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Date archives for December, 2011
December 2nd, 2011
Join the Official Nintendo Life Mario Kart 7 Communities
09:00 at nintendolife.com
Mario Kart 7 is out around the world this week, and to get you all playing together we've set up an official Nintendo Life community for you to join.
Resident Evil Revelations Trailer Goes Back to Basics
03:00 at nintendolife.com
Dire-logue
Resident Evil Revelations might be one of the best looking games on the way to 3DS but, as is the series' tradition, it's not just an exercise in graphical grunt: there's a nonsensical plot tying it all together too.
December 1st, 2011
Nintendo Doesn’t Want a 3DS Price Situation on Wii U
23:30 at nintendolife.com
Of course
The 3DS price drop has had an extremely positive effect on the system's sales, but it left some early birds wary of buying a Nintendo console at launch in case the same thing happens again. Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime knows this, touching on it briefly in an interview with Fox Business.
Digital Makes Up 14% of Key Nintendo Franchise Sales
21:30 at nintendolife.com
The figures are in
Nintendo does not release sale statistics for its digital content, leaving us with no real idea of how the company's download sales are doing. Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime did give away one intriguing nugget of information in a recent interview with Time, however:The packaged content gets all the buzz and the noise, but in the last 12 months when you look at all of our key franchises — so Mario, Zelda and Pokémon — 14% of all of those transactions are happening on the digital side of the business.Fils-Aime doesn't clarify how that percentage is calculated — whether by value or volume, though we'll wager it's volume — but here's the release lists for Mario, Zelda and Pokémon over the last 12 months:
Retail Releases
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward SwordSuper Mario 3D Land
Mario Sports Mix
Super Mario All-Stars 25th Anniversary Edition
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D
Pokémon Rumble Blast
Pokémon Black and White
Digital Releases
Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden CoinsMario's Picross
Super Mario Land
Mario Party 2
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX
20:11 at twitter.com
I was going to write something about Justin Bieber and the 3DS, but why bother when @scully1888 wrote this? http://t.co/KQWUgSLO
Order Up!! for North America in January 2012
17:15 at movemodo.com
More coffee hun?
PS3 cook'em up Order Up!! is out in Europe this month, but UTV Ignition Games have plans to bring it Stateside early next year.
Order Up!! for North America in January 2012
17:15 at movemodo.com
More coffee hun?
PS3 cook'em up Order Up!! is out in Europe this month, but UTV Ignition Games have plans to bring it Stateside early next year.Items of Interest
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