{"id":639,"date":"2013-04-18T23:21:51","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T03:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/?p=639"},"modified":"2019-06-27T11:07:19","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T15:07:19","slug":"a-good-week-for-3ds-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/?p=639","title":{"rendered":"A Good Week for 3DS News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a rough couple of months to be a Nintendo fan, but yesterday\u2019s Nintendo Direct had plenty of good news to go around\u2014at least for the 3DS.\u00a0 While the WiiU got a few \u201cinfo morsels\u201d regarding the Virtual Console, the impending major system update, and some <i>New Super Luigi U <\/i>details, the main reveal was that the cult-classic <i>Earthbound<\/i> will finally get a Virtual Console release this year.\u00a0 While \u201ckind of a big deal\u201d to Nintendo-heads\u2014and a great game, to boot\u2014I doubt it will sell many systems.\u00a0 Oh yeah, they are\u2026uhm\u2026still working on <i>Pikmin 3<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>For all the WiiU\u2019s troubles this year, the 3DS has been on a roll.\u00a0 With the one-two punch of <i>Fire Emblem Awakening<\/i> and <i>Luigi\u2019s Mansion: Dark Moon, <\/i>Nintendo has already released a pair of personal \u201cmust have\u201d games for me\u00a0in early 2013, and with <i>Animal Crossing: New Leaf<\/i> around the corner I was already pretty much set until fall, if not the rest of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Then this week, we got updates on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D <\/i>\u2013 May 24<\/li>\n<li><i>Shin Megami Tensei 4 <\/i>\u2013 July 16<\/li>\n<li><i>Mario &amp; Luigi: Dream Team <\/i>\u2013 August 11<\/li>\n<li><i>Mario Golf<\/i><i>: World Tour <\/i>\u2013 Summer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And a few new announcements:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New<i> Mario Party<\/i><\/li>\n<li>New <i>Yoshi\u2019s Island<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now with the exception of <i>Shin Megami Tensei 4<\/i>, very little of the above really interests me, but it seems like a well rounded line-up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/fAx3asR.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-636 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/fAx3asR.jpg\" alt=\"fAx3asR\" width=\"540\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/fAx3asR.jpg 900w, http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/fAx3asR-300x277.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/fAx3asR-324x300.jpg 324w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a>But what I haven\u2019t mentioned yet is that<i>\u00a0Bravely Default: Flying Fairy, <\/i>a beautiful looking, old-school RPG by Square-Enix,<i> \u00a0<\/i>will be published by Nintendo next year and ON TOP OF THAT&#8230;we\u2019re getting a NEW 3DS Zelda title, presumably\u00a0this year! \u00a0Set in the world of <i>The Link to the Past<\/i>, it already looks great! I rarely go out and buy games on day one, but a proper \u201coverhead view\u201d Zelda may be too tempting to pass up!\u00a0 Add in Atlus\u2019 current line-up of <i>Etrian Odyssey IV: Legends of the Titan<\/i> and <i>Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers<\/i> and it\u2019s a great time to own a 3DS.\u00a0 (BTW it\u2019s official, ALL games require a subtitle. \u00a0You have to have TWO subtitles to even stand out now.)<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<br \/>\nBen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a rough couple of months to be a Nintendo fan, but yesterday\u2019s Nintendo Direct had plenty of good news to go around\u2014at least for the 3DS.\u00a0 While the WiiU got a few \u201cinfo morsels\u201d regarding the Virtual Console, the impending major system update, and some New Super Luigi U details, the main reveal &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/?p=639\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Good Week for 3DS News<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nintendo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/iwata_0_cinema_640_0.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Gkjg-aj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1568,"href":"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions\/1568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}