Third parties are 3DS seemingly still weren’t bringing their total A-game yet (maybe because the usual suspects were still clearing out their late-gen DS games?), but late 2012 saw the launch of Code of Princess from Atlus (the developer of which is making Blade Strangers for Switch with Nicalis), Virtue’s Last Reward (even if the Vita version might be better), and Rayman Origins, the latter proving that Ubisoft just seems to have to release a multiple dated Rayman ports on every Nintendo system ever.

Other notable eShop releases were Genius Sonority’s weird AR game The Denpa Men, Nnooo’s escapeVektor, and Nicalis’ release of NightSky. The Guild01 games debuted on the eShop in North America following a Nintendo Direct in October, first with Liberation Maiden, then Aero Porter and Crimson Shroud. The first third-party day-and-date retail release was Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion this November. 2, retail games came to the eShop as well, and while it took some time for all retail releases to come out day and date, it eventually mostly happened. Nintendo once again supported the eShop at the close of the year with Crashmo out in November and Fluidity: Spin Cycle in December. But while the fall was light, it still had a steady supply of games. 2, no other internally developed game hit 3DS, likely because most of their teams were busy on the Wii U. What was on Nintendo’s other systems that.oh it’s when the Wii U came out.Īfter New Super Mario Bros. Nintendo’s lineup seemed more akin to that of a late-era system, as the marquee releases for the rest of the year were Paper Mario: Sticker Star, Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask, and um, FreakyForms Deluxe? Style Savvy? Crosswords Plus? Art Academy? Man, holiday 2012 was a weird year. The descent to fall that year didn’t feel like it was the second holiday of a thriving system. games in 2012 (and an unfortunate victim of there being two New Super Mario Bros. 2, the first of two New Super Mario Bros. With the launch of this new version came New Super Mario Bros. In the same concept as the DSi XL, this extra-large system increased the size of the original 3DS, generally making for a far superior system.

August 2012 kicked off with the first of many 3DS revisions: the 3DS XL.

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