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Reminds me of htoL#NiQ. Might check it out.

@FragRed It is, but there's only like 300k Wii Us in the UK. It's a terrible market for Nintendo products in general, and has been since the Mega Drive days.

Splatoon is at 38k now and will probably be the first non-Mario/Smash/Zelda Wii U game to break 50k in the UK.

@ThomasBW84 Quick suggestion here, the Canadian dollar has grown notably weaker than the American dollar in the last couple of years and eShop prices no longer have parity. Canadian prices are typically up to $10 more for full retail games. I'm not sure if there's anyone on NL staff that has access to the Canadian eShop to get prices, but it would be helpful if possible.

Just picked up ZSS and Palutena. Only two left that I want are Falco and Lucas.

And Splatoon supply is still constrained. It could be at 500k sold by the end of the summer, an unexpectedly strong result in a country where console gaming is dying.

Yokai Watch 2 and Pokemon ORAS still neck and neck for sales. GameFreak is really going to have to shake up the formula next time to maintain its lead in the genre.

Vita software sales are a little sad. Wish they were doing better. I don't want it to be Sony's last handheld, though it's really starting to look that way.

And at least new Xbox One owners can save money by all carpooling to work every day.

I might pick this one up just to pour one out for the Savior of JRPGs.

RIP Imageepoch.

Ubisoft is about the only major western publisher that could announce something that I actually want to play, but I really don't count on being surprised. Child of Light sequel or successor would be groovy, maybe it's happening. Who would have thought though that in 2015, The Last Guardian actually has a better chance of making an appearance at E3 than Beyond Good & Evil 2?

Considering there were 6 new releases this week, that's actually an impressive hold.

Looks fun. Still waiting for some reviews and impressions, but will most likely buy.

@EverythingAmiibo No, it doesn't matter what metric you use. As a percentage of the total population, the game is still performing significantly better in America than in the UK. The UK is one of Nintendo's worst markets in the world, possibly THE worst among highly developed countries.

@rjejr I disagree. Wii U is selling terribly, yes, but I don't think a price cut is going to help. I think it's pretty clear that Nintendo needs to keep the price at $300 and just ride out the rest of the generation. They're not going to gain much momentum in hardware at this point. Better to just sell as much software to the established user base as they can and keep expanding their market outside of video games (amiibo, theme park, possible TV, etc).

@EverythingAmiibo Splatoon sold more in America on its first day than it has in the last two weeks in the UK.

Whisper is that Splatoon sold 136k in two days in the US. Worldwide total as of today is surely above 500k not including digital, two weeks on market.

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to have boosted Wii U hardware, at least not for the month of May.

@Kirk Gosh, maybe you should make a Kickstarter. You have such a clear vision of what art styles are and aren't appropriate for other people's games, you'd surely be great at designing one yourself.

I have Lego Marvel Heroes, and that's my fill of Lego Marvel. More looking forward to Jurassic World.

I hope it does. The 3DS is in its twilight now and 2.5 million would be a great shot of adrenaline in its golden years. Strong late gen support is important for creating momentum for next too, as we saw with the PS3 -> PS4.

The big news here is that the Wii U is still rising week over week! It's gaining momentum. Splatoon is actually selling hardware, and that's what Japan needed. That's what Nintendo needed.

And reportedly, Splatoon is still sold out in a lot of places, so look forward to a strong third week as well.

Hopefully he looks well rested!

Great hold. It also debuted well in Germany and France, which are probably its strongest European markets. With expectations in check and knowing that success is relative, I think Splatoon is doing pretty well. If this game can manage a million sales this year, maybe 2 million LTD, I'm sure Nintendo will consider its "garage developer" experiment a success and we'll see more of it. Good things ahead.

Also, Steins;Gate made it into the UK chart! Very happy to see that.

97.33% isn't just "exceptionally high." It's the highest sell-through rate in Media Create's publication history! The next highest is Gundam True Odyssey at 97.2%.

And a collective "meh" was heard throughout the lands.

I heard that the plot of Fast & Furious 8 will involve Dom and the team planning a high-stakes amiibo heist.

Very impressive debut, considering the supply shortages. Probably a soft drop next week too, as people who couldn't snag a copy over the weekend will get one as the new shipment comes in. Then there's the content roll out over the summer. I can see it being decently leggy. Good!

Hardware sales continue to be depressing for all systems, but I guess Nintendo has to take this as a win. Comparable to the bump last year for Mario Kart and fairly stable YTD.

Gorgeous. Can't wait to see this in motion.

Surely not the same Neko Works that made that catgirl eroge game on Steam...

No surprise on either. It wouldn't sell on Wii U and western publishers stopped pretending to care about handhelds years ago.

@Legodavid18 I think the last fighting game to sell well on a Nintendo platform was SoulCalibur II, and it could be argued that Link's guest appearance had a lot to do with that. Tekken TT2 sold terribly on Wii U.

Geez, that game looks awful. I kind of feel sorry for it.

@BLPs 2 days. This is for the week ending May 30.

It's good in context for sure, considering that the UK is one of the weakest territories for Nintendo. I was hoping for a little more, but this is a good start, especially if the game has legs, which I imagine it will.

In related news, it's apparently doing very well in Japan. It's sold out everywhere, and that's even with rumours of extra shipments over the weekend.

Silly, but oh well. Doesn't really impact my anticipation for this game.

Haven't got a chance to play Devil Survivor 2 yet, but Etrian Mystery Dungeon is a great game, hope you Europeans like it!

I'm generally tired of NoA/US retailers on amiibo. Imported my last batch from Japan. Paid a few extra bucks for the shipping, but it was worth not having to deal with the stock nightmares.

The Wii U's launch line up was filled with a bunch of last gen ports and that played a big part in murdering interest in the platform. It would be a mistake to repeat that. Interest in games like this is incredibly fleeting. People will never again care about this game as much as they do right now. Whatever chance this game had in getting the attention of Nintendo fans will have vanished by the time the NX is out.

Man, Itagaki looks like a completely different person without his rockstar shades and jacket.

From that interview: http://photo.jnocnews.jp/upfile/2013/Image/201505/20150521_131035.jpg

@Peek-a-boo It's almost as though different people say different things and the collective hivemind of this site's members is only a myth.

@Tsuchinoko Also KS campaigns tend to get their biggest support in the first and last few days. Expect this to have a huge spike at the end of the campaign. Mighty No. 9 raised $600,000 in the last 24 hours, more than any other single day total in its campaign.

Graph: http://www.kicktraq.com/projects/mightyno9/mighty-no-9/dailypledges.png

I read the title as "Extreme Eroticism is Creeping Onto the Wii U eShop Soon" and boy that was different sort of sensation.

@Tempaura Are you for real? People should "simply" learn Japanese to play 20 year old games that are not and will never be localized?

No fridge is a deal breaker, sorry.

Awakening is the first FE game to break 1 million sales... and it will also be the first to break 2 million.

@Peach64 43k doesn't tell us why the Wii U isn't getting Bloodstained. It's an indie game, which a) don't sell systems and therefore rely on installed base and b) eShop users have been decently receptive to. There's 10 million Wii U owners, many of which would gladly support the game if they could. I'll even go as far as to say that it would sell better on Wii U than it will on Xbox One.

It's all an issue with the engine used to develop the game. If UE4 supported Wii U, then of course Wii U would be getting the game too. And at the rate that Bloodstained is smashing through stretch goals, it's only a matter of time before a port is in the works anyway.

Don't let your uncontainable excitement for taking a dump all over Nintendo's financial straits cloud your judgement.

Yeah, it's pretty bad. 43k is nothing to feel good about for anybody working for Nintendo right now. Even 3DS numbers are bad.

Software is up though, on the bright side.

Sup, Tyris.

3 more themes where the #1 goal seems to be to make it so busy and colourful that I can't see my own icons.

Hmm guess I'll pick up Street Fighter. My 3DS lacks a traditional fighter.

"Wow, just what I wanted!" -no one

@nacho_chicken Retail game sales in Japan are very poor these days.

@rjejr Nah, it was the Epitaph tour. Almost four years ago, I guess. They didn't come anywhere near me, so my brother and I had to fly out to see them.