Recent Video Game Rumors

There has been quite a few rumors this past week, but instead of posting short posts about them individually, I decided to post them at the end of the week in one post.

Wii U Power Rumor

During the week I heard two different rumors about Nintendo's upcoming Wii U. The first is that it may not be as powerful as we thought, saying it will be almost as powerful as the Xbox 360 and PS3. The other saying it's twice as powerful as the Xbox 360.

Since developers of computers are able to double the processing speed of computers every few years, I'd have to say the second one to be more believable. 

We should probably just wait until Nintendo give the official word though.

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 Wii U Price Rumor

This rumor says that the price for the Wii U will be $299 in America and 20,000 yen in Japan. It seemed good at first and I even believed it as accurate, until I read another blog post saying that it didn't make since. 20,000 yen is about $250 in the States, which doesn't add up as Nintendo sells there consoles at higher prices in Japan the here. Although $299 still sounds like a good price to me (I don't want to have to pay a fortune for a new home console).

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3DS Continues to outsell PSP Vita In Japan

3DS Continues To Outsell PSP Vita In Japan
Nintendo's 3DS handheld continues to dominate the charts in Japan. With 4 titles on the list below it's looking good for Nintendo's new handheld. In contrast Sony may have more titles on the list but only 3 of them are on the PSP.

1. [PSP] Tales of the Heroes: Twin Brave
2. [3DS] Harvest Moon: The Land of Origin
3. [PS3] Naruto Shippuden: Narutimate Storm Generation
4. [PSP] I Don’t Have Many Friends Portable
5. [PS3] Asura’s Wrath
6. [PSP] Nendoroid Generation
7. [3DS] Super Mario 3D Land
8. [3DS] Mario Kart 7
9. [3DS] Monster Hunter 3G
10. [PS3] The Idolmaster: Gravure For You! Vol.5

Well the 3DS may or may not be winning by a large margin in the software category, but when it comes to selling the consoles themselves there is no place to argue with the 3DS.

• Nintendo 3DS: 76,322
• PlayStation 3: 27,111
• PSP: 15,928
• PlayStation Vita: 11,186
• Wii: 7,878
• Nintendo DS: 1,639
• Xbox 360: 1,508
• PlayStation 2: 1,269

 (My source for this article)

Analysis; Sonic 4 Episode 2 Screenshots Vol. 2

Continuing from the last Analysis, we have more screenshots from Sonic 4 Episode 2. If you wish to read the first Volume then click here.

Night at the Aquatic Ruins Zone

1. One Shield Two Heroes
In this screenshot from Sonic 4 Episode 2 we have Sonic and Tails in what looks to be a shield of some sort, but when I took a closer look it seemed more like a graphical effect caused while doing a combo move. I've come to this conclusion do to both characters being in there (which is unusual for a shield in the Sonic Series) and it looks more like a speed effect caused by super fast spinning when looked at closely.

2. Aquatic Ruins Zone At Night
I already talked about the Aquatic Ruins  Zone graphic look last time and here we see it again, this time at night or possibly late evening. A similar thing happened in Sonic 4

Analysis; Sonic 4 Episode 2 Screenshots Vol. 1

Thanks to Destructoid super-sleuth Jim Sterling we got some nice screenshots of the upcoming Sonic 4 Episode 2. I'm not just going to show you them, I'm also gonna analyze them.

Purple Sonic? Lighting effect or glitch?

 1. The Tornado
Impossible to miss is the Tornado, Sonic's Bi-plane. Even though it's Sonic's plane it's usually his buddy Tails (real name Miles Prower), although it's probably safe to say it's his now since he's always maintaining it and has it at his workshop (though never mentioned, Sonic still probably gave it to him at some point).

2. Purple Sonic
This is probably the second thing you noticed, a Purple Sonic! I am very sure this is just a lighting effect and not a palette glitch, probably due to the location of the sun. Upon a closer you can see that part of him is still blue, although I'm not really sure why. It could be that whatever lighting effect is going on isn't effecting his leg due to it's position or it could be a program glitch.

Sega Confirms Sonic & Sega All Star Racing Sequeal

Sonic & Sega All Star Racing, Does Sonic really need a car?

It seems Sega is actually making a squeal to Sonic & Sega All Star Racing. It hasn't been confirmed for a Nintendo console yet but I decided that I'll post about it anyways.

Why does Sonic even need a car? I would actually prefer a squeal to Sonic R, at least he was able to run in that game.