PlayStation
- Sony is understandably getting dragged in the mud regarding it’s rejection of cross-play support. We get it from a business perspective—but the Fortnite fiasco is taking it too far for sure. Now Todd Howard of Bethesda told CNET in an interview that “You cannot do cross-play in 76. We’d really love that but right now we can’t. Sony is not as helpful as everyone would like.”
Nintendo
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According to Nintendo president Shuntaro Furkukawa, the company is kicking around the idea of a 3DS successor. We’d imagine the price would have to top out at $199 or less to make it a cost effective alternative to the Switch priced at $299.
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Team Cherry’s latest eShop hit, Hollow Knight, has moved 250k units within it’s first two weeks of release.
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Nintendo’s stock may have dipped a bit as “analysts” aren’t seeing a strong software lineup, but according to GameStop the Switch’s sales doubled the week after after E3, indicating that consumers are eagerly awaiting great titles like Smash Bros and Pokémon.
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According to a new report, not from Nintendo, Super Mario Run has brought in 65M in sales. A few other tidbits are
– 77% came from iOS which had a six month lead
– 35% on Android after releasing in the first quarter of this year
– about 43% of total revenue comes from players in the US while Japan saw about 17% of sales -
Dataminers have been chipping away at Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and it appears that the game is set to receive a very different approach to difficulty selection. According to the discovery, players may soon be able to adjust things such as enemy attack power and frequency, enemy HP, your own health restoration, and your chain attack damage multiplier to whatever you want.
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Pokémon Quest launched on mobile a week ago, but the bitesize pocket monster adventure has already generated $3M in revenue after 3.5 million downloads, not including Switch. Some more details:
– 56% income from iOS
– 44% on Android
– Japan accounted for 31% of total revenue so far
Xbox
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In celebration of Banjo-Kazooie’s 20th anniversary, Rare is selling a referential ship customization item in Sea of Thieves for (a very fitting) 1,998 gold. The Bird & Bear Figurehead is available throughout July, and you’ll find it for sale at the Shipwright Shop on the outpost docks.
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Xbox One’s big July update has release and your can read all about it here . Here are the highlights:
– FastStart Enabled for Select Titles
– Group Your Games and Apps
– More Search Options
– Mixer Share Controller Improvements
– Full Screen Broadcasting on Mixer
– Console broadcasting quality and stability improvements
Industry News
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If you own a physical copy of boring beat-em-up Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn on PS4, Xbox One or Switch, then you might find new content waiting for you when you next decide to play. Barack Fu: The Adventures of Dirty Barry, continues in the vein of the standard Shaq Fu narrative by taking topics that were ripe for satire a decade ago and makes them the basis of 2018 comedy with lines like “Smell what Barack is cooking?”.
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For those of you still playing Destiny 2, Crucible is receiving a host of new tweaks in patch 1.2.3 on July 17 like Quickplay moving from 4v4 to 6v6 and Rumble becoming a full time playlist and more.
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Turtle Rock Studios, the team behind the fantastic Left 4 Dead series, have reaching out for new staff members to join them on the creation an unannounced new title asking for Senior Level Designer, preferably with previous work in the field of modern and competitive first-person shooter engines and experience with AAA first person action games.
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After nearly a week in downtime, Fortnite’s much-anticipated Playground mode is back online. Playground mode is a Minecraft-like environment for Fortnite players to practice their building and shooting skills.
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Shenmue 1 & 2, a bundle containing modern ports of the first two Shenmue games, will be released Aug. 21 on PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One for $29.99. PS4 and Xbox will receive physical copies at a later date.
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It has been revealed that season five of Fortnite will begin on July 12 at 4 a.m. EST — just one day after the end of season four.
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Amazon has Added “re-releases, re-masters” to the list of ineligible Games for 20% Off When you Pre-Order because they don’t even have to try anymore with Best Buy ending their excellent Gamers Unlocked program.
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While many of us here at Pixelrater anxiously await Moonlighter’s release on Switch, the studio has teased “big things” coming in 2018 and beyond in the form of free content updates. They also said “Switch fans… prepare yourselves… your time is coming, WE PROMISE!”.
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The adorably punishing dungeon crawler Next Up Hero will be available on July 7th for free to all Twitch Prime subscribers.
