Remember this post where I mentioned something about Nintendo president Satoru Iwata’s approval rating? I promised to update you guys on his exact rating but it seems it’s improved over last year, now sitting at 80.64% compared to last year’s 77.26%. It seems as if improving Wii U sales seemed to have done the trick, so he may be sticking around for a few more years.
Famed video game creator Shigeru Miyamoto asked Kotaku readers what game they’d like Nintendo to make for the Wii U and over 3000 people voted with a lot of them involving the word “Metroid”. The runner-up might surprise you: Pokemon Snap! Anyway, here’s the rest of the results:
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As part of a European eShop deal (sorry, anyone from the rest of the world), Nintendo is giving away the Wii U version of Squids Odyssey for free when you buy the 3DS version. As long as you’re on the same Nintendo Network ID, you’ll be able to take advantage of this promotion, though if you’ve purchased the Wii U version you’ll be unable to get the 3DS version for free.
Legendary video game creator Shigeru Miyamoto was due to attend the Japan Expo in Paris to host a master class in honor of the expo’s 15th anniversary, however Nintendo France has tweeted the following earlier today: “Nous avons le regret d’annoncer que Mr Miyamoto ne sera pas présent à Japan Expo pour des raisons personnelles liées à la santé de son père.”
It roughly translates that Miyamoto will not attend the show due to personal reasons related to the health of his father. So if you were hoping to catch a glimpse of him at the expo next month, you’re out of luck. Let’s wish Mr. Miyamoto’s father a quick recovery.
Just a few days ago I posted about a new episode of Nintendo Minute and today another new episode has been released. This time, the 11-minute episode talks about brand new eShop games, such as Shovel Knight, which has received critical acclaim and more indie gems. If you’re interested in checking it out, you can watch it here.
Speedrunner Blubbler has broken the speedrun record of 4.58.09 in this classic game, thanks to a new glitch in 8-2 which skips the post-flagpole animation, the world record is now 40 miliseconds shorter at 4.57.69!
Anyway, if you’d like to watch the run, you can watch it here.
However, the world record for completing the game is 4.57.31, which was done as a TAS or tool-assisted speedrun. TAS isn’t a normal speedrun - it uses emulators, save states, slowdown and other things that simply won’t be possible on a standard console. However, it means even the tiniest mistakes take just seconds to solve instead of having to restart the entire game. Emulators also do re-record so that only the best attempt out of many save states is taken. That run can be watched here.
“Nintendo isn’t one simple element of an overall gaming industry, I really think there needs to be a Nintendo genre, that’s almost its own entity.”
That’s what legendary video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto told the LA Times at E3 2 weeks ago. He feels that Nintendo needs its own genre as unlike many other publishers who try to be cool, they just have fun and do weird things, laughing at themselves.
“For a lot of us at Nintendo, it’s difficult to decide what cool is. In fact, it’s a lot easier for us to laugh at ourselves. It’s almost as if we’re performers. Our way of performing is by creating these fun, odd and goofy things.”
A flyer from the World Hobby Fair in Japan is suggesting there is yet another unseen character in the next Smash Bros., with Shulk from Xenoblade Chronicles (2012, Wii) and Chrom from Fire Emblem Awakening (2013, 3DS) being speculated as the mystery character. Anyway, Smash for 3DS launches October 3 in the US, while the Wii U version launches in Q4.
If you’re excited for Hyrule Warriors (2014, Wii U), this news should be exciting. Popular blog Gematsu has published 50 new screenshots for the game, with Agitha and Lana from Twilight Princess (2006, Wii/GameCube) along Lana, a new character, being featured. You can check them out here if you wish to.
The folks over at GameXplain have published a trailer analysis for the latest 3DS games Pokemon Omega Ruby (2014, 3DS) and Alpha Sapphire (2014, 3DS) on YouTube. It goes into the tiny details about what returns and what doesn’t, and lots of hypotheses on what’s changed. Anyway, if you’re excited about the game, you can check it out here.