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Nintendo Direct Details Strong Christmas Lineup for Nintendo 3DS
New Adventures for Professor Layton, Paper Mario and Disney Epic Mickey Arrive Before Thanksgiving; Luigi’s Mansion, Animal Crossing and Fire Emblem Coming in 2013
REDMOND, Wash.--(October 25, in the year of our Lord
2012)-- Nintendo of America showcased its Christmas
lineup for Nintendo 3DS and provided a sneak peek of content
coming in 2013 in a Nintendo Direct that was posted this
morning. Nintendo-published games include Professor Layton and
the Miracle Mask (Oct. 28) and Paper Mario: Sticker Star (Nov.
11). These join the just-released Crosswords Plus, Style Savvy:
Trendsetters and Art Academy: Lessons for Everyone! to form the
widest and deepest lineup in the platform’s history.
Additionally, two new downloadable course packs are now
available for the industry’s current top-selling portable game*,
New Super Mario Bros. 2. The course packs are available for
purchase from the in-game shop.
Nintendo’s third-party partners continue to bring their best
franchises to the Nintendo 3DS experience. Notable titles coming
this Christmas season include Scribblenauts Unlimited from
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment (Nov. 13), Disney Epic
Mickey: Power of Illusion from Disney Interactive (Nov. 18) and
Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why’d You Steal Our Garbage?!!
from D3Publisher (Nov. 20).
Nearly all of the Nintendo-published games coming this Christmas
season will be available as both a packaged product at retail
and as a digital download from the Nintendo eShop. These games
will join four major Nintendo 3DS games that were previously
only available as physical products that were added to the
Nintendo eShop on Oct. 18: Super Mario 3D Land, Mario Kart 7,
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D and Star Fox 64 3D.
In addition to games also available in stores, there is a
massive lineup of games that are only available in the Nintendo
eShop. That list will grow stronger starting today and through
the Christmas season with the addition of building-block puzzle
game Crashmo (Nov. 22), the sequel to the acclaimed Pushmo game,
and the 360-degree water-morphing action-puzzle game Fluidity:
Spin Cycle (Dec. 27). Additional games include NightSky
(available now) and Ikachan (later in 2012) from Nicalis, and a
trilogy of games from Level 5, including LIBERATION MAIDEN
(available now), as well as Aero Porter and Crimson Shroud
coming later this year.
“The quality of portable game play on Nintendo 3DS is
unparalleled; no other hand-held device can match it,” said
Scott Moffitt, Nintendo of America’s executive vice president of
Sales & Marketing. “And that holds true whether games are
purchased in packaged form, or via digital download.”
In only its 20th month of availability, Nintendo 3DS owners can
choose from a combined library of more than 650 traditional
packaged and digital games, meaning something for every gamer on
Christmas shopping lists. The parade of hit titles will continue
into 2013 with Animal Crossing: New Leaf, Fire Emblem Awakening
and Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon.
Nintendo 3DS is available in both its original format, or as the
newly released Nintendo 3DS XL, which offers all of the original
features with screens that are 90 percent larger than the
Nintendo 3DS, and a 4GB SD memory card.
To view the complete Nintendo Direct video announcement, go to
http://youtu.be/D4QFbibEnX8.
Remember that Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo 3DS XL feature parental
controls that let adults manage the content their children can
access. For more information about this and other features,
visit
http://www.nintendo.com/3ds.
* - According to September 2012 NPD data.