It has been a big day for Nintendo as the company broadcast three Nintendo Direct videos from Japan, Europe and the US. If you missed the broadcasts earlier today, here's a summary of what happened. You can watch the whole thing again, too.
Fire Emblem DLC confirmed: Satoru Iwata introduced a lovely-looking Fire Emblem 3DS video before confirming that you'll be able to purchase DLC for the game.
Mario Tennis 3DS UK release date announced: More new footage of Mario Tennis 3DS was revealed before Iwata announced a May 24th release date. Later on, Nintendo Europe confirmed that it would be coming to the UK on May 25th.
Dillon's Rolling Western is out now: That's right, after showing off footage from the armadillo tower defence game, Nintendo announced that it is available from the eShop today. It costs £9.
Capcom, Namco-Bandai and Sega join forces for 3DS game The Japanese giants are working together on a 3DS game but very little is known about it.
Nintendo announce new Brain Training-style 3DS game Coming to Japan in the summer, Dr Kawashima's new game promises to work your memory and requires great concentration. It features a devil Kawashima!
Did you enjoy Nintendo Direct?
There was no WiiU.....not cool nintendo.......NOT...COOL!
for some reason i thought they might do something spontaneous like the dillions rolling west.
There's a couple of titles that I'm kind of looking forward to from the Nintendo Direct video, but there was far too much 2d-animé style RPG games featured in my opinion (not my kind of thing).
Mostly pretty boring for me, unfortunately. I liked the insight into Mario Tennis and Fire Emblem, but that's all. I'm hoping that the Pokemon Spin-off comes to the UK, thought I'm almost certain it won't make it over here.
The devil Kawashima is weird. I wonder why they did that?
Pretty disappointed with the lack of Animal Crossing 3D news, it seems like we'll be waiting a long time for a UK release now, which is quite a shame.
Chill, they need to keep something for E3 too!
dont forget guys, its the GDC in a couple of weeks. there will be news then too hopefully...
I find it a little annoying that Japan obviously gets their own Nintendo Direct vid and America gets their own hosted by their head chap but why does Nintendo Europe get a subtitled video with most of the content just saying european plans to be dicided!! it did not really tell us anything because anything new may not even get over here!! i think europe should have had their own host with more relivent information
What a scary man...
Dr. Kawashima guys, Dr. Kawashima.
I agree, but there are a few main reasons for it.
1)Nintendo Products sell best in America and Japan (Japan is the home of nintendo so it has to be done)
2)In Europe there are so many languages, which one would it broadcast it (is subtitled German better than subbed Japanese?)
3)The American one is in English so if you don't want subtitles you can listen to that
No Luigi's Mansion 2 release date? Pretty boring for me
That Devil Kawashima was bloody scary! I was hoping for more news; especially Wii U stuff but I will get Dillon's Rolling Western (even if it is 9.00 pounds!!!!!)
Nintendo Direct is always based on existing consoles, not future consoles. Plus, the final Wii U form and name will be shown at E3, we've always known that.
Very pleased that Spirit Camera for 3DS and Project Zero 2 for Wii are being released over here. They're on my wnated list!
I used to be (Finally) Admittedly) one on those Nintendo-obsessives. But they REALLY aren't pulling it up right now. I would not pay 9 quid for an eshop game, ad having a 9-quid game could cause developers to make us fork out 9 quid for a standard in our lives. And there is still no flipnote memo news, which is really awful, as it is 8 months overdue. I still love the other games, but they are promising loads of things and just pasting the same emails to anyone who asks a question about their upcoming games (After some thread investigations on different sites). I'm not saying I hate it, I'm in love with the current games, but dreading the future.
On a more formerly, geengy-trademarked note, I most definitely will get Brain Training 3DS, because it could involve puzzles and survival horror
I can see it now-
"You are an intelligent nanny, who wakes up in a mansion-like ship, and must find your way out. If you don't, undead, decaying monsters will eat your flesh. Then you find your russian-sounding partner, and your tugboat explodes, and then the lawsuits come up and SUE THE GAME!! AAAAAAAAAAAAHH-" Oh wait...