All the week’s news including Lady Layton, Megaton Musashi, Kutar, 3D Puyo Puyo Tsu and much, much more!
● After posting a poor first quarter earnings (net sales down 31.3% YoY and an operating loss of ¥5.134b) Nintendo Co. Ltd. must look further towards NX, mobile and licensing with regards to future revenue streams. The past week wasn’t all bleak however as Level5 announced their new mainline Professor Layton game Lady Layton for Nintendo 3DS next Spring starring the professor’s daughter Catriel. Level5 also announced Megaton Musashi (a huge cross media project mecha ARPG) for Summer 2017, the awesome looking The Snack World was roughly dated for July 2017 with the final game Inazuma Eleven Ares platform-less but confirmed anime and suspected NX/mobile!
● Next week looks like another hectic week release-wise with Dragon Ball Fusions (plus New 3DS bundle), Etrian Odyssey V and 12 Sai ~Love Diary~ receiving retail releases on 3DS with the eShop seeing ten x ¥100 games from Flyhigh Works based on the character(s) Kutar, Sega thankfully resurrect their 3D Classics series with 3D Puyo Puyo Tsu and Starsign localise I Love My Pets as Welcome! Pet Hotel. Wii U owners will see the Wii games Zero ~Shinku no Chou~ (Project Zero 2: Wii Edition) and Super Paper Mario and the Nintendo DS games Pokémon Ranger: Tracks of Light (Pokémon Ranger: Guardian Signs) and The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass on the eShop.
● In other news from this past week: both Pokémon GO and Miitomo received updates, My Nintendo added several new rewards including Miitomo × Mario t-shirts and game discounts, Collectible Badge Center added more Yokai Watch 3 and Animal Crossing: New Leaf badges, The Grumpy Reaper is coming to Wii U, Yokai Watch Happy Meal toys are coming to McDonald’s, Star Fox Zero: The Battle Begins + Training released on the eShop, Pokémon GO Plus and Kira Kira Star Night DX were delayed to September, two new Pokémon themes came to the Theme Shop, Steel Empire has been permanently reduced to ¥864 and a ton more eShop sales were announced (detailed here). Phew!
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