The next game in SEGA’s Sonic the Hedgehog series will be exclusive to Wii U and Nintendo 3DS, with Nintendo President Satoru Iwata announcing details of a worldwide partnership with SEGA during a new Nintendo Direct video announcement today. Sonic Lost World is a new action-adventure platforming game, and more information about it will be announced before the E3 2013 video game trade show begins on 11th June.
The Nintendo Direct also announced a new addition to the Mario & Sonic series, the first appearance for the series on Wii U, as well as revealing launch dates for Pikmin 3, The Wonderful 101 and New Super Luigi U.
Today’s Wii U announcements included:
- Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games: The game includes a variety of sports including curling, skiing, snowboarding, figure skating pairs and snowboard slopestyle. Different events might use the Wii Remote Plus controller, Wii U GamePad or both. In addition to realistic events, the game also includes those set in the worlds of Sonic and Mario that let players perform moves not possible in real life. Launch details and timing will be announced at a later date.
- New Super Luigi U: The Year of Luigi-themed downloadable content for New Super Mario Bros. U offers players 82 updated courses. But it also includes a new playable character in multiplayer mode, Nabbit, who steals items from Toad Houses. New Super Luigi U will be released as downloadable content for New Super Mario Bros. U on Nintendo eShop on 20th June. But in honour of the Year of Luigi, Nintendo is also offering a standalone packaged version of New Super Luigi U that doesn’t require New Super Mario Bros. U, available for a limited period and due for release on 26th July.
- The Wonderful 101: The superhero action adventure from Platinum Games launches on 23rd August. More details about the game will be released gradually between now and launch.
- Pikmin 3: New playable characters Alph, Brittany and Charlie are to take over from Olimar, the main character who appeared in previousPikmin games. Another announcement is the use of the GamePad (known as the KopPad in the game), where players can view the overall map and grasp what each character and Pikmin are up to. Pikmin 3 is coming to Europe on July 26th.
- Game & Wario: The game launches across Europe on 28th June, and includes 16 games that use the GamePad in different ways.Newly revealed games include: ISLANDS, which lets two to five people launch little creatures called Fronks onto islands in the sea to score points; PATCHWORK, a puzzle game that tests players’ pattern-recognition skills; and KUNG-FU, which challenges players to help Young Cricket navigate a course safely using the forward-looking view on the TV and the top-down view on the GamePad. A new Iwata Asks feature just published offers more details about the game at http://nintendo.co.uk/iwataasks.
- RESIDENT EVIL REVELATIONS: Capcom’s survival horror game is launching in stores and on Nintendo eShop on 24th May. The game originally released for Nintendo 3DS, and the Wii U version offers players updated HD graphics, GamePad controls and new game content. The game is Miiverse-compatible, and a demo version is currently available on Nintendo eShop.
A fairly lackluster nintendo directer to be honest. :/
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What did you expect?
thats why i said as always KEEP YOUR EXPECTATIONS LOW!!!!!!!!
really? i liked what i read, im pretty darn happy with all the info.
it’s more of a release date filled Direct. hmm… Hopefully there will be an other one with E3 showed games.
There is , it’s confirmed.
Lol@ people who think THAT was Nintendo’s E3 replacement.
those people are dumbass
Woooooooooowwww…. I’m gonna go tale a shit, it was that exciting.
re rev and the zelda oracle games are what I’m waiting for.
Pretty underwhelming, but OK,selling DLC on disc sounds desparate
The disc version is for those who didn’t get the new super mario bros game , so they won’t be forced to buy the game just to play the dlc ,
By the way your name , 31 not 29 like it or not :p
The new shots of Revelations looked nice, and the announcement of an exclusive Sonic title for Wii U and 3DS is a huge leap ahead of what most were probably expecting out of this Direct.
I’d say they passed the minimum mark on this Direct.
Exclusive sonic game for Wii U and 3DS? Cool :)
SEGA is all but now owned by nintendo :).
Sonic Colors was exclusive to Wii and DS, but I’m pretty sure that it wasn’t “owned” by Nintendo after that.
i wish i wouldnt have believed nintendo when they said it was about the core nintendo gamers this time :(
regretting i bought this thing at full price
Relax, all good things come to those who wait. You´d rather play bullcrap Assassin´s Creed or some generic shooter over Metroid and so? Yesterday I picked Darksiders 2, very nice game
Amen my brother from glorious India. Patience indeed is a great virtue. 3DS proves that.
Are you serious? Tell me, what changes about Mario games through every game?
New levels and sometimes new powerups, AKA how much COD changes from game to game.
Metroid is just a generic shooter set in space too and Assassin’s Creed is a good game.
SEGA procured by Nintendo. Smart move Iwata-San. Watch this space closely, Shenmue 3 coming to the Wii U.
If Sega announces Shenmue 3 exclusively to Wii U, it’s gonna be an ultimate game changer.
SEGA wasn’t procured by Nintendo though, it didn’t say anything like that. And I seriously doubt we’ll see a Shenmue 3 any time soon.
Pikmin 3 was beautiful! I think I am going to play with my Pro Controller and use the Game pad as my map. There is no freaking way I would have ever thought the Game pad could do this. I also like the redesigned onions. I also see the Rock Pikmin have their own Onion. But can you go underground?
(in Australia Nintendo direct was at 12 am) and I was quite drunk, while watching this with my Labrador x golden retriever, who couldnt keep calm, so all I got was pikmin 3 released in July? Please comment concerning or disconfirm ing this. I don’t want to re watch it as its 2am now
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