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Nintendo posts $229M loss, Wii U estimates down by 60 percent
Nintendo fell slightly short of the reduced financial projections it set in January, with the Wii U reaching 2.72 million shipments for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2014. However, the system remains way off Nintendo's initial projection of 9 million, so it's no surprise to see more conservative estimates for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2015 of 3.6 million units. That's 60 percent less than Nintendo originally projected for the previous year. Total Wii U shipments are now up to 6.17 million, nearly a year and a half after the console launched. On the software side, Nintendo revealed figures of 32.28 million units to date, with New Super Mario Bros. U (4.16 million), Nintendo Land (3.09 million) and Super Mario 3D World (2.17 million) leading the way.
Limited edition Mario and Luigi 3DS XL bundle $50 off at Walmart
The Mario & Luigi: Dream Team 3DS XL bundle is currently $150 at Walmart, which is $50 off the regular price. If you punch the box from the bottom, what will fall out is a beautiful silver 3DS XL with the brothers Mario on it, a digital version of Mario & Luigi: Dream Team pre-installed and a 4GB SD card. If you're looking for more Mario brothers to play on that new 3DS XL, Tiny Cartridge also points the way to some deals on Paper Mario: Sticker Star, New Super Mario Bros. 2 and Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon on Amazon.
Mario and Luigi 3DS XL bundle out now for $200
Nintendo's newest 3DS XL bundle comes with a pre-installed copy of Mario & Luigi: Dream Team and an image of Mario and Luigi on the handheld itself, all for $200. This confirms earlier reports of a Mario & Luigi: Dream Team 3DS XL bundle, outed in a Target circular last week. Dream Team has sold more than 1 million copies, and we found it to be "a satisfying detour for a franchise that is risking too much predictability in its main guise." Check out places to buy the new bundle here.
Report: Mario and Luigi: Dream Team 3DS XL bundle incoming
Nintendo is preparing a new 3DS XL bundle, including a pre-installed copy of Mario & Luigi: Dream Team and a branded handheld, according to the leaked Target circular posted by GameTrailers. The $199.99 bundle will go on sale starting December 1. The game's story centers around yet another Peachnapping and two alternate realities: the lucid world and another inside of Luigi's dreams. The brothers Mario work together across these two worlds in order to save Peach and an indigenous race of sleepy pillow-like creatures. Mario & Luigi: Dream Team has sold over one million copies since its debut in August. In our review, we said Mario & Luigi: Dream Team "does a lot of things right, and is a satisfying detour for a franchise that is risking too much predictability in its main guise."
Five 3DS games shifted millions in the last six months
Animal Crossing: New Leaf and Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon are among five 3DS games that each shipped more than a million copies between April and September. The three other members of Nintendo's million-high club are Tomodachi Collection, Mario & Luigi: Dream Team, and Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D. It's New Leaf that led the way over the last six months, shipping 2.49 million worldwide and just over 2 million in the West; it came to Japan back in November 2012, before heading West in June. The cutesy sim's life-to-date figures are an impressive 6.35 million. Meanwhile, despite being released at the end of March and just before the start of Nintendo's fiscal year, Dark Moon came in second with 1.91 million. More significantly, its life-to-date total is 3.13 million. The remaining three all came in beneath the 2 million mark: the Japan-only Tomodachi Collection at 1.63 million, Dream Team at 1.37 million, and Country Returns 3D at 1.19 million. Together, the five 3DS games shipped 8.59 million units in those six months, contributing 31 percent of the system's total software shipments. If you're not all statted-out by that, here's a final bit of info for you: New Leaf's figures would put it fourth on the handheld's all-time list, behind the plumber triforce of Super Mario 3D Land, Mario Kart 7, and New Super Mario Bros. 2. That's based on figures from March 2013, though, and the new Poke-games must be closing in after selling a crazy 4 million worldwide in just two days.
Nintendo's sales figures for August include many zeros, plumbing heroes
Following the NPD Group's analysis of August's overall sales data comes a handful of extra statistics from Nintendo. When taking both physical and digital sales into account, Mario & Luigi: Dream Team has sold "nearly" 190,000 units since its release on August 11. Meanwhile, Pikmin 3 has sold "more than" 115,000 since August 4, while New Super Luigi U has sold "nearly" 120,000 units since refreshing the Year of Luigi on August 25. Nintendo also updated on its year to date: More than 6.47 million pieces of 3DS software have been sold in 2013, with Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon being the best-selling of the lot at 863,000 physical/digital copies. Animal Crossing: New Leaf is a close second, however, having moved 739,000 units in three fewer months on the market.
Mario & Luigi: Dream Team review - sometimes a snooze
Mario's role-playing forays provide a welcome diversion from the franchise's saccharine, straightforward personality. As great as most Mario games are, the RPGs are appreciably different, almost irreverent in how they twist that fallback of plumber-saving-princess into something weird, wonderful, and witty. For all its strengths, Mario & Luigi: Dream Team falls a bit shorter than hoped on wit and wonder, but what I find most lamentable is its struggle to be weird, because it has such the opportunity to. Setting half the game in Luigi's psyche is inspired; there's much that can be done with Mario's second-fiddle sibling. Sadly, it's never capitalized on, at least not in the script. Instead, it's up to the amusing peripheral cast and vivid combat to sustain Dream Team, and happily they do, just about. %Gallery-191126%
New Nintendo eShop releases: DuckTales Remastered, Dream Team, Spin the Bottle
On this week's eShop menu, there's a fine-looking Wii U dish in DuckTales, which has been Remastered for modern tastes. Maybe pick that up with a 2013 vintage of Spin the Bottle, which we recommend sharing with a few lively friends. If you'd prefer something to go, you could always try a double helping of Italian with Mario & Luigi: Dream Team on 3DS. Wii U DuckTales: Remastered (Capcom, 1 player, available August 13) Spin the Bottle: Bumpie's Party (KnapNok Games, 8 players, $8.99) Romance of the Three Kingdoms IV: Wall of Fire (Tecmo Koei, 8 players, $7.99) 3DS Mario & Luigi: Dream Team (Nintendo, 1 player, available August 11) Smash Bowling 3D (Big John Games, 1 player, $4.99) SteamWorld Dig (Image & Form, 1 player, $8.99) Tangram Style (Moving Player, 1 player, $6.99)
Black 3DS XL advertised by Canadian retailer
You've got choices when it comes to a 3DS XL, but perhaps you find red too loud and the Pikachu limited edition too .... Pikachu. What are you to do if you want a slightly more refined conveyance for your copy of Hey, Ice King!? To the rescue comes a sleek new black 3DS XL, spotted by GoNintendo in an ad for Real Canadian Superstore. By "new," we mean "new to North America," as the black 3DS XL has been available in Europe and Japan for some time. A commercial for Mario & Luigi: Dream Team that's currently airing on Cartoon Network also features a black 3DS XL, which isn't exactly proof, but a pretty strong hint, at least.
Luigi swipes Bowser's shtick in this Mario & Luigi: Dream Team trailer
What happens when someone steals your way of life? Bowser is about to find out. In this new Mario & Luigi: Dream Team trailer of various clips from the game, we get to see Luigi encroach on Bowser's established princess-kidnapping business.
Mario & Luigi: Dream Team unleashes Luigodzilla
For 30 years Luigi has lived in the shadow of his brother. Can you imagine the psychological toll that places on a person? If it were the real world, the brothers would be part of a CSI episode. But an exploration of Luigi's power fantasies through dreamscapes seems much more family friendly.
Luigi 3DS XL coming to Japan, has so many Luigis
Japan is getting a 3DS XL we aren't (yet): a 3DS XL covered in other-Mario-brother. The Luigi-themed portable, revealed during yesterday's Nintendo Direct, comes with a 4GB SD card and a pre-installed copy of Mario and Luigi: Dream Team. It leaps onto Japan's retail shelves (the highest ones, since it's Luigi) on the game's release date of July 18.We may not have a portable in 50 Shades of Green, but we can at least look forward to the RPG reaching our shores on August 11 for North America and July 12 for Europe.
Mario & Luigi: Dream Team in Europe July 12, North America August 11
Mario & Luigi: Dream Team, the first entry in the long-running RPG series for the 3DS, will arrive in Europe on July 12. The game will hit North American shores on August 11. Dream Team takes place in Luigi's dreams, giving Mario's second banana something of a starring role, which plays into Nintendo's Year of Luigi.
New 'Mario & Luigi: Dream Team' bringing Luigi's dreams to life on 3DS
There's a new Mario & Luigi game coming to 3DS, announced during Nintendo Direct. This time, it's a surreal game set in Luigi's dreams. Mario & Luigi: Dream Team features things like mass Luigi fights. And it's coming this summer!That's a really short time between announcement and release, especially for an RPG.
