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Pikmin 3 Being Reprinted At Last, And At A Budget Price!

Pikmin 3 Being Reprinted At Last, And At A Budget Price!

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Currently, Pikmin 3 is one of the most frustrating games to find in the Wii U library. It went out of print about a year after it was introduced, and eBay copies fetch high prices. Now, finally, we’ve heard word the scarcity is coming to an end. A Canadian retailer has spilled the beans on twelve new additions to Nintendo Selects, the brand name for the “Greatest Hits” lineup of the Wii U era. One of the new reduced games ($29.99 MSRP) happens to be Pikmin 3. Another rare title, Super Mario All-Stars (Wii reprint), has been divorced from its collective packaging and is being sold without the book and soundtrack that originally came with it. This is the full list: Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D [3DS] Mario Party: Island Tour [3DS] Yoshi’s New Island [3DS] The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D [3DS] Super Mario Galaxy 2 [Wii] Super Mario All-Stars [Wii] Donkey Kong Country Returns [Wii] Animal Crossing: City Folk [Wii] Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze [Wii

Pikmin 3 Animated Shorts Available Now

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The Pikmin 3 20-minute shorts are now available for purchase, announced during Nintendo Direct today. Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of Mario and The Legend of Zelda franchises, showed off a Pikmin animation at the Tokyo International Film Festival this year, and now those shorts are available for purchase. The three shorts are available for a $5 USD package. You can get them on 3DS or the HD version on the Wii U, with no cross-over unfortunately.  In addition to this news, the Pikmin 3 demo will be available through the Nintendo eShop, with all progress made during the demo carrying over to the full game upon purchase. 

Nintendo shines more light on new titles

Nintendo shines more light on new titles

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Today’s Nintendo Direct has given us some more information on what to expect this year from Nintendo. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata began by talking about Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games. Figure skating pairs have been added to the game, as well as snowboarding slopestyle. Iwata also goes on to explain the use of the Wii U gamepad, noting that you can use it to share strategies with players in curling and utilize it in biathlon. Next in line is Mario and Donkey: Minis On The Move, which released earlier this May. Further details on the mechanics of the game were elaborated on. Grid sizes can be as small as 3×3 and as large as 7×7, and you’re free to make them as small or as big as you wish within that range. You can place a whole manner of titles in each level, such as spike pits or shy guys. You can even share your levels and download ones that other people have made online. Donkey

E3 Post-Mortem: Nintendo

E3 Post-Mortem: Nintendo

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I’ll be blunt here; Nintendo’s in trouble. It’s been a hard crash for them. Wii sales fell off of a cliff, and the 3DS has faced challenges in the marketplace. Nintendo had to cut prices far earlier than anticipated, and the company is losing money for the first time ever. But there was a beacon of hope on the horizon, their new console – the Wii U. Wii U’s defining feature is a gamepad with an embedded touchscreen, sort of recreating the DS experience with a console setup. While the touchscreen is the main controller, Wii remotes can be used as well, and the console finally supports HD visuals. Beyond that and a few demos, large questions remained about the WiiU. That would be saved until this year. Nintendo had said beforehand that no price or date would be revealed at E3, but more concrete details on the system itself, and the exciting new games for the console, would be there. Nintendo always tends to have memorable press conferences. With