NINTENDO ADDS SAKURA SAMURAI: ART OF THE SWORD TO AN IMPRESSIVE DOWNLOADABLE LINEUP

new game is headed to the Nintendo 3DS™ system, and it won't be available in stores. Sakura Samurai: Art of the Sword™ lets players travel to ancient Japan and guide a young warrior as he battles waves of enemy soldiers to save a princess. He must identify the enemy's attack move, dodge it by a hair and counter-attack with his own mystical Sakura Sword to win the battle. The game launches in January.

Sakura Samurai: Art of the Sword is just one of many high-quality, Nintendo-published downloadable games that can be found in the Nintendo eShop.

On Nov. 24, Nintendo will release the original 2D version of Metroid™ II: Return of Samus™. This Game Boy™ classic has intergalactic bounty hunter Samus™ Aran battling Space Pirates as she seeks to destroy Metroids on SR388. The game lays the foundation for the smash hit Super Metroid™.

Control Demonstration - The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword

BitBlock have posted a video showcasing just how accurate the controls are in The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword.

Big Pokemon Surprise Coming At Next Month’s Jump Fiesta Event

The latest issue of Jump reveals that there will be a ‘big Pokémon surprise’ at next month’s Jump Fiesta event. Jump Festa will be held on December 17th and 18th at Makuhari Messe in Japan. Any guesses as to what the Pokémon surprise will be?

Reggie Fils-Aime Talks Wii U

Reggie Fils-Aime believes that Wii U will disrupt the market in a similar way to Wii and Nintendo DS. Reggie wouldn’t go into specifics, but he did state that Nintendo will be taking advantage of the Wii U’s second screen and the all-round connectivity the console offers.

“The Wii U has to deliver a differentiated experience that can only be brought to bear through the use of these two screens. If all we do is a beautiful game in HD, it’s been done before. We have to take advantage of the second screen, we need to take advantage of the connectivity that the system will offer and, if we do that, we believe that we will yet again disrupt the market the same way we with DS and Wii.”

The first look at the life-size Mario Karts

Nintendo announced earlier today that it had teamed up with West Coast Customs to create two life-size Mario Karts. There’s the classic Mario Standard kart which comes with a hand-glider attached and also the Luigi Bumble V kart which looks like a bumblebee and also has a propeller to help it glide through water. Here’s a few snazzy photos.

Resident Evil Revelations Online Mode Is Locked Until You Complete The Game, Single Player Is Ten Hours

During a Nintendo retailer briefing event today Resident Evil: Revelations producer Masachika Kawata told attendees that Raid Mode which supports online co-op play and gives you access to characters like Jessica and Obrian won’t be unlocked until you complete the main game. Kawata also revealed that the game’s single player mode is roughly ten hours long.

Nintendo 3DS Continues To Outsell Every Other Console In Japanese Charts

The Nintendo 3DS continued to dominate the Japanese hardware sales charts last week, outselling every other console in the charts combined.

For the week ended November 13, data from tracking firm Media Create, and as reported by NeoGAF, shows that the Nintendo handheld dropped more than 40,000 sales week-over-week, down to 103,962 in total.

However, it still far outsold Sony's PSP and PlayStation 3 consoles, which dropped around 4,000 sales each to 23,472 units and 22,919 units sold respectively.

Sales of nearly every console were down, with only the Nintendo Wii maintaining sales figures from the previous week.

Below are the full sales rankings from Media Create for the week ended November 13, 2011. (The second chart lumps together sales of all models in a given line of hardware.)

LW	TW	Platform	Weekly Sales	Last Week
1	1	3DS	103,962	145,271
2	2	PSP	23,472	27,952
3	3	PS3	22,919	26,966
4	4	Wii	11,782	11,725
5	5	DS	2,680	3,131
6	6	360	1,531	1,699
7	7	PS2	1,294	1,457

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LW	TW	Platform	Weekly Sales	Last Week
1	1	3DS	103,962	145,271
2	2	PSP	23,472	27,952
3	3	PS3	22,919	26,966
4	4	Wii	11,782	11,725
5	5	DSi LL	1,751	2,041
6	6	360	1,531	1,699
7	7	PS2	1,294	1,457
8	8	DSi	909	1,057
9	9	DS Lite	20	33

LW	TW	Platform	Weekly Sales	Last Week
1	1	3DS	103,962	145,271
2	2	PSP	23,472	27,952
3	3	PS3	22,919	26,966
4	4	Wii	11,782	11,725
5	5	DS	2,680	3,131
6	6	360	1,531	1,699
7	7	PS2	1,294	1,457