{"id":31924,"date":"2013-10-22T09:47:48","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T14:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=31924"},"modified":"2013-10-22T09:47:48","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T14:17:48","slug":"nintendo-video-game-news-wii-u-3ds-more-pokemon-x-pokemon-y-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=31924","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo VIDEO GAME NEWS: Wii U, 3DS &#038; More &#8211; Pokemon X &#038; Pokemon Y News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=31924\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-23307\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"nintendo header\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/nintendo-header.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>Nintendo enters the critical holiday selling season with strong momentum, as<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendo.com\/3ds\" target=\"_blank\"> Nintendo 3DS<\/a> finished as the best-selling video game system in the U.S. for the fifth consecutive month and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendo.com\/wiiu\" target=\"_blank\">Wii U<\/a> enjoyed new momentum following a price cut.<\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20131015006009\/en\/Pok%C3%A9mon-Pok%C3%A9mon-Sell-4-Million-Units-Worldwide\" target=\"_blank\">Oct. 15<\/a>, Nintendo revealed that <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pokemonxy.com\/en-us\/root\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pok\u00e9mon X<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pokemonxy.com\/en-us\/root\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pok\u00e9mon Y<\/a><\/em>, which launched globally on Oct. 12, combined to sell more than 4 million units worldwide during its first two days on the market. A full breakdown of U.S. sales for the games, as well as the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendo.com\/3ds\/2ds\" target=\"_blank\">Nintendo 2DS<\/a> handheld, which launched on the same day, will be included in next month&#8217;s NPD report. In addition to the latest Pok\u00e9mon adventure, Nintendo 3DS fans have two exciting games on the horizon, both launching on Nov. 22: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zelda.com\/link-between-worlds\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/marioparty.nintendo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Party: Island Tour<\/a><\/em>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On Sept. 20, Nintendo reduced the price of the Wii U Deluxe Set by $50 to a suggested retail price of $299.99 and introduced a limited-edition bundle that features a download code for a digital copy of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zelda.com\/windwaker\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD<\/a><\/em>. Sales of Wii U hardware in September increased by more than 200 percent over sales in August, and that is with only 15 days of data being reported at the new price. Over the next few weeks and months, Wii U fans can look forward to playing <em><a href=\"http:\/\/wiipartyu.nintendo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wii Party U<\/a><\/em> (Oct. 25), <em><a href=\"http:\/\/wiifitu.nintendo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wii Fit U<\/a><\/em> (Nintendo eShop, Nov. 1) <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.olympicvideogames.com\/en_GB\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mario &amp; Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games<\/a><\/em> (Nov. 15) and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/supermario3dworld.nintendo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Super Mario 3D World<\/a><\/em> (Nov. 22).<\/p>\n<p>*Data regarding physical sales of games in September are from the NPD Group. Data regarding digital downloads of games and combined physical\/digital life-to-date numbers are from Nintendo&#8217;s internal sales figures. All numbers, unless otherwise stated, are specific to the United States only.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo enters the critical holiday selling season with strong momentum, as Nintendo 3DS finished as the best-selling video game system in the U.S. for the fifth consecutive month and Wii U enjoyed new momentum following a price cut. On Oct. 15, Nintendo revealed that Pok\u00e9mon X and Pok\u00e9mon Y, which launched globally on Oct. 12, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[532,9169],"class_list":["post-31924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-news","tag-nintendo-video-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31924"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}