Die diesjährigen Pläne für den 3DS

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Satoru Iwata, Präsident von Nintendo, äußerte sich zu den diesjährigen Plänen für den 3DS – vor allem in Bezug auf westliche Märkte.
Die erste positive Nachricht: Ein StreetPass Update soll noch in diesem Jahr erscheinen! Dies sei eine Reaktion darauf, dass das Feature in europäischen Städten immer beliebter werde. Ein Erfolg der diversen StreetPass Gruppen?

When it comes to StreetPass, users in the automobile-dominated U.S. do not use it as much as Japanese users do. In contrast, it has gradually become popular in the metropolitan areas of European countries. This year we plan to add some StreetPass-related features to the Nintendo 3DS in order to encourage more people to go out with their Nintendo 3DS, and make StreetPass and SpotPass more popular overseas.

Laut ihm sei Nintendo bereit, Third Party Entwicklern dabei zu unterstützen, ihre Titel in Amerika und Europa zu veröffentlichen. Hierbei nannte Iwata die “Professor Layton” Reihe, die sich, wie ihr alle wisst, in Europa großer Beliebtheit erfreut und auch in Amerika immer populärer wird. Ob wir uns also doch noch Hoffnungen auf Titel wie “E.X. Trooper” oder “Bravely Default: Flying Fairy” machen dürfen? Wir sind sehr gespannt, welche japanischen Entwickler das Angebot wahrnehmen!

Recently, third-party software developers overseas have been inclined to focus on mega-hit titles for home consoles and have had less of their development studios develop software for handheld devices. Some developers, which make game content suitable for children, work on titles for Nintendo 3DS, but they are not as active as the time of Nintendo DS.

On the other hand, as the handheld devices occupy a large share of the video game market and software for handheld devices is important in the video game business in Japan, Japanese software developers are eagerly assigning their top teams to develop key titles for Nintendo 3DS.

We therefore plan to more actively support the Japanese software developers in distributing their key titles overseas this year.

Among those third-party titles both developed and published in Japan, there have been some games which Nintendo published in Europe, including the Professor Layton series. We will increase the number of such games for the U.S. market as well as in Europe. We are also willing to flexibly assist third-party developers in distributing their valuable games overseas.

Doch auch Nintendo selbst bringt dieses Jahr noch einige Titel für den 3DS raus. Laut Iwata sollen es 10 Schlüsselspiele von Nintendo selbst stammen. Was uns also neben den bereits bekannten Titeln wohl alles erwartet? Ob bald die Europa-Ankündigungen von “Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity” und “LEGO City Undercover: The Chase Begins” folgen?

To export the momentum to the overseas markets, we plan to actively release our key titles for Nintendo 3DS which could potentially lead the markets this year.

“Pokémon X/Pokémon Y,” to be launched in October worldwide, could be the most-anticipated one and “Animal Crossing: New Leaf,” released in Japan last year, will be available in the first half of this year.

We have already announced that “Fire Emblem Awakening,” “Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity,” “Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon,” “Brain Age: Concentration Training” and “LEGO City Undercover: The Chase Begins” will be released in the first half of this year. For the overseas Nintendo 3DS markets, this year will be a good harvest time of what we have developed for these two years. We plan to intensively and actively sell approximately 10 key titles on our own in order to change the Nintendo 3DS system from a handheld device just to play the Mario series to the one to enjoy a variety of games. Naturally, we will keep the momentum of already-released titles with much sales potential by, for example, having them digitally distributed.

Sobald es weitere Neuigkeiten gibt, werdet ihr sie natürlich von uns erfahren!