The Nintendo DS continues to be Japan’s favourite gaming system with the dual-screen handheld topping this weeks Japanese hardware charts by a sizeable chunk.
- PSP – 28,747
- Nintendo DSi LL – 24,189
- Wii – 21,092
- PlayStation 3 – 19,420
- Nintendo DSi – 18,202
- Xbox 360 – 6,056
- Nintendo DS Lite – 5,059
- PlayStation 2 – 1,475
- PSP Go – 831
Capcom have revealed to investors that two of its core Nintendo 3DS titles won’t be launching during the current fiscal year.
The two Capcom titles in question are Resident Evil Revelations and Super Street Fighter IV 3D edition. As the Nintendo 3DS is currently scheduled to come out before the end of the fiscal year it looks as though Capcom won’t have any games ready for the 3DS launch.
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Nintendo have stated that they’re going to officially announce the release date and the pricing for their forthcoming 3D handheld, the Nintendo 3DS, on September 29th.
Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma has explained why his team decided to incorporate a new art style for The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword for the Nintendo Wii.
“One of the reasons we’ve chosen the art style we have with Skyward Sword is that it is a better vehicle to showcase the exaggerated characteristics of some of the characters.”
“Not only of the enemy characters, but as a representation of the sword spirit itself. Because of the way we have put the game together you have to focus on how the enemy is carrying their weapon, and there are a couple of different ways you can go about that.
“One, you can be super realistic, and the other, not so realistic. We thought that because we want to highlight the sword fighting combat, we have to exaggerate the features. We thought that the art style we chose was best suited to do that.
“You have to match the art style to how the game plays, and we thought this worked best. We matched the artwork so that we can highlight the over-exaggeration in the gameplay.
- Eiji Aonuma
Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter has stated that he expects the forthcoming Nintendo 3DS to completely revolutionise the video gaming market.
“We view the 3DS as a revolutionary device, and expect its launch to spur hardware and software sales.”
Patcher also believes that Nintendo will re-look at its pricing model for handheld titles and expects them to retail for $29 rather than that typical $25 consumers are paying at the moment.
Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma has told the Official Nintendo Magazine that The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is absolutely perfect for the Nintendo 3DS system.
“I am excited. With the Nintendo 3DS, all of the new elements and the 3D technology is perfect for The Legend Of Zelda series. It’s everything from the depth that you get from riding through vistas or a more accurate sense of distance between you and the enemy you are fighting. I think it is perfect for this series. Of course we are very excited to see what it can do.”
“Of course I look at what the development environment is like and one of the things that I want to take up further going forward is how playing in 3D effects things. Does it make you tired? Do you want to create a game where players are sitting in front of their systems for a long period of time? Obviously there are things that can be 3D but we don’t have to shoehorn it in.”
“If it’s beneficial, of course, we’ll want to use it. So what I would like to do is to take a look at what other people are doing out there, see what the reaction is, then go back and figure out exactly what I want out of 3D.”
- Nintendo’s Eiji Aonuma
GameSpot have a great video direct from this years Comic Con event of the highly anticipated GoldenEye 007 for Wii.
The video showcases the mayhem that ensues from the multiplayer mode of the game which includes all the original characters and the fabled one-shot-kill Golden Gun.
Games developer THQ have announced that they’re working on a “very, very, innovative” game for the Nintendo Wii.
“There’s something else that we’re going to reveal later on in the year that wasn’t at E3, which is just very, very innovative,” he said. “There are very few people who know about it at the moment. It’s not another Kinect thing – it’s to do with the Wii.People are talking about Kinect and Move at the moment, understandably – but if we’d have had this at E3, people would have been talking about this as a significant step forward for the Wii as well. Maybe we’ll show it at Gamescom.”
- Ian Curran, THQ
John Schappert, EA’s chief operating officer has gone on record to say just how much he adores Nintendo’s forthcoming 3DS system.
“The 3DS is just incredibly cool. The 3DS is magical. You put that in your hand, you look down, and all of a sudden it’s in 3D without glasses. That’s an amazing experience. I’m a huge fan.”
“I think that device is going to sell like hot cakes. I think it’s going to do incredibly well, and in typical Nintendo fashion they have re-energized the industry, yet again. I give them nothing but credit and we are excited to be supporting that platform with Madden, FIFA, and The Sims that we announced.”
- EA’s chief operating officer, John Schappert
