Total amiibo sales are at 82.5 million 

The total worldwide number for amiibo sales as of 31 March 2017 are at 82.5 million with figure type amiibo at 44.3 million and card type amiibo at 38.2 million. Sales for the last financial year dropped greatly to 9.1 million figures and 9.3 million cards.

Favourite videogame characters*

01. Isabelle (1059)
02. Shirokuma (389)
03. Neko (348)
04. Mayor Rukko (268)
05. Kirby (235)
06. Tokage (221)
07. Kuma Tomo (188)
08. Callie (168)
09. Marie (149)
10. Rosie (147)
11. Koma-san (111)
12. Mikudayo (107)
13. Tonkatsu (101)
14. K.K. Slider (91)
15. Yoshi (87)
16. Gudetama (69)
17. Lottie (67)
18. Penguin? (63)
19. Wisp (60)
20. Inkling Girl (54)

* popular with the readers of Picopuri magazine and taken from the April ● June 2017 issue. New entries in bold. Five characters each from Sumikko Gurashi and from Animal Crossing and three from Splatoon. Picopuri page scanned below…

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Valentine’s Day Update with Go! Go! Kokopolo 3D, Snack World, Shigeru Miyamoto interview, physical Cave Story and more!

Go! Go! Kokopolo 3D -Space Recipe For Disaster- will be released in the west ‘between Feb – March’. Flyhigh Works will release the game on the Japanese 3DS eShop

The Snack World is delayed on smartphones until December 2017. The 3DS version however is still planned for July.

Shigeru Miyamoto has an excellent interview with TIME ‘10 Things Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto Told Us About Switch and More’ here.

● Nicalis hinting at a physical release for Cave Story for Nintendo Switch here.

● The second Shingeki no Kyojin: Shichi-Kara no Dasshutsu (Attack on Titan: Escape from Certain Death) promo video here.

● A couple of new Nintendo Switch trailers from NOA: ‘Play Together’ (here) and ‘1-2-Switch Party’ (here).

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Twitter account tweeted some Valentine’s Day artwork here.

● Tomorrow’s issue of Weekly Famitsu will feature Ultra Street Fighter II, 1-2-Switch, Super Bomberman R, Dragon Quest Heroes I-II, Monster Hunter XX, Monster Hunter Frontier Z, Fire Emblem Heroes and indie games. Scans here from around 15:00 GMT.

● Finally, you can pre-order Japanese Nintendo Switch consoles and games here!

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