Daily and JP News (Nov. 14): Famicom Mini commercials

14 November 2016 Lite_Agent Banjo & Kazooie, Capcom, Cosen, GungHo, Mario Party Star Rush, Metroid, Monster Hunter Stories, Nintendo Classic Mini: Family Computer, Nintendo Cube, Puzzle & Dragons X, RARE, Sssnakes

Today’s Japanese news: some TV Commercials for the Famicom Mini, but also…

Nintendo survey
Tool Assisted Speedruns
Otomon Drop: Monster Hunter Stories
Puzzle & Dragons X
Sssnakes

Famicom Mini

Today, Nintendo uploaded some TV Commercials for the Nintendo Classic Mini: Family Computer, released last week:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=364Fc9K_ydI

Nintendo Survey

Today, Nintendo published the results of a survey (conducted by Wakefield Research, and meant to promote Mario Party: Star Rush), that shows that parents simply don’t have enough time to play with their kids:

eight times a week: how often parents tell their kids they don’t have time to play with them;
48% of parents said they spent more time commuting to work than playing with their kids;
33% of kids prefer playing video games with their parents, as opposed to other activities;
52% of parents avoid playing family games because they find it too stressful to find a game everyone wants to play;
36% of parents are afraid of kids ending up bored;
31% of parents are afraid of kids arguing about whose turn it is.

Source: Nintendo PR

Tool Assisted Speedruns

Here’s two more Tool Assisted Speedruns for today:

Metroid (NES): lowest %

Banjo & Kazooie (Nintendo 64): 100%

Otomon Drop: Monster Hunter Stories

Today, Capcom announced that Otomon Drop: Monster Hunter Stories (the tie-in mobile game for Monster Hunter Stories) will be released on November 16th in Japan, on iOS and Android.

Here’s a second trailer for the game, and plenty of screenshots:

https://youtu.be/zuxdPgTpOuQ