News | Weekly Round-Up: 22.04.2007 - 29.04.2007

Welcome to the weekly C3 round-up (22.04.2007 - 29.04.2007), a collection of news and updates posted this week in world of Nintendo and video games.

General News

Wii and DS Storm France, Germany, Spain and Italy!
It is not that often that we get firm sales data from countries around Europe, by the hardware numbers for March have now been revealed for France, plus much more from around Europe.



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Layton to US, Bonk on Wii/DS, Kingdom Hearts?
Quick News - The latest issue of US magazine EGM has the following rumours: Level 5's Professor Layton and the Mysterious Village is coming to the US; Hudson is working on a new Bonk for Wii and DS; the next Kingdom Hearts will be a spin-off appearing on a 'hearty console'.



Stick with Cubed3 to see if any of those come true...

Virtual Console = Worldwide Success!
Quick News - Nintendo President Satoru Iwata has revealed that there have been 3.3 million Virtual Console games sold to the 5.84 million Wii owners around the world so far. Even if the majority were only NES games, that is a tremendous amount of money made!



Expect the VC support to be ramped up as 2007 progresses...

Japanese Virtual Console May Line-Up
Nintendo has revealed the latest list of retro games coming to the Wii's Virtual Console over in Japan for the month of May.



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Singapore Braces Self for Wii Rush
Quick News - Singapore will finally get its Wii fix this week according to Gameaxis, where the console will be sold at retail as a bundle for no less than $649 (325 GBP), coming with an additional controller and game. Arguably steep, but it seems noone can prevent Ninty's continued quest for world domination.



Keep it locked to Cubed3 for more updates...

Kojima: SSBB Feels 'Very Complete'
Over at the event that is Snake VS. Zombie, an orgy of developer rivalry and partying, Hideo Kojima had a few choice words about the latest build of Super Smash Bros Brawl, of which he got to play at the bash.



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Lucrative Nintendogs Surpass 13 Million
Quick News: After the not-so shocking revelation of the newest Pok