New Year’s Eve Update: Nintendo Switch New Year Sale Now Live, Plus Persona 5R, Mewtwo, And More News!
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● The Nintendo Switch New Year Sale is now live with up to 30% off top titles including Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Mario Tennis Ace, ARMS and Captain Toad. Check out our Sales page for the full list!
● I posted the top 20 best-selling Nintendo 3DS eShop games of all time here. I’ll bring my Japanese Wii U down from the loft tomorrow to post the Wii U eShop charts!
● Animal Crossing: New Leaf (Tobidase Doubutsu no Mori) celebrated New Year’s Eve with Redd, who will gift you a New Year’s hat, an excited Isabelle and fireworks!
● Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp saw Tortimer’s Floral Fancy Second Half. Check out all the rewards here.
● Dragalia Lost saw the New Year’s Tidings: Fortune from Afar raid event and the Summon Showcase Eastern Emissaries begin. Check out the featured dventurers, dragons, and wyrmprints here. There’s also a Hanetsuki Paddle Pack available on the App Store for ¥3,000.
● Fire Emblem Heroes will see Special Heroes – New Year’s of Fire and Ice tomorrow featuring Fjorm: New Traditions, Hríd: Resolute Prince, Laevatein: Kumade Warrior and Gunnthrá: Year’s First Dream, along with Tempest Trials +: An Alliance of Princesses featuring Laegjarn: New Experiences. Trailers posted here.
● Super Mario Run will see the 6★ item appearance rate boosted tomorrow!
● The big Persona 5R reveal featured a PlayStation logo (no Nintendo Switch logo). More news will be coming in March 2019. Check out the teaser trailer here.
● In COMG! and Tsutaya data this week: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate will be the best-selling game for the fourth consecutive week in Japan amassing an impressive 334 points on Comgnet. Mario & Luigi RPG3 DX (Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story + Bowser Jr.’s Journey) looks to have started poorly at positions #14 and #12 at each store respectively.
● And Kinopio-kun made a post on the official Nintendo LINE account with a number of New Year’s images. Check them all out at this post!
● Watch the trailer for the upcoming Mewtwo no Gyakushuu EVOLUTION (Mewtwo Strikes Back Evolution) movie here.
● And a Denjin☆Gacha episode featuring STEINS;GATE ELITE, Usotsuki Hime to Moumoku Ouji, Ōkami Zekkeiban and Super Mario Party here.
● Thanks everybody for your support in 2018. It’s been an incredibly difficult year for me personally but looking forward to the New Year! Blog-wise, I will remain on Tumblr although hope to move over to WordPress in May. Also look out for my brand new Nintendo website (plus a Toad fansite!) at some point in 2019! Thanks once again and hope you all have a great 2019!
