It's been a while coming, but just recently we learned that Art Academy: Atelier is heading to Wii U in Europe on 26th June, this being the full home console retail entry in the series. It's now been confirmed in a Nintendo Direct Micro that'll it'll be called Art Academy: Home Studio in North America, and will arrive on 25th June as a Wii U eShop exclusive; there's no boxed version in NA.
As detailed previously, it'll include a full tool-set and 30 lessons to help beginners learn their craft. It'll also have the usual options of SD card import and exports, displaying work in an internal gallery and, like SketchPad, it'll allow you to share creations on Miiverse.
The key new feature is with YouTube, however, making this the second Nintendo title - after Mario Kart 8 - to include an in-game tool to upload videos. In this case you can upload time-lapse videos of your creations that are either one, two or five minutes long.
There'll be a $4 discount in North America for those that have Art Academy: SketchPad on the same system, and can be pre-purchased on the eShop right now.
How many of you artists are tempted to pick this up?
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Ech. 'Mericuh. Why?
Don't you mean 26th June in Europe, we've gone past the May date already.
@dizzy_boy @ThomasBW84
"in Europe on 26th May, "
What's the point of pre-purchasing an eShop game?!
@outburst Whoopsy
@manu0
By pre-purchasing an eShop game, you can pre-download it which means once it's actually available you don't need to download and then play, you can play immediately.
Other than that, no reason.
Did they say a price pls?
I need to know how many bones its gonna cost me when I get it if I ever do,
Gonna need a file size if eShop only... Don't remember the discount being talked about as well.
No retail copy means no sale for me. Shame that it's coming on a disc everywhere else.
What annoys me is you buy sketchpad and for the last year and a half or so, they've had "coming soon" on a lot of things and well... it looks like we have to pay more...
A heads up on the price, it's $29.99.
Also funny thing is that Art Academy Sketchpad cost $4, so it's pretty much you pay for part of the game back then and the rest of the game later.
This really should have been available for Wii U within the first month or so imo. It's one of the few games that really shows off one the GamePad's standout uniquenesses compared to other controllers. Still, at least it's coming now. This and Mario Maker are two great showcases for the GamePad's functionality imo. Imagine if Wii U had more cool GamePad-showy stuff like this day one...
Note: If anyone read my "idea for NX" posts in a couple of other threads, you will see that this is the kind of thing I'm suggesting is built directly into NX as part of the firmware and available for all NX owners to use out-the-box day one, for free—an art creation tool, a game creation tool, and a few other similar tools (basically an entire creation suite)—and frustratingly, this is something I've been on about since before even the original Wii
Here's the article where I made that "idea for NX" post for reference: https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2015/06/rumour_nintendo_nx_could_use_googles_android_operating_system (Comment #33)
I mean it's not like it was even really my original idea: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Artist
Sometimes I just don't get how Nintendo can be so genius, to come up with such amazing ideas, and so dumb at the same time, to not full realise them to their full potential.
This seems like a budget buy. They'll need to drop the price by half or more. I'll stick to my tablet and phone drawings in the meantime.
It's kinda strange that they're releasing this in Europe on the same day as Yoshi's Woolly World.
I probably already know the answer to this question, but just curious, do the Art Academy games (or at least this game in particular) support layers like other computer art programs do?
I'm glad we can import and export photos now. I'm more confrotable drawing on paper than the GamePad, but I love the colors in Art Academy, so I can just use the GamePad for coloring.
@ejamer funny because I quit going physical for them except for the pokemon version, shall maybe do the same here if they give me a freaking FILE SIZE!
I need to delete the splatoon test fire demo and maybe some other useless stuff, but id like a FILESIZE. I want to get the humble bundle as well, and i bet most of those items aren't memory hogs so...
@SuperWiiU It's actually a rather powerful teaching program, the man reason people even buy it is for that... I own all currently released ones, save for the DSiWare releases and they are rather amazing for what they do.
I might give this a shot since I'll get that discount. I hope the load times are a bit quicker than the original.
I'll probably pick this up depending on how things go this August.
@ikki5 Agreed!!!
@Uberchu
That's why it's best to give customers more choices. Make it available as both physical and digital... then we both buy in and Nintendo sells more games.
So is this an update to replace Sketchpad or separate entirely? And if it's an update, can I download Sketchpad now, then upgrade, and still qualify for the discount?
@ikki5 "What annoys me is you buy sketchpad and for the last year and a half or so, they've had "coming soon" on a lot of things and well... it looks like we have to pay more..."
It was always known, that Sketchpad is only a limited tool, they took out of the full game. Did you honestly expect to get the full experience for $4? Lol.
@bro2dragons You can still download Sketchpad and get the full game discounted later. Also, it's only a guess, but I would be really surprised, if Sketchpad and the full game will be listed separately. It probably won't be more than an update.
I'll pick up Atelier as a physical copy, I've got Art Academy and New Art Academy for the DS and 3DS boxed.
@manu0
I would also like to add that pre-purchasing gets it out of the way. Some people, like myself, would rather pay for the game and budget the money right away, rather than wait and forget about it and then not have enough money when the time comes.
to me the price is the problem not only had we been waiting for this but $30 for what seems like most things are already there the only new things are the lessons which for me i dont need but i do want those paint tools lol at the discount btw its the same amou t we payed for the app to begin with o.O
Is it just me, or is Art Academy Sketchpad not on the Eshop? I bought it a while ago and then deleted it, and now I can't download it again.
@scamander Well, I expected the "coming soon" stuff to actually come to it. Why would they say "coming soon" in a program you bought and then not deliver it for you but at now an extra $26?
Still no release date for Zimbabwe! Ugh!
@ikki5 : Because if you bought the game they know you're interested in the next installment so they let you know it's coming to get your money blah run on I don't care you expect way too much stop whining please it was obvious and no one sympathizes with you or at least they shouldn't.
@Blast : Well you shouldn't.
People seem to be complaining a lot on the price... wasn't there a good article on this kind of griping a few weeks back? Anyway, what people don't seem to understand is Sketchpad was just that... a sketchpad. Sure the full version includes more variety in what you can draw/paint with but essentially what you're paying for are the lessons. If you can draw/paint like a pro then this probably isn't for you anyway and the cheaper sketchpad version is sufficient.
People who have Sketchpad have only got a small fraction of the game. That's how it always has been and how it was sold when it was released. I'm grateful that Nintendo had released it as early as they did, otherwise no one would have it now anyway.
@Uberchu I assume that means the lessons are more than 1-5 minutes each of just copy what the computer just did. I can't tell that from the screenshots and trailer.
@ikki5 Because you bought a tool that is a small part of another program. The "coming soon" stuff is referring to the full version of Art Academy. It might seem misleading, if you didn't inform yourself, but they made that clear from the beginning.
@scamander What was misleading was they said in the August direct that they were developing another Art Academy title with more improved and in depth lessons. Now... this one doesn't have lessons so if you want to go between the lines, they are technically right however, you'd think they'd at least have something, especially when they made it sound as if they were make a separate title other than this one. Not just have this one as a paid demo.
@ikki5 It's not a paid demo. It's a tool to create art, while the full version is a learning software.
From the August direct:
"As we mentioned last time, this is software utilizing features from the upcoming Wii U version of Art Academy. With it you can post screenshots of the images you create [...]. We are also developing an Art Academy title for Wii U, which includes in depth Art lessons."
I don't see the "more improved" part you mentioned.
Also, from the E3 Direct:
"A new installment of the Art Academy series is in development for Wii U, but we are not yet close to completing this software. On the other hand, we noticed what is happening on Miiverse and decided it was worthwile to provide a new DRAWING TOOL, by taking some features from the new game and release it in advance as a special version, JUST for Miiverse ARTISTS [aka people who already can draw]. This new software allows users to post drawings to Miiverse [and nothing else], using aspects of this new Art Academy title. This DRAWING TOOL will be available [yada yada yada...]"
@ikki5 We both got ripped off and got confused by the "Coming Soon". I'm not buying this.
I can't draw well, at all. Pre-loaded anyway... 😉
Also, for those wondering, Art Academy: Sketchpad has actually been delisted on the eShop by Nintendo. Glad I purchased it back in late 2013/early 2014.
For those that have it, DON'T delete it. My guess is, you cannot re-download it once deleted.
@90sRetroGaming Are you sure it has been delisted? Because it's not in Europe. Anyway, even if you are right, it still can be re-downloaded from the eShop, if you bought it previously. You paid for it, so there should be no problem. Even on the Wii you could re-download all delisted games, as long as you owned the license.
@scamander It's definitely gone from the American eShop. The $4 discount showed up for me since I bought it last year.
As far as being able to re-download past purchases, that's true the majority of the time.
But I could have sworn some guy on here in the past, stated that he couldn't re-download his copy of the (now delisted) Wii U VC version of Brain Age DS, in the EU.
He said he deleted it and that there was no option for him to re-download it from his download history.
Things like that make me really nervous about my digital purchases.
@90sRetroGaming You're right about Brain Age DS, but that one was a gift from Nintendo. I don't think they would ever do that to something you paid for. There would be a public outcry, no one would buy on the eShop anymore and at least in Europe they are not even allowed to do that. I'm also pretty confident, that everyone who downloaded Brain Age in time, will be able to re-download and update it, as soon as the final version of the game will be in the eShop. Kinda like 3DS ambassadors were able to update the NES games as soon as the official release arrived.^^
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