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Nintendo Direct 05-17-2013
REDMOND, Wash.--(May 17, in the year of our Lord 2013)--
The next title in SEGA’s Sonic the Hedgehog franchise will be
exclusive to Nintendo’s Wii U home console and Nintendo 3DS
portable system. Nintendo Global President Satoru Iwata
announced the details of a new partnership with SEGA during a
new Nintendo Direct video announcement today. Sonic Lost World
is a new action platforming game, and more information about it
will be announced before the E3 2013 video game trade show
begins on June 11.
The Nintendo Direct also announced Mario & Sonic at the Sochi
2014 Olympic Winter Games for Wii U, and revealed that
additional SEGA Game Gear games would be coming to the Virtual
Console service for Nintendo 3DS. Outside of SEGA news, Nintendo
announced that select Wii U games featured at E3 2013 will soon
be playable at participating Best Buy stores, the launch date
for New Super Luigi U, new Pikmin 3 game details and additional
information about a variety of previously announced Wii U and
Nintendo 3DS games.
“The onetime rivalry between Mario and Sonic has grown into a
friendship that has never been closer,” said Nintendo of America
President and COO Reggie Fils-Aime. “These announcements in
conjunction with SEGA demonstrate the commitment we have to
bringing great games to the Wii U platform, and set the stage
for our upcoming announcements at E3.”
Wii U News
Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games: The game
includes a variety of events from the Winter Games, including
curling, skiing, figure skating pairs and snowboard slopestyle –
which will make its Olympic debut in Sochi, Russia. Different
events might use the Wii Remote Plus controller, Wii U GamePad
controller or both. In addition to realistic events, the game
also includes those set in the worlds of Sonic and Mario that
let players perform moves not possible in real life. Launch
details and timing will be announced at a later date.
Experience Games from Nintendo’s E3 Booth at Best Buy:
Exclusively at participating Best Buy locations in the United
States and Canada, consumers will be able to play some of the
unreleased Wii U games featured at E3 while the event is
occurring in Los Angeles. Details about locations and which
games will be featured will be revealed in the coming weeks.
New Super Luigi U: The Year of Luigi-themed downloadable content
for New Super Mario Bros. U offers players 82 updated courses.
But it also includes a new playable character in multiplayer
mode: Nabbit, who steals items from Toad Houses. Nabbit can’t
power up, but also won’t take damage when he touches enemies.
New Super Luigi U will be released as downloadable content for
New Super Mario Bros. U in the Nintendo eShop on June 20 for
$19.99. But in honor of the Year of Luigi, Nintendo is also
offering a standalone packaged version of New Super Luigi U that
doesn’t require New Super Mario Bros. U on Aug. 25 at a
suggested retail price of $29.99.
The Wonderful 101: The mass-action adventure from Platinum Games
launches Sept. 15. Additional details will be announced after
E3.
Pikmin 3: New playable characters Alph, Brittany and Charlie
recruit the Pikmin creatures to help them gather fruit so that
they can return with the seeds to save their home, Planet
Koppai. Players can divide activities among the different
characters, and explore separate areas in the same map with
different groups of Pikmin. Using the GamePad (known as the
KopPad in the game), players can view the overall map and grasp
what each character and Pikmin are up to. Players also can
choose their preferred control option: GamePad in conjunction
with the TV, Wii Remote Plus and Nunchuk combo or GamePad only
in off-TV mode. Players can also use the Wii Remote Plus and
Nunchuk with the GamePad as a second-screen monitor. Pikmin 3
launches Aug. 4.
GAME & WARIO: The game launches in stores and in the Nintendo
eShop June 23 at a suggested retail price of $39.99, and
includes a number of games from WarioWare, Inc., that use the
GamePad in different ways. Newly revealed games include: Island,
which lets two to five people launch little creatures called
Fronks onto islands in the sea to score points; Patchwork, a
puzzle game that tests players’ pattern-recognition skills; and
Kung-Fu, which challenges players to help Young Cricket navigate
a course safely using the forward-looking view on the TV and the
top-down view on the GamePad.
Nintendo 3DS News
SEGA Game Gear: Games from the classic hand-held system are
headed to the Virtual Console service. These include:
Columns
Crystal Warriors
Defenders of Oasis
Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine
G-LOC: Air Battles
Shining Force II: The Sword of Hajya
Sonic Blast
Sonic Drift 2
Sonic Labyrinth
Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Tails Adventure
Inside the Treehouse with Animal Crossing: New Leaf: Because of
the vast amount of content in the upcoming Animal Crossing: New
Leaf game, Nintendo’s Treehouse localization team is hosting an
ongoing video series to talk about the franchise and many of the
fun features of the new game. The videos will be available on
Nintendo’s YouTube channel and in the Nintendo eShop on a
regular basis leading up to the game’s June 9 launch.
Additionally, a new Animal Crossing panel for Puzzle Swap is now
available for StreetPass Mii Plaza, and fans also might find a
special Animal Crossing-themed message on Swapnote.
Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D: This game launches in stores and
in the Nintendo eShop on May 24 and includes all the fun of the
original Wii game, now optimized for portable play. It also
includes eight new unlockable levels that are each based on one
of the eight worlds from the original game. These levels will
challenge players with new elements like platforms that force
them to move at a faster pace, large drops of tar falling from
the ceiling and giant rotating stone gears that can alter the
level itself.
Mario and Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move: The game, which
launched May 9 exclusively in the Nintendo eShop, challenges
players to place tiles on the bottom screen to guide the Minis
to their goal on the top screen. The game includes more than 180
stages, but also dramatically extends the fun of the game by
letting players create their own stages and share them with
others. Players can opt to try a random user-created level or
one created by their friends. They can also select from the most
popular levels overall or search the top levels of the week.
Another Nintendo Direct focused on future Wii U content will air
around the time of E3 2013.
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