Pokémon Sun & Moon is best preselling games in Nintendo History

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Pokémon Sun & Moon is best preselling games in Nintendo History

Today, Nintendo announced that Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon are officially the best pre-selling games in Nintendo history.  Additionally, the Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon Special Demo Version is the most downloaded demo on the Nintendo 3DS eShop in Nintendo History!

 

With the launch of the first Pokémon video games 20 years ago, the Pokémon brand quickly became a global sensation and hasn't left popular culture since.  The Pokémon brand's 20-year celebration in 2016 has ignited fans' passion for the beloved franchise across the country and around the world with a wide variety of initiatives and new launches. As part of this banner year for the iconic franchise, video game players are no doubt anticipating the launch of the upcoming Nintendo 3DS games, Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon,on November 18.For questions and more information on Pokémon and these two historic milestones, please visit http://www.pokemon-sunmoon.com/en-us/

 

 

Source: Nintendo Press Release  

Nintendo eshop downloads for October 27th 2016

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Nintendo eshop downloads for October 27th 2016

 

 

3DS Games  

 

The indie horror classic that spawned a franchise comes to the Nintendo 3DS system with exclusive new features. (Photo: Business Wire)

– The indie horror classic that spawned a franchise comes to the Nintendo 3DS system with exclusive new features, including four additional Extra Chapters (bringing the total to 14), redrawn high-resolution character sprites, new musical arrangements and 3D art stills.

Also new this week for 3DS:

 

Theme Shop on Nintendo 3DS:

  • New themes this week include:
    • Mario’s Halloween

 

Wii U Games

 

Just Dance 2017 is more fun and easier to play than ever. Shake your hips and wave your hands with the Just Dance Controller App – if you have a smart phone, you don’t need an extra Wii Remote controller! (Photo: Business Wire)

– Just Dance 2017 is more fun and easier to play than ever. Shake your hips and wave your hands with the Just Dance Controller App – if you have a smart phone, you don’t need an extra Wii Remote controller! Get ready for amazing visuals and awesome dance moves that will ignite your house, pulling friends and families off the couch and into a music experience like never before. Give the demo a try today for free.

 

Wii Retail on Wii U

 

When a boy becomes separated from his shadow, he must journey with a sylph named Spangle to unlock mysteries in Lost in Shadow. (Photo: Business Wire)

– When a boy becomes separated from his shadow, he must journey along with a sylph named Spangle to unlock the mysteries across the land. Battle and find aid among the shadows as you manipulate light and traverse this alternate land, where even gravity isn’t a factor.

 

Also new this week for Wii U:

 

Nintendo eShop sales:

 

Activities:

     

– Are you ready for Halloween? This year, skip the tricks and head straight to the treats with National StreetPass Weekend: Halloween Edition. Stop by any of the more than 29,000 Nintendo Zone hotspots across North America with your Nintendo 3DS or Nintendo 2DS system from Oct. 28 through Oct. 31 and you could collect up to six StreetPass tags from across North America. In addition to your StreetPass Mii Plaza games, with the software and the StreetPass feature enabled, you can also take advantage of the cool StreetPass features in many popular games, including Disney Magical World 2, YO-KAI WATCH 2: Bony Spirits, YO-KAI WATCH 2: Fleshy Souls, Dragon Quest VII: Fragments of the Forgotten Past, Monster Hunter Generations and Shovel Knight, among others.

Source: Nintendo Press Release  

Nintendo releases special edition NEW 3DS XL Super Mario World Lime Green edition exclusive to Amazon.com

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Nintendo releases special edition NEW 3DS XL Super Mario World Lime Green edition exclusive to Amazon.com

Amazon.com announced a New Lime Green NEW Nintendo 3DS XL system with the classic Super Mario World game pre-installed. It is available as of today exclusively through Amazon.

 

Be sure to check out https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LYUA6OS?th=1 for more info.

 

Here is the original TV commercial for Super Mario World : 

 

 

Source: Nintendo Press Release  


Nintendo Switch is not compatible with 3DS cartridges

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Nintendo Switch is not compatible with 3DS cartridges

Yesterday (October 20th 2016) Nintendo revealed their newest hardware the NINTENDO SWITCH. You can read the press release for that here .  

 

Nintendo released a promotional video that showed the hardware using a cartridge/ SD card format for its game media .  You can watch that promotional SWITCH video by clicking here or view it below :

This picture collage (which I edited and cropped ) above was provided by Nintendo on its website:  http://www.nintendo.com/switch 

and you can clearly see that this new hardware uses a SD card / cartridge format of some kind. Since the Nintendo 3DS and DS also use a cartridge format many people wondered if the Nintendo SWITCH could play Nintendo 3DS game cartridges . Obviously since the Nintendo SWITCH doesn't have an optical disk drive Wii U and Wii games are not compatible with this new hardware . Recently Famitsu (A popular Japanese publication) confirmed that the Nintendo SWITCH is not directly backwards compatible with the Nintendo 3DS game cartridges . It can be assumed that Nintendo DS game cartridges are also not compatible with the SWITCH hardware since it uses similar technology to the Nintendo 3DS . 

 

Nintendo has a long standing tradition of supporting previous portable hardware in new hardware iterations . The Nintendo 3DS supports DS games , the Nintendo DS supports Game Boy Advance games, and finally the Gameboy Advance supports Gameboy Color and original Gameboy games . It looks like this tradition will end with the Nintendo SWITCH. 

 

Currently it is unknown if the Nintendo SWITCH has touch screen technology. The Nintendo 3DS and DS use touch screen technology for its hardware, so it would be difficult if not impossible to play many 3DS or DS games without a touchscreen of some fashion. If the Nintendo SWITCH does have touch screen technology , what kind is it ? The 3DS and DS use resistive touch screen technology and modern mobile phones and tablets use capacitive technology. If the SWITCH uses capacitive touch screen that might make it difficult (but not impossible) to play 3DS and DS games that use the older resistive touch screen technology . To learn more about touch screen technology please click here .  

 

It was not clear from that video if the Nintendo SWITCH can play video games in stereoscopic 3D. I assume that the Nintendo SWITCH won't have stereoscopic 3D visuals since at no time during the video was stereoscopic 3D mentioned or alluded to . Now it can be possible for the Nintendo SWITCH to play digitally downloaded Nintendo 3DS video games that users have purchased via the eshop , but we don't have any information on that either. We currently have no information on the operating system or software that the Nintendo SWITCH is compatible with at this time. Stay tuned to www.3dor2d.com to get up to date information and analysis on the Nintendo 3DS , Nintendo SWITCH, and more 3D news  . 

 

Source: Famitsu (Article is written in Japanese)