Nintendo confirms (and delays) various 3DS release dates
The news keeps pouring out of the Analyst Briefing being held at E3 2013. One image in particular is quite interesting, and illustrates that a few games have been pushed into 2014 while others remain solely in 2013.
News that will surprise nobody is that Animal Crossing is still coming in June to all territories, while the new Mario & Luigi game, Dream Team Bros., will be coming to Europe in July and America in August. Pokemon X & Y remains at an October 12th release date worldwide (and we’re told this includes regions like Korea too).
This however, is probably where the familiarity ends. Link to the Past’s spiritual successor, A Link Between Worlds, has been dated for November in America however doesn’t have a solid release date in Europe or Australia (though it is still coming in 2013). Mario Party will also be hitting the 3DS in both America and Europe (and hopefully by extension, Australia) in November too.
As announced, Smash Brothers will be coming to the 3DS (and Wii U) in 2014. What’s previously unconfirmed, however, is that Yoshi’s New Island will be coming to the 3DS in 2014. Now delayed is Mario Golf World Tour, previously announced for a release this year, but quietly shuffled to 2014.
While it’s undeniable that both Pokemon and Zelda should serve as hard hitters for 2013, we can’t help but feel that Nintendo is truly gearing up for a stellar 2014, it’s just the wait that we’ll have to endure.
What’s your thoughts?
Smart move by Nintendo imo, they already have a tonne of quality titles heading to the 3DS this year and I have a HUGE backlog!!! May as well push back Mario Golf so that there’s something for people to buy post-xmas and when the games start to slow down a little (though it doesn’t look like that’s happening with the 3DS)
Also, Pokemon is coming out on the 12th, not the 10th
Ahh, thanks for that! I made a silly mistake of thinking “10” meant the 10th of October, when it really just meant the 10th month. 😛 Fixed!
What happened to your release dates calendar on the site James? The calendar is not loading and the subscription is not updating 🙁
We may have had to remove it to cope with the heavy traffic during E3 this year. It will be returning. 🙂
Haha, thought that might be the case. I would love to get it 2 days earlier 😛