Nintendo has announced 3DS support for a music service known as Reco Choku in Japan. The service will allow you to buy music from a lineup of over one million songs and you’ll be able to share what you buy with other devices that also support the service. There’s screenshots and footage after the break.
In the latest Nintendo Direct broadcast, Nintendo confirmed that Crashmo — the sequel to Pushmo — will be launching in Japan on October 31st. You can check after the break for some footage from the game.
Nintendo has released their fiscal reports for the first half of 2012 and revealed the 3DS is not selling well outside of Japan. The lower-than-expected sales of the 3DS, which only amounted to about 297,000 units, were partly to blame for Nintendo lowering their profit forecasts by 70 percent.
Nintendo has confirmed two Nintendo Direct events for tomorrow. The first event will take place at 4am PDT (7am EDT), and you can click here to watch it. The second event, which will focus on upcoming 3DS games, will take place at 7am PDT (10am EDT). You can click here to convert the time zones.
EDIT: I made a mistake when listing the time the events would start. I’ve added the correct times into the post. Sorry for any inconvenience.
The eBook service for Nintendo 3DS owners in Japan, which was previously scheduled to launch this month, has been delayed. Librica, the company developing the application, did not specify when the app would be launching, but they did reveal that they would be using the extra time to make improvements.
Media Create is reporting that Bravely Default: Flying Fairy sold 141,529 copies in its first week. That accounts for almost 85 percent of its initial shipment. Project X Zone, on the other hand, only sold through about 58 percent of its initial shipment. And while Bravely Default’s sales numbers do give us hope for a localization by Square Enix, Project X Zone’s sales might discourage Namco Bandai from releasing the game outside of Japan. We’ll just have to hope that isn’t the case.
Folks in Japan have a solid set of games coming to the Virtual Console on October 17th. After receiving the confirmation that Mega Man 4 is on it’s way — and we haven’t even got the first Mega Man! — Nintendo has confirmed that both Castlevania and Donkey Kong are also on their way. That’s a nice tri-fectica, me thinks.