Nintendo has revealed it’s holding a press conference at the LA Auto show in Los Angeles. Unfortunately Nintendo wouldn’t provide any hints or tips regarding what they’re planning, but it certainly will be interesting. We shall find out exactly what it’s all about on Thursday, November 17th. Any guesses?
Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has confessed to investors that the company deliberately decided to hold back some Nintendo 3DS titles so they didn’t swamp the Christmas release schedule.
“Video games need to stay fresh, so it is not practical for us to put them on hold for too long, but we think that some of them may be held for a certain amount of time so that there will be a short interval between when they are completed and when they are launched.
“We are taking on this sort of challenge for the Nintendo 3DS. For example, when we look at the software lineup for the year-end sales season, it is so dense that, if we added any more software, the total sales would not increase.
“Accordingly, we have intentionally delayed the launch of some software titles to early next year.”
Resident Evil Revelations producer Tsukasa Takenaka has told the Official Nintendo Magazine that Resident Evil Revelations is one of the scariest games the company has ever created. Takenaka is confident that the game is a direct return to the series original survival horror roots. We shall see early next year.
Capcom Europe has posted a brand new Resident Evil: Revelations trailer online. The trailer shows of the game’s Raid Mode which allows you to defeat a huge amount of bloodthirsty monsters whilst levelling up your characters and gaining new weapons. Resident Evil: Revelations is due to be released in Europe on 27th January 2012 and in North America, February 7th 2012
Nintendo Greece has released a new The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword advert featuring the lovable Robin and Zelda Williams. During the trailer Robin Williams shows Zelda Williams who’s the boss at the game which is due out November 18th in Europe and November 20th in the United States.
During this week Nintendo president Satoru Iwata spoke to investors about a number of things to reassure them that Nintendo is still at the top of their game. Here’s some of the facts Satoru Iwata presented to those investors:
The latest edition of Nintendo Power reveals a few additional characters for Mario Kart 7. We already know about a couple of them but it looks as though Nintendo has included Wriggler and Honey Queen to the line-up. I had the fortune to play the game a few weeks back and I can safely say it’s shaping up to be something quite special.
Tip: Blackheart
As promised Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime made a guest appearance on GameTrailers TV and showcased a brand new trailer for the forthcoming Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword on Wii. The video reveals a lot of new information, so if you don’t want to spoil the experience I suggest avoiding it.
Tip: Stephen Walton
Sega are apparently hard at work on a brand new Sonic game for Wii U which takes place directly after Generations and will be a spiritual successor to Sonic Colours. The game may not be a Wii U exclusive, but visually it will look similar to Sonic Generations while taking full advantage of the Wii U’s unique capabilities. Also Sega are reportedly working alongside Nintendo developers to create the new Sonic game.
Yesterday we found out that Nintendo is planning to release downloadable demo’s on the Nintendo 3DS eShop. Now it seems as though Capcom are in talks with Nintendo to provide a demo for the forthcoming Resident Evil: Revelations. Hopefully it will be a new demo, and not just the one previously bundled with Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D.
“We’re in talks with Nintendo about that and I agree, I think that would help sales a lot. For that to happen we need to get permission to use a larger filesize than demos currently are allowed.”
- Christian Svensson, Capcom
