Nintendo put up a preview video for Golden Sun: Dark Dawn on the Japanese Nintendo Channel. From this video you can see that there will be an overworld, random battles, and some of the best graphics ever seen on the DS. A big step up from the little snippets of video shown previosly.
Nintendo of America has announced that the wonderful DSiWare downloadable series Art Academy will be compiled into a full retail DS cart release in America. Best of all it will only cost 19.99!
Art Academy launches in the US October 25th.
The gameplay is looking much more interesting in this trailer, mostly due to the unveiling of the seconary characters. Mermaid girl should be the main non-dog character instead of the ugly boy.
NPD for June changes things up a little bit with the Xbox 360 just barely taking the number 2 spot thanks to stock clearing sales on the old model 360′s and the release of the 360 short. Red Dead and Galaxy 2 continue to hold the first 3 software slots, while Toy Story 3 for DS and Lego Harry Potter Wii make a strong showing for licensed titles. Being beaten in the portable space by Toy Story 3 must be painful for Hideo Kojima whose Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker failed to chart on that unlovable loser the PSP. Alpha Protocol, Singularity, and Transformers should also commit seppuku for their horrible sales this month.
Nintendo DS 510,700
Xbox 360 451,700
Wii 422,500
PlayStation 3 304,800
PSP 121,000
Top 10 Games Sales
Red Dead Redemption 360 (Take 2) - 582,900
Super Mario Galaxy 2 Wii (Nintendo) - 548,400
Red Dead Redemption PS3 (Take 2) - 380,300
New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo) - 200,900
Just Dance Wii (Ubisoft) – 174,800
Wii Fit Plus With Balance Board Wii (Nintendo)
Toy Story3 NDS (Disney Interactive Studios
UFC 2010: Undisputed 360 (THQ)
Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4 Wii (Warner Bros. Interactive)
UFC 2010: Undisputed PS3 (THQ)
Updating with the rest of the top 20:
11. Pokemon SoulSilver DS
12. Transformers War For Cybertron 360
13. New Super Mario Bros. DS
14. Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2 360
15. FIFA World Cup 360
16. FIFA World Cup PS3
17. Mario Kart Wii
18. Pokemon HeartGold DS
19. Toy Story 3 Wii
20. Wii Sports Resort
Also some numbers for specific games were released.
Transformers 360 did 132,000, and Wii Sports Resort in the 20 position sold less than 100,000 which should give you an idea of how bad some of this month’s other releases did. Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker failed to even crack the top 20 selling only 52,000 copies. Even worse numbers for Green Day Rock Band which sold only 83,000 copies between ALL 3 of the console releases. Skate 3 only sold 253,000 copies in it’s first 2 months down forty percent from Skate 2, and Tiger Woods 11 dropped 68 percent from last year’s release, due entirely to Tiger’s unquenchable love of white meat being made public this year.
According to the twitter account of an IGN employee some bombs of the month are in this order:
Naughty Bear > Singularity > Sin and Punishment
Perhaps if Singularity, or Sin and Punishment had had any promotion whatsoever they might have had at least a remote chance of beating out Naughty Bear!
With the recent release of updated Famistu Japanese LTD sales numbers we can see the New Super Mario Bros. Wii is the best selling home console game since the original Super Mario Bros. on the NES. Now it’s still quite a ways away from topping the NES 6.81 million selling classic, but it does have the honor of beating the much beloved Super Mario Bros 3 for second best selling console game ever in Japan.
Thanks to donny2112 on GAF:
Best selling console games since 1996 according to Famitsu:
1. New Super Mario Bros. Wii – 3,894,356
2. Dragon Quest VII (PS1) - 3,893,293
3. Wii Sports – 3,634,806
4. Wii Fit – 3,560,889
5. Dragon Quest VIII (PS2) - 3,555,469
Best selling console games before 1996:
1. Super Mario Bros. (Famicom) – 6.81m
2. Super Mario Bros. 3 (Famicom) – 3.84m
3. Super Mario Kart (Super Famicom) – 3.82m
4. Dragon Quest III (Famicom) – 3.77m
5. Super Mario World (Super Famicom) – 3.55m
Nintendo/Mistwalker have released a new trailer for their upcoming RPG The Last Story. It looks quite beautiful aside from some rather stiff walk animations on the player characters.
Surprising absolutely nobody, it appears the formerly Wii exclusive arcade basketball title NBA Jam will be making it’s way to the HD platforms 360 & Playstation 3. Discovered, as these things often are, via a ratings board the German USK has rated NBA Jam for Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 release. It’s not known at this time whether or not this will be a disc release or a downloadable title, though it would seem somewhat insane to undercut full price disc release sales on one platform by releasing the same game as a lower price download on two other platforms.
Nintendo of Japan has announced the successor to the DS, the “3DS” (may not be the final name). It will be 3D without the need for glasses. It will be completely new hardware, not just a DS with 3D screens, but it will still be fully backwards compatible with all Nintendo DS and DSi games. It will be released sometime before March 2011 in Japan. Nintendo will have a more complete unveiling at E3 this June.
Nintendo has, without warning, released a black Wii bundle in America. The $199 bundle includes everything the white bundle has plus Wii Sports Resort, and a Wii Motion Plus adapter. They’re already showing up in stores, so if you want one hit up your local Walmart.
From Walmart.com we find out EXCITEBots will feature 6 player online play in EXCITE Race, and Poker Race modes, and players will be able to exchange Ghost Data over WiiConnect24. Stars will act as a sort of in game currency, which you can use to unlock new bots, and bet in online races.