Yup, it's finally official: NoA got to work and finally announced that the much-craved-for Super Mario Bros. 25th Anniversary Edition Red Wii and the less-craved-for-but-equally-cool DSi XL that made us jealous of Japan and Europe is finally making its way across the Great Divide and into the New Continent. Start emptying your piggy banks if you want any of the systems ready for a Red Christmas.
If you want the Red Wii bundle you see above, it will set you back a couple of hundred bucks. The package includes a Red Wii, a matching Red Wii Remote Plus, a copy of New Super Mario Bros. Wii and Wii Sports. However, no news on whether the American version will include either the special-edition Super Mario Bros. or the original Donkey Kong game pre-installed as with other regions.
Also, as posted before, a Red DSiXL is also on its way to the States. This bundle includes a couple of Brain Age games, Photoclick, and a copy of Mario Kart (also two extra value games if you buy it from Wal Mart) and will cost you US$180.
Both bundles alongside the Wii Remote Plus (which will carry a price tag of US$40) in a variety of colors will be out on the market on November 7. Makes me cry just to think how IMPOSSIBLE it is to transfer your Wii data from one console to another (read: have to re-add FriendCodes).
October 18th., 1985... A day that shall go down in History...
OK, enough with the drama! The date HAS gone down in History; it is the day when the NES came out to the US market, so in a way, it also marks Super Mario's 25th. Anniversary in the land of cheeseburgers. In that spirit, here's a video Nintendo released for the 25 years of... Super Mario glicthes?!
While it's NOT yet official (hence the RUMOR classification of this post), a Wal Mart posting has sort of revealed that the Red Super Mario 25th. Anniversary Edition DSi XL (Wow! That's a long name!) is making its way to the US as well.
Not only that, but the American version, should the posting be true, includes three pre-installed titles: Two Brain Age titles and Photo Click; sorry, I couldn't make out the full name of the two Brain Age titles. It also comes bundled with a copy of Mario Kart DS and two games of your choice from their Value Games list. All this for only US$199. Pretty sweet, huh?
However, since the title of the posting does NOT say it is related to the Mario DSi XL and it comes with Mario Kart, it IS possible that they are referring to the Red DS + Mario Kart bundle... On the other hand, that bundle was NOT DSi XL... So, what do you guys think? Shall we make this official? UPDATE: It's official.
If the Wii Vitality Sensor left you thinking that Nintendo was going crazy with why-would-I-use-that patents, then you have to check this one out. A patent filing by Nintendo describes a wireless in-store system for your grocery shopping needs by using your Nintendo DS handheld system as your guide.
Basically, the system/game requires the store to keep a very accurate record of its inventory and to have a reliable wireless network installed. Why? Well, because your DS would then hook up into their database and check if your shopping list is available at the store you picked, telling you which items are in stock and which ones are out.
But that's not all; once you get to the store, the game begins. By using the wireless network in the store, your DS would be able to show you a map of the facilities and mark where each of your shopping list items are, letting you create an efficient route for your shopping trip.
If you're into the whole legal mumbo-jumbo inside a patent's document, then here's the complete patent filing by Elliot and Scott for Nintendo of America.
GoldenEye 007 hits Facebook! That's right... To prepare for the launch of the Wii-exclusive re-imagining of the classic N64 game, Activision announced that it has developed a Facebook game based on GoldenEye 007. You can play the game at http://www.facebook.com/GoldenEyeGame on the Challenge tab.
Sega has set a date for the delayed Conduit 2: February 2011. They also include a new trailer to go along with it. Does anyone else feel these screens look a bit... umm... polished?
The Internet has alwasy been quick to be humorous about all sorts of events. Thankfully, this time it was a good thing that could have turned into a really bad thing.
In an unprecedented rescue operation that captivated the eyes of the world for months (but mostly for the 24 hours the actual rescue was carried out in), Chile has proved that miracles are real and all obstacles can be surpassed when faith is kept, when people work together towards a common goal, and good Engineering is brought into the mix (yeah, I'm an Engineer ).
And how is this related to Nintendo? Well, "Super Mario" was one of the miners trapped and rescued! In case you haven't read/heard/seen the news, one Mario Sepúlveda was nicknamed "Super Mario" by his coworkers. And in that spirit, the Net has replied with an obvious image about the rescue.
It's out. It's huge. It's Super Scribblenauts... And it's been cracked. Pikimal has been peeking around the game's entrails (read: code) and found Super Scribblenauts greatest treasure: the dictionary.
24 thousand nouns that you can spawn in-game. 9 thousand adjectives to modify those noun used one by one or by combining them (so, baby ghost robots are a go). That's THIRTY THREE THOUSAND words. (Drop jaw here)
Ah, good ol' NPD... Fueler of console-war forums, demise of studio-revealed sales numbers... Well, not anymore. The NPD Group, which up until this week was letting console and games' sales numbers out every month, will no longer do so for free. And their subscription is NOT cheap, either.
The company behind the most popular list of games and console sales analysis has announced that as of October 14th. it will no longer be offering the monthly sales information for free and will only deliver the list to paid subscriptions; also, the ability to share or make the information publishable for free access will, too, be removed.
Freely available information will now be super-condensed, with console sales just showing the total amount generated and no longer divided by consoles. The Top-10 selling games list will still be published but no actual sales numbers will be given out.
So, get ready to get your 'sales facts' just from the game's developer and/or publisher. How cool is that?! (Sarcasm...)
It's official. Nintendo HATES America ¬¬ Not only will they release Super Mario All Stars for the Wii both in Japan and Europe but also, that sexy-looking Red Wii to mark the ocassion of Super Mario Bros.' 25th. anniversary that was supposed to be Japan-only, has now been revealed to be also Europe-bound... with some modifications.
Nintendo has confirmed that the bundle you see in the image is coming to Europe on October 29th. and while the red Wii and Wii Remote Plus are included, the games that were bundled with the Japanese version will differ. In the European version of the bundle the modified re-coding of Super Mario Bros. (which replaced the '?' question mark on blocks for the number '25') is replaced by the original version of Donkey Kong. However, the European bundle will also offer Wii Sports and a copy of New Super Mario Bros. Wii.
For both Mario-related goodies, NoA is still quiet about an American release...
Once more Nintendo is releasing products for Japanese gamers that the rest of the world can only covet (or import, in any case). It wasn't enough that they're releasing the Super Mario All Stars bundle in Japan and Europe and the sexy-looking Mario-red Wii in Sushiland, now they've also announced that two limited-edition DSi consoles are coming to the Japanese market: Pokémon Black & White.
Each handheld version, according to the color you choose, will come bundled with the corresponding version of the Pokémon game. They've also set the release date to November 20th. and say the special versions will cost almos 5,000 Yen more than a regular DSi, at an MSRP of 19,800 Yen (around US$240).
Time to really envy Euro folks. Remember that lovely 'Japan only' Super Mario All Stars Wii bundle we posted about a few weeks ago? Well, it turns out it won't be Japan-only anymore. Nintendo Sweden announced that the company plans to release the coveted pack Europe-wide.
The box set will include a Wii disc with Super Mario All Stars (nothing has been revamped, just ported as-is) which in turn includes SNES-updated versions of Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 2, Super Mario Bros. 3, and Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, a Special Edition soundtrack CD containing music from all Super Mario games, a commemorative DVD and a history booklet with the Red Plumber's story all over its pages.
The bundle is set to be released in Europe on December 3rd., just in time to make it into your Christmas presents list. Again, no announcement has been made by NoA regarding a North American release. However, the fact that the game has made it outside Japan and it has been translated to English, gives us hope...
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