action-adventure games from the 1980s such as “The Legend of Zelda” from Nintendo within a generation of 3D graphics, Silicon Studio’s “3D Dot Game Heroes” is delightfully amusing and does a marvelous job at conveying the feel of an 8-bit classic action-adventure. Read more …
New 3DS XL Console Review: Majora’s Mask Edition
I’m a big fan of The Legend Of Zelda series. I wish I could say that I’ve been a fan from the beginning when the original was released on the NES in ’87, but it was 1998’s N64 release that introduced me and many others to this epic saga. I was 8 years old when Ocarina Of Time was released and I loved the game, though in my foolish youth I never finished it, and so when it was re-released with updated graphics for the 3DS in 2011 I bought it upon release. This purchase unleashed the Zelda fan hidden inside me, I immediately made it my life goal to play through them all, every entry in the series. To this day I’ve made a lot of progress, I’ve played some that were great and some that weren’t so great (Zelda: II, I’m looking at you) and while my favourite will probably always be Link’s Awakening there’s one more that I’ve been waiting to play, one that some would attack me in the street for calling myself a Zelda fan without playing, one that I tried to play at age 10 but failed so epically that I never returned: The Legend Of Zelda: Majora’s Mask. Regarded as the weirdest and creepiest entry in the series I felt it only right to purchase the beautiful special edition New 3DS XL in order to play this game the way it was intended with dual thumbstick control. So let’s have a look and see what came in the box.
Nintendo 3DS Doesn’t Meet Sales Expectations In Q4 2014
Nintendo has announced that it has seen a 40% decrease in global 3DS sales from Q4 2013 to Q4 2014. 4.99 million 3DS units were sold globally during the holiday season. As a result, Nintendo has decreased its projected sales for 2015. The handheld, according to the company, did not grow sufficiently in the Western markets.
However, Nintendo did announce that software sales increased in 2014. A total of 53.04 million units of software were sold, with Super Smash Bros, Pokemon Omega Ruby and Pokemon Alpha Sapphire contributing significantly.
Nintendo also announced that the New 3DS and New 3DS XL had solid starts in Japan and Australia. The new XL is due to launch in Europe and North America on February 13th.