Nintendo 3DS Blog

(This post has nothing to do with the 3DS, but you can scroll down the home page to find the news which will continue as usual.)

For the past three months I’ve been working with a developer and a designer to build Subscriptions. It’s a free app for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch that provides a better way to watch your YouTube subscriptions.

And this is where I begin my plea.

This app has just launched and its success in the App Store depends on its ranking. The higher the rank, the more downloads it will receive. But, the ranking is believed to be done on a rolling three-day basis. This means that, in three days from now, the ranking of the app will reset and it could disappear into App Store oblivion.

Luckily, the solution to this is simple: get lots of downloads within three days.

If this is achieved, the app will move up in the rankings, and that ranking will be sustained as people find the app without me telling them to check it out. This makes the app a success and, as a result, magical flying unicorns will appear out of thin-air at your door-step. Guaranteed.

As such, it’d be super-duper awesome if you could click here and download the application from the App Store. I’d love if you played around with the app because I do think it is awesome, but all downloads are counted, so it doesn’t matter if you download the app and never use it. The ranking will still rise.

There’s nothing I can offer in exchange for downloading the app (aside from the awesomeness of the app, of course) as that’s against the rules of the App Store. But if you like this blog, or the videos, or the forums, it would be a most lovely thing for you to download the app. Heck, even if you hate me, download it anyway so you can find a flaw with it. It’s all good.

With that in mind though, this is only the first version. There’s a lot of cool features I have planned for the coming weeks and months. And now I can only hope I’m not the only one who wanted this app.

Click here to view Subscriptions in the App Store.

:-)

We reported that Resident Evil: Revelations would retail for $50 in North America because it uses a 4GB cartridge (compared to the usual 2GB cartridge), but Capcom has announced that they’re lowering the price of the game to $40. Does that make it anymore enticing? Or were you planning on picking it up anyway?

Nintendo has released lots of screenshots from Kid Icarus: Uprising that show many different aspects of the game. You can click here to see all of them (there’s over 500 screenshots) or you can check after the break for a small selection.

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There is five minutes of footage from Mutant Mudds that you can check out after the break.

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UFO Interactive Games has announced that Zombie Slayer Diox is coming to the 3DS via the eShop. The game is a side-scrolling rhythm game set to be released in early 2012. You can find a trailer after the break that’ll help you understand more about the game.

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Kingdom Hearts 3D is set to be released in Japan on March 29th and, in addition to the stand-alone game, and the special 3DS design, there is also a 10th Anniversary Box which Square Enix has revealed to include:

• Kingdom Hearts 3D
• Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days
• Kingdom Hearts Re:coded
• 12 piece card set showing the history of the series
• Protective cover for the Nintendo 3DS

All of this will retail for 15,000 Yen, which is roughly equivalent to $193.

[Thanks to @luismacintosh for sending this in.]

Satoru Iwata shared the above chart in an investor meeting, also mentioning that:

…at the end of last year which reported that the total unit sales of the Nintendo 3DS reached four million faster than the Nintendo DS or the Wii. However, at that time, this pace was not the fastest in Japan’s video game history, since it was slower than that of the Game Boy Advance. But, the Nintendo 3DS did not lose its momentum even after the new year, and two weeks ago it broke the record of the fastest sales pace.

And I’m assuming we can stop saying the 3DS is doomed. It seems to be doing quite well.

Satoru Iwata revealed more details about Nintendo Network at a recent investor’s briefing in Japan, sharing that this new system (and yes, it is a new system, rather than a re-branding) will be implemented in the 3DS and the Wii U. The new services under this new system include downloadable content (which we were already aware was coming to the 3DS). There is also the possibility of full retail game download though. But Iwata did note that Nintendo has not decided when it will roll out this feature.