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For those involved in the movement to get Mega Man Legends 3 back in development, we have some good news today. The games program director Yoshiyuki Fujikawa made an update on his twitter about the situation.

For the first time in the company’s history, Nintendo will be selling a handheld system at a price point that incurs a loss for every system sold. That’s right: the 3DS’s new lower price point doesn’t cover the manufacturing and distribution costs. This means Nintendo’s banking on strong software sales this holiday season and in the coming years in order to help boost their fiscal performance and shouldering the burden of lower hardware costs to drive the install base so this hope can actually come to fruition.

How did a handheld that the entire industry adored so poorly underperform in its early life? Jump inside for my projections.

Nintendo’s been referring to it as simply Super Mario, we’ve been calling it Super Mario 3D, but now there’s a new title on the block: Super Mario 3DS is now called Super Mario 3D Land. While it’s not 100% certain if this is the final retail title, it’s definitely the first unique one we’ve heard out of any Nintendo rep’s mouth (er, press release), so it’s what we’ll be running with from now on. The recent press release regarding the upcoming 3DS price drop also revealed a release month for the long-anticipated change to the 3D Mario formula, with Mario Kart 3D (or should I say Mario Kart 7) given a launch window as well.

Don’t believe me? Check out the full article for a snippet from the press release.

Nintendo’s reaction to PS Vita and struggling 3DS is about to kick into high gear, as Nintendo has sliced the NA price to 169.99$ and the Japan price from 25,000 yen to 15,000 yen – over a 30% price cut in both regions. Europe and Australia will be receiving price cuts also – a specific European cut will probably be up to retailers, while Australians get 100$ shaved off the 350$ price tag.

REDMOND, Wash., July 28, 2011 – Nintendo of America today announced plans to drop the suggested retail price of its portable Nintendo 3DS™ system to $169.99 in the United States, as new games based on some of the world’s most beloved video game franchises head to the system. The new price, down from the suggested launch price of $249.99 and effective Aug. 12, makes an outstanding value even better and sets up a strong holiday season for the system.

Wait, did we mention free games? That’s right – Nintendo’s offering free game downloads to early adopters as compensation for the much higher price point they paid in order to maintain customer confidence. Want to find out what those games are? Read on.

We’re back, folks! After a few days offline due to unpaid revenue, we’ve finally revived the beast and are ready to jump right back on the Zelda and Nintendo news train. Of course, yesterday we managed to break all of the exciting news anyway via social networking and New Nintendo, our old hub for everything Nintendo, and we’ll be migrating it all over to the home base soon.

If you thought we’ve been sitting on our hands during the downtime, think again. We’re going to be diving headfirst into the weekend with all kinds of exclusive content. Tomorrow you’ll see another entry in the Two Sides to the Story as well as another “Tribes” edition of the Skyward Sword Speculation Series in celebration of a Particular Made-Up Zelda holiday.

But enough about us. We know what you want (“Nintendo News!”) and we know when you want it (“Now!”). Let’s get started.

The Legend of Zelda series has, for most of its lifespan, been viewed as a franchise with a quality story. Nowadays, we have rich lore to draw from, to formulate complex theories about multiple timelines and Hyrules, multiple versions of the main characters and side characters. But things weren’t always like that. The original Legend of Zelda was straightforward. The story was simply a quest from point A to point B, and the gamer was left to fill in the…

A recent survey by Japanese magazine Famitsu reveals that of all potential games for the Wii U fans want to see Zelda the most. In the survey Zelda received more than twice the amount of votes than the next runner up Super Mario.

Nintendo of America today announced plans to drop the suggested retail price of its portable Nintendo 3DS™ system to $169.99 in the United States. The new price takes effect Aug. 12 and makes an outstanding value even better. That’s right, starting August 12th you’ll be able to pick up a new 3DS for only $169.99. For many of us who recently bought the 3DS (myself included) this may be a bit upsetting, but you won’t be upest for long: But…

GameTrailers hosted a three-part interview with Bill Trinen at Comic-Con. The interview was separated into three short segments, each with several questions about a particular topic. Surprisingly, the Zelda timeline was the focus of the first part. It’s a topic that’s usually avoided sans one question here or there to appease those interested, but GameTrailers ended up making the timeline a secondary focus for this interview. The part with the timeline questions can be viewed above. Jump inside for the…

After the success of Ocarina of Time 3D fans have been hungry for a similar port of the sequel Majora’s Mask on the 3DS. Fan and artist Daniel Oropez has shown his love for the game by creating a very convincing box art mockup for a 3DS version of Majora’s Mask.