From Nintendo's special 3DS-centric press conference comes a brand-new trailer for the upcoming hit, Super Mario 3D Land. It shows off the world map, new levels, and a battle against Bowser! Super Mario 3D Land runs and jumps its way onto the 3DS November 13th this year.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Nintendo 3DS Press Conference Game-A-Palooza
Tonight at 10PM CST in Japan was an important press conference for Nintendo regarding their Nintendo 3DS which has been in a state of limbo as of late. Well, big announcements and a menagerie of games were the call of presentation, and it delivered big time. From a demonstration and new footage of games like The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Wii), The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Anniversary Edition (DSiWare and eShop), Mario Kart 7 (3DS), Super Mario 3D Land (3DS), Paper Mario (3DS), Animal Crossing (3DS), Monster Hunter Tri-G (3DS) and more to new game announcements like Monster Hunter 4 (3DS), Mario Tennis (3DS), Fire Emblem (3DS), among others. I've assembled a series of videos via our affiliate, NintendoEverything, to show the games off in visual form. Enjoy.
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Wii)
The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Anniversary Edition (DsiWare and eShop)
Super Mario 3D Land (3DS)
Mario Kart 7 (3DS)
Mario Tennis (3DS)
Fire Emblem (3DS)
Monster Hunter 4 (3DS)
Monster Hunter Tri-G (3DS)
Kid Icarus: Uprising (3DS)
Paper Mario, Luigi's Mansion 2, Mario and Sonic, Animal Crossing (3DS)
Phew! And that's just the video content. Not everything was listed-- only what I was particularly interested in. All-in-all a great conference.
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Wii)
The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Anniversary Edition (DsiWare and eShop)
Super Mario 3D Land (3DS)
Mario Kart 7 (3DS)
Mario Tennis (3DS)
Fire Emblem (3DS)
Monster Hunter 4 (3DS)
Monster Hunter Tri-G (3DS)
Kid Icarus: Uprising (3DS)
Paper Mario, Luigi's Mansion 2, Mario and Sonic, Animal Crossing (3DS)
Phew! And that's just the video content. Not everything was listed-- only what I was particularly interested in. All-in-all a great conference.
Monday, September 12, 2011
Top Five Reasons to Hate Nintendo
We've finally arrived at the last of the big three. It's Nintendo's turn to take a licking and keep on ticking. These relatively objective lists provide the reader with downsides to the business practices, philosophies, and et cetera of various companies. If you missed a previous list, you can find them here: Capcom, Microsoft, and Sony.
5) The 3DS's rushed launch
The Nintendo 3DS thus far has been an interesting experiment. At first Nintendo opened up their handheld to third parties who often whine that they get overshadowed by Nintendo's own games. What do they do? They put out (mostly) inferior products and wonder why they don't sell. Then instead of using the holidays to sell their games, they opt to push their games back and wait for the 3DS to get more of a user base. Besides third parties it seems that not even Nintendo knows what to do with the 3DS. Launching without must-have software, pricing the hardware way too high, enforcing a price cut not even a year into the 3DS's life, and adding an optional (so far) second analog stick attachment makes one wonder if Nintendo has a direction they want to go with the glasses-free portable. Everything just points to a rushed launch.
4) Their downloadable game prices are too much
Whether it's WiiWare, DSiWare, 3DS's eShop, or the Virtual Console, Nintendo's downloadable games services have prices that are near highway robbery. Now some prices are fair like the N64 games that are ten dollars that would otherwise cost double or triple the amount for the original cartridge. Most, however, aren't fair. NES games cost five bucks on the Virtual Console, SNES games cost eight, and fifteen dollars for a single-player WiiWare or DSiWare experience (where iOS games can be purchased for a dollar) is ridiculous. Nintendo needs to reassess their pricing strategies as they are quite horrible.
3) Mountains upon mountains of useless peripherals
How many of you in your homes have a pile of peripherals for Nintendo platforms that are now unused and take up shelf space? Many times Nintendo releases a new accessory for one or two games, and then it is retired. We've seen this with the Wii Zapper, the N64 Transfer Pak, the DK Bongo Drums, the e-Reader, Wii MotionPlus, the Wii Balance Board (to be fair, many games tried to incorporate this to varying degrees of success), among others. Who knows how many times the Nintendo 3DS's new second analog peripheral will be utilized?
2) Poor third party support
Not counting their handhelds, ever since the Nintendo 64 fans of Nintendo and owners of their consoles have had to deal with droughts. This is in part due to the fact that Nintendo isolated a lot of third parties under Yamaguchi's (former Nintendo president) reign. Since then, Satoru Iwata (current president of Nintendo) has been doing all he can to bring third parties back. It didn't help that the Wii, as popular as it is/was, is as underpowered compared to the HD consoles, so third parties mostly put their hand-me-downs onto the platform. It looks that history might repeat itself on the Wii U if the console isn't as powerful as the rumors suggest.
1) Over-utilized IPs
This is the problem that most haters (who are gonna hate regardless) cling to. Nintendo is known for continually using their favorite and popular franchises for big sales. This doesn't mean they're rehashes as each new entry usually introduces a new concept or idea and incorporates it greatly into the game or product. Mario, Zelda, Kirby, and others are used to heck and back, and when a new IP is created, it's barely marketed (I'm looking at you, Chibi Robo). For every new IP that is formed, two Mario games, two Kirby games, and a Metroid game is created.
That does it for the hate-mongering. As first place Nintendo gets hated on a lot, and that really hasn't changed. Haters gonna hate and all that. I could have added that Nintendo tends to put out tons of revisions to their hardware, but let's consider Microsoft and Sony with their Xbox Elite, Slim, Pro, Arcade, PSP 1000, 2000, 3000, PSP Go, PSP with Wi-Fi, PSP without Wi-Fi, PS3 60 GB (and other gigabyte storage increases) and the Slim. They've both outdone Nintendo this gen. That's quite the accomplishment. Stay tuned later this week for my review of Resistance 3 (PlayStation 3) and much more. It's going to be a busy week.
5) The 3DS's rushed launch
The Nintendo 3DS thus far has been an interesting experiment. At first Nintendo opened up their handheld to third parties who often whine that they get overshadowed by Nintendo's own games. What do they do? They put out (mostly) inferior products and wonder why they don't sell. Then instead of using the holidays to sell their games, they opt to push their games back and wait for the 3DS to get more of a user base. Besides third parties it seems that not even Nintendo knows what to do with the 3DS. Launching without must-have software, pricing the hardware way too high, enforcing a price cut not even a year into the 3DS's life, and adding an optional (so far) second analog stick attachment makes one wonder if Nintendo has a direction they want to go with the glasses-free portable. Everything just points to a rushed launch.
4) Their downloadable game prices are too much
Whether it's WiiWare, DSiWare, 3DS's eShop, or the Virtual Console, Nintendo's downloadable games services have prices that are near highway robbery. Now some prices are fair like the N64 games that are ten dollars that would otherwise cost double or triple the amount for the original cartridge. Most, however, aren't fair. NES games cost five bucks on the Virtual Console, SNES games cost eight, and fifteen dollars for a single-player WiiWare or DSiWare experience (where iOS games can be purchased for a dollar) is ridiculous. Nintendo needs to reassess their pricing strategies as they are quite horrible.
3) Mountains upon mountains of useless peripherals
How many of you in your homes have a pile of peripherals for Nintendo platforms that are now unused and take up shelf space? Many times Nintendo releases a new accessory for one or two games, and then it is retired. We've seen this with the Wii Zapper, the N64 Transfer Pak, the DK Bongo Drums, the e-Reader, Wii MotionPlus, the Wii Balance Board (to be fair, many games tried to incorporate this to varying degrees of success), among others. Who knows how many times the Nintendo 3DS's new second analog peripheral will be utilized?
2) Poor third party support
Not counting their handhelds, ever since the Nintendo 64 fans of Nintendo and owners of their consoles have had to deal with droughts. This is in part due to the fact that Nintendo isolated a lot of third parties under Yamaguchi's (former Nintendo president) reign. Since then, Satoru Iwata (current president of Nintendo) has been doing all he can to bring third parties back. It didn't help that the Wii, as popular as it is/was, is as underpowered compared to the HD consoles, so third parties mostly put their hand-me-downs onto the platform. It looks that history might repeat itself on the Wii U if the console isn't as powerful as the rumors suggest.
1) Over-utilized IPs
This is the problem that most haters (who are gonna hate regardless) cling to. Nintendo is known for continually using their favorite and popular franchises for big sales. This doesn't mean they're rehashes as each new entry usually introduces a new concept or idea and incorporates it greatly into the game or product. Mario, Zelda, Kirby, and others are used to heck and back, and when a new IP is created, it's barely marketed (I'm looking at you, Chibi Robo). For every new IP that is formed, two Mario games, two Kirby games, and a Metroid game is created.
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That does it for the hate-mongering. As first place Nintendo gets hated on a lot, and that really hasn't changed. Haters gonna hate and all that. I could have added that Nintendo tends to put out tons of revisions to their hardware, but let's consider Microsoft and Sony with their Xbox Elite, Slim, Pro, Arcade, PSP 1000, 2000, 3000, PSP Go, PSP with Wi-Fi, PSP without Wi-Fi, PS3 60 GB (and other gigabyte storage increases) and the Slim. They've both outdone Nintendo this gen. That's quite the accomplishment. Stay tuned later this week for my review of Resistance 3 (PlayStation 3) and much more. It's going to be a busy week.
Professor Layton and the Last Specter (DS) New Trailer
The first of the prequel trilogy of Professor Layton, where Layton meets Luke, is scheduled to haunt Nintendo DS systems this coming October in North America and in Europe in November. This trailer shows off the story of the game, a plethora of puzzles, and a cliffhanger ending that will have you begging to find out what happens next. Scope out the trailer either here or via the direct link.
Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy (3DS) First Footage
The rhythm game of the Final Fantasy universe includes heroes such as Lightning (FFXIII), Terra (FFVI), and Cecil (FFIV), bosses and baddies like Bombs and Ultros, and music and scenes from Final Fantasies I-XIII. It certainly possesses an Elite Beat Agents feel to it, does it not? Hopefully we'll see this game more at the Tokyo Game Show as I'm certainly intrigued.
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