What was your favorite of today’s announcements?
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Pokkén Tournament DX Battle Pack – The roster in Nintendo’s Pokemon fighting game is a weird mix of creatures I’ve adored since childhood, and monsters I don’t recognize.
The first set will include Aegislash as a playable character and Mega Rayquaza and Mimikyuu as support characters. This new character has some unique styles and abilities with a amusing twist in the platforming gameplay. The second set will include Blastoise as a playable character and Mew and Celebi as support characters.
The tweet about the placements came from a response that a user had to Greenberg’s original tweet, where he thanked gamers for supporting the Xbox One throughout the holiday season, which resulted in the highest “Xbox One December console share ever”.
The standout ports include Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze and Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition. The Nintendo Switch became the fastest selling console of all time in the United States even selling faster than some of the best selling consoles of all time such as PS 2 and the Wii. If you didn’t pick up Ys VIII on PlayStation 4 in 2016, look for it this summer on Switch. It has new outfits for Zelda and Link based on the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Nintendo didn’t give a specific launch date, but assured customers that it would be released later this year.
The video teaser by Nintendo also features new game contents for other Super Mario titles like “Super Mario Odyssey” and “Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle”. Since the Xbox One launched in November 2013, Microsoft has released a mid-generation upgrade in the form of Xbox One X that launched in November a year ago.
You can check out the Dark Souls Remastered announcement trailer below. The game also introduces improved resolution and other visual enhancements, and it also increases the multiplayer count to six players, according to Polygon. What a cool concept, and it’s actually coming to the Nintendo Switch.
Whilst anyone with a passion for Xbox or Nintendo – who both find themselves quite far behind the PS4 in terms of sales and pecking order with fans – would be pleased to know that their own console could have a prolonged period of time in the spotlight.
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In it, the company laid out a roadmap for PR surrounding two upcoming games, A Way Out and Fe, including a note about a Nintendo Direct occuring in January that would feature the latter. Nintendo is going to need something to sell players on its paid online service, and what better way to do that than by bringing Super Mario Maker over from the Wii U?
