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on Headline RePLAY: The 3DS is no longer selling at a loss, the World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria
release date and Nintendo developers had to attend Mario Cram School.
After
the significant 3DS price cut last August, Nintendo announced today that it is
no longer selling the 3DS at a loss, which means it is no longer selling the
handheld at less than the manufacturing price.
Unlike
Sony and Microsoft, who sell their new consoles at a loss initially, Nintendo
resist such tactics, favoring to balanced production costs to sustain a profit
margin on its systems.
The
3DS currently stands at 19 million lifetime sales.
|Source:
CVG
The
next chapter of World of Warcraft
continues on September 25, complete with pandas, monks and Pokémon pet
battles.
Mists of Pandaria will be released in the expected standard copy and Collectors
Edition, but in a first for Blizzard, a Digital Deluxe Edition will also be available,
which includes all the exclusive in-game items found in the CE.
|Source:
Blizzard
In
order to develop two New Super Mario Bros. games on the Wii U and 3DS
simultaneously, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata revealed that developers had to
attend “Mario Cram School.”
Designed
by Takashi Tezuka, Mario Cram School taught course design and fundamental
elements of 2D Mario games to departments other than the Software Development
Department of the Entertainment Analysis & Development Division (EAD),
which traditionally designed the classic side-scrolling Super Mario titles.
“Participants
got a firm grasp of the basic ingredients of what makes 2D Super Mario
enjoyable and experienced actually making stages,” said EAD’s Yusuke Amano, “so
we were able to begin this project with a solid foundation.”
“In
addition,” added Iwata, “forming such a team made it possible to achieve what
we never had before—making two New Super Mario Bros. games at once!”
|Source:
Nintendo
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