3DS back on top in Japan hardware charts
Pilotwings, Homefront enter top 10.
The 3DS is back at the top of the Japanese hardware charts after a few weeks of PSP dominance.
Pilotwings Resort
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UK top 40: Crysis 2 leads 3DS pack
3DS launch titles fare well.
The UK all-formats chart is rocked by a raft of new arrivals this week, the best selling being EA's blockbuster shooter Crysis 2, which tops the list.
Do not talk about flight club.
Squirrel suits: definitely not what I thought they were.
I was picturing a kind of handicraft football mascot set-up: poster paint, feathered material, felt ears – squirrels have ears, right? And feathers? – with a clump of old dusters for a tail. Not so: it seems that a squirrel suit is actually a piece of sky-diving equipment. It's an extreme-sports onesie with flaps under the arms and legs to slow your descent as you plummet from the clouds. Good to know. That could have been really embarrassing.
The moment you get to play with the squirrel suit in Pilotwings Resort is magical. For a handful of early challenges, Nintendo's latest will have lulled you with pleasant, untaxing familiarity. The skies are blue, Wuhu Island is a pallet of neatly-mown greens and rugged browns, and all the 3DS' inaugural star seems to really want you to do is practise landing, thread yourself unhurriedly into spinning hoops, and mess around with lazy, lofting thermals. The usual stuff.
VideoPilotwings Resort footage swoops in
Soar! Glide! Shoot! Land!
Soar! Glide! Shoot! Land!
Nintendo 3DS UK game launch line-up
The games available on day one.
15 games will be available to buy for the Nintendo 3DS when it launches in the UK on 25th March.
They are:
Pilotwings Resort
Come fly with Mii.
Don't know about you, but I was hoping the conclusion of Lost would turn out to be more interesting and intelligent than it was. Let's not spoil the ending for those who haven't seen it (the scriptwriters have already done that anyway). Suffice to say it wouldn't have taken a lot.
Wuhu!
Nintendo hints at 3DS launch line-up
Ocarina of Time, Pilotwings are first up.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Pilotwings Resort, Nintendogs + Cats and Steel Diver will be the first party 3DS launch titles, judging by a release schedule included in Nintendo's annual fiscal report.
The list, posted by GoNintendo, states that the four games are down for a Spring release in Japan.
Kid Icarus: Uprising is listed merely for 2011. Mario Kart, Paper Mario, Animal Crossing and Starfox 64 3D are all down as "TBA".
Nintendogs and Cats, Pilotwings and Hollywood 61.
You can forgive Nintendo for leaving 3D alone for more than a decade after the brain- and eye-breaking abomination that was the Virtual Boy. This time, they really have got it right. The 3DS needs to be played to be believed, and a post-E3 showcase this afternoon gave us the chance to have some hands-on time with the handheld's first playable demos.