Nintendo Direct confirms new Zelda, Pikmin, SMT4 and a whole lot more
Last night’s Nintendo Direct was a bomb. I’m pretty sure my wallet wept for this as the multitude of upcoming titles. The episode is embedded below is for your viewing pleasure:
Below is the gist of the episode from Joystiq:
- The 3DS is getting a new Zelda, and it’ll be a top-down affair set in the world of SNES classic A Link to the Past. Meanwhile, Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons make their journeys west to the eShop on May 30.
- New Yoshi’s Island and Mario Party
- Bravely Default: Flying Fairy gets localized for North America next year.
- Shin Megami Tensei 4, for the US on July 16 release date. No EU release date yet
- Game & Wario hops over on June 23.
- Mario & Luigi: Dream Team follow on August 11 (Europe gets the jump again onDream Team: July 12).
- Pikmin 3 finally has a release date, albeit a later than expected one of August 4.
- The Virtual Console proper is coming to the Wii U in a spring system update next week. In terms of upcoming new arrivals, it’s hard to beat Earthbound.
- The ‘New Super Luigi U’ DLC for New Super Mario Bros. U is due in the summertime.
- Mario and Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move heads for the 3DS eShop on May 9.
- Animal Crossing 3DS XL bundle is coming west.